Globus is a project to provide robust, secure, peer-to-peer distributed computing on supercomputers, clusters, and other high-performance systems. It differs from other such network toolkits in that i... More
Recently, OStatic covered Eucalyptus, an open source infrastructure for cloud computing on clusters that duplicates the functionality of Amazon's EC2, using the Amazon command-line tools directly. We've also been covering several interesting projects focused on cloud computing. Rich Wolski, who directs the Eucalyptus project at U.C. Santa Barbara, is an expert on grid computing, and was kind enough to share with me some of the other open source projects he finds notable in this space.