UK ENGINEERING TASK FORCE GLOBUS TOOLKIT VERSION 4 MIDDLEWARE EVALUATION
Terry Harmer, Anthony Stell, David McBride · 2005
4 (GT4) Middleware Evaluation team and reports on the current state of the GT4 toolkit. The GT4 middleware evaluation was initiated to assess the suitability of GT4 for future ETF and UK e-Science Projects. The evaluation began in late November 2004 and was suspended in February 2005; the evaluation was re-activated in May 2005 to evaluate the first release of GT4 and to consider interoperability of GT2 software and the pre-WS components in the GT4 release. The evaluation reviewed the state of GT4 by installing the GT4 software, reviewing available documentation and creating sample GT4 grid services, and migrating current GT3 service description to GT4 and thus evaluating service capabilities, the documentation and the capabilities of the software. The evaluation found that 1. GT4 software was available on a wide variety of Unix operating systems. 2. GT4 software deployment can be from binary or software system source. 3. GT4 installation was straightforward with few installation problems. 4. GT4 installation documentation was of a high quality, well structured and accurate. 5. GT4 has significant package capability improvements on GT3.