| PackageDescription | ARC Grid middleware
NorduGrid is a collaboration aiming at development, maintenance and
support of the free Grid middleware, known as the Advanced Resource
Connector (ARC).
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The Advanced Resource Connector (ARC) is a software suite that makes
use of Grid technologies to federate heterogeneous computing and data
resources across administrative domains. The resulting infrastructure
is commonly referred to as a computational or a data Grid, depending
on prevalence of CPU-intensive or data-intensive applications. ARC is
developed and supported by the NorduGrid Consortium.
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Just like the Web, ARC has its roots in the IT infrastructure that was
erected to analyze data collected by high energy physics experiments
at CERN. While first versions of ARC made heavy use of the Globus
Toolkit, the current release does not require Globus as such, though
maintains backward compatibility. |