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The Globus Alliance is an association dedicated to developing fundamental technologies needed to build grid computing infrastructures. A grid is a persistent environment that enables software applications to integrate instruments, displays, computational and information resources that are managed by diverse organizations in widespread locations. Grids are currently in use at many research institutions and are being used to study subjects as diverse as cosmology and high energy physics. Grid computing uses the resources of a many separate computers connected by a network (usually the internet) to solve large-scale computation problems. ... Application software is a subclass of computer software that employs the capabilities of a computer directly to a task that the user wishes to perform. ... Wiktionary has a definition of: Cosmology For the jazz band, see: Cosmology (band) Cosmology, from the Greek: κοσμολογία (κόσμος world + λογια discourse) is the study of the universe in its totality and by extension mans place in it. ... Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary constituents of matter and radiation, and the interactions between them. ...


Current members of the core Globus Alliance team

Argonne National Laboratory is one of the United States governments oldest and largest science and engineering research national laboratories and is the largest in the Midwest. ... The University of Chicago is a private co-educational university located in Chicago, Illinois. ... The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... Categories: Organization stubs ... Chartered in 1895, Northern Illinois University is a comprehensive teaching and research institution with a student enrollment of more than 25,000. ... Royal Institute of Technology The Royal Institute of Technology or Kungliga tekniska högskolan (KTH) is a university in Stockholm, Sweden. ... The University of Southern California (also known as USC), Southern Californias oldest private research university, is located in the urban center of Los Angeles, California. ... The Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California is involved in a broad spectrum of information processing research and in the development of advanced computer and communication technologies. ...

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Object Management Group (OMG) is a consortium aimed at setting standards in object-oriented programming as well as system modeling. ...

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Globus Alliance, an engineering association for grid computing infrastructure.
Globus Toolkit, a software framework that implements the Grid computing specifications proposed by the Globus Alliance.
Globus cruciger, is an orb topped with a cross, a Christian symbol of authority used throughout the Middle Ages.
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The non-primate ''globus pallidus'' is usually considered homologous to the primate ''external segment of the globus pallidus'', whereas the non-primate ''entopeduncular nucleus'' is often considered the homolog of the ''internal segment of the globus pallidus''.
The globus pallidus is traversed by numerous myelinated nerve fibres that give it the pale appearance for which it is named.
The internal segment of the globus pallidus is one of the output nuclei of the basal ganglia (the other being the substantia nigra pars reticulata).
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