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Globus is a distributed computing system http://www.globus.org/security/policy.htm
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Globus security mechanisms are intended for an environment in which "users" initiate "computations" that acquire, use and release multiple, geographically distributed "resources".
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Some properties of these entities are:
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The user population may be large and dynamic.
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The resource population may be large and dynamic.
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A computation may acquire, start processes on, and release resources dynamically during its execution.
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