Alchemi Vs Globus: A Performance Comparison

Alchemi and the Globus toolkit are open source software toolkits for implementing a grid. Although both toolkits are designed for the same purpose, their architecture and underlying technology are completely different. Thus, a performance comparison of a grid implementation in Alchemi with a similar grid implementation in the Globus toolkit will be interesting. The authors built a test bed to compare the performance of the two toolkits. This paper includes tables and graphs to illustrate the better performance shown by Globus compared to that of Alchemi.