Genesis II - Standards Based Grid Computing

In the past years, hype over Web services and their uses in emerging software applications has prompted the creation of many standards and proto-standards. The OGF has seen a number of standards making their way through design and edit pipelines. While this standards process progresses, it is important that implementations of these standards develop in parallel in order to validate the efforts of the standards authors while also providing feedback for further specification refinement. No specification exists in isolation but rather composes with others to form higher order products. These specifications will form the grid infrastructure of the future and an evaluation of this emerging work becomes increasingly relevant. Genesis II is a grid system implemented using these standards that serves both to provide the feedback described above as well as to function as a production level grid system for research at the University of Virginia.