This short note describes the use of LDAP in the Globus metacomputing toolkit. It answers three questions: What is LDAP? Where is it used? and Why is it used in the Globus metacomputing toolkit?

• Contents
• 1. Short Introduction to Directory Services and LDAP
• 2. Directory Service for a Metacomputing Infrastructure
• 2.1 Initialization
• 2.2 Population
• 2.3 Querying
• 2.4 Application Interfaces
• 3. Globus Components

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