The Globus Toolkit is an open-source toolkit for grid computing developed and provided by the Globus Alliance. On 25 May 2017 it was announced that the open source support for the project would be discontinued in January 2018 [1], due to a lack of financial support for that work. The continues to be available to the research community under a freemium approach, designed to sustain the software, with most features freely available but some restricted to subscribers [2].