[acs-wg] FW: [gt4-friends] installation question

[Ziu, Peter]

Not all of my postings appear to be making it to acs-wg at ggf.org.  The f2f (html) email also was dropped.  I had to resend that as well.  Did the below one not work because acs-wg was in the "cc" field?

Pete


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gt4-friends at globus.org
[mailto:owner-gt4-friends at globus.org]On Behalf Of Ziu, Peter
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 10:55 AM
To: Catalin L. Dumitrescu; Robert E. Parrott
Cc: gt4-friends; acs-wg at ggf.org
Subject: RE: [gt4-friends] installation question


Hi, Perhaps you would be interested in a specification being formulated called Application Contents Service.  There work can be found at http://forge.gridforum.org/projects/acs-wg  All are welcome who share this problem space and are seeking a solution.

Here is a blurb from their site:

...
The Application Contents Service Working Group (ACS-WG) will focus on two main topics: a) Application Repository Interface (ARI), specifying repository service and its interface to Application Contents; and b) Application Archive Format (AAF), specifying archive format to register a set of Application Contents to the ACS as a unit. The Application Contents include application binaries and related information; e.g. program binaries, configuration data, procedure descriptions for lifecycle management, requirements descriptions for the hardware and underlying middleware, policy rules, and anything needed to create a task on grid systems. They may be real entities or location pointers. On the other hand, the Application Contents doesn't include information updated by a task and information describing a status of a task. ACS doesn't interpret or execute information in each content, rather it just manages them for use by other OGSA-services.
...


Pete Ziu

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gt4-friends at globus.org
[mailto:owner-gt4-friends at globus.org]On Behalf Of Catalin L. Dumitrescu
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 6:09 PM
To: Robert E. Parrott
Cc: gt4-friends
Subject: Re: [gt4-friends] installation question



hi,

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Robert E. Parrott wrote:
>
> I have a question regarding installation of globus.
>
> Is there a recipe or prescription for using a single compilation of
> gt4 on a number of different hosts, i.e. via installing into a shared
> NFS software tree or creating a RPM type installer?

 Jens' messages might be helpful on how to create a shared installation
over NFS:
http://www-unix.globus.org/mail_archive/gt4-friends/2005/04/msg00199.html

Thanks,
Catalin

>
> At this point the we are compiling and installing gt4 anew for each
> new machine, even on the same platform.
>
> What we'd like to be able to do is install into a general software
> tree, and then generate and place machine (i.e. hostname) specific
> files into a local "/etc/globus" or similar directory.
>
>
> thanx for the info,
>
> rob
>
>
>
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