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The Virtual Data Toolkit (VDT) is an ensemble of grid middleware that can be easily installed and configured. In our experience, installing grid software is challenging and time consuming. The goal of the VDT is to make it as easy as possible for users to deploy, maintain and use grid middleware. Ideally, you just type a single-command and you can immediately access grid resources or provide your resources to others. In reality, it is a bit more work than that, but not much.
The VDT was originally created to servce as a delivery channel for grid technologies developed and hardened by the NSF-funded GriPhyN and iVDGL projects, and these two projects continue to be the primary sources of funding for the VDT. However, the role of the VDT has expanded and now supports the LHC Computing Grid Project (LCG) and the Particle Physics Data Grid (PPDG).
Even if you are not a member of one of the primary VDT collaborators, you are welcome to install and use the VDT software.
The VDT contains three kinds of middleware:
Read the VDT Newsletter from February 2004 for some recent information about the VDT.