VDT 1.1.10 Release

We are pleased to announce the release of VDT1.1.10

• The Chimera Virtual Data System:
  • The Chimera Virtual Data System has been updated to version 1.1.1 (8/7/03).
  • Chimera is now installed by default with the VDT-Client.
  • A subset of Chimera (the "worker" portion) is now installed by default with the VDT-Server.
• Glue Schema:
  • Updated Glue Schema to the latest extended Glue Schema
  • Added basic Glue Schema information providers
• New Software:
  • Added GSI OpenSSH
  • Added MonaLisa
  • Added pyGlobus
  • Added an optional install for the components that RSL needs, like MySQL. (More documentation is needed on this.)
  • VDT System Profiler: written by the VDT team to simplify debugging VDT installations. It is installed in $VDT_LOCATION/vdt/bin/vdt-system-profiler. When run, it creates a file that has debugging information about your system and the VDT installation. You can mail VDT support just this file when you have problems, and it will contain most everything we need to help debug your problems.
• Upgraded software
  • Added Jens Voeckler's patches to the jobmanager (see Globus bug #931)
  • New patches to Globus 2.2.4
  • New version of the Fault Tolerant Shell
  • Latest DOE Grids CA files
  • Java is now 1.4
• Improved Configuration:
  • Improved the non-root client install. Now you do not need a system administrator to help you modify /etc/grid-security, because the files do not need to be installed there, but are put in $VDT_LOCATION/globus/share instead. This is only when you install as non-root.
  • Two new optional packages to set up Globus to interact with LSF and PBS:

            pacman -get Globus-LSF-Setup
            pacman -get Globus-PBS-Setup

• Miscellaneous:
  • Licenses for all software are not put into the licenses subdirectory. You have to agree to the licenses while installing the software If you would like to avoid answering the question in the middle of the installation, you can set the environment variable VDT_ACCEPT_LICENSES to 'y' (no quotes), and it will be skipped. However, you are asserting that you have agreed to the software licenses. You can find them online at: http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/licenses/1.1.10/

The VDT 1.1.10 cache is located at: http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/vdt_1110_cache/