Note: This web site is only kept up to date for OSG Software 1.2 (VDT 2.0.0). If you are looking for information for the most recent release, the RPM-based OSG Software 3.0, please see the OSG documentation web site

Note: This version of the VDT (1.3.0) is no longer supported. Feel free to look through the documentation and install it, but we cannot guarantee support for it. The current stable release is 2.0.0.

VDT 1.3.0 Release

We are pleased to announce the release of VDT 1.3.0. This web page is incomplete and will be fleshed out before the final release

New Features

• The VDT now includes VOMS.
• We provide more subsets of the VDT to choose from. Several packages that were optional in the 1.2 series (DRM and MySQL) are now included in the main VDT.
• The VDT installs much more quickly than it used to. Up to four times as fast, depending on your hardware.

Upgraded software

• Globus 3.2.1. For the moment, we are only using the pre-web service components of Globus. This looks nearly identical to Globus 2.4.3 and is, for the most part, compatible. Read our compatibility page for full details.
• Condor 6.7.3, which includes Condor-C.
• Virtual Data System 1.3.5.
• DRM 1.2.2.
• MonaLisa 1.2.20.
• MySQL 4.0.22

To learn more, you can view the main documentation page or documentation specific to VDT 1.3.0.

The VDT 1.3.0 cache is located at: http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/vdt_130_cache

Patches

VDT 1.3.0a

VDT 1.3.0a is identical to VDT 1.3.0 except that the Virtual Data System has been upgraded to 1.3.5a from 1.3.5. This version has two small changes:

• All concrete planners generate DAG files with suffix "-.dag", as they used to in the 1.2.* series. Users will only see "0" (zero) as substitution for , e.g. "-0.dag".
  Note: In principal, any non-negative integer, including multiple digits, is a valid substitution for . Future versions may use that feature.
• The Pegasus planner incorporates one option change. Single letter options are introduced by a single hyphen while word-options are introduced by a double-hyphen, as is standard for most Unix software.
  Therefore, the (old) --p flag changes to either -p or --pools. If you use the Pegasus concrete planner in a scripted framework, you will have to adjust your script(s) accordingly.