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

VDT Documentation

Some of this documentation was written by the VDT Working Group, and some of it was written by other groups. We don't take responsibility for what they have written, but they do a pretty good job of writing documentation.

VDT Releases

VDT 2.0.0 is only receiving security updates and no other updates. The latest version is OSG Software 3.0.0, documented at the OSG web site

Stable Release Current: VDT 2.0.0 What's new in VDT 2.0.0 All documentation about VDT 2.0.0 System requirements for VDT 2.0.0 Contents of VDT 2.0.0 Installing and Setting up VDT 2.0.0 Express Installation Guide Installing the VDT from RPMs Known problems Previous: VDT 1.10.1, VDT 1.8.1

Development Release There is currently no development release.

Other Release Information

• All VDT releases
• VDT security advisories
• Upcoming releases
• VDT and OSG release chart

Component Documentation

Certificate Authorities in the VDT CEMon Certificate Scripts Clarens & jClarens Condor dCache Berkeley Disk Resource Manager (DRM) EDG Make Gridmap Fetch CRL Globus GUMS OSG Resource and Site Validation (RSV) Pegasus PRIMA Squid Tcl Virtual Data System (VDS) VDT VOMS and VOMS Admin VOMRS

GLUE Schema Generic Information Provider (GIP) MonALISA RLS UberFTP MyProxy KX509 KX509 project PyGlobus PyGlobus web page PyGlobus API reference

Published Paper

Building and testing a production quality grid software distribution for the Open Science Grid, by Alain Roy et. al., 2009 Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 180 012052 (6pp).
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Interaction With Other Groups

• VDT for EDG and LCG

Security/GSI

• Setting up CA files
• Requesting GSI certificates (incl. DOE-Grids-related documentation)
• Certificate Authorities for which public keys are included in VDT

Scalability

• Linux scalability
• Using the Condor-G Grid Monitor

Newsletters

• February 2004