Connecting Infrastructure, Connecting Research

M0:Foundation Services

Foundation services are the fundamental base on which the rest of a site's offerings are based. As such, at least one instance of each type of service must be installed on a site that wishes to be labelled as NGS certified. The current foundation services are:

 

VDT installation documentation

The NGS maintains a set of internal documentation detailing how to install VDT. By following these instructions a site can quickly install and configure a wide range of Grid services which are needed in order to become a member, including: GSI, GLUE, MDS, PreWS GRAM, GSI-SSH server and clients, MyProxy clients, VOMS Clients and GridFTP

NGS Site Level Services

For further information on the NGS software stack, please refer to the NGS Site Level Services reference document.