Hi, Perhaps you would be interested in a specification being formulated called Application Contents Service. There work can be found at http://forge.gridforum.org/projects/acs-wg All are welcome who share this problem space and are seeking a solution. Here is a blurb from their site: ... The Application Contents Service Working Group (ACS-WG) will focus on two main topics: a) Application Repository Interface (ARI), specifying repository service and its interface to Application Contents; and b) Application Archive Format (AAF), specifying archive format to register a set of Application Contents to the ACS as a unit. The Application Contents include application binaries and related information; e.g. program binaries, configuration data, procedure descriptions for lifecycle management, requirements descriptions for the hardware and underlying middleware, policy rules, and anything needed to create a task on grid systems. They may be real entities or location pointers. On the other hand, the Application Contents doesn't include information updated by a task and information describing a status of a task. ACS doesn't interpret or execute information in each content, rather it just manages them for use by other OGSA-services. ... Pete Ziu -----Original Message----- From: owner-gt4-friends@globus.org [mailto:owner-gt4-friends@globus.org]On Behalf Of Catalin L. Dumitrescu Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 6:09 PM To: Robert E. Parrott Cc: gt4-friends Subject: Re: [gt4-friends] installation question hi, On Thu, 19 May 2005, Robert E. Parrott wrote:

I have a question regarding installation of globus.

Is there a recipe or prescription for using a single compilation of gt4 on a number of different hosts, i.e. via installing into a shared NFS software tree or creating a RPM type installer?

Jens' messages might be helpful on how to create a shared installation over NFS: http://www-unix.globus.org/mail_archive/gt4-friends/2005/04/msg00199.html Thanks, Catalin

At this point the we are compiling and installing gt4 anew for each new machine, even on the same platform.

What we'd like to be able to do is install into a general software tree, and then generate and place machine (i.e. hostname) specific files into a local "/etc/globus" or similar directory.

thanx for the info,

rob