General

Defn

GLUE is a cross-Grid information system that allows service discovery and service selection. It is now managed by the OGF "Glue" working-group.

Resources

• OGF Glue Working Group GridForge site:
  •  Documents ( drafts)
  •  Homepage
  •  wiki
  •  Tracker
  •  Tasks

• INFN Glue GridForge site:
  •  Summary
  •  SVN info, ( browse).

• GIP  wiki

• dCache resources:
  • Attempting to define what the capacities mean.

•  GStat JIRA page.

v1.3

Defn

Minor (backward-compatible) improvement of GLUE v1.2. Bindings exist for LDAP.

Resources

• OGF resources:
  •  Specification ( PDF)
  • Official  Errata.

• EGEE resources:
  •  GLUE/LDAP Schema
  • Wiki pages on:
    •  Glue Usage (important),
    •  Information System,
    •  Resource BDII,
  • gLite CVS
    •  Example templates for GIP ( GlueSE.template, ...)
  • JRA1 CVS:
    •  OpenLDAP v2.1 ( Glue-SE.schema, ...)

• WLCG resources:
  • The  GSSD group
    •  Glue Proposal
  • A WLCG discussion on entities.
  • The Installed Capacity document  version 1.9 (a.k.a Glue Schema Usage in WLCG).
  • The  old gstat site has a  Wiki with the following  advice on publishing attributes.

• CNAF resources:
  • List of  AccessProtocolType values.
  •  Specification ( PDF, ...)
  • GLUE/LDAP binding:
    •  notes,
    •  CVS repository:
      •  Example LDIF
      • Schema definition:
        • OpenLDAP v2.0:  Glue-SE.schema, ...
        • OpenLDAP v2.1:  Glue-SE.schema, ...

v2.0

Defn

Major rewrite of the information system that (radically) redefines object classes so they fit together better. Includes object-class inheritance.

Resources

• OGF resources:
  •  specification.

GIP

• IN2P3
  •  Guide to GIP by Jonathan Schaeffer of IN2P3.