NorduGrid ARC Documents

• For end users, NorduGrid ARC middleware provides an extensive set of client tools.
• For system administrators, the NorduGrid ARC middleware has products in three areas: computing, information and storage.
• Additionally, for developers, the documentation of the ARC HED service container is available here.

Client tools

Additional resources for users

• The Grid Certificate Mini How-to explains the basics of grid certificates and gives command line examples to handle them NORDUGRID-MEMO-3
• The XRSL Reference Manual gives a full a reference of how to describe a computational job using the XRSL job description language NORDUGRID-MEMO-3
• The The Grid Monitor Usage and installation manual explains how to use the Grid Monitor, a web portal to query the ARC Information System NORDUGRID-MANUAL-5
• The VOMS Usage Notes page gives some explanation of VOMS, complete with useful tips and tricks NORDUGRID-MEMO-12
• The Chelonia User's Manual gives a full reference of the command line client tools of the Chelonia storage system NORDUGRID-MANUAL-14

Resources for developers

• The libarcclient - A Client Library for ARC document describes from a technical viewpoint the plugin-based client library of ARC NORDUGRID-TECH-20
• The Advanced User Interface document describes the implementation of ArcGui (a standalone graphical user interface for ARC based on wxPython), and the integration of libarcclient into the LUNARC Application Portal. NORDUGRID-TECH-25

Computing Element

Additional resources for system administrators

• The ARC Server Installation Instructions: Setting Up A Grid Resource page gives a how-to guide to install and configure an ARC Computing Element or an ARC Storage Element NORDUGRID-MANUAL-2
• The The Grid Monitor Usage and installation manual explains how to install the Grid Monitor, a web portal to query the ARC Information System NORDUGRID-MANUAL-5
• The VOMS Usage Notes page gives some explanation of VOMS, complete with useful tips and tricks NORDUGRID-MEMO-12
• The LUNARC Application Portal Installation manual explains how to install the Lunarc portal NORDUGRID-MANUAL-12

Resources for developers

• The Job Usage Reporter of ARC (JURA) document gives a technical description of the JURA accounting service NORDUGRID-TECH-24

Information System

Additional resources

• The NorduGrid-ARC Information System Technical Description and Usage Manual presents a technical overview of ARC’s LDAP information system, describes the architecture, implementation of the main components and the NorduGrid-ARC information model, and gives a reference manual NORDUGRID-TECH-4
• The ARC peer-to-peer information system document describes the ISIS, which is a peer-to-peer information system NORDUGRID-TECH-21

Storage solutions

Additional resources for system administrators

• The ARC 11.05 Server Installation Instructions: Setting Up A Grid Resource page gives a how-to guide to install and configure an ARC Computing Element or an ARC Storage Element NORDUGRID-MANUAL-2
• The Chelonia Administrator's Manual gives step-by-step instructions how to install the Chelonia storage system NORDUGRID-MANUAL-10
• The Hopi Manual describes a light-weight HTTP server based on the ARC HED service container and used by the Chelonia storage system NORDUGRID-MANUAL-15

Resources for developers

• The Chelonia - Self-healing distributed storage system document gives a technical description of the Chelonia storage system NORDUGRID-TECH-17

The HED service container

Resources for developers

• The Hosting Environment of the Advanced Resource Connector middleware document gives a deep technical description of the HED service container NORDUGRID-TECH-19
• The Security Framework of ARC gives a technical description of the security framework of the HED service container and its security-related pluginsNORDUGRID-TECH-16
• The WS-ARC Service Configuration Manual explains the configurations of the HED service container NORDUGRID-MANUAL-18

Additional material

• Release notes and announcements
• Papers and articles
• Talks and slides
• Posters, leaflets, logos, photos, templates, other graphics