OSG 1.2.0 Release Announcement

After several months of work, we are pleased to announce the availability of version 1.2.0 of the OSG middleware stack. This release brings several new

features including support for debian 5.0, more efficient upgrading between minor releases, and features to make it easier to setup, use, and maintain installations based on the OSG middleware stack.



Documentation for the OSG release can be found at https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/ReleaseDocumentation/.



For details about the release please visit the Overview document at https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/ReleaseDocumentation/OSG12Overview.



Packages Available:

ce - Compute Element

wn-client - Worker Node Client

client - Desktop Client

gums - GUMS

voms - VOMS

vomrs - VOMRS



Job Manager Setup Packages:

Globus-Condor-Setup

Globus-LSF-Setup

Globus-PBS-Setup

Globus-SGE-Setup



Optional Packages:

ManagedFork - Condor Managed Fork

squid - Squid Web Caching Service

Bestman - Bestman Storage

Xrootd - XRootD



To install these packages use the following pacman syntax:



# pacman -get http://software.grid.iu.edu/osg-1.2:



Example for the compute element use:

# pacman -get http://software.grid.iu.edu/osg-1.2:ce



Please Contact the OSG Operations Center with any questions or concerns by opening a ticket at https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/open.



Rob Quick

OSG Operations Coordinator

Suchandra Thapa

OSG Integration Coordinator

Alain Roy

OSG Software Coordinator