Installation Guides
The Open Science Grid consists primarily of a fabric of services at participating sites.
One of the most common ways of participating in the OSG is to install one of our software services at your site and provide computational power opportunistically to the grid.
Our most common software products include:
- HTCondor CE Installation: Provides a gateway between the grid and your batch system.
- HTTP Proxy: Caches the most commonly-used files at your
site to preserve bandwidth (a custom packaging of the venerable
squid2software). - CVMFS The CernVM File System (CVMFS) is a global-scale, read-only, hierarchical filesystem. CVMFS volumes distribute the majority of the scientific software used on OSG in addition to the OSG worker node client.
- Worker node client and glexec: An RPM-based install
of the worker node software; this includes the
glexecbinary (not provided by the CVMFS install) which allows pilots to securely isolate payload jobs.
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