We have two machines set up as Grid nodes. A production and a development machine. Svend successfully completed the following:
- Installed the software
- Requested a certificate
- Installed the certificate
- Completed a file transfer to validate the certificate (both acting as a server and as a client, the file was a simple text file)
- Installed the location service that sends the GPS location to the PH Grid
We are continuing to discuss the next steps and the developers are looking into ways to “gridify” some of our existing web services. In addition, we’ve been reading a bit about “Introduce” (http://www.springerlink.com/content/u301u225wg5356w3/fulltext.pdf ) and learning more about the caBIG infrastructure from conversations with other Grid developers.
It seems that on a Grid, the overhead for creating WSDL files and doing some of the other work to get a service ready for the Grid are much more labor intensive (because more is done manually) than for traditional web services.
We are now exploring caBIG resources, Introduce, and working towards getting access to a data service at a Utah Grid node.
-Becky
