Introduction
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TeraGrid Information Services "IS" are an integrated set of web services that publish information about the TeraGrid's user facing capabilities.
These web services are used by documentation web sites, portals, and gateways, to generate dynamic user documentation. They may also be accessed by portals, gateways, meta-schedulers, and other sofware systems to auto-discover and auto-configure access to TeraGrid user facing capabilities.
Documentation
- FAQs - Frequenty Asked Questions
- How to access information
- Types of information that are available
- How to use the REST information access APIs
- How to use the WS/SOAP interfaces
- How to use the WebMDS interfaces
View Information
- REST information access APIs (HTTP GET, REST)
- The tginfo tool (CLI - command line interface)
- WebMDS views (HTTP GET)
- CTSS 4 kit information REST demo (HTTP GET, REST)
- CTSS 4 kit services REST demo (HTTP GET, REST)
(see General Documentation for a description of available information and access interfaces)
Presentations
- TeraGrid's Integrated Information Services (slides) (ACM Paper) (GCE '09, 2009/11/20)
- TeraGrid '08 Information Services WG Meeting (TeraGrid '08, 2008/06/13)
- TeraGrid Information Services: Building on Globus MDS4 (GlobusWorld '08, 2008/05/13)
- Developer Introduction to TeraGrid Information Services (2008/04)
- General Introduction to TeraGrid Information Services (SC '07, 2007/11/14)
- GCE Introduction to TeraGrid Information Services (GCE '07, 2007/11/12)
- Internal TeraGrid Information Services Update (Architecture call, 2007/09/20)