Advanced Resource Connector (ARC)
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Release Announcement for NorduGrid ARC 12.05                          May ?? 2012
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The Advanced Resource Connector (ARC) middleware, introduced by NorduGrid
(www.nordugrid.org), is an open source software solution enabling production
quality computational and data Grids since May 2002. The previous production ARC
release, version 11.05u3 was released on March 22, 2012.

The 12.05 release of the ARC software substantially changes the command line 
interface and client libraries. Users and developers who made use of ARC command
line or libraries in their tools will have to re-write the code.



New features highlights
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ARC components: detailed new features and deployment notes
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ARC components in release 12.05 are:

  * ARC Core (includes documents)
  * ARC Clients
  * ARC CE
  * ARC Infosys
  * ARC gridftp server
  * arcjobtool GUI (not updated)


== ARC Core


== ARC Compute Element

    
== ARC Information System


== ARC Clients


== ARC gridftp server



Fixed bugs
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Known issues
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Availability
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== Source:

ARC release 12.05 consists of the following source packages:
* NorduGrid ARC version 2.0.0 (main components)
* NorduGrid ARC "compat" version 1.0.0 (old client)
* NorduGrid ARC Documents 1.1.2 (documents)
* arcjobtool version 0.3.0 (GUI)


Source code for main components is available from here:
  svn co http://svn.nordugrid.org/repos/nordugrid/arc1/tags/2.0.0 arc-2.0.0

Source for the compatibility package (old client) is available from:
  svn co \
http://svn.nordugrid.org/repos/nordugrid/arc0/tags/compat_1.0.0 arc_compat-1.0.0

Documentation source (mostly LaTeX) is available from:
  svn co http://svn.nordugrid.org/repos/nordugrid/docs/tags/1.1.2 arc_doc-1.1.2

GUI arcjobtool is available from:
  svn co \
http://laportal.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/laportal/tags/arcjobtool-0.3.0-arc/\
arcjobtool_0.3.0

== Repositories

See detailed description at:
  http://download.nordugrid.org/repos.html

These repositories provide binary packages for:

* Debian: 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0 (i386 and amd64)
* Fedora: from 3 to 14 (i386 and x86_64)
* RedHat: EL4, EL5 and EL6 (i386 and x86_64)
* Ubuntu: 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04 (i386 and amd64)

Scientific Linux and CentOS are implicitly supported through corresponding
RedHat repositories.

Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X versions are available from same repositories for
clients and some services.

Standalone client tar-balls for Linux are available from respective repositories
for each flavor.


Additional documents
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