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- - ==Background== - - The NorduGrid collaborative activity is based on the success of the project known as the "Nordic Testbed for Wide Area Computing and Data Handling", and aims at continuation and development of its achievements. That project was launched in May 2001, aiming to build a Grid infrastructure suitable for production-level research tasks. Prior to 2002, NorduGrid was a supporting partner of the EU Datagrid (EDG) project. - - In March 2002, NorduGrid developers diverged from EDG and came up with an original software architecture and implementation, which enabled Grid infrastructure to be set up already in May 2002. This infrastructure remains in continuous production-level operation since August 2002. It grew outside the Nordic area and includes sites from e.g. other European countries, Russia and Australia. - - - ===ARC middleware availability=== - - ARC middleware is free to be used anywhere by anybody. It is available from the NorduGrid public repository in pre-built binary distributions for a variety of Linux systems. Source code is also available from this repository and from the NorduGrid CVS. - - Furthermore, a standalone client binary tarballs are available for a variety of Linux systems. This client comes with all the required external software (most notably, parts of the Globus Toolkit) and configuration, thus providing a complete, out-of-the-box client package that can be used by other Grids, e.g., for data transfer or data indexing. - - Software releases are available under the GNU General Public License (GPL).