Creating a grid using Globus toolkit

I have used fedora core 12 for installation.

1. Download the globus toll installer from http://www.globus.org. The current version is gt5.0.2-all-source-installer.tar.bz2.

2. create a directory with root login
mkdir /usr/local/globus
Copy gt5.0.2-all-source-installer.tar.bz2 to /usr/local/globus using the command
cp gt5.0.2-all-source-installer.tar.bz2 /usr/local/globus

2. Login as globus user and extract gt5.0.2-all-source-installer.tar.bz2 in /usr/local/globus:
chown globus:globus /usr/local/globus
tar xvf gt5.0.2-all-source-installer.tar.bz2

3.Configure the installation path to /usr/local/globus/ using commands:
cd gt5.0.2-all-source-installer
./configure --prefix /usr/local/globus/
This will create makefile.

4. make
It will take 15-20 minutes depending on the configuration of your machine.

5. make install

6. export GLOBUS_LOCATION on terminal and add a line in ~/.bashrc :
export GLOBUS_LOCATION=/usr/local/globus-5.0.2

To setup Simple CA see next blog.