= VGFS Proof-of-concept project =

== Introduction ==

VGFS was developed during my internship-period at IBM. It started out
as merely an experiment with the gLite APIs, but at the end it was useful
enough to deploy as a proof-of-concept of integrating gLite grid resources
within a normal hetrogeneous network.

For more information, please see my internship report (Data grids in theory
and practice), especially chapters 6 and appendix B are the most relevant to
VGFS. You can obtain a copy of this report from my website [www.alextreme.org]
under Papers & Rants -> Papers & Theses. Slides from my final presentation
can also be found there for a quick overview of my internship and this project.

== Disclaimer ==

This project was developed during my time as an intern at IBM. Although no
objections were voiced from my supervisor at IBM at making my code F/OSS,
all copyright is owned by IBM due to my contract with IBM. I am taking the
liberty to license my code under the GNU GPL v2, but IBM has the right to
revoke this license for any current and future release.

I am also not in a position to support or make improvements on this project.
It is supplied AS IS. Feel free to do with it as you please, but as my access
to the dutch grid facilities is very limited I will not be able to help you.

== Usage ==

All source can be found in the examples directory of the fuse-distribution.
I have supplied a number of scripts to help you out in running VGFS. Run
VGFS without arguments to get a list of arguments, or check out appendix B from
my thesis for a listing. 

My code hasn't been cleaned before release nor is it properly packaged. However,
my guess is that if you are in the same position as I was VGFS should help you
on your way.

Oh, and my condolences that you have to use gLite. If you don't, do switch
to using Globus. From a CS point of view, gLite is madness.