Welcome to the nordugrid-arc-nox-standalone for Mac OS X Installer

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 Nox release of the ARC software collects and integrates several innovative next generation services and client tools into a consistent software release. Nox components have been developed by the KnowARC project over the last three years and represent software services of different levels of maturity. Some of them are already deployable in production environments, while others should be considered only as technology preview prototypes. Nox is not meant to be a replacement of the current line of ARC production releases. The purpose of the release is to offer an early possibility to try out the new Web Service (WS) based standard-compliant components before they can appear in one of the coming production ARC releases. Some of the Nox components are actually already a part of the latest production ARC release. The Nox release can be deployed simultaneously with a production release ARC installation. The Nox release makes the ARC middleware available on additional long-awaited popular platforms. ARC has long been known for its very good portability and support for wide range of Linux versions. This release of ARC moves one step further by initiating the inclusion of Nox packages into the Linux distributions themselves. The design of ARC and the careful choice of underlying dependencies takes the portability of the code to a new level. Nox is now available on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Solaris. The release code name Nox originates from the date of the end of KnowARC project: November 2009. N - for November and Ox for the corresponding Lunar year.

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This installer guides you through the steps necessary to install nordugrid-arc-nox-standalone 1.1.0 for Mac OS X. To get started, click Continue.