3.1. Prerequisites

In order to run an Ninf-G application you must have a Globus certificate and have initialized your Globus proxy. The Grid Roll documentation explains in detail how to obtain a certificate and verify the local host Globus installation. If you already have a certificate you may obtain a proxy certificate by running grid-proxy-init as shown below.

$ grid-proxy-init 
Your identity: /O=Grid/OU=San Diego Supercomputer Center/OU=rocks12.sdsc.edu/OU=sdsc.edu/CN=Spaceman Spiff
Enter GRID pass phrase for this identity:
Creating proxy ................................................ Done
Your proxy is valid until: Tue Sep  9 10:53:51 2003