Purpose
In order to be able to stage jobs to resources and launch them there on behalf of a user, host-dependent information must be obtained dynamically by the Workflow Broker after scheduling the node to run. While it would be optimal if every Grid resource exposed this information consistently and in the same way, that is unfortunately not (yet?) the case. Hence we have developed a small information service with an administrative interface. The service can be contacted by the broker through its retrieve ports; it can be updated or modified through its