MDS 2.4 Index of VOs - Public GIIS

The Globus project maintains an MDS index node (GIIS) available for anyone to query.

Globus Project - Public GIIS VO index
 
Hostname giis.globus.org
Port 2135
Base DN Mds-Vo-name=vo-index, o=Grid
Binding Anonymous only

Note that the Grid defined by the public giis is intended to be a resource discovery Grid only, with no systems accepting compute jobs, data transfers, or any Globus Tookit functionality beyond resource discovery.

If you would like to join this VO, directions can be found here.
 
To query this giis, use the web interface; or one of the many MDS Browsers; or from a command line on a machine with the Globus Toolkit 2.4 installed and configured:

grid-info-search -x -h giis.globus.org -b 'Mds-vo-name=vo-index,o=grid' 	  

This query will return all of the data from the giis, currently about 630 objects (number of objects may vary drastically, since anyone can register with the Guest VO at any time).

The Directory Services Working Group of the UK Grid Engineering Task Force maintains a VO Index for UK e-Science projects.