gLite tutorial at the EGEE User Forum

27 Feb 2006, 09:00 → 28 Feb 2006, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

Barbera, R.

The present EGEE tutorial event aims at not only providing in-depth lectures on the EGEE gLite middleware but also offering hands-on practical exercises using gLite on GILDA to those who are interested in application development on the EGEE infrastructure. The tutorial will take place in the Training Centre Auditorium (room R-010 in building 593). Follow this link to see where is building no. 593 inside CERN.
Feedback form: http://egee-na4.ct.infn.it/cern/feedback.php

Monday, 27 February

09:00 → 18:00 Day 1

09:00 Welcome to the EGEE tutorial

Speaker: Barbera, R. (Univ. Catania and INFN)

09:15 Introduction to EGEE

The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project is funded by the European Commission. It is developing an international, production quality, grid infrastructure. This talk gives a brief introduction to grid computing. It then gives an overview of the EGEE project summarising its activities and status; its operations infrastructure and its applications communities.

Speaker: Barbera, R. (Univ. Catania and INFN)

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10:15 The GILDA t-Infrastructure

"t-Infrastructure" is a specialised e-Infrastructure adapted to and provided for training and education. The GILDA grid runs a combination of both LCG2 and gLite middleware and will the t-Infrastrucure used in this tutorial.

Speaker: Calanducci, A. (INFN)

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11:00 Coffee break

11:30 gLite overview

Speaker: Bruno, R. (INFN)

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12:00 Authorisation and Authentication in gLite

Certificates, Proxies, VOMS and MyProxy

Speaker: Mineter, M. (NeSC)

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12:30 The gLite Information System

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Speaker: Calanducci, A. and La Rocca, G. (INFN)

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13:00 Lunch break

14:00 Architecture of the gLite Workload Management System

WMS DGAS

Speaker: La Rocca, G. (INFN)

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14:40 Practicals on gLite Security and Information Systems

Certificates Proxies VOMS MyProxy lcg-infosites/lcg-info R-GMA

Speaker: GILDA Tutors (INFN)

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15:30 Coffee break

16:00 Practical on gLite WMS

WMS DGAS

Speaker: GILDA Tutors (INFN)

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Tuesday, 28 February

09:00 → 18:00 Day 2

09:00 Architecture of gLite Data Management System

Data Management System overview LFC: the LCG File Catalogue FiReMan Catalogue AMGA Metadata Catalogue

Speaker: Bruno, R. and Calanducci A. (INFN)

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09:45 Practical on gLite Data Management System

Speaker: GILDA Tutors (INFN)

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11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Practical continued

Speaker: GILDA Tutors (INFN)

13:00 Lunch break

14:00 Practical on special jobs and students' own jobs

This practical will also include use of workflow with gLite. For this session students will be invited to create small jobs by themselves or use some of their own already existing applications.

Speaker: GILDA Tutors (INFN)

15:00 Coffee break

15:30 Practical on special jobs and students' own jobs continued

Speaker: GILDA Tutors (INFN)

17:30 How to join GILDA

Speaker: Bruno, R. (INFN)

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17:45 Closing and feedback from participants

Speaker: Barbera, R. (Univ. Catania and INFN)