Speaker
Roberto Barbera
(INFN Catania)
Description
In the Grid dissemination activity, teaching of Grid elements installation covers a
very important role. While in tutorials for users availability of accounts and
certificates is enough, in those ones for administrators a certain number of free
machines is needed, and the requirements for a Grid-middleware compliant operating
system also occurs.
The VirtualGILDA infrastructure for training aims at offering a set of Virtual
Machine (VM), hosted in Catania and based on VMWare technology, with a pre-installed
OS and net connectivity: in this way tutors have all the needed machines ready to
use. They only need a reliable access to the Internet.
The presence of pre-installed Grid element is also possible, in order to provide
tutors with a set of preconfigured machines ready to interact with elements that will
be installed during the tutorial.
The use of VMWare technology is also suitable for on site tutorials, to avoid
problems deriving from the wide range of machine and OS type available on each
training site. Using VMs the only requirement is the presence of machines that can
run VMPlayer , i.e. Linux or Windows hosts.
Authors
Antonio Carrieri
(INFN Catania)
Emidio Giorgio
(INFN Catania)
Gianluca Passaro
(INFN Catania)
Gianni M. Ricciardi
(INFN Catania)
Giuseppe Andronico
(INFN Catania)
Giuseppe La Rocca
(INFN Catania)
Giuseppe Platania
(INFN Catania)
Lorenzo Neri
(INFN Catania)
Marco Pappalardo
(INFN Catania)
Rita Ricceri
(INFN Catania)
Roberto Barbera
(INFN Catania)
Rosanna Catania
(INFN Catania)
Salvatore Monforte
(INFN Catania)
Tony Calanducci
(INFN Catania)
Valeria Ardizzone
(INFN Catania)
