1st EGEE Tutorial in Taiwan

22 Aug 2005, 09:00 → 23 Aug 2005, 17:50 Europe/Zurich

Taipei

Mike Mineter

This tutorial is associated with the 20th APAN meeting in Taipei. Its purpose is to introduce the EGEE project, including its goals, infrastructure, middleware and operations. Participants are asked to bring a laptop and to refer to http://egee-na4.ct.infn.it/ct_may_24/requirements.php. This has information about software required for the practicals. Please check that you have this software on your laptop.

Monday 22 August

13:30 → 17:50 Day 1: EGEE and the gLite middleware

13:30 Introduction to the tutorial

13:40 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. The talk includes an overview of operations: the organisational infrastructure that maintains and supports the EGEE grid. It also describes the current application communities that are using the EGEE grid.

Speaker: Fabrizio Gagliardi (CERN)

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14:40 gLite overview

gLite is the EGEE middleware, released in March 2005. This talk outlines its architecture.

Speaker: Mike Mineter (NeSC Edinburgh)

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15:05 Authorisation and Authentication in gLite

Certificates, Proxies, VOMS, MyProxy

Speaker: Mike Mineter (NeSC Edinburgh)

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15:30 COFFEE

16:00 Architecture of the gLite Workload Management System

Speaker: Giuseppe Andronico (INFN Catania)

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16:30 Practical: gLite logging, proxyes and delegations

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Speaker: All Tutors

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17:30 END OF DAY 1

Tuesday 23 August

09:00 → 17:50 Day 2: gLite continued

09:00 Data management

Data Management System (DMS) overview FireMan Catalogue LFC: the LCG File Catalogue

Speaker: Mike Mineter, Roberto Barbera (NeSC Edinburgh, Univ. Catania and INFN)

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10:00 The Information System

lcg-infosites R-GMA Accounting Monitoring

Speaker: Mike Mineter, Roberto Barbera (NeSC Edinburgh, Univ. Catania and INFN)

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11:00 COFFEE

11:30 Practical: gLite Workload Management System

12:30 LUNCH

13:30 Practical: LFC and gLite DMS

Speaker: All Tutors

15:00 COFFEE

15:30 Practical: lcg-infosites and R-GMA

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16:30 EGEE Services & Status in Taiwan

Speaker: Eric Yen (ASCC)

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17:20 Closing discussion

This is a final opportunity to discuss issues arising from this tutorial. Participants are also asked to complete and return feedback forms.

17:30 CLOSE