BalticGrid Summer School

Session

EGEE Tutorial: Introduction to Grids and to EGEE

5 Jul 2006, 09:00

Description

The purpose of this tutorial is to give a practical introduction to Grid Computing and the international EGEE grid.

The tutorial gives experience of the current middleware during practicals using the GILDA training testbed, as provided by INFN/University of Catania and partners.

This agenda may be subject to minor alteration.

Day 1 introduces the EGEE project and its middleware.

Day 2 has an application development focus - practicals are used to give experience of more advanced data and workload management. In the afternoon participants will be invited to run their own applications. These should be able to be compiled on LINUX, should NOT be interactive (i.e. they should read input files and write output files). The code and data for these should be held in a tar ball, accessible for example by sftp. This requires preparation before the tutorial begins.

1. Introduction

05/07/2006, 09:00

3. What is Grid Computing?

05/07/2006, 09:15

4. An overview of the EGEE project and middleware

05/07/2006, 10:00

EGEE has established an international grid infrastructure. This talk describes the activities and objectives of EGEE. It then outlines the major middleware services: Authorisation and Authentication Information Services Data Managament Workload management These will be used during the practicals later in the day on the GILDA grid. GILDA is a grid provided for training by the...

2. Authentication, Authorisation and Security

05/07/2006, 10:30

The fundamental challenges of grid computing are described: how can trust be established between sites and users?? How can security be protected when communication is across a public network? How are users authorised to use computers and data?