Introductions and overview of the day

Application Development and Aspects of gLite 3.0 <p> This talk beings by raising awareness of some of the challenges faced by grid application developers. It then describes aspects of the current gLite functionality, with particular reference to VOMS, for VO management and the WM-Proxy service within the Workload Management System. VOMS permits groups and roles within a VO to be defined. The WM-Proxy service will simplify the development and deployment of several classes of applications. </p>

Practical: Workload management in gLite3.0 - MPI

Metadata services - AMGA

R-GMA for monitoring applications An introduction to R-GMA is given, and familiarity is then gained by use of the command-line interface to R-GMA. (In the afternoon there is an opportunity for using the API.)

"Building blocks" of reusable code: gLite APIs During this practical the APIs for several of the gLite services will be used. The "building blocks" are code for programs that invoke the APIs; particpants can re-use this code in future. The APIs are for: <ul> <li> GFAL - which permits POSIX-like access to files on Storage Elements <li> the Workload Management Services, via WM-Proxy <li> R-GMA <ul>

Practical continues

A glance towards the future

Closing discussion