UABgridBootCamp

Proposed structure

General Section

The grid part of the bootcamp is estimated at 45 minutes broken in roughly 3 sections.

• Describing UABgrid
  • Why use grid technology and/or why is it needed
  • An overview of the UABgrid Architecture: a basic description of the grid head node, storage node, and compute nodes.

• Using UABgrid
  • Authentication
    • Get you UABgrid Credentials
    • SSH to head node

• • Basic Commands
    • gwhost, gwps, gwkill, gwhistory, grid-proxy-init, grid-proxy-info, gwlog (ghost, gps, gkill, ghistory, ginit, ginfo, glog?)

. Should cover how to authn and such.

• • Go to uabgrid page and login/register and then you can go to stage and login with credentials. Need to create an account on stage.
• The second section would concentrate on interacting with the grid using gridway -- our exposed cmdline interface to the grid
• The third section would be an example grid-based workflow, eg. DynamicBlast

Advanced Section

The afternoon section (3-4hours) should focus on system admins and early adopters. We can describe:

• How resources can be added to UABgrid (or SURAgrid)
• Details on grid management
• Work that still needs doing.
• How the @lab VO's goal is to help manage the grid and invitations to join.
• More details about the collaboration features available via UABgrid.

Basically, this is where we can go over the things that are working but still need some exploration.

Concerns & Open Issues

How do you get onto stage ssh. OK but then how do you get you cert initialized on stage? myproxy-get-deligation will let you get a proxy based on blazerid / pw. We don't need to worry about client side download of certs.

Requirements

• UABgrid IdM
• UABgrid GridShib CA
• UABgrid stage running GridWay
• UABgrid file grid
• Cheaha running globus and sge connector