UABgridBootCamp
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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's 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
- Authentication
- Basic Commands
- gwhost, gwps, gwkill, gwhistory, grid-proxy-init, grid-proxy-info, gwlog (ghost, gps, gkill, ghistory, ginit, ginfo, glog?)
- Example jobs
- Basic job submit
- Job Arrays
- Job Batches
- Highlight Advanced Tools and Future Plans
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.
Proposed Schedule
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 9:00 - 9:20 | Coffee, refreshments, mingle |
| 9:20 - 9:30 | Welcome & Opening Remarks |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | UABgrid Architecture: Infrastructure and Resources
grid interfaces, compute resources, 10GigE research network, collaboration tools |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Adding resources to UABgrid
How to set up Globus, certificates, firewall, job env, account provisioning (account & grid mapfile) |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Running Jobs on UABgrid
Using the meta-scheduler, staging data, incorporating local resources (similar to Day 1 user overview) |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 1:45 | Collaboration Infrastructure
Virtual Organizations and Tools (groups mgmt, wikis, blogs, content mgmt, project tracking, file sharing) |
| 1:45 - 2:00 | Roadmap and Goals |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Wrap-up |
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