edg-tutorial

The EU DataGrid TutorialThe EU Tutorial Teamhttp:cern.ch/edgtutorEditors: Erwin Laure, Heinz & Kurt StockingerAbstractThe EU DataGrid project (EDG) [1] is not only a software provider ofGrid software but also puts much emphasis on training. For this purpose, atutorial programme has been created and successfully presented at severalevents all over the world.The tutorial covers various aspects of Grid computing and providesthe ability to get hands-on experience with modern Grid tools. A ma-jor part is dedicated to Grid software that has been produced within theEDG project who’s aim is to develop high level Grid middleware andto operate a large-scale research testbed for Grid computing. The tuto-rial presents the EDG software architecture and discusses the interplayof the basic Grid software (Globus, CondorG), higher level EDG middle-ware, and application software on the EDG testbed. Emphasis is put onspeci c middleware issues in job submission, data management and in-formation systems as well as on EDG’s security architecture. In severalexercises students learn how to use Grid tools for their distributed dataor computing intensive applications.1 IntroductionIn the past few years, many Grid projects worldwide have developed gridsolutions which go beyond a simple proof of concept and allow the ex-ploitation of Grid computing, i.e. world-wide resource sharing withinspeci c communities, so-called Virtual Organisations (VOs), in an evergrowing scale. ...