NorduGrid Tutorial. First steps.

NorduGrid3 years of building Grid-like infrastructure in N ordic countriesPresented byAleksandr Kon stantinov on behalf of NorduGrid collaborationVilnius University/Li thuania and University of Oslo/ N orwayGlobusWORLD 2005February 7-11, Boston, Massachusetts, USANorduGrid N orduGrid is a research collaboration established by universities in Denmark, Estonia, F inland, Norway a nd Sweden- Focuses on p roviding production-capable Grid-like middleware for academic researchers- Currently supports one of the largest Grid production systems● 10 countries, 40+ sites, ~4000 CPUs, ~30 TB storage2005-02-09 www.nordugrid.org 2ARC● ARC (Advanced Resource Connector) is the Grid middleware developed by the N orduGrid- Collection of tools and servicesTM- Based on Globus Toolkit 2 libraries and services● Can be built using GT3 pre-WS code too- Using available utilities whenever possible● Some services which could/can not provide functionality outlined in N orduGrid architecture were replacedTM● Some other services not provided in Globus Toolkit 2 were developed● Initial development principles:- Simple- Stable- N on-invasive2005-02-09 www.nordugrid.org 3ARC components Job management– Li ghtweight User Interface with built-in Personal Resource Bro ker• Ba sic and complete support for single job management• Ba sic functionality for data management– Resource frontend - Grid Manager – accessible through GridFTP interface Information– ...