As a part of EGEE-III NA3 activities, a one day user-oriented training event has been organized by SCL at the Institute of Physics Belgrade on September 19, 2008. The aim of the training was to provide users with basics of Grid computing and gLite services. The participants are also given introduction to EGEE-III, and an overview of SEE-GRID-SCI project and AEGIS activities. Basic usage of the gLite middleware is presented in several hands-on sessions with demonstrations. More than 20 researches and students from different Serbian research Institutes participated in this event.

Agenda

• Openning (5 min.) - Aleksandar Belic
• Overview of the training (5 min.) - Dusan Vudragovic
• Introduction to cluster computing and Grid environment (45 min.) - Antun Balaz
  Introduction to cluster computing
  Introduction to Grid environment
• EGEE, SEE-GRID-SCI and AEGIS infrastructure and projects (45. min.) - Antun Balaz
  Overview of EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE)
  Overview of SEE-GRID-SCI (SEE-GRID eInfrastructure for regional eScience)
  Overview of AEGIS (Academic and Educational Grid Initiative of Serbia)
• Obtaining and using grid certificate (30 min.) - Branimir Ackovic
  Certification Authority role
  How to obtain certificate
  How to use certificate
• Grid services (90 min.) - Dusan Vudragovic
  Virtual Organization Membership Service (VOMS)
  Berkely Database Information Index (BDII)
  Workload Management System (WMS)
  Logging and Bookkeeping service (LB)
  Computing element (CE)
  Storage Element (SE)
  File Transfer Service (FTS)
  MyProxy service (PX)
  Relational Grid Monitoring Architecture (RGMA)
  Logical File Catalog (LFC)
  ARDA Metadata Grid Application (AMGA)
• How to use computing resources at Grid (60 min.) - Dusan Vudragovic
  Job Description Language (JDL)
  Types of jobs
  Workload management
  MPI on the Grid
  GNU vs. PGI compiler
• How to use storage resources at Grid (45 min.) - Branimir Ackovic
  File transfer protocols
  LFC tutorial
• Other useful resources at Grid (30 min.) - Vladimir Slavnic
  AMGA tutorial
• Subversion tutorial (45 min.) - Dusan Vudragovic
  How to use subversion from command line intefrace
  How to use subversion with Eclipse

Further information are available at phyWiki page together with training photo gallery.