Grid Resource Management Tutorial

Sep 15, 2008, 8:00 AM → Sep 19, 2008, 6:00 PM Europe/Paris

LAL

Loomis, C., Michel Jouvin (LAL / CNRS)

Introduction to setting up and managing a grid resource. Cooperation with South-Africa.

Mon, September 15

Management Infrastructure

1 Welcome

Welcome + oganizational details

Slides Welcome.ppt

2 Grid Management Challenge

Speaker: Michel Jouvin

Slides GRID_Challenge.ppt

11:00 AM Coffee Break

3 Introduction to Quattor

Quattor is a management tool particularly well suited for managing grid resources (https://trac.lal.in2p3.fr/LCGQWG)

Slides Quattor.ppt

12:30 PM Lunch

4 GRIF Presentation

Slides GRIF.ppt

5 Quattor Server setup

Tue, September 16

Setup of a Grid Site

slides Grid_Site_Setup.ppt

6 Configuration of CE and WNs

Description of main configuration choices, main configuration parameters and management operations.

12:30 PM Lunch

7 Configuration of a Storage Element

Introduction to grid storage configuration and management. Presentation of DPM solution (disk only).

Wed, September 17

Batch System for Grid Resources

Presentation of default batch system (Torque/MAUI).
Discussion on specific issue to use Sun SGE.

GRIF Visit

Participation to GRIF Technical Committee meeting.

8:00 PM Social Dinner

Dinner in Paris

Thu, September 18

Grid Operation Procedures and Tools

Site registration (GOCDB)
Site monitoring (SAM and CIC Portal)
Grid Support : GGUS
Site downtimes
Accounting

slides EGEE_Operations.ppt

GRIF Visit (LAL)

Concrete work at LAL to manage GRIF.
Review of what was did in previous days.
Discussion on grid projects in South African sites (how to integrate existing resources?).

Fri, September 19

Introduction to Grid Usage

Presentation on Security, Job Submission and Data Management, including some demos.

8 Information System

Slides Information_System.ppt

9 Grid Security

Slides Grid_Security.ppt

10 Job Managment

Slides Job_Submission.ppt

10:35 AM Coffee Break

11 Data Management

Slides Data_Management_004en.ppt

French coordination of T2/T3

Participation to monthly meeting of coordination of french T2/T3

Tutorial Wrap-Up and future meetings