GridPP Getting Started Guide
This page will help you get started with the Grid. It shows you where to find information on
- what the Grid is
- some of the most important Grid projects
- getting started as a Grid user
- putting your site on the Grid
What is the grid?
CERN's Grid Cafe is an excellent starting point for information about the Grid. It includes sections on:
What is the Grid? |
How does it work? |
What can it do |
A brief history |
The Grid and you |
Grid @ CERN |
Grid projects worldwide
What is the Grid?
A website from the US National Centre for Supercomputing Applications, with videoclips of experts talking about the "Grid".
What is the Grid? A three-point checklist
An article in Grid Today by Ian Forster, from Argonne National Laboratories. He talks about how "Grids" are defined, and discusses the difference between real Grids and projects that just have "Grid" in the name...
Grid Acronym Soup
Explanations of Grid abbreviations and acronyms.
Grid projects
CERN's Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid project (LCG)
The world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will be switched on at CERN in 2007. This project is developing a worldwide computational Grid to deal with the computing demands of the LHC.
Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe This is the European Union's main Grid project. It brings together experts from over 27 countries with the common aim of developing a grid infrastructure for European science.
Globus
The Globus Alliance is a US-European collaboration, conducting research and development to create fundamental technologies behind the Grid.
Open Grid Forum
The Open Grid Forum (OGF) is a community-initiated forum of thousands of individuals from industry and research developing global standards for grid computing.
The UK e-science core programme
This gives details of the UK's grid and e-science programme. It also includes links to the e-science programmes of all the UK Research Councils.
STFC's e-Science programme
The e-Science programme from the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council. It funds projects such as GridPP and Astrogrid.
Getting started as a Grid user
User Area of the GridPP pages
With the procedure on how to get started as a Grid user, including getting a certificate and joining a Virtual Organisation.
Quick start guide for LCG2
GridPP guide to starting as a user of the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid.
Getting an e-science certificate
In order to use the Grid you need a Grid certificate. This page introduces the UK e-Science Certification Authority, which issues cerficates to users. You can get a certificate from here.
Using the LHC Computing Grid (LCG)
CERN's guide on the steps you need to take in order to become a user of the LCG. This includes contact details for support.
LCG user scenario
This describes in a practical way the steps a user has to follow to send and run jobs on LCG and to retrieve and process the output successfully.
Getting started as a Grid site
GridPP Testbed Support
Pages of information about the tb-support mailing list, phone conferences and the GridPP VO.
The Grid Support Centre
The UK Grid Support Centre is part of the DTI Core Programme for e-Science. It supports all aspects of the deployment, operation and maintenance of Grid middleware and distributed resource management for the UK Grid testbeds.
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