DOE Science Grid Quick Start Guide

A Companion to the Globus Quick Start Guide
(Modeled after the NASA IPG version)

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Globus Quick Start Guide in PDF

DOE Science Grid Specific Information
Chapter 1 Extremely Quick Start

If the Quick Start Guide is too slow for you, you can attempt to get started from this abbreviated information. 		Very briefly, here are the steps to getting started with DOE Science Grid:

  1. Download ScienceGrid (SG) flavour of Globus from ftp://george.lbl.gov/pub/globus/. Untar and install globus in your machine. If you don't want to install Globus on your machine you may be able to get an account on one of the LBL Grid machines for evaluation use. Please send email to grid-admin@george.lbl.gov. If you are using an account on a LBL Grid machine (diesel, clipper, fluffy, slappy), do a "module load globus", so that your environment variables will be set to enable you access globus commands.

  2. From the machine you are going to submit jobs to Globus, get a Grid Certificate on the web; Please read the following instructions

  3. Wait 2 days or fewer to receive your signed certificate via email. Follow the instructions in the email for how to save your certificate.

  4. Enter globus-setup-test. If that gives you "Success!" then:

  5. Enter grid-proxy-init

  6. Enter globus-job-run diesel.lbl.gov /bin/echo "Hello World." Or substitute your Globus machine name for diesel.lbl.gov

  7. Use -help for help.

Chapter 2 Introduction

Grids are super Internets for high-performance computing. Globus is a set of underlying Grid services and a software toolkit for using the geographically distributed resources on Grids.

The DOE Science Grid is located at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. The DOE Science Grid's major objective is to provide the advanced distributed computing infrastructure based on Grid middleware and tools to enable the degree of scalability in scientific computing necessary for DOE to accomplish its missions in science. See DOE Science Grid homepage for more information.

For user support, send email to grid-admin@george.lbl.gov

Chapter 3 Globus Certificate

A grid certificate is like a passport, establishing your identity on the grid. You will need accounts on the machines you intend to use.

DOE Science Grid Accounts and Grid Certificate

DOE Science Grid users should get their certificates from the web at: https://idcg-ca.lbl.gov

Just fill in the online form.

Specific tips:

  • If you don't want to install Globus on your machine and need an account in on of the LBL Grid machines please send an email to grid-admin@george.lbl.gov

  • If you are using an account on one of the LBL Grid machines (diesel, clipper, fluffy, slappy) do a "module load globus", so that your environment variables will be set to enable you access globus commands. Just request for a certificate and install it in your home directory. You will need to read DOE Science Grid Certificate Request Instructions.

  • If you have any problem with the form, or questions, send an email to grid-admin@george.lbl.gov
Chapter 4 Proxy Credential

A Grid proxy allow you to log into multiple Grid machines without repeating your passphrase.

Same as Globus Quick Start Guide
Chapter 5 Running a Job

This chapter explains the globus-job-run, globus-job-submit, and globsrun commands.

These are the DOE Science Grid host names:

diesel.lbl.gov
clipper.lbl.gov
fluffy.lbl.gov
slappy.lbl.gov

For user support, send email to grid-admin@george.lbl.gov

Chapter 6 Grid Information Service

The GIS, also known as the MDS, serves information about resources (machines) on the Grid.

Each Grid now has its own GIS/MDS server. The DOE Science Grid GIS/MDS server is
binkley.lbl.gov
Port number 2000

See the Globus Quick Start Guide for examples of GIS searches.
Chapter 7 Accessing Remote Data

Globus Access to Secondary Storage (GASS) provides programs and C APIs for remotely accessing data, using globus-url-copy to transfer data to and from GASS servers.

Same as Globus Quick Start Guide
Chapter 8 RSL With Shell Script

An example of using Resource Specification Language.

Same as Globus Quick Start Guide
Chapter 9 Globus Commands

 Same as Globus Quick Start Guide
Chapter 10 Bibliography and Reference

For user support, send email to grid-admin@george.lbl.gov

Chapter 11 Glossary

 Same as Globus Quick Start Guide
Chapter 12 Index

 Same as Globus Quick Start Guide



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