[gin-auth] FW: start Savannah run

Cindy Zheng zhengc at sdsc.edu
Wed Nov 29 18:58:40 CST 2006


Thank you, Terrence!
We'll wait to hear from Colin when Colin finishes 
registering to gin vo.
Cindy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terrence Martin [mailto:tmartin at physics.ucsd.edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 11:36 AM
> To: Oscar Koeroo
> Cc: zhengc at sdsc.edu; 'JP Navarro'; gin-ops at ggf.org; 'Colin 
> Enticott'; gin-auth at ggf.org
> Subject: Re: FW: start Savannah run
> 
> 
> Oscar Koeroo wrote:
> > Hi Terrence and Cindy,
> >
> > Getting new users up for registration on the GIN VO is easy. To be 
> > able to access the secured website and for authentication reasons 
> > during the registration process new users must have their 
> certificate 
> > loaded and ready in their webbrowser. The VOMS server is 
> loaded with 
> > all IGTF accredited CAs including the Fermilab kCA.
> >
> > Go to the website: 
> https://kuiken.nikhef.nl:8443/voms/gin.ggf.org/ and 
> > apply for a "New user registration".
> >
> >
> > The usual VOMS configuration info is also available. I 
> don't know what 
> > you'll need to populate a GUMS server. This VOMS server is as any 
> > other so I guess you can use your regular setup.
> > In addition to the secured interface I've also made available a 
> > non-secured way of grabbing a grid-mapfile. 
> > http://kuiken.nikhef.nl/gin.ggf.org/grid-mapfile
> > There is also an RSS-feed pointing to the grid-mapfile and 
> the secured 
> > interface at 
> http://kuiken.nikhef.nl/gin.ggf.org/feed-gin.ggf.org.xml
> >
> > Unfortunately I'm not aware of a clear guide. I do know a guide for 
> > creating the packed certificate files that go into your 
> browser if you 
> > start from a two PEM formated files (certificate file + private key 
> > file) that's at http://certificate.nikhef.nl/info/browser
> > Once a user has passed that stage, the registration for the 
> VO is as 
> > trivial as any web-forum account registration.
> >
> 
> I am assuming this user already has a grid cert since they 
> list a DN so 
> only VOMS registration is required. Once that is done either I run my 
> update of GUMS manually or in 720/2 minutes on average the 
> user will be 
> automatically downloaded into my GUMS database. I actually do 
> not have 
> to do anything, but I can speed things up ever so slightly if I am in 
> the office and someone asks me to try refreshing gums.
> 
> Terrence
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >    Oscar
> >
> >
> >
> > Cindy Zheng wrote:
> >> Sounds right, Terrence. Let me ask Oscar who has helped me 
> with GIN 
> >> VO before.
> >>
> >> Hi, Oscar,
> >> Could you advise Colin what need to be done to be
> >> added in GIN VO?
> >> I'm also cc'ing to gin-auth list.
> >> If there is a guide for potential GIN users, please
> >> let me know the url and I can link it to our GINOPS
> >> page.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Cindy
> >>
> >>  
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Terrence Martin [mailto:tmartin at physics.ucsd.edu] Sent: 
> >>> Tuesday, November 28, 2006 3:24 PM
> >>> To: zhengc at sdsc.edu
> >>> Cc: 'JP Navarro'; gin-ops at ggf.org; 'Colin Enticott'
> >>> Subject: Re: FW: start Savannah run
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> The quickest and easiest way for me is to have him added to a VO. 
> >>> How easy is it to add him to the GIN VO? One in there I 
> can hit my 
> >>> gums reload and he will be able to access UCSD as a GIN user. Any 
> >>> other approach requires me hacking his DN into my local 
> VO which I 
> >>> prefer to avoid and does not help him with any other site.
> >>>
> >>> Terrence
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Cindy Zheng wrote:
> >>>    
> >>>> Thanks, Terrence, for the quick reply!
> >>>> Colin has not been a GIN user.
> >>>> What do you think it's the best way to get colin access?
> >>>> Cindy
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>> From: Terrence Martin [mailto:tmartin at physics.ucsd.edu] Sent: 
> >>>>> Tuesday, November 28, 2006 2:53 PM
> >>>>> To: zhengc at sdsc.edu
> >>>>> Cc: 'JP Navarro'; gin-ops at ggf.org
> >>>>> Subject: Re: FW: start Savannah run
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> We only have a production cluster, but I should still 
> be         
> >>> able to help.
> >>>    
> >>>>> I do not seem to have Colin in my GUMS database though 
> for         
> >>> GIN or any    
> >>>>> other VO. Should he be downloaded with GIN's users?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Terrence
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cindy Zheng wrote:
> >>>>>            
> >>>>>> Hi, JP and Terrence,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Could you help Colin to get ready to run Savannah
> >>>>>> application on your GIN testbed clusters?
> >>>>>> You can find Colin's user info at
> >>>>>> http://wiki.pragma-grid.net/index.php?title=ColinDetails
> >>>>>> If you need more info or action from Colin, or have 
> any questions 
> >>>>>> for Colin or me, please let us know.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thank you very much!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Cindy
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>>> From: Cindy Zheng [mailto:zhengc at sdsc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, 
> >>>>>> November 28, 2006 2:31 PM
> >>>>>> To: 'gin-ops at ggf.org'
> >>>>>> Subject: start Savannah run
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Dear all,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks for all the people involved to help make
> >>>>>> TDDFT application run and GIN testbed monitoring
> >>>>>> very fruitful experiments! We have learned a lot and have 
> >>>>>> presented our learnings at OGF and SC06.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Let's continue our collaborative effort with our plan 
> - start our 
> >>>>>> next experiment with Savannah
> >>>>>> fire simulation - a data-intensive application, to 
> explore data 
> >>>>>> related interoperation issues.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Colin Enticott at Monash University of Australia
> >>>>>> is the lead driver. Colin has documented the
> >>>>>> introduction and requirements of this application at
> >>>>>> http://wiki.pragma-grid.net/index.php?title=Savannah
> >>>>>> or go to
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>                 
> >>>>> http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.gin/wi
> >>>>>             
> >>>> ki/GinOps
> >>>>        
> >>>>> click "Savannah" under "Applications",
> >>>>> where "first Savannah experiment" is refering to
> >>>>> a previous experiment in PRAGMA testbed. The
> >>>>> "second Savannah experiment" is the one for GIN testbed.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> We like to run this application on all Grids in GIN 
> testbed, but 
> >>>>> in 2 steps. First, we will run it on 
> PRAGMA/TeraGrid/OSG - since 
> >>>>> these should be relatively easier to do. We like to get 
> this done 
> >>>>> before the year end.
> >>>>> The next step, Colin will work with EGEE and Nordugrid
> >>>>> to develop possible solutions, to enable interoperation
> >>>>> and to include all 5 Grids in the run.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks in advance for your continued help with this!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cindy
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>               
> >>>>         
> >
> 



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