[gin-ops] FW: start Savannah run

Thu Nov 30 02:43:31 CST 2006

Thankyou everyone.

I am now registered on the GIN VO (well, I appear here:
http://kuiken.nikhef.nl/gin.ggf.org/grid-mapfile).

What is my next step?

Thanks,
Colin

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Colin Enticott, Research Scientist, Ph: +61 03 9903 2215
Room H7.26, Level 7, Building H, Monash University Caulfield 3145, Australia

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cindy Zheng [mailto:zhengc at sdsc.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, 30 November 2006 11:59 AM
> To: 'Terrence Martin'
> Cc: 'JP Navarro'; gin-ops at ggf.org; 'Oscar Koeroo'; 'Colin Enticott'; gin-
> auth at ggf.org
> Subject: RE: FW: start Savannah run
> 
> 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
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>
> > >
> >