GRIDRIO  ADMINISTRATION

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This page describes the (provisional) GridRio Charter, as well as information about how to join the GridRio Initiative and how to gain access to GridRio resources.



THE CHARTER

The following is an informal set of guidelines for resource providers and grid users outlining how the GridRio Computational Grid is expected to be operated.

    Description
1. The GridRio Computational grid is available for researchers as a testbed to investigate, test and become familiar with grid technologies. GridRio is currently not ready to become a production grid and thus users are not permitted to run large-scale compute or communication intensive applications across the grid (unless previously approved by the GridRio Management Committee). Note that each individual grid sites may adopt an alternate policy for grid applications. In general, priority will be given to the needs of local users. In the near future, as more (dedicated) resources become available, the (global) GridRio policy is likely to change.
2. Each site will be asked to nominate atleast one member of staff to be their representative on the GridRio Management Committee (mc-gridrio@ic.uff.br). The committee's basic objective is to provide input as to how the GridRio Initiative can evolve and be improved.
The site representative is also responible for informing suporte-gridrio@ic.uff.br of local site-specific decisions which may affect the operation (or users) of the GridRio Computational Grid.
3. Only members of research projects which have been approved by the GridRio Management Committee will be permitted to access GridRio resources. (See item 4 as well).
4. Approved projects will be listed on the GridRio Home Page. A homepage for each project should be available containing information about the project, the institutions involved and the names of the coordinator and other project members.
5. Each GridRio site has the right to determine their own resource security policy. It is possible to operate GridRio behind firewalls. Also, access to individual resources can be restricted on a per-user basis (i.e. to particular users).
  The GridRio Management Committee.
[Bruno Schulze (LNCC), Marcelo Portes de Albuquerque (CBPF), Noemi Rodriguez (PUC-Rio) and Vinod Rebello (UFF)]



JOINING GRIDRIO

Although GridRio is an initiative to create a research oriented computational grid across the state of Rio de Janeiro, we would gladly welcome colaboration with other institutions world-wide. If you have resources that you would like to integrate with the GridRio, please enter in contact with us at suporte-gridrio@ic.uff.br.

If you are interested in setting up a grid or are having problems with the installation and configuration of Globus 2.x Toolkit, we may be able to help.

    How to join GridRio
1. Drop us an email describing your system configuration (e.g. number and type of processors, operating system and whether each node has a valid IP) and you how would like to use your resources.
2. Depending on how you wish to operate your resources, we will reply with some of the option available to and, if necessary, send you our quick start installation guide (written in portuguese) for Globus.
3. The installation guide covers just about everything you to get a basic grid up and running. The current version of the guide (Versão 2.4.2 Setembro 2003) describes how to:
  • Download and install the Globus Toolkit 2.4.2 software;
  • Obtain certificates for grid resources;
  • Configure the gatekeeper and gridmap file;
  • Configure the Monitoring and Discovery Service (GIS and GIIS) and gsiftp;
  • Setup the Globus Services to operate behind a firewall;
  • Configure resources to accept certificates signed by an alternative Certificate Authority
  • Install MPICH-G2 and/or MPI-LAM to operate with Globus.



BECOMING A GRIDRIO USER

As set out in the GridRio Charter for assurances of system administrators, access is restricted to members of approved projects. Coordinators of projects which would like to use GridRio resources should enter in contact with their local Management Committee representative.

    How to join GridRio
1. Each approved project is required to have a WWW home page with a brief description of the project and list of project members. A list of approved project appears on the GridRio Home Page.
2. A simple Getting Started User Guide (in portuguese) is available for users at IC/UFF. [The online version (Versão 1.2 Maio 2003) will be updated soon. Email us for the latest version.] Although, the authorization process is likely to different from site to site, the basic steps should still apply at other sites.



CONTACT INFORMATION

  Email Description
gridrio@ic.uff.br A grid related discussion group for GridRio users. Also used to keep users informed of events specific to GridRio. Certified users will automatically be included in this mailing list.
mc-gridrio@ic.uff.br Management Committee Mailing List for GridRio Initiative. This committee is responsible regulating grid related use of resources available to GridRio. The commitee consists one faculty member from participating site.
suporte-gridrio@ic.uff.br Technical support for configuring GridRio computational resources and installating the Globus Toolkit or other grid related software (e.g. Sun One Grid Engine). Basically, the GridRio Support Team is responsible for the day-to-day running of the GridRio Computational Grid.
ca-gridrio@ic.uff.br Email address for requesting (Globus) authentication certificates for resources and users.


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This GridRio Initiative is partially funded by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq).

Apoio CNPq, Lei 8.248/91 e 10.176/01 - LEI DE INFORMÁTICA - CTINFO.