Induction course Mike Mineter Training Outreach and Education National e-Science Centre University of Edinburgh, UK

Goals and prerequisites Course goals are to give an understanding of Grids to give an understanding of the EGEE project and its activities to enable basic use of the gLite middleware Most participants will have limited or no prior experience of grids or of EGEE and its gLite middleware. Prerequisites: Some experience of UNIX File and command-line editing Extent to which goals are achieved are to be assessed in the event feedback form

Major source of information On induction courses: Editorial Task Force page http://wiki.nesc.ac.uk/read/egee-na3-etf?EtfInduction What is the “Editorial Task Force”? NA3 initiative in EGEE to improve re-use of material Tell us when you improve material or create a new talk, slide, module suited to re-use More on Friday! All induction courses have same goals How these are achieved can vary Trainers may choose to organise a course differently, for example with different learning progressions, talks and practicals but any induction course is expected to have equivalent content.

Induction courses Session 1 : introduction Introducing Grids, EGEE, gLite COULD be given as a set of talks for wider audience is attending the rest of the course Often will include talk by host organisation about local initiatives, the regional federation in EGEE, Session 2: introduction to gLite services – most of the course Major services in gLite release Concepts How to use them Session 3: Next steps Courses seek to give skills Goal of this session is to make sure they know how to proceed, points of contact, sources of further information, local initiatives, EGEE federation contacts, RAs,… In this Training The Trainers event, we’re assuming you know all that – its not scheduled. BUT this third session is vital

Session 1 Introducing concepts Grids EGEE Beware confusion from over-use of “grid” term Do not assume people come with prior knowledge Do emphasise grids as a platform for collaboration “virtual computing across administrative domains” Use examples from EGEE – saves time EGEE Saying minimum to set context Can come back later in course to expand on this Need to ensure that operational ans organisational dimensions are communicated… >> “how do I use it” !! (Local federation and activities)

Session 1 continued: AA AuthZ and AuthN Not one way to teach this! Often 30 minute intro Some try a brief intro and return to this later Need people to leave the course understanding about certificates and how to manage them Creating proxy ~ log-in VOMS and centrality of the VO in grid organisation and scalability