1. Agya Adueni

2. Hardware  The machine featured in this tutorial is a Dell Dimension 8200 with 512mb of RAM and a P4 1.8GHz processor.  It ran Fedora Core 6

3. Prerequisites  Java 1.5 or later should be installed. It can be obtained from http://java.sun.com/javase/6/ http://java.sun.com/javase/6/  Download a copy of the gridgain installation. It can be found at http://www.gridgain.com/past_download s.html http://www.gridgain.com/past_download s.html  For this presentation, the gridgain installation is located in /opt.

4. Getting Started  Change directory into the /opt folder  Add execute permissions to the GridGain installation

5.  Run the GridGain installation  GridGain welcome screen. Click Next

6.  Accept the agreement  Choose installation folder

7.  Installing …  Done!! Well, not quite yet

8.  Point to the location of the internet browser executable on your system

9. Running GridGain node  Change directories to the installed GridGain application  Go into the bin folder

10. Environment Variables  GridGain needs two environment variables to be set. GRIDGAIN_HOME and JAVA_HOME. Open up an editor to the file /etc/profile  Add the highlighted lines (these must match the locations of your java installation and gridgain installation) to the file.

11. Run GridGain  Run GridGain  Oops! This was caused by the local firewall

12. Disable Firewall  Run the highlighted command to disable the firewall  Results

13. Run Gridgain… again  Try running the node again

14. Success!!!  You have successfully installed GridGain- 1.5.1  Congratulations!!!