1. http://www.ngs.ac.ukhttp://www.grid-support.ac.uk http://www.eu-egee.org/http://www.pparc.ac.uk/http://www.nesc.ac.uk/ OGSA-DAI Tutorial Guy Warner and Kostas Tourlas

2. Induction to Grid Computing and the National Grid Service, NeSC, 29 th – 30 th March 2005 Overview This tutorial will cover the concepts of –Accessing a single database –Accessing multiple databases running at separate locations –Comparing data in these multiple databases

3. Induction to Grid Computing and the National Grid Service, NeSC, 29 th – 30 th March 2005 Setup Windows XP desktop (local) –mysql server – read/write database –tomcatweb container –OGSA-DAI 4.0 –Globus Toolkit 3.2 Lab-07 – Linux (remote) –mysql server – read only database –tomcat web container –OGSA-DAI 4.0 –Globus Toolkit 3.2

4. Induction to Grid Computing and the National Grid Service, NeSC, 29 th – 30 th March 2005 Getting Started Double click “Start Tomcat”. –A window showing the output from tomcat will appear. Do not close this Double click “Databrowser”. –This is a tool provided with OGSA-DAI for running simple tasks Open a browser window at http://homepages.nesc.ac.uk/~gcw/NGS/OGSADAI.html http://homepages.nesc.ac.uk/~gcw/NGS/OGSADAI.html Follow the instructions from there.