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

2. 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

3. Major source of information
On induction courses:
Editorial Task Force page
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.

4. 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

5. 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)

6. 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