As of 18 November 2013, SURFsara offered the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) IntroductiontoGridComputing. The course aimed to help researchers to understand the Grid key concepts and the role of Grid Computing in computationally intensive problems. This included working with portals, workflow management systems and the Grid middleware.
The taught material consists of:
a set of video lectures.
a set of quizzes, assignments and exercises.
real world examples of use cases on Grid.
Note
The mooc participants were provided with student accounts and a preconfigured Virtual Machine (VM) with all the necessary Grid tools installed. If you want to run the examples presented in the video lectures below you will have to request your personal Grid account, see Prerequisites. Please contact helpdesk@surfsara.nl if you need help with this.
We have prepared a set of animations to display the basic usage of Grid Infrastructure. The animations were presented
during the lectures, but they are still accessible to try out freely in this link: Mooc Animations.
Sectigo allows you to get your Grid certificate instantly from the GEANT Trusted Certificate Service (instead of Terena portal), by using your institutional login and SURFconext. Read the User Guide or login directly on the Sectigo portal.
lcg/lfc/lfn? Only for large files with multiple replicas.
The lectures DataManagementontheGrid[1-3] present the lcg/lfc/lfn Storage clients. However, we advise you to better use the globus client or srm client tools, unless you need to run jobs on multiple sites which require access on the same large dataset (or database). In case of doubts, contact us at helpdesk@surfsara.nl.
The work is supported by the EGI-InSPIRE project (Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe), co-funded by the European Commission (contract number: RI-261323) for four years from the 1st of May 2010. EGI-InSPIRE is a collaborative effort involving more than 50 institutions in over 40 countries. Its mission is to establish a sustainable European Grid Infrastructure (EGI).
