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Contents
List of Figures
A Theoretical primer
The ``Grid Problem''
Virtual Organisations (VO's) and Service Providers (SP's)
The ``Resource Sharing'' Paradigm
The Grid
Architecture of a Computational Grid
Layered architecture of the grid
Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA)
What are Grid Services?
How do the the Grid Services work?
Open Grid Service Infrastructure (OGSI)
An example of interaction between Grid Services
Discussion on Computational Grids
How are Computational Grids similar to Power Grids ?
What is the difference between a Cluster and a Grid?
Comparison of Grids with other currently popular Distributed Computing trends
Are Grids being used to solve any real-life problems?
Summary
The Globus Toolkit
The Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI)
Implementation of the GSI
Important directories, files and commands
Implementation of Grid Services in Globus Toolkit
Organization of the Services in the Globus Toolkit
Resource Management Service
Data Management Service
Index/Information Service
Summary
Designing a Computational Grid
Dynamics of job execution among distributed resources
Job submission to a site with sufficient resources
Job submission to a site with insufficient resources
Planning data and resource management
Planning data management
Planning resource and component information management
Planning the Network
Networking architecture for Resource managers (Gatekeepers):
Networking architecture for Storage Services:
Networking architecture for Information Services:
Configuration details for our testbeds
Summary
Setting Up The Network
Installing Red Hat Linux 9
Routing
IP Forwarding
The Routing Table
The route command
Mapping Host names and IP Addresses
Domain Name System (DNS)
Understanding the term
Configuring the Domain Name Server
Running named
Testing the DNS
Configuring SSH with authentication using RSA keys
Files configured at our sites
inraphel.int
grid1.inraphel.int
grid2.inraphel.int:
Summary
Building the Cluster
Architecture of a cluster
OSCAR
Architecture of a cluster built using OSCAR
Building a Cluster using OSCAR
Clusters we implemented
Cluster for site 1
Cluster for site 2
Summary
Installation Guide
Globus Toolkit Installation Procedure
Requisite Pre-installation Tasks
Installing Globus Toolkit 3.2
Configuring the SimpleCA
Installing the CA certificates on other hosts
Host Certificate
User Certificate
Testing
Mapping Grid User into Local User
Configuration at our sites
Configuring the gatekeeper and jobmanager services
Gatekeeper and default jobmanager configuration
Configuring the jobmanager for the cluster
Testing the jobmanagers
GridFTP configuration
Configuration
Testing GridFTP
MDS Configuration
Configuration
Testing:
Extra Applications
RLS configuration
Installing the support softwares
Configuring RLS
Testing RLS server
Installing the Grid Service components from the Globus Toolkit
Configuration
Testing
Applying patches to the Globus Toolkit
Installing MPICH/G2
Conclusion
Summary
Index
root 2005-06-11