NorduGrid News
2008
4 February
Updates for IGTF CA packages (v1.19)are available from the NorduGrid FTP server and repositories. The update includes two new national CAs: Ukraine and Mexico. The current stable ARC (0.6.1) and old stable (0.4.5) standalone packages have been updated to include the new certificates.
2007
11 December
Uppsala University announces a postdoc grid developer position within the EU KnowARC project. Deadline for applications: December 20, 2007.
10 December
Updates for IGTF CA packages (v1.18) and a new VOMS testing release (1.7.24-2ng) are available from the NorduGrid FTP server and repositories. The current stable ARC (0.6.1) and old stable (0.4.5) standalone packages have been updated to include the new certificates.
12 November
NorduGrid participates in the Supercomputing '07 research exhibit. Demonstrations of the ARC middleware, GIN demos and presentation of related projects (KnowARC, NDGF, NGIn) will be given at our booth #173.
12 October
International Grid Trust Federation CA packages v1.17 are available from the NorduGrid FTP server and repositories. The current stable ARC (0.6.1) and old stable (0.4.5) standalone packages have been updated to include these certificates.
11 October
The Program Committee for the NORDUnet2008 conference "The Biosphere of Grids and Networks" has issued the Call for Papers. Submission deadline is November 1, 2007.
25 September
ARC bugfix release, version 0.6.1, has been announced during the NorduGrid 2007 Conference in Copenhagen. It is now available through the standard distribution channel. The repositories have been updated with the new binaries which are linked against new versions of the external software (Globus, gSoap, VOMS). Binaries are available for 22 platforms (no Debian/Ubuntu yet). For more details, consult the release notes.
19 September
Umeå university, Sweden is seeking outstanding candidates for 1-3 Post Doctoral and 1-2 PhD Student positions. The positions focus on design of service-oriented Grid infrastructure in projects funded by the Swedish Research Council and EU. See the GIRD project site for current research.
3 September
NorduGrid together with EU KnowARC project and NDGF opens a booth at CHEP07 Conference at Victoria, BC, Canada. NDGF and University of Oslo also provide several conference contributions.
24 July
Test release ARC v0.6.0.3 is available as a 0.6.1 release candidate. It includes new back-ends framework by KnowARC and GridFTPv2 support by NDGF. Binaries are built against Globus 4.0.5 and VOMS 1.7.20. RPMs are avalable via NorduGrid testing yum repository for several RedHat, Fedora and OpenSuSE versions.
9 July
International Grid Trust Federation CA packages v1.15 are available from the NorduGrid FTP server and repositories. Users and site administrators are advised to upgrade to this version.
4 June
International Grid Trust Federation CA packages v1.14 are available from the NorduGrid FTP server and repositories. The current stable ARC (0.6.0) and old stable (0.4.5) standalone packages have been updated to include these certificates.
22 May
Second stable release of ARC, version 0.6, is available for download from NorduGrid repositories. Sites and individual users deploying older versons 0.4.x are strongly recommended to install release 0.6.x. For more details, consult Release Notes.
1 May
The NorduGrid Conference 2007 and NGIn Grid School will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, on September 24-28, 2007. Registration is open at the Conference Web page. Participation is free of charge. Hotel booking deadline is June 25.
30 March
The next NorduGrid Technical meeting will take place in Lübeck, Germany, on May 2-4, 2007. Everybody who contributes to the ARC code or plans to do it in future, or wishes to influence its development, is very much welcomed. Details and registration form are available from the meeting agenda page. Participation is free of charge.
14 March
International Grid Trust Federation CA packages v1.13 are available from the NorduGrid FTP server and repositories. The current stable ARC (0.6.0) and old stable (0.4.5) standalone packages have been updated to include these certificates. Lifetime of the NorduGrid CA is extended for 2 years.
19 February
International Grid Trust Federation CA packages v1.12 are available from the NorduGrid FTP server and repositories. The current stable ARC (0.6.0) and old stable (0.4.5) standalone packages have been updated to include these certificates.
30 January
The next NorduGrid Technical meeting will take place in Lund, Sweden, on February 19-21, 2007. Everybody who contributes to the ARC code or plans to do it in future, or wishes to influence its development, is very much welcomed. Details and registration form are available from the meeting agenda page. Participation is free of charge.
2006
19 December
NB: as a next step towards the new stable release 0.6, all the ARC-related packages starting from December 18 nightly build have prefix nordugrid-arc- instead of nordugrid-. An immedate implication is that the standalone tarball will unpack by default into nordugrid-arc-standalone, thus the users that have the standalone setup done automatically via login scripts, should either change the directory name to nordugrid-standalone, or modify the login scripts, if they wish to use tags 0.5.38+.
13 November
NorduGrid participates in the Supercomputing '06 research exhibit. Demonstrations of the ARC middleware and presentation of related projects will be given at our booth #1900.
31 October
Joint EGEE/OSG/NorduGrid Grid Service Information Discovery Meeting will be held on December 12-14, 2006, at the NDGF premises in Copenhagen. Visit the meeting page for more details.
23 October
International Grid Trust Federation CA packages v1.10 are available from the NorduGrid FTP server and repositories. Most notably, it includes new certificates for CERN and INFN CAs.
3 October
ARC middleware development tag 0.5.56 is available via the downloads area and the yum/apt repositories. The tag addresses few bug fixes.
2 October
Registration is open for the 1st KnowARC Conference, to be held on November 7-9, 2006, in Oslo.
1 September
Nordic Data Grid Facility invites applications for Grid middleware developer positions. Main task will be to contribute to ARC middleware development.
28 August
ARC middleware development tag 0.5.55 is available via the downloads area and the yum/apt repositories. The main change is the new schema for packaging libraries and obsolete tools.
10 August
International Grid Trust Federation CA packages v1.8 are available from the NorduGrid FTP server and repositories.
1 August
NorduGrid and KnowARC organize an ARC Design Week, to be held on September 4-8, 2006, in Budapest and Sárospatak, Hungary. Everybody willing to contribute to the future ARC design is welcomed to attend and to register.
26 July
ARC middleware development tag 0.5.52 is available via the downloads area and the yum/apt repositories. It contains few bug fixes and an experimental support for the LHC File Catalogue data indexing service (LFC).
25 July
International Grid Trust Federation CA packages v1.7 are available from the NorduGrid FTP server and repositories.
24 July
The first complete overview of the Advanced Resource Connector middleware (ARC) is accepted for publication in the FGCS journal and is available online for the subscribers.
26 June
Nordic Data Grid Facility is seeking a Software Coordinator to manage, oversee and coordinate Grid middleware development.
21 June
International Grid Trust Federation CA packages v1.6 are available from the NorduGrid FTP server and repositories.
1 June
ARC is the basis for the new EU FP6 project, KnowARC. In the coming 3 years, KnowARC will help bringing ARC to the level of the next generation Grid softwares.
22 May
A PhD Position in medical image analysis based on grid networks is available in Geneva University, Switzerland. The sucessful applicant will be involved in the KnowARC project that develops middleware based on the NorduGrid ARC. More details here.
12 May
International Grid Trust Federation CA packages v1.4 are available from the NorduGrid FTP server and repositories. This release is especially important due to the extension of the NorduGrid CA certificate.
8 May
ARC middleware development tag 0.5.47 is available via the downloads area and the yum/apt repositories. The tag is expected to be the last before the first 0.6 release candidate.
28 March
International Grid Trust Federation CA packages v1.1 are available from the NorduGrid FTP server and repositories. Update includes new authorities, removal of obsolete/expired credentials, problem fixes. Sites and users are strongly encouraged to upgrade.
22 March
Umeå University announces a postdoctoral position in Grid computing, for development of software to be contributed to the NorduGrid ARC and to the Globus Toolkit. More information is available here.
17 March
The 2nd Nordic Grid Neighbourhood Conference will be held in Otaniemi near Helsinki during May 31 - June 2, 2006. The conference is targeted at Grid users and developers in the Nordic and Baltic countries and Russia as well as those interested in the possibilities of Grid computing. More information and the registration form are available at the Conference Web site.
12 March
ARC middleware development tag 0.5.41 is available via the downloads area and the yum/apt repositories. The tag contains multiple bug fixes and is expected to be close to a production quality.
14 February
NorduGrid gives an invited talk at the GGF16 in Athens. Slides are available in the "Documentation" section of this site.
25 January
NorduGrid/ARC resource owners and users are invited to test the pilot release of the Tycoon Grid Market system, that aims to introduce market-based resource scheduling and allocation into the Grid. The product is developed by HP Labs and is integrated with ARC-based Grid at PDC. By providing resources to the Grid Market, owners earn credits that allow them to use other resources on the Market.
2005
19 December
NB: as a next step towards the new stable release 0.6, all the ARC-related packages starting from December 18 nightly build have prefix nordugrid-arc- instead of nordugrid-. An immedate implication is that the standalone tarball will unpack by default into nordugrid-arc-standalone, thus the users that have the standalone setup done automatically via login scripts, should either change the directory name to nordugrid-standalone, or modify the login scripts, if they wish to use tags 0.5.38+.
16 December
The Material Sciences national computing infrastructure M-grid in Finland issues a press release, marking the start of operations of one of the world's first production Grids, and the most powerful computing system in Finland. M-grid makes use of the NorduGrid ARC middleware, and is a part of the NorduGrid infrastructure.
12 December
Book a trip to Uppsala on January 16-20, 2006: the 5th Nordic Grid Neighborhood Workshop (January 19-20) will be held in conjunction with the NorduGrid-LCG Interoperability meeting (January 18), the NorduGrid technical workshop (January 16-17) and the Nordic Tier1 meeting (January 20). Travel and accomodation details and the registration form are available at the Workshop's Web site.
24 October
NorduGrid participates in the Supercomputing '05
research exhibition. Demonstrations of the ARC middleware, its applicability and technical details will be given at our booth #6218.
6 October
The International Grid Trust Federation (IGTF) was officially established. The IGTF is a federation of certification authorities and major grid infrastructure projects that together define the policies and standards for grid identity management. IGTF will be the official distributor of CA credential meta-packages. NorduGrid CA is among the founding members of the IGTF.
26 September
The NorduGrid/ARC tutorial and hands-on exercises will take place during the Grids @ work event in France on October 14. Participants are asked to register. The tutorial will accompany the NorduGrid Open Day that will include also ARC technical talks and discussions.
27 June
The NorduGrid's ARC middleware was presented on the LHC Grid Deployment Board Meeting, the slides give detailed overview of the ARC components and also describe interoperability issues.
2 May
Qoucirca, an independent European analyst organisation, publishes a Grid Computing Update report, commissioned by Oracle. Among other points, the executive summary notes that "the highest local adoption rates worldwide were recorded in the Nordic region of Europe, which had a Commitment Index of 3.60", as compared e.g. to 3.02 in North America, 2.70 in Europe, and 1.74 in Asia Pacific.
1 April
ARC release 0.4.5 (no joking) is made available on the Web site, via the FTP repository and via yum/apt repository at ftp://ftp.nordugrid.org/repos/<OS>/$releasever/$basearch/stable/. It contains several important bug fixes (see the Release Notes), and sites are advised to upgrade.
18 March
The 4th Nordic Grid Neighborhood Workshop will take place in St. Petersburg, Russia, May 19-22 2005. Participants are URGED to follow the instructions on the Web page and provide details for visa applications before March 25, 2005.
18 February
NorduGrid participates in the Compute Resource Management Workshop, that brings together all the major Grid middleware producers. The workshop concentrates on interoperability issues. See the minutes for details and some slides.
8 February
NorduGrid gives a presentation at the globusWORLD™ event in Boston, in section "Real-World Experience Using Grid Infrastructures".
8 February
On February 15, NorduGrid will hold a Special Event Track at the European Grid Conference 2005 in Amsterdam. Participans are invited to attend the presentations and live demonstrations. Most slides are available.
4 February
3d NGN Workshop will be held in Vilnius, on March 17-18, 2005. The meeting will be dedicated to users experience with the Grid, deployment and implementation of Grid solutions. Please submit your talks to the organizers. Registration is necessary for all the participants.
2004
21 December
2nd NGN Workshop will be held in Tallinn on January 19-21, 2005. Registration is necessary for all the participants. To take part in the tutorials, please use a separate registration form.
15 December
The Globus bugfix release 2.4.3-16ng is now available. It can be downloaded from the usual place at ftp://ftp.nordugrid.org/external/globus/2.4.3/, or via the "Downloads" section (external software).
10 December
One week left until registration closes for the NGSSC course in Grid Computing. The registration form (and further information about the course) is available at http://www.nsc.liu.se/ngssc-grid/.
2 November
NorduGrid participates in the SC2004
research exhibition with the booth #2722
29 October
Minutes of the NorduGrid technical meeting in Linköping (October 18-19) are made available.
20 October
ARC release 0.4.4 is made available on the Web site or via the FTP repository. It contains several important bug fixes (see the Release Notes), and sites are advised to upgrade.
17 September
The Nordic Grid Neighborhood project will have its first meeting in Linköping, Sweden, on October 20, 2004. Registration is provided at the project's Web page. The NorduGrid technical meeting will take place before that, on October 18-19.
14 September
NorduGrid's ARC will be built on GT3. This was decided during the NorduGrid technical meeting held on September 13-15 in Lund, Sweden.
18 June
The 7th NorduGrid Workshop in Copenhagen was dedicated to cooperation with other projects, such as NDGF and LCG, as well as to extending the collaboration. The technical meeting took place one day before.
17 June
ARC release 0.4.3 is made available on the Web site or via the FTP repository. It contains several fixes, mostly essential for the ATLAS Data Challenges. It is recommended to deploy it in conjunction with the NorduGrid-patched GT2 release globus-2.4.3-10ng, also available from the NorduGrid Web site (external software).
22 April
With addition of the newly gridified Horseshoe supercluster, NorduGrid middleware connects 2160+ CPUs which processed at the peak over 260 Grid jobs and over 1300 locally submitted ones simultaneously.
13 April
NorduGrid is glad to announce the first official release of the ARC Grid middleware. Latest packages of the 0.4 series can be downloaded through the "Releases" section on the Web site or via the FTP repository.
17 March
The next bimonthly NorduGrid technical meeting will take place in Helsinki, on March 29 and 30. Details about registration and tentative agenda can be found here.
24 February
SUSE 8.1, 8.2 and 9.0 binaries of the NorduGrid middleware and all the required external software, such as the Globus Toolkit 2, are available from the download area.
24 February
CSC and NDGF organize a Grid Workshop to expand the user base in grid-computing activities. The workshop is targeted at scientists with interest in running their applications in a grid environment. It is oriented towards practical usage, introducing grid computing concepts and tools on the NorduGrid platform.
24 February
SWEGRID will be officialy launched during the inauguration meeting in Uppsala on March 18.
04 February
NorduGrid is deployed over 30+ sites, totaling 1355+ CPUs. Apart of individual sites, the SWEGRID testbed and Danish Center for Grid Computing use the NorduGrid middleware to interconnect their resources. With inclusion of test setups in Slovakia and Estonia, the NorduGrid universe spread outside the Nordic countries.
23 January
NorduGrid gave a seminar at the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Slides are available in the "Documentation" area.
21 January
For the first time NorduGrid is acknowledged as one of the major production Grid deployments in Ian Foster's talk "Globus and Grid: State of the Union" at the GlobusWORLD event.
2003
17 November
NorduGrid presentation at the 4th International Workshop on Grid Computing (Grid2003) marks one year of the stable testbed deployment and underscores departure from GRAM and other Globus services.
31 October
The 6th NorduGrid Workshop will take place in Lund, November 27, 2003, in conjunction with the 8th Nordic LHC Physics Workshop.
20 October
NorduGrid technical group publishes a task list for potential new developers, students and other researchers. Those willing to collaborate and contribute, should contact the NorduGrid staff.
17 July
IEEE "Internet Computing" July-August 2003 issue publishes a paper by NorduGrid
15 July
Minutes of the first joint NorduGrid-NDGF-NSC-PDC technical meeting are made available
.7 July
Center for Parallel Computers of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, will give a Grid Computing course on August 18 to 26, 2003. The course is primarily intended for the Swedish students.
10 June
The latest NorduGrid presentations at CHEP03 and ICCS03 conferences are made available from our Documentation section
10 May
New officials were elected during the 5th NorduGrid Workshop: Farid Ould-Saada replaced John Renner Hansen as the chairman of the steering board, and Balázs Kónya became the technical coordinator.
03 May
The NorduGrid bug tracking system is set up, using the Bugzilla tool.
24 April
An important step in the ATLAS Data Challenges is accomplished on the NorduGrid. The total of 850 jobs processed ca 300 000 events of proton-proton collisions in various conditions. Processing was completed in 11 days, and due to the high memory consumption, the jobs were scheduled by the Grid mostly to the production clusters of the Nordic supercomputer centers. The Parallab Linux Cluster carried out most of the task, with the HPC2N Super-cluster and the Monolith cluster of NSC contributing significantly as well.
11 April
Nordic Data Grid Facility announced three postdoctoral positions.
03 March
Several related positions in the Nordic countries are announced:
- PhD Student Position in Grid Computing, The Department of Computing Science and High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N) at Umeå University, Sweden.
- Position as postdoctoral research associate in physics at The Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Norway.
04 Febuary
The Monolith Cluster in the National Supercomputer Center in Linköping, Sweden, has the NorduGrid toolkit installed. Monolith is ranked 51st on the TOP 500 Supercomputer Sites listing, 14th in Europe, number 2 in the Nordic countries, and number 1 in Sweden.
2002
11 November
The HPC2N Super Cluster in Umeå, Sweden, has the NorduGrid toolkit installed, and is validated to run ATLAS Data Challenges.
08 November
Researchers from Helsinki Institute of Physics report successful tests of NorduGrid applications on their installations.
24 October
NorduGrid have given a presentation and a tutorial during the 3rd Annual Workshop on Linux Clusters for Super Computing, 23-25 October 2002, organized by the National Supercomputer Centre in Linköping, Sweden. The tutorial material is available from this site.
14 September
The Nordic share of the the ATLAS Data Challenge 1 (phase 1) is completed using entirely the NorduGrid tools. In total, 1300 jobs were successfully executed, analyzing 200 GB of input data, distributed across the Nordic countries, and producing 765 GB of output data, in 530 CPU-days.
14 September
The 4th NorduGrid Workshop will be held on November 11-12, 2002, in Uppsala, Sweden.
07 September
The Beowulf cluster Ingvar of NSC, Linköping, has the NorduGrid and ATLAS software installed, and is validated to be used in the ATLAS Data Challenges.
14 August
The NorduGrid middleware and the testbed are successfuly deployed in a production environment. The first stage of the ATLAS Data Challenge 1 (phase 1) is completed using almost entirely the NorduGrid tools and is validated by the ATLAS collaboration.
26 July
Slides of NorduGrid talks at summer conferences are available.
12 June
Two more non-dedicated clusters are running NorduGrid tools: the NORDITA Linux cluster in Copenhagen, and the SCFAB cluster in Stockholm.
04 June
The Beowulf Class I system Grendel has the NorduGrid software installed, and is validated as a NorduGrid resource. It successfully executes ATLAS Data Challenges tasks.
21 May
"The NorduGrid toolkit user interface" (User Manual) is available.
18 April
The 3d NorduGrid Workshop will be held on May 23-24 in Helsinki, Finland. It will feature the presentation of the first release of the NorduGrid toolkit.
10 April
"An Overview of The NorduGrid Architecture Proposal" and a draft description of the "The NorduGrid Information System" are made public.
Few recent NorduGrid presentations are added to the site.
The NorduGrid "Architecture Proposal" is released
The report "Comments on Installation Procedure and Usage of Workload Management Software of EU DataGrid" is released.
The report "Comments on the Computing Element Information Provider of the European DataGrid Testbed 1" is made public on this site.
2001
The mid-term report is released
The nordugrid.org domain has been registered. At the moment the following hosts will resolve to existing hosts:
www.nordugrid.org web server giis.nordugrid.org information server grid-vo.nordugrid.org virtual organization server
Using nordugrid.org for mail is currently under consideration.
We have also registered NorduGrid as a private enterprise with IANA. The number assigned is 11604. The prefix is:
iso.org.dod.internet.private.enterprise (1.3.6.1.4.1)
The structure below 1.3.6.1.4.1.11604 has yet to be defined.
The new cluster is set up in Bergen (grid.fi.uib.no): OpenPBS, Globus2 (EDG release 16), GRIS registering to Lund GIIS, GDMP subscribed to Oslo, GridFTP server, NorduGrid VO v0.3
The NorduGrid Virtual Organisation is established, with the server operating in Lund.
GDMP is installed in Uppsala.
Globus 2 toolkit is a public beta release.
GDMP servers are running
in Lund and Oslo; first attempts to use GDMP
and the Globus Replica catalog
Globus 2 is installed in
Stockholm (grid.scfab.se)
Globus 2 toolkit is installed and tested between Lund, Oslo and Uppsala. The core Globus 2 functionalities have been implemented, the jobmanagers (fork and PBS), the GridFTP server and the default GRIS information service has been set up with the default port numbers.
Report on the GridFTP performance at NorduGrid is made public on this site.
Registration opened for The 2nd NorduGrid Workshop, Oslo, November 1-2.
The current Status Report released.
Job was submited from Lund (baloo.quark.lu.se) to Oslo (grid.uio.no). Note, that baloo doesn't have Globus installed, so few utilities from Globus had to be extracted and few wrap-up scripts made. Scripts can be found at the cluster dedicated page. The log follows:
[sanjak@baloo test_job]$ ls -la
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 sanjak epf 4096 Aug 7 22:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 sanjak epf 4096 Aug 7 21:14 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 sanjak epf 28 Aug 7 22:46 input
-rw-r--r-- 1 sanjak epf 7 Aug 7 22:53 return_list
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sanjak epf 184 Aug 7 22:53 run
[sanjak@baloo test_job]$ cat input
Test string from input file
[sanjak@baloo test_job]$ cat return_list
output
[sanjak@baloo test_job]$ cat run
#!/bin/sh -
echo -------
echo Direct test output
echo -------
(
echo -------
cat input
echo -------
echo ls -la
ls -la
echo -------
echo uname -a
uname -a
echo -------
) >output
[sanjak@baloo test_job]$ ~/grid/bin/submit-job -h grid.uio.no \
-l test run run input return_list
Submiting to grid.uio.no for jobmanager-pbs
Job submited with id https://grid.uio.no:2361/2356/997217759/
[sanjak@baloo test_job]$ ~/grid/bin/check-jobs
--- Checking status of submited jobs ---
1. Checking https://grid.uio.no:2361/2356/997217759/ (test) - PENDING
use first number when retrieving results with get-job
[sanjak@baloo test_job]$ ~/grid/bin/check-jobs
--- Checking status of submited jobs ---
1. Checking https://grid.uio.no:2361/2356/997217759/ (test) - DONE
use first number when retrieving results with get-job
[sanjak@baloo test_job]$ ~/grid/bin/get-job 1
----------------------
1. Getting https://grid.uio.no:2361/2356/997217759/ ...
Retrieving common stdout ...
run
input
return_list
Getting listed files ...
job.stdout
job.stderr
output
Retrieving common stderr ...
Removing job ...
Cleanup successful.
Done.
[sanjak@baloo test_job]$ ls -la
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 2 sanjak epf 4096 Aug 7 22:57 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 sanjak epf 4096 Aug 7 21:14 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 sanjak epf 28 Aug 7 22:46 input
-rw------- 1 sanjak epf 0 Aug 7 22:56 job.stderr
-rw------- 1 sanjak epf 35 Aug 7 22:56 job.stdout
-rw-r--r-- 1 sanjak epf 0 Aug 7 22:57 jobs.list
-rw------- 1 sanjak epf 659 Aug 7 22:56 output
-rw-r--r-- 1 sanjak epf 7 Aug 7 22:53 return_list
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sanjak epf 184 Aug 7 22:53 run
[sanjak@baloo test_job]$ cat output
-------
Test string from input file
-------
ls -la
total 28
drwx------ 2 50001 grid 4096 Aug 7 22:56 .
drwx------ 3 50001 grid 4096 Aug 7 22:56 ..
-rw------- 1 50001 grid 28 Aug 7 22:46 input
-rw------- 1 50001 grid 0 Aug 7 22:56 job.stderr
-rw------- 1 50001 grid 35 Aug 7 22:56 job.stdout
-rw------- 1 50001 grid 51 Aug 7 22:56 output
-rw------- 1 50001 grid 7 Aug 7 22:53 return_list
-rwx------ 1 50001 grid 184 Aug 7 22:53 run
-------
uname -a
Linux cnode1 2.2.19 #3 SMP Tue Jul 24 23:35:23 CEST 2001 i686 unknown
-------
[sanjak@baloo test_job]$ cat job.stdout
-------
Direct test output
-------
[sanjak@baloo test_job]$ cat job.stderr
[sanjak@baloo test_job]$
Uppsala NorduGrid cluster up and running.
The Lund grid cluster has been upgraded to 6 Intel Pentium 1GHz processors.
Successfull test of Replica and Gsiftp in Uppsala.
The link between Uppsala and Copenhagen is established and tested in both directions.
From Uppsala to Copenhagen:
[ellert@ellert ~]$ globusrun -a -r lscf.nbi.dk GRAM Authentication test successful [ellert@ellert ~]$ globus-job-run lscf.nbi.dk/jobmanager /bin/echo "Hello World" Hello World
From Copenhagen to Uppsala:
[8]lscf:~> globusrun -a -r ellert.tsl.uu.se GRAM Authentication test successful [9]lscf:~> globus-job-run ellert.tsl.uu.se/jobmanager /bin/echo "Hello World" Hello World
The firewall only allows connections from lscf.nbi.dk
The software repository is set up (protected access).
NorduGrid mailing lists for general announcements and technical discussions are set up.
Resource specification form (Word Document) is available to be filled by the participants. List of contact persons and an updated list of DataGrid Testebed resources are available as well.
A Globus link was successfully established between Uppsala and Lund. The ellert.tsl.uu.se single machine was connected to the Lund Grid cluster through the grid.quark.lu.se master node.
Initially we experienced some problems setting up the connection due to the firewall of the Uppsala University. Although they were not very happy, the system administrators were convinced that for experimental purposes the firewall should be opened between the two sites. After this everything worked fine in both directions.
For the future it might be a good idea to configure the gatekeepers to use a restricted range of ports for their return connections by setting the GLOBUS_TCP_PORT_RANGE and GLOBUS_UDP_PART_RANGE environment variables. By doing this it will no longer be necessary to open the firewall for traffic on all ports, but only for a limited number of ports. This is probably safer, and could possibly be more acceptable to the security people.
The alpha release 4 of the Globus Datagrid software, obtained from the Globus CVS, was successfully installed on the Lund Grid Cluster. The fork and the PBS jobmanagers were both configured on the gatekeeper. The gatekeeper is called grid.quark.lu.se and the default ports were used for Globus services.
NorduGrid Certificate Authority has been set up.
The Lund cluster is up and ready for testing.
The First NorduGrid Workshop registration form is set up
First announcement of the project meeting (February 5 to 6, 2001, in Lund)
2000
Postdoc positions in Lund and Uppsala are announced
The NorduGrid Web-page is up
First meeting of the participants