Details of GridPP-related Grid computing work at Brunel can be found at http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~eestprh/GRIDPP/Index.htm

Currently I am working on the integration of R-GMA into BOSS for job monitoring. This is to be tested on LCG2. I also get to help out with the Brunel cluster.

Check Young consumer status; Gabor producer status; Gabor browser; dgc-grid-42 browser; LCG registry

GSTAT site GIIS Monitor (CNAF instance) replaced by VAPOR and LCG tests, SAM tests, NAGIOS tests, NGS conformance and tests, and GOC accounting for for Brunel (GridPP view); storage accounting status

UK CA, GOC docs and FAQ page, GGUS, GGUS, LCG Docs and Downloads, LCG Directory, LCG releases, gLite releases, GridPP wiki, R-GMA for LCG

GOC monitoring page, EGEE monitoring page, GridView, GridMon, Grid Map, GOC DB, GridPP Ops Bulletin

CMS Prod board, old dashboard , old dashboard, PhEDEx Brunel subscriptions, datasets and main , and job robot.
Atlas UK, dashboard, Panda monitor and SW installs,
LHCb DIRAC monitor.
Tier 1 status, and FTS

Software:

• CounterDemo (v1.0) - demo/test for BOSS
• bossmin (v2.1) - BOSS emulator (for R-GMA 3.2.22)
• bossmin (v2.3) - BOSS emulator (for LCG 2.2.0 testbed) (for testing basic R-GMA functionality)
• R-GMA/BOSS tests for IEEE papers: NSS '05 version, for LCG 2.6.0
• Shell scripts to create pool accounts with sensible UIDs: a front-end script that lets you define VOs/UIDs you want to use, and functions for LCFG config files, a YAIM users.conf file (LCG 2.7.0 onward, but doesn't include DPMmgr entry) or create local user accounts. (Try ./doUsers.sh YAIM first to get the hang of it) (N.B. front-end has had an "export" command added for LCG 2.7.0!)

Setting up a User Interface: these are records that cover the pre-config, the UI itself, R-GMA and finally BOSS (for CMS types). See also http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/tb-support/ui.html.

• Upgrade gLite 3.1.0 (YAIM 4): gLite 3.1.0 UI
• Upgrade gLite 3.0.2 (YAIM 3.0.1): gLite 3.0.2 UI, MON box
• Upgrade to gLite 3.0.0: gLite 3.0.0 UI, MON box
• Upgrade to LCG 2.7.0: LCG 2.7.0 UI, MON box
• Upgrade to LCG 2.6.0: LCG 2.6.0 UI, MON box, site MON box
• Upgrade to LCG 2.4.0: LCG 2.4.0 UI, MON box, site MON box
• Upgrade to LCG 2.3.0: LCG 2.3.0 UI, site MON box
• Upgrade to LCG 2.2.0: LCG 2.2.0 UI, MON box
• LCG 2: Pre-install, LCG2 (June 2004),
• RH7.3 effort (Not really EDG 1.5): Pre-install, EDG (1.4.12), R-GMA, BOSS
• UI v1.4.0 Pre-install, EDG, R-GMA, BOSS
• UI v1.2.2
• UI v1.2.0beta
• UI v1.1.4

Further Reading:

• Slides from my CCS talk on using BOSS with R-GMA. See also Rob Byrom's CMS Testing talk, and my slides from the later GDA meeting.
  Slides from the IEEE NSS talk in 2003 is on the GridPP talks page.
  IEEE NSS '04 Conference Record is loitering here.
• CHEP 2003 "R-GMA: First results after deployment" - paper and slides by Cooke et al., (Monitoring, Monday)
• CHEP 2003 "BOSS: a tool for batch job monitoring and book-keeping" - paper and slides by Claudio Grandi (Monitoring, Thursday)
• Architecture note and user guide from BOSS homepage
• "Anatomy of the Grid"
• "Physiology of the Grid"
• "What is the Grid?"
• Clouds vs. Grids,
• Details about the CMS/LCG0 testbed can be found at http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/cms/LCG/LCG-0/, while here are some draft notes about setting up R-GMA on CMS/LCG0
• Amalthea is either "an educational game about the Grid" or else a synaesthetic representation of the user's experience of Grid documentation; I'm not sure myself. There's also a (25 Mb) video introduction!

Other stuff:

• Promise RAID controller and pre-compiled modules for kernels {2.4.20-28.7, 2.4.20-37.7.legacy, 2.4.20-42.7.legacy, 2.4.20-43.7.legacy} on i686 and 2.4.20-46.7.legacy optimised for i686 (download and use at own risk!)
• Logsentry
• NUT shared UPS monitoring
• Swatch
• Tripwire
• Notes on fixing APEL DB after Site Name change

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