uabgrid

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Working on web applications for the @lab or UABgrid will require some web development skills. You can gain the basics with the material available on the web. Understanding HTML, CSS and how to lay out a page is useful for effective communication.

* An [HTML tutorial|http://www.tizag.com/htmlT/index.php]. Good for the basics and as a reference.
* Some [insight into the process of design|http://www.stopdesign.com/articles/design_process/]. It works much like other creative processes, just different tools and materials.
* An important [overview of the CSS layout model|http://www.brainjar.com/css/positioning/]. You won't be able to control web layout without this one.

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To support the UABgrid2 pilot we purchased a few Dell systems that arrived in April: two [Dell 2950s| http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_2950?c=us&cs=RC956904&l=en&s=hied] with dual 3.0Ghz Xeon, 8Gb RAM, and 300Gb SAS disks (Perc5/i-based mirrors), a [Dell 1950|http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_1950?c=us&cs=RC956904&l=en&s=hied] with dual CPUs and some local storage, and an [Dell/EMC 6TB SAN|http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pvaul_ax150?c=us&cs=RC956904&l=en&s=hied] to connect to the 1950. The 2950's will host various aspects of the UABgrid2 infrastructure including the identity management (VO, CA, and MyProxy) and application support (GridWay, Gridsphere, and other collaborative apps) systems. The 2950s will be hosting VMware-based virtual machines to carry out most of these tasks, with the goal of easing application deployment when conflicting system requirements arise. The 1950 will act as a quasi-NAS device, supporting traditional network shares locally and high-bandwidth file transfers via GridFTP (and potentially other protocols) for UABgrid job management. Together these systems will form the UABgrid infrastructure cluster.

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A meeting to discuss the implementation of the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Research Network was held on Friday, February 16, in Rust by the design and implementation group members Tommy Foley (ENG), Puri Bangalore and Fran Fabrizio (CIS), Doug McLean, Phillip Lindley, and John-Paul Robinson (IT).

The 10GigE Research Network (10GigErNET) is a project to facilitate inter-cluster job scheduling between clusters in the CIS and Engineering compute centers and eventually form a high bandwidth pathway between UAB research computing resources and research computing resources at other institutions. It is an important component of the UABgrid grid computing initiative.

This serves as a list of the software or tools that will possibly be used to implement the UABgrid. This list is open for
additions/deletions.

Globus Toolkit
Open source software with development led by Argonne National Laboratory, the Unviersity of Southern California, and the University of Chicago. Three main components include Grid Resource Allocation Management (GRAM), Monitoring and Discovery Service (MDS), and Grid File Transfer Protocol (GridFTP). All these components use the Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI) protocol for security at the connection layer.

UABgrid Development using Eclipse IDE

1.)Prerequisites to download:

With YaST use search keywords apache, php5, and mysql, tomcat, phpMyAdmin (individually), install the following packages:

Apache
*apache2
*apache2-doc
*apache2-prefork

PHP5
*php5
*php5-gd
*php5-ldap
*php5-mysql
*php5-openssl
*php5-pear
*php5-session
*php5-zlib

MySQL
*mysql
*mysql-client
*mysql-shared

Tomcat
*latest Tomcat 4.1.x release

phpMyAdmin
*phpmyadmin

From the web, make sure to install:

Drupal

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It is my pleasure to announce the first release of myVocs box, an integrated collaboration platform. myVocs box is a virtual machine that delivers the technologies that drive myVocs.org wrapped up in a
self-contained system that's ready for you to enjoy.

Please visit http://myvocs-box.myvocs.org for details on the three simple steps to download, run, and enjoy a collaboration platform of your own.

The technologies in this release of myVocs box include:

* A complete Shibboleth 1.3 identity system (IdP and SP)
* Simple collaboration group setup and management via Sympa
* Flexible resource integration powered by YubNub

Linux Provisioning Systems - Posted by jpr to provisioning sysadmin linux on Thu Jan 11 2007 [@lab Bookmarks]

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Came across an article today in [NetworkComputing| http://www.networkcomputing.com/channels/storageandservers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=194300555&pgno=11] (of all places. nothing quite like boardom induced browsing) that caught my interest. I've been scratching my head for a while on how to manage the desktops, servers, and hpc systems in a reasonable way. The best way to do it is some ROCKSish like way, essentially having some configuration management tool. ROCKS and OsCaR are nice but a little too geared to the HPC cluster environment and don't seem adaptable to general purpose system administration with out a lot of cross platform (non-redhat) headache. I've toyed with the idea of roll my own via the grid but don't like the isolation of it.