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EGI User Start Guide
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Introduction
The EGI User Start Guide provides a list of instructions how to start and use EGI Infrastructure.
If the reader is new to the Grid and its concepts and wants to get started with understanding, writing and running jobs as quickly and efficiently as possible, it is strongly recommended that the chapters are followed in sequence, as they appear on the Table.
Chapters from 1 to 9 go through all the basics for setting up the user to be ready to use the Grid. Chapters from 10 to 18 are for advanced users and feature detailed, in-depth information on more complex concepts and operations. The last chapters (from 19 to 22) describe some particular Life Sciences community use cases about Data Management facilities.
Assumptions
A basic familiarity with the Unix OS commands are presumed, since all commands will be done from a Unix-based console. This includes Grid commands as well as local machine commands.
| 1 | Acronym Reference Page | The EGI Operations Manuals are technical prescriptive documents that provide guidelines on how to accomplish a given task. These documents are periodically reviewed, and need to be followed by all partners (as opposed to a best-practice documents that provide optional guidelines). |
| 2 | Getting a Certificate | EGI Operations Procedures are prescriptive documents that describe a step-by-step process requiring action from two or more partners. The purpose of a procedure is to define the related workflow. Procedures are approved by the OMB and are periodically reviewed. The intructions providewd by a procedure are mandatory. Applicable areas:
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| 3 | Registering with a Virtual Organisation | A collection of Training Guides relevant to Operations. |
| 4 | Proxy Certificates | |
| 5 | Proxy Renewal with MyProxy |
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| 6 | Getting an Account on a User Interface |
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Setting up the UI Environment |
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| 8 |
Simple Job Cycle |
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| 9 |
Basic Data Management |
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| 10 |
Querying the Information System |
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| 11 |
Service Discovery |
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| 12 |
Installing a gLite User Interface |
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| 13 |
VO Software Installation |
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| 14 |
MPI Jobs |
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| 15 |
Job Monitoring (via R-GMA) |
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| 16 |
Using AMGA Metadata Catalog |
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| 17 |
Using LDAP Search |
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| 18 |
The Medical Data Management |
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| 19 |
Wisdom Data Manager |
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| 20 |
The Bioinformatics Data Management |
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| 21 | Pilot Jobs |
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| 22 |
Astrophysics: analysis of CMB data |
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