Reading Material

This section provides a list of pointers to useful technical documentation for site managers and Grid operators.

Topics

• Articles, Project Deliverables, Posters and Slides
• Open Grid Forum Specifications
  
• Operations technical documentation
• Middleware
• Authorization and Authentication
• Accounting, benchmarking and installed capacity
• Application software
• Monitoring
  
• Fault tolerance

Articles, Project Deliverables, Posters and Slides

• Articles, project deliverables, posters and slides about Grid Operations

Open Grid Forum Specifications

1. The complete list of OGF Grid Final Documents (GFDs)
2. Glue Specification v. 2.0, GFD.147, Mar 2009 and Html version of the specification
3. The Open Grid Services Architecture® Glossary of Terms Version 1.6, J. Treadwell,  GDF.120, Dic 2007
4. The Open Grid Services Architecture, Version 1.5; I. Foster, H. Kishimoto, A. Savva et alt.; GFD.80, Jul 2006
5. The VOMS Attribute Certificate Format, Version 10; OGF Informational Draft, OGSA Authorization working group, Sep 2006

Operations Documentation

1. EGEE-III Operational Procedures for COD
2. EGEE-III Operational Procedures for ROCs and Sites
3. EGEE-III Operational Procedures for Regional COD and interactions with C- COD
4. Assessment of Production Grid Infrastructure Service Status, EGEE-II Deliverable DSA1.7, May 2008
5. The EGEE Glossary of Terms
6. The ROC Model Description, EGEE-III Technical Document (https://edms.cern.ch/document/971628/1.1), Nov 2008
   
7. Operations Level Agreement (OLA). This document formalises the commitment, in terms of service provision, of the Ticket Process Management (TPM) teams towards the Global Grid User Support (GGUS), other Support Units (SUs) and the Users
8. EGEE Ticketing system: GGUS interfaces to the regional helpdesks

Middleware

1. GLUE Schema Specification, version 1.3 Final, Jan 16 2007
2. VOMS Architecture, Draft, Sep 2002

Authentication and Authorization

1. VOMS Architecture, Draft, Sep 2002
2. Short Lived Credential Service (SLCS) and Shibboleth

Accounting, Benchmarking and Installed Capacity

1. Feb 2009: Running HEP-SPEC (url) and test results (INFN Tier1)
2. Feb 2009: Transition to a new CPU benchmarking unit for the WLCG (url)
3. Mar 2008: The kSPI2k benchmark:CPU benchamarking How-to
   
4. Worker Node for HEP: benchmark and marked analysis of worker node for HEP farms (INFN CCR)
   
5. Usage of Glue Schema v1.3 for WLCG Installed Capacity information (pdf), Feb 2009, v.1-8-8
6. Bohm, M.; GridMAP CPU Counting Algorithm, Sep 2008
7. The TCG Worker Node Working Group wiki

Application Software and VO Grid Computing Frameworks

1. Lazzaro, A.; Moneta, L.; MINUIT package parallelization and applications using the RooFit package; in the Proc. of CHEP 2009, Prague (CZ) Mar 2009
2. Padhi, S.; Use of glide-ins in CMS for production and analysis, Mar 2009, CHEP 2009, Prague (CZ) Mar 2009 (slides)

Monitoring

1. J.Casey;MSG - A Messaging system for efficient and scalable grid monitoring, 4th EGEE User Forum, Catania, Mar 2009
2. The MSG Architecture (EGEE Wiki) and the MSG Namespace map
3. Apache Active MQ (Web site)

Fault Tolerance

1. Veronesi, P.; Studio e realizzazione di un sistema di gestione fault tolerance applicato ad una piattaforma di calcolo distribuito a livello geografico, Tesi di Dottorato, Dottorato di ricerca in Matematica e Informatica, Ciclo XXI, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, 2009