Setting up a grid gateway

From BeSTGRID

Setting up a grid gateway is a complex job - too hard to describe in a single wiki page.

As a high-level overview, a grid gateway is a job submission gateway, accepting jobs from the grid and passing them to a local resource manager (such PBS/Torque, SGE, LSF, or LoadLeveler).

Typically, a grid gateway would consist of several virtual machines:

• NGGUMS to handle authorization decisions.
• NG2 to run Globus Toolkit 4 and accept jobs via the WS-GRAM4 protocol.
• NG1 to run Globus Toolkit 2 (or now GRAM5) and provide alternative protocols.

The following documentation is relevant for this task:

• Setting up a GUMS server (Alternatively, see Setting up a GUMS server on Ubuntu - courtesy Guy Kloss)
  • Deploying Shibbolized AuthTool on a GUMS server
  • Configuring a GUMS server with pooled accounts
• Setting up an NG2 (Alternatively, see Setting up an NG2 on Ubuntu - courtesy Guy Kloss)
  • Setting up an NG2/PBS specific parts
  • Setting up an NG2/SGE specific parts

• Setup GRAM5 on CentOS 5 (PBS centric)
  • Setup GRAM5 with LoadLeveler (LoadLeveler specific details)

• Updating a grid gateway