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Revision as of 21:00, 11 January 2010
Overview
| 1. Intended Readership |
| 2. Purpose |
| 3. Related Documents |
| 4. Problem Reporting |
Welcome to the gCube's Administrators Guide. The purpose of this document is to provide instructions regarding the initial installation and configuration, management and daily administration of a grid infrastructure based on the gCube system. gCube is a versatile, rich featured grid platform that has been developed in the context of the D4Science European IST research project [1].
The platform follows the Service Oriented paradigm and exploits and extends various existing grid middlewares and collaborative tools like the Globus Toolkit 4 [2], gLite [3], the GridSphere Portal Framework [4]. gCube offers a feature full platform for distributed hosting, management and retrieval of data and information, and a framework for extending state-of-the-art indexing, selection, fusion, extraction, description, annotation, transformation, and presentation of content.
Intended Readership
This manual targets system administrators and people responsible for setting up a gCube based Grid environment. It assumes fluency in Linux-based usage and administration, and familiarity with the gCore Framework. Since some components take advantage of the gLite middleware, experience in setting up gLite-based grid infrastructures would be useful. Finally, as with all grid platform, also in gCube security plays a paramount role in the architecture. Both system administrators and end users should be familiar with concepts like, digital certificates, certification authorities, authorization & authentication, etc.
Being a mosaic of different services and tools, the installation of a new gCube infrastructure and the initialization of a Virtual Research environment can be a daunting process. This guide covers the basic steps of the core components installation like the gHN and the set of enabling services, provides an overview picture of the gCube architecture with emphasis to its security characteristics.
Related Documents
Apart from the Administrators Guide, D4Science has also made available two additional support documents:
- the User's Guide, which provides usage information and guidelines for the Virtual Research Environment (VRE) end-users.
- the Developer's Guide, which target application programmers that want to reuse and extend the rich Service Oriented, grid API, provided by gCube.
Additional material that will help system administrators is the
Regarding the architecture and inner details of gCube, the interested reader can visit the official gCube platform web site [7].
Problem Reporting
For problem reporting or any other enquiries regarding this document please contact the support center (support
d4science.research-infrastructures.eu).
