Tutorial roadmaps PDF Print E-mail

We have added several new tutorials to this site. Here is a roadmap to help you find out how to get started using the appliance based on your goals:

 
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Grid Appliance in a nutshell PDF Print E-mail

The Grid Appliance is a self-configuring Virtual Machine appliance that is used to create ad-hoc pools of computer resources both within a local-area and across wide-area networks to execute high-throughput, long-running jobs.

Appliances are connected to each other through a peer-to-peer virtual network using private IP addresses called IPOP. Upon starting the appliance, it is automatically connected to a pool of resources and is capable of submitting and executing jobs using the Condor Grid scheduler. Follow the quick start guide shown in this page to start using the Grid appliance yourself.

The Grid appliance's virtual network features decentralized NAT traversal over UDP, a decentralized DHCP service supporting multiple address spaces, and self-configuring Condor pools using a Distributed Hash Table (DHT). Currently, a public infrastructure for bootstrapping such pools is running on PlanetLab; deployments on private resource pools are also supported.

 
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Quick Start Guide PDF Print E-mail

Step 1: Browse the introductory documentation in this web site for an overview of the purpose and design of the appliance. Start with the brief "About the Grid appliance" document or the more comprehensive "Introduction to the Grid Appliance".

Step 2 (VMWare): here is a brief summary, for additional details refer to the Grid appliance tutorial:

(Other VMs): If you are using VirtualBox, click here for instructions

Step 3: Follow the Grid appliance tutorial

Step 4: Give us feedback - fill in an anonymous, short Web-based survey.

Step 5: If you want to learn more about the appliance, join our user's group by following this link.

 
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 23 September 2009 16:04 )