Support for UK LCG2 sites

The tb-support area of GridPP has links and brief notes about installing the LCG 2 software at sites in the UK. This is also the area from which support is available for site administrators installing grid middleware.

tb-support@jiscmail.ac.uk mailing list - please ask questions about installing LCG2 software here.

LCG Quickstart A guide to both contributing resources to LCG2 and for those physicists who want to use LCG for subbitting jobs.

LCG FAQS There are many questions that will arise at all stages of installing and running LCG software. Many of these questions will be answered here.

GridPP Bugzilla - (experimental) bug and query tracking system.

Testbed Phone Meetings - short meetings to review testbed status and grid depployment of LCG software.

GridPP VO - provides access to GridPP Testbed for people who are not members of EDG VO's, via VO-LDAP and VOMS protocols.

GridPP Tier2 Regional Centres - GridPP resources are organised into four areas within the UK.

GridPP front ends

Historical EDG Pages

The following pages relate to what was the final EDG2 release. While the detail may be out of date some of the ideas may still be very relavent.
An outline of how to put existing farms on the Testbed - with minimal changes to the farm. Now of historical intrest this was aimed at EDG but some information can be applied to LCG installations as well.

A method for installing an LCFG server - to set up an EU Datagrid testbed site. (This method is designed for installing the final EDG 2 release.) Please see the LCG quick guide for how to get started joining LCG.

Installing an EDG2 User Interface. - Explains how to install a User Interface, configure it and submit a simple job the final EDG2 testbed. This is now just of historical intrest. An detailed LCG2 UI install guide will appear soon.

Testbed Rollout procedure - for GridPP sites using EDG software.


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