Guide to Ganga

Introduction

This is a guide to installing and configuring the Ganga Job Management tool for use with both local batch systems and the DIRAC workload management system. It's maintained by Mark Slater (mws<AT>hep.ph.bh.bham.ac.uk) - please email if you have any comments/problems!

For more info and more in depth user guides, please visit the main Ganga website http://ganga.web.cern.ch/ganga/

Requirements

Before you start using Ganga (assuming you want to use it to submit jobs to the grid), there are a few steps you need to go through:

- You need to get a grid certificate. Go to http://ngs.ac.uk/ukca/certificates and 'Apply for a new Certificate'
- You then need to become a member of a Virtual Organisation (VO). This depends on very much on the group(s) you are part of but a list of supported VOs and associated info can be found at https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs#Approved_EGI_VOs
- Sign up to the GridPP DIRAC server and install the client (https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Quick_Guide_to_Dirac)