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 rather than just for local batch system submission), there are a few steps you need to go through:

• Go through the Grid User guide (https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Grid_user_crash_course) to get a grid certificate and become a member of a VO
• Sign up to the GridPP DIRAC server and install the client (https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Quick_Guide_to_Dirac)

Installation and Configuration

Here are the steps to download and configure Ganga:

• Download the install script from the Ganga website and make it executable:

 wget http://ganga.web.cern.ch/ganga/download/ganga-install
 chmod +x ganga-install

• Run the script with the external plugins you want to include to download and install Ganga at ~/Ganga. Generally, this will be the GangaDirac plugin:

 ./ganga-install --extern=GangaDirac