TeraGrid Core Integration Kit

• Discover the local policies of this TeraGrid resource

  (See also: Using the tg-policy Command)

• Discover the resource name and resource provider for the TeraGrid resource

  (See the Knowledge Base article)

• Identify a TeraGrid system with a specific CTSS capability

  (See referring page: CTSS)

• Discover the CTSS capabilities on the TeraGrid resource

  (See referring page: CTSS)

Remote Login Capability Kit

• Log in to one TeraGrid resource and then log in to others without re-authenticating

  (See also: Accessing TeraGrid Overview)

• Login to a TeraGrid resource

  (See also: Logging in to an Individual TeraGrid Resource)

• Move data into or out of a TeraGrid login system (basic methods)

  (See also: Data: Transfer Overview)

• Obtain a grid proxy certficate after logging in to a TeraGrid resource

  (See also: Certificate Proxies)

• Use default TeraGrid software tools and environment variables in the login shell without special setup

  (See also: Jobs: Programming Environment)

• Application Development and Testing

  (See the Application Development & Runtime Support Capability Kit below for specific help)

• Customize the login shell environment to include non-default software

  (See also: Jobs: Using Softenv)

• Add a new grid Distinguished Name to the TeraGrid resource's grid-mapfile

  (See also: Setting up a DN entry on the Single Sign-on with Non-Default Certificates page)

Application Development and Runtime Support Capability Kit

• Configure the login environment (or job runtime environment) to include a particular tool or library, or a particular version of that tool or library

  (See also: Jobs: Using Softenv)

• Run an application script that requires a Globus Toolkit command-line tool

  (See also: Running Globus Jobs)

• Identify the software tools and application development libraries (including C and FORTRAN compilers) that are available on a TeraGrid system

  (See referring page: CTSS and Jobs: Compilers)

• Configure your environment on a TeraGrid system to use a specific version of the software tools and application development libraries

  (See also: Jobs: Compilers and Jobs: Using Softenv)

• Run an application that uses the Storage Resource Broker (SRB) client to store or retrieve data from SRB

  (See also: SRB on the Data: Storage page)

• Run an application script that uses the TGCP command to transfer files between TeraGrid systems

  (See also: Data: How to Initiate Transfer: GridFTP Clients: TGCP, Data: Transfer Examples: Using tgcp to transfer files)

Parallel Application Capability Kit

• Discover which versions of the most common parallel tools are available on a TeraGrid system.

  (See referring page: CTSS and Jobs: MPICH-G2 for Globus 4.0)

• Configure your environment on a TeraGrid system to use a specific version of a parallel tool.

  (See also: MPICH-G2 for Globus 4.0 and Jobs: Using softenv)

Science Workflow Support Kit

• Run and manage a large number of uncoordinated parallel tasks using a single TG system

  (See also: Data: Transfer Examples: tgcp and Data: How to Initiate Transfers: GridFTP Clients: tgcp)

• Run and manage a set of coordinated tasks using a single TeraGrid system
• Execute either of the 'Run and Manage' workflows using multiple TeraGrid systems

  (See also: Jobs: MyCluster and Jobs: Condor-G)

• Enable an existing workflow application (with its own workflow manager) to manage tasks on multiple TeraGrid systems

  (See also: Jobs: MyCluster)

TeraGrid Wide Area GPFS File Systems Kit

TeraGrid Remote Compute Kit

• Remotely submit a simple job to the resource

  (See also: Basic Commands on the Running Globus Jobs page, or the non-TeraGrid page: WS-GRAM User's Guide)

• Submit a job with file staging in and out

  (See also: globus-job-run on the Running Globus Jobs page)

• Cancel or suspend a remotely submitted job

  (See also: Running Globus Jobs)

• Check the status of a remotely submitted job

  (See also: Running Globus Jobs)

• Receive notifications when the status of a remotely submitted job changes
• Specify the environment in which to run a remotely submitted job

  (See also: Running Globus Jobs)

• Obtain accounting information about a remotely submitted job
• Securely retrieve information about the jobs managed by the local resource manager (scheduler)
• Retrieve information about the scheduling load, i.e. the percentage busy of the available batch resources

TeraGrid Data Movement Kit

• Initiated from outside the TG environment

  (See also: Data: Moving Local Files to the TeraGrid)

• Large files, high performance

  (See also: Data: Transfer Examples)

• Interactive versus batch transfer
• Transfer a file between TeraGrid file systems (or vice-versa)

  (See also: Data: Transfer Examples and Data: Where to Initiate File Transfers)

• Initiated from within the TG environment

  (See also: Data: Transfer Examples and Data: Where to Initiate File Transfers)

• Import/Export of data between TeraGrid and external locations

  (See also: Data: Transfer Examples)

• Large number of smaller files, high performance

TeraGrid Data Management Capability Kit

• Store and retrieve files in mass storage

  (See also: SRB on the Data: Storage page)

• Register availability of a file at a specific location (or multiple locations) so that other users can find and use it

  (See also: non-TeraGrid site: SRB at SDSC and non-TeraGrid site: SRB User Manual)

• Register availability of a file in a data collection so that other users can find it

  (See also: non-TeraGrid site: SRB at SDSC and non-TeraGrid site: SRB User Manual)

• Describe files using metadata and build a catalog of files

  (See also: non-TeraGrid site: SRB at SDSC and non-TeraGrid site: SRB User Manual)

Data Visualization Support Kit

• Image manipulation
• Fundamental visualization and data exploration (through ParaView, an end-user application)
• Developing custom applications for visualizing large data sets

Local HPC Software Availability Kit