National
e-Science
Centre
Testing access to the GILDA testbed
e-Science Institute 7th April 2004
Dr Roberto Barbera, from INFN and the University of Catania, presented a two-hour introduction
and tutorial on the GILDA testbed for the EGEE project. Participants from the Universities of
Edinburgh and Brunel were given a brief overview of Grids, GILDA and the GENIUS portal
before taking part in a practical session with both the command-line and GENIUS interfaces to
GILDA.
The goals of the session were achieved:
1. to demonstrate the viability of using GILDA and GENIUS in future EGEE courses
2. to give participants an overview of the technology, and initial experience of using it.
Attendees were from research groups in Physics, Geography, Geology and from the Digimap
project of EDINA, in the Edinburgh Data Library.
Follow-up will be by continuing to build links between NeSC and both EDINA and the School of
GeoSciences. Invitations to full two-day induction courses will be sent in future.
Mike Mineter
NeSC Trainer