Information here should help the users of the Experimental Execution Environment (EEE) of the ComPat project get their applications running.

In order to use the resources that the ComPat EEE makes available you have to have a grid certificate. Grid certificates bind a cryptographic key to a Distinguished Name (DN) and is used as a way to identify you as a valid computing resource user on all the different sites of the computing grid.

Now for the practical points:

1. Figure out who is your Grid CA (Certification Authority which will issue your grid certificate) - usually you need to choose the closest CA (see https://www.eugridpma.org/members/worldmap/)
2. Request a certificate from the CA
3. Install that certificate in your browser and in your ~/.globus folder (i.e. .globus folder inside your home directory - also for Windows)

LRZ provides some documentation on certificates (which partly apply to other computing centres as well) on:

https://www.lrz.de/services/compute/grid_en/certificate_en/person-certificate_en/

Further LRZ information on grid computing, tools (globus toolkit, etc.) and handling which you might find useful:

https://www.lrz.de/services/compute/grid_en/

https://www.lrz.de/services/compute/grid_en/grid-middleware_en/globus_guide_en

Instructions for getting on SuperMUC

Instructions for getting on PSNC

Instructions for getting on STFC

SuperMUC Resource Info PSNC Resource Info STFC Resource Info