User Guide for the Earth Virtual Organization (VO) users: getting started
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1 List of applications for the Earth VO
2 Joining the VO
3 Access to Grid client software
4 Running applications on the Grid
Introduction
The Earth Virtual Organization (VO) is a community of users within SMSCG with the following shared goals:
- Carry out numerical studies in the Earth sciences related area.
- Support development of parallel numerical tools for Earth sciences, both for computation and data analysis.
Contact and support:
- VO contact persons:
- Pierre Kuonen, (EIF)
- Mathias Bavay(WSL/SLF)
- Please go to https://rt.smscg.ch to contact us for any problems/questions you may have.
1 List of applications for the Earth VO
The following applications are supported within Earth VO:
- Alpine3D (more information is available here)
2 Joining the VO
IMPORTANT: By applying to be a member of the Earth VO YOU implicitly accept to respect the terms and conditions (also known as Acceptable Use Policy) of usage of the SMSCG resources for the Earth VO, which is available in PDF format here.
Please submit the following page to join the Life VO. to join the Earth VO.
3 Access to Grid client software
SMSCG sites maintain their own Grid hosts to access the SMSCG Grid resources: users are advised to contact their sites representatives or the VO contact persons to be granted access.
4 Running applications on the Grid
The following example(s) should be run on an SMSCG Grid host (see point 3):
Examples of the submission of an Alpine3D parallel job are available here.