How do I...

... get started as a user?

To start using the LHC Computing Grid as a member of PhenoGrid, you will need to get three things sorted out:

A personal Grid user certificate.
Registration with the PhenoGrid virtual organisation (VO).
Access to a Grid user interface.

These three steps are described in more detail.

... submit a job?

The Quick User Guide for Submitting Jobs is a good starting point for command line submission.

Alternatively, a nicer frontend is provided by the Ganga tool.

You can also look at the Herwig++ job submission instructions for an example.
Otherwise, you can find what you need in the LCG2 User Scenario and in chapter 6 of the LCG2 User Guide.

... configure my site for `pheno`?

Configuration information for grid site admins. Phenogrid users can ignore this.

... use Grid file storage?

On your UI account, set these environment variables:

  LFC_HOST=`lcg-infosites --vo pheno lfc`
  LCG_CATALOG_TYPE=lfc
  LFC_HOME=/grid/pheno

After that you can use many Grid equivalents of POSIX file system commands, such as

  $ lfc-mkdir /grid/pheno/my-own-test
  $ lfc-ls /grid/pheno
  $ lfc-rm -r /grid/pheno/my-own-test

All commands and short examples for saving / retrieving files can be found from page 15 onwards in this talk by T.Calanducci: The LFC File catalog.

For your work, create a directory named after your login and set LFC_HOME to that. Please note that by default anyone in the pheno VO can modify your files.

... ask more questions?

Send an email to David Grellscheid.