These tutorials were given in May, 2004, at the University of Edinburgh during a visit to the National eScience Centre. Some of these can be useful for independent study.
• The first tutorial was an Overview of the SRB. The HEPiX SRB PowerPoint slides, for a talk given the next week, used many of the same slides and although the tutorial had a few more slides, the HEPiX slides provide a better summary. Also see some text descriptions to go with the pp slides which provide some additional comments somewhat like a verbal presentation.
• The second tutorial was on Installation and Administration. Since we had only a couple computers to install on (not one per student), I went through one installation and discussed what was happening, and handed out copies of the first few pages of the install.pl script and discussed the descriptions and options. For Administration, each student started up the java admin tool (cd to MCAT/java and run 'java -jar mcatAdmin.jar'), and we went over some of the help pages and performed some of the operations. Trying this on your own should be quite feasible, particularly if you have a Linux PC to install on; this would also prepare for the third tutorial.
• The third tutorial was on the Scommands, both basic and more advanced features. scmds.txt is the set of exercises to work through. Although only a brief outline of command-lines, going through these tests should provide a good introduction to many of the SRB features. This current version includes some corrections for the Tickets section.
• The four tutorial was on the additional SRB interfaces. For this, I went through some of the web pages for Jargon, inQ, and mySRB and some of the C/C++ API documentation. A live demo was not feasible due to firewall constraints on the wireless network (see our FAQ for information on ports and firewalls).