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Get started with the grid easily. jGridstart helps grid end-users to request, obtain, install and renew grid certificates in a friendly way.
Using a large computing grid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing) like BiG Grid (http://www.biggrid.nl/) and EGEE (http://www.eu-egee.org/) requires some form of accountability. This is done using digital certificates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_certificate). jGridstart helps a grid user to manage these, coordinated by a grid certification authority. Currently, the DutchGrid CA (https://ca.dutchgrid.nl/) is currently using jGridstart.
You can test drive jGridstart.
Users
If you are a user, you may want to consult the
online documentation. In case you have a problem when using this program, please refer to the
support page.
Grid authorities
When you are supplying certificates to users and are looking for improvements to the request process, you may consider using jGridstart. The software is fully multi-platform and open source (
Apache 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)). Read more in the
Certificate Authorities section.
Developers
jGridstart is fully open source under the
Apache license (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) (with some external components under different open source licenses). Developers may be interested in one of its modules, and they are welcome to participate in this open source project. Please find more information in the
developers section.
