Distributed computing education, part 4: Training infrastructure

Infrastructure of the Grid INFN Laboratory of Dissemination Activities (GILDA) is effectively supporting education and training in distributed computing. GILDA delivers services, such as a dedicated certification authority, a virtual organization, and monitoring and support systems for users. The GILDA is a part of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Grid Project and the EU FP6 EGEE (enabling the grid for e-Science) and ICEAGE (International Collaboration to extend and Advance Grid Education) projects. A need for effective infrastructure in grid computing led to understand the GILDA related summer and winter school experiences, multi middleware integration, t-infrastructure, and academic courses, which is followed with some analysis and recommendations. The analysis has also described the ways the GILDA adapted for achieving the convenient authentication and authorization, accessing teaching materials.