A Training Grid Environment in VOCE

In this paper we describe an environment provided by the VO for the Central Europe (VOCE), which offers a generic Grid infrastructure open for all users from the Central Europe region. We will focus on training activities performed in VOCE and present a design and pilot implementation of a new infrastructure to support Grid users. This training infrastructure (t-infrastructure) is aimed to support effective training of Grid users in an environment which is as close to a standard production system as possible. We will describe all aspects of the t-infrastructure setup. Special care will be paid to identity management in such an infrastructure, in particular we will describe our solution for a certification authority that provides a formalized and traceable yet easy to use means for generating X.509 certificates.