CampusGrid meeting16 June, 05 10:30 AM - 17 June, 05 04:00 PMe-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, , Edinburgh |
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Meeting to explore the use of CampusGrids and to inform sites how to set up such CampusGrids for the first time.
The aims of the meeting are: to find out which centres are working in this area, the technologies that are being used, what might be done to share best practice, to look for commonality where appropriate, to help new sites create their own Campusgrids, and to consider how the centres may be interconnected to each other and to the UK National Grid Service.
Before lunch on the first day there will be a set of presentations which focus on the centres which are already running CampusGrids as production facilities. After lunch there will be a demonstration (in the main lecture theatre) showing the creation of a small Condor pool from scratch, and then presentations on how Centres can become part of the National Grid Service (NGS). The emphasis of the afternoon will be to address the practical issues of setting up CampusGrids and connecting to the NGS.
The second day will focus on the development work which is underway to introduce new technologies for CampusGrids. There is significant activity in many centres. A particular issue is likely to be the development of accounting procedures.
The target audience will be mainly computing service departments and e-Scientists directly involved in the development and operation of CampusGrids.
Thursday
Overview of existing CampusGrid activities, determine best practice, understand security issues, explore full economic costing, outline challenges in setting up a CampusGrid, discuss how to connect with the National Grid Service, and review general methods for federation of resources.
Friday
Overview issues relating to sharing data within a CampusGrid environment, find consensus on what defines a CampusGrid (as preparation for the BOF at the All Hands Meeting); and review exciting new technologies which have potential for a second generation of CampusGrids.
| Thursday 16 June | |
| 10.30 | Coffee |
| 11.00 | Introduction, aims, deliverables- Paul Jeffreys |
| 11.15 | Overview of Condor and Globus- John Wakelin |
| 12.00 | Review of how to deal with Firewalls within a CampusGrid environment- Bruce Beckles |
| 12.30 | Deploying Grids on Campus Networks- Andrew Cormack |
| 13.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 | Local Security issues - Bruce Beckles |
| 14.30 | Full Economic Costing on CampusGrids- Rhys Newman |
| 15.00 | Federation of Resources and building more Complex Grids- Steve Newhouse |
| 15.45 | Tea |
| 16.00 | How to Connect CampusGrids to NGS- Neil Geddes |
| 16.30 | Panel Discussion, overview of CampusGrid activities across UK, questions and answers- Facilitated by Peter Clarke |
| 19.00 | Dinner funded by core programme Set of questions for discussion:
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| Friday 17 June | |
| 09.00 | Review of dealing with data in CampusGrid environment- (tbc) |
| 09.30 | Condor and Stork- Peter Couvares |
| 10.00 | Review of 'Dinner questions' as input into BOF- John Kewley, Bruce Beckles |
| 10.30 | Coffee |
| 11.00 | Overview of New technologies for Building CampusGrids- Rhys Newman |
| 11.30 | Xen- Andrew Warfield |
| 12.00 | Inferno- Jon Blower |
| 12.30 | GridMP at ISIS- Tom Griffin |
| 13.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 | Dynamic Service Deployment- Paul Watson |
| 14.30 | Virtualisation at Oxford- Rhys Newman |
| 15.00 | Tea |
| 15.30 | Conclusions, deliverables from workshop, final discussion- Paul Jeffreys |
| 16.00 | End of workshop |
The conference dinner will be held at Howies in Victoria Street on the 16th June at 19:30. Please click here for more details.
The National e-Science Centre, e-Science Institute in Edinburgh is a centre for education and research for e-Science, and provides new state-of-the art facilities including an Access Grid system.
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Travel: The e-Science Institute is less than 15 minutes walk from Waverley rail station, and from St Andrews square bus stations. It is approximately 20 minutes by taxi from Edinburgh airport (40 minutes by bus). Please see our web site for a map of the area.