Induction to Grid Computing and the National Grid Service

13 June, 05 09:15 AM - 14 June, 05 04:00 PM

e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, , Edinburgh
Organiser:

Dr Mike Mineter

 
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Any slides or other material generated as a result of this event can be found at: www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=562

Grid computing empowers collaborations across different institutions by enabling them to share resources of data and computation. Current and envisaged applications of grid computing include in research, engineering, public service, and the provision of digital data libraries.

The National Grid Service (NGS) is the core UK grid, intended for the production use of computational and data grid resources. NGS is the core service resulting from the UK's e-Science programme (http://www.ngs.ac.uk/).

The goals of this course are to give participants:

  1. an understanding of the concepts of Grid Computing and e-Research.
  2. an orientation to the NGS and the Grid Operations Support Centre (http://www.grid-support.ac.uk/).
  3. sufficient practical experience to allow use of the National Grid Service.

Participants are likely to be software developers wanting to gain a basic understanding of how their projects can gain benefit from the NGS. For one of the practicals some knowledge of Java would be advantageous, but this is not essential.

Material from a previous run of this course can be found at: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=561

Please note that the organisers will wish to contact attendees after the event

DRAFT AGENDA - may be subject to minor revision.

Day 1: 13th June
09:15 Registration
09:30 Introduction: goals and overview of 2 days
09:45 What is grid computing?
11:00 Coffee
11:30 The National Grid Service
12:00 Practical - obtaining access to the NGS
13:15 Lunch
14:00 Practical - Creating and running an application on the NGS
15:10 Introduction to Portals
15:30 Tea
16:00 A case study
16:45 Review
17:00 End of Day 1
 
Day 2: 14th June
09:00 Overview of day 2
09:10 NGS computation services: API's, concurrent and parallel jobs
09:40 Practical - NGS computation services
10.40 Data services on the NGS: Overview
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Data services on the NGS
  • Practical: OGSA-DAI
  • Presentation: GridFTP
  • Practical: SRB
13:00 Lunch
13:30 Joining the NGS
14:00 Installation of Globus client software for using the NGS
14:20 NGS in the future: emerging middleware
15:00 Tea
15:15 Review
16:00 End of Day 2

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.

Bookings

Registration for this event is now closed. To enquire about an application or to cancel a previous application please contact NeSC Administration.

Enquiries

Enquiries should be made directly to our Conference Administrator.

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.

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