National Grid Service: Application Developer Training

21 February, 07 09:00 AM - 23 February, 07 05:00 PM

e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh

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=720

This training course is to support developers of applications that are to be deployed on the NGS. It will explore a selection of services and tools that build on the core services that are provided by the NGS. This course will comprise:

1. The National Grid Service portal: permits users to interact with the NGS from a browser.
   Talks and practicals led by Dr David Meredith, CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory.
2. GridSAM: web service interface for job Submission And Monitoring and file staging.
   Talks and practicals led by Dr Steve McGough and Dr Vesselin Novov from the London e-Science Centre, Imperial College London.
3. The Application Hosting Environment: provides the scientist with a simple, lightweight mechanism for launching and monitoring scientific applications.
   Talks and practicals led by Dr Stefan Zasada, Centre for Computational Science, Chemistry Department, University College London
4. Condor and Condor-G: Condor is deployed by many campus grids; Condor-G permits jobs to be submitted via Condor to the NGS.
   Talks and practicals led by TOE training team.
5. Data services on the NGS: how data can be shared by use of SRB and OGSA-DAI.
   Talks by Neil Chue-Hong, EPCC and by the TOE training team.
6. GEMLCA-P-GRADE: a workflow-oriented portal and application hosting environment.
   Talks and practicals led by Gergely Sipos on behalf of MTA SZTAKI and University of Westminster

Target Audience

This event will be of interest to those who are asking questions such as:

How can I deploy and invoke my application on the NGS?

I am developing an application for a research commmunity to use. What tools and services can help me to do this?

Programme

This event is provisionally scheduled to start at 09:00 Wednesday 21 February 2007 and close at 17:00 on Friday 23 February 2007.

A programme is available at: http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=12549

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

Important Dates

19 Jan - Registration Opens
16 Feb - Registration Deadline
16 Feb - Date we will respond to your application by (Please note this is the latest date we will respond to your application. It is normal policy for us to respond within 5 working days where possible.)
21 Feb - Event Starts at 09:00hrs

Enquiries

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