PPARC UK e-Science Postgraduate School

Europe/Zurich
e-Science Institute, NeSC, Edinburgh

e-Science Institute, NeSC, Edinburgh

Mineter, M.J.
Description
Purpose of the School To provide for the students: * an opportunity to network with other e-Science students and form a community * appropriate training in relevant software * an update in production grid initiatives and emerging standards * an opportunity to discuss their own work with their peers. Target audience UK postgraduate students pursuing a PhD in a relevant discipline and who commenced their PhD studies in October 2003 or earlier. The Summer School announcement is at: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/544/
    • 09:00 17:00
      Day 1: Concepts and production grids

      A review of grid concepts and of major initiatives to establish grid infrastructures.

      In the UK the National Grid Service (NGS) and internationally the EGEE project, Enabling Grids for e-Science are establishing interoperable sustainable production quality grids to enable e-Research.

      Draft agenda:

      • 09:00
        Introductions 30m
      • 09:30
        Introducing Grid Computing 30m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        transparencies
      • 10:00
        EGEE: enabling grids for e-science 15m
        transparencies
      • 10:15
        The National Grid Service 15m
        transparencies
      • 10:30
        Coffee 30m
      • 11:00
        Practical: gaining access to the NGS 1h
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        document
        transparencies
      • 12:00
        Practical: job submission to the NGS 30m
        document
        transparencies
      • 12:30
        Lunch 1h
      • 13:30
        Practical continues 1h 30m
        document
      • 15:00
        Coffee 30m
      • 15:30
        Grid middleware: from toolkits to production grids 20m
        transparencies
      • 16:00
        Practical: Using a portal onto GILDA, an EGEE demo grid 50m
        document
      • 16:50
        End of day review 10m
    • 09:00 17:00
      Day 2: Workshop

      The students will each make a 20 minute PowerPoint presentation. Their remit is:
      - a brief outline of your project (3 slides)
      - your own role in the project (1 slide)
      - the main part of the talk will describe your use (present or intended) of grids.
      If you have developed software for grid middelware or grid applications then include:
      - an outline of the requirements and design
      - what have you done that might be useful to others?
      - what are the major challenges that remain.

      Each student is allocated 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion.

      Following these talks there will be a session in which participants will work in small groups, defined to allow further exploration of the issues raised that are of shared interest.

      • 09:00
        Ahmed Abdelrahim 30m
        transparencies
      • 09:30
        O'Neil Delpratt 30m
        transparencies
      • 10:00
        John Hawkins 30m
        transparencies
      • 10:30
        Coffee 30m
      • 11:00
        Shiv Kaushal 30m
        transparencies
      • 11:30
        Peter Moore 30m
        transparencies
      • 12:00
        Stuart Paterson 30m
        transparencies
      • 12:30
        Lunch 1h
      • 13:30
        Craig Robinson 30m
        transparencies
      • 14:00
        Nicholas Ross 30m
      • 14:30
        Eric Saunders 30m
        transparencies
      • 15:00
        Coffee 30m
      • 15:30
        Andrew Smith 30m
        transparencies
      • 16:00
        Formation of small groups for follow-on 1h
    • 09:00 13:30
      Day 3: Workshop continuation

      A continuation of the workshop from Day 2, working in small groups.

      • 09:00
        Small groups 1h 30m
      • 10:30
        Coffee 30m
      • 11:00
        Small groups 1h 30m
      • 12:30
        Lunch 1h
    • 13:30 17:30
      Day 3: Visiting Speakers

      Talks from practioners in the area of Grid & e-Science.

      • 13:30
        A Portal to Reality Grid 45m
        Speaker: Dr George Beckett (EPCC)
        transparencies
        video
      • 14:15
        QCDGrid 45m
        Speaker: Dr Chris Maynard (Institute for Physics, Edinburgh)
        transparencies
      • 15:00
        Coffee 30m
      • 15:30
        OGSA-DAI 30m
        Speaker: Mr Neil Chue Hong (EPCC)
      • 16:00
        AstroGrid 45m
        Speaker: Dr John Taylor (Institute for Astronomy, Edinburgh)
      • 16:45
        GridPP 45m
        Speaker: Dr Steve Thorn (NeSC, Edinburgh)
    • 17:30 20:15
      Evening reception and lecture by Professor Higgs
    • 09:00 17:00
      Day 4: Web Services
      • 09:00
        Introduction to Web Services 45m
        Speaker: Richard Hopkins
        more information
        transparencies
      • 09:45
        XML and Schemas 45m
        more information
        transparencies
      • 10:30
        Coffee 30m
      • 11:00
        WSDL & SOAP 45m
        transparencies
      • 11:45
        WS Tools 45m
        transparencies
      • 12:30
        Lunch 1h
      • 13:30
        WS Tutorial 1h 30m
        document
      • 15:00
        Coffee 30m
      • 15:30
        Tutorial continued 40m
      • 16:10
        Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) 30m
        transparencies
      • 16:40
        Review of day 20m
    • 09:00 16:00
      Day 5:
      • 09:00
        Emerging middleware 1h
        transparencies
      • 10:00
        GRID and Commercialisation 30m
        Speaker: Dr Mark Parsons (EPCC, National e-Science Centre)
      • 10:30
        Coffee 30m
      • 11:10
        An introduction to UKLight and ESLEA 30m
        UKLight is a national facility to support projects working on developments towards optical networks and the applications that will use them. http://www.uklight.ac.uk/ ESLEA: Exploitation of Switched Lightpaths for eScience Applications
        Speaker: Dr Clive Davenhall (NeSC)
      • 11:40
        How to get performance on networks 30m
        Speaker: Dr Clive Davenhall (NeSC)
        transparencies
      • 12:30
        Lunch 1h
      • 13:30
        Small group final meetings 1h
        On Tuesday small groups were formed; these began work on Wednesday and conclude their efforts by reporting back.
      • 14:45
        Review of the summer school 30m
      • 15:15
        CLOSE 20m