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Induction to Grid Computing and the National Grid Service

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University of Westminster

University of Westminster
Mike Mineter
Description
Grid computing empowers collaborations across different institutions by enabling them to share resources of data and computation. Current developments using grid computing are in research ('e-Research'), engineering, public service, provision of digital data libraries. The National Grid Service (NGS) is the core UK grid service resulting from the UK's e-Science program. It is intended for the production use of computational and data grid resources for scientific and academic research purposes. Use of the NGS is available to members of the UK academic and scientific communities. Projects involving large data volumes, high computation requirements or geographically widespread collaborators may benefit from using the NGS. The goals of this course are to give participants:
  • An understanding of the concepts of Grid Computing and e-Research.
  • An orientation to the NGS and the Grid Operations Support Centre (http://www.grid-support.ac.uk/).
  • Sufficient practical experience to allow initial use of the National Grid Service in future.

Registration: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/action/registration/egee/index.cfm?id=690

Location: University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish Street, London, W1W 6UW, Map here

Room: NG 100 Note that access will only be possible from the Clipstone Street entrance of the University.

Note also that there is a follow-on course on 14 June that will give experience of porting applicaitons to the NGS using the P-GRADE portal and GEMLCA . For details of this see here

There may be minor modifcation made to the agenda that follows.

  • Monday, 12 June
    • Day 1
      • 1
        Registration
      • 2
        Introduction - Goals and Overview of both days
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
      • 3
        What is Grid Computing?
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        transparencies
      • 4
        The National Grid Service
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        transparencies
      • 11:15
        Tea / Coffee
      • 5
        Gaining Access
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        more information
        transparencies
      • 6
        Creating and Running an Appplication on the NGS
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        more information
        transparencies
      • 13:00
        Lunch
      • 7
        Creating and Running an Appplication on the NGS continued
      • 8
        NGS Computation Services: API's and Parallel Jobs
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        more information
      • 15:40
        Tea / Coffee
      • 9
        NGS Computation Services: API's and Parallel Jobs continued
      • 10
        Summary of Day 1
        Speaker: Guy Warner
  • Tuesday, 13 June
    • Day 2
      • 11
        Web services and Grid Computing
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        transparencies
      • 12
        Data Services on the NGS: Overview
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        transparencies
      • 13
        The Storage Resource Broker
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        more information
        transparencies
      • 14
        GridFTP
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        transparencies
      • 11:10
        Tea / Coffee
      • 15
        OGSA-DAI
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        more information
        transparencies
      • 16
        Monitoring
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        transparencies
      • 13:00
        Lunch
      • 17
        Tools for Windows Users
        Speaker: Guy Warner
      • 18
        The P-GRADE Portal and GEMLCA
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        transparencies
      • 19
        Next Steps
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        transparencies
      • 15:00
        Tea / Coffee
      • 20
        NGS in the Future: emerging middleware
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        transparencies
      • 21
        Summary of the event / Final Discussion
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