Induction to Grid Computing and the National Grid Service

Europe/Zurich
e-Science Institute, Edinburgh

e-Science Institute, Edinburgh

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(http://www.ngs.ac.uk/).
  • Sufficient practical experience to allow initial use of the National Grid Service in future.

Registration and further details are here: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/719/booking.cfm . Please note that a £40 charge must be made for attending this event.

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

  • Thursday, 9 November
    • Day 1
      • 1
        Registration
      • 2
        Introduction - Goals and Overview of both days
        Speaker: Guy Warner (Unknown)
      • 3
        What is Grid Computing?
        Speaker: Dr Richard Hopkins
        Slides
      • 4
        The National Grid Service
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        Slides
      • 11:15
        Tea / Coffee
      • 5
        Gaining Access
        Speaker: Guy Warner (Unknown)
        practical
        practical
        Slides
      • 6
        Creating and Running an Application on the NGS
        Speaker: Richard Hopkins
        practical
        practical files
        Slides
      • 13:00
        Lunch
      • 7
        Creating and Running an Appplication on the NGS continued
      • 8
        NGS Computation Services: API's and Parallel Jobs
        Speaker: Richard Hopkins
        practical
        Slides
      • 15:25
        Tea / Coffee
      • 9
        NGS Computation Services: API's and Parallel Jobs continued
      • 10
        Summary of Day 1
        Speaker: Guy Warner
  • Friday, 10 November
    • Day 2
      • 11
        Web services and Grid Computing
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        Slides
      • 12
        Data Services on the NGS: Overview
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        Slides
      • 13
        The Storage Resource Broker
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        practical
        Slides
      • 11:10
        Tea / Coffee
      • 14
        OGSA-DAI
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        practical
        practical files
        Slides
      • 15
        Monitoring
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        Slides
      • 13:00
        Lunch
      • 16
        GridFTP
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        Slides
      • 17
        Tools for Windows Users
        Speaker: Guy Warner
      • 18
        The P-GRADE Portal and GEMLCA
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        Slides
      • 19
        Next Steps
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        Slides
      • 15:00
        Tea / Coffee
      • 20
        NGS in the Future: emerging middleware
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        Slides
      • 21
        Summary of the event / Final Discussion