Grid Computing and the National Grid Service - Introduction

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University of Reading - Philip Lyle Building, 4th

University of Reading - Philip Lyle Building, 4th

Florian Urmetzer
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 for this Event
Location: University of Reading, ACET Centre - Philip Lyle Building, 4th Floor.

Note also that there are preceding courses on 22-23 November giving a general introduction to Grid computing and the EGEE.
Agenda and Registration
and on 24 November Porting applications to the EGEE and the NGS, using the P-GRADE/GEMLCA portal Agenda and Registration

Please note that there will be a cost of £20 per day to cover expenses (Coffee and Lunch). use the reference EGEE06/ACET when paying
THE UNIVERSITY OF READING - RECEIPTS ACCOUNT NAT WEST
13 MARKET PLACE
READING, BERKSHIRE
RG1 2EP
SORT CODE: 60-17-21
ACCOUNT NO: 88658953
IBAN: GB53NWBK 6017 2188 6589 53
BIC/SWIFTCODE: NWBKGB2L

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

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