Name: National Centre for e-Social Science: Winter Training School
Start: 2006-02-27T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2006-03-02T21:00:00+01:00
Location: University of Manchester

Monday, 27 February
- 09:00 → 09:30
  
  Registration & Coffee Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams
  
  Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams
- 09:30 → 21:00
  The Grid & the NGS Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams
  
  Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams
  
  This first day sessions are run by the National e-Science Centre which provide an introduction to Grid computing, The NGS and the computation services based on their course material from the "Induction to Grid Computing and the NGS" events.
  - 09:30
    
    Welcome 10m
    
    Speaker: Peter Halfpenny (National Centre for e-Social Science)
  - 09:40
    
    What is Grid Computing? 45m
    
    Speaker: Richard Hopkins (NeSC)
  - 10:25
    
    The National Grid Service 35m
    
    Speaker: Guy Warner (NeSC)
  - 11:00
    
    Tea & Coffee 15m
  - 11:15
    
    Gaining Access 30m
    
    Speaker: Guy Warner (NeSC)
  - 11:45
    
    Practical: Installing Certificates 30m
    
    Speaker: Guy Warner (NeSC)
    
    more information
  - 12:15
    
    Creating and running an application on the NGS 15m
    
    Speaker: Richard Hopkins (NeSC)
  - 12:30
    
    Practical: Job Submission 30m
    
    Speaker: Guy Warner (NeSC)
    
    more information
  - 13:00
    
    Lunch 1h
  - 14:00
    
    Practical continued 1h
  - 15:00
    
    NGS Computation Services: API's and Parallel Jobs 15m
    
    Speaker: Richard Hopkins (NeSC)
  - 15:15
    
    Practical: Job Submission Part 2 30m
    
    Speaker: Guy Warner (NeSC)
    
    more information
  - 15:45
    
    Tea & Coffee 15m
  - 16:00
    
    Practical continued 40m
  - 16:40
    
    Next Steps 25m
    
    Speaker: Guy Warner (NeSC)
  - 17:05
    
    NGS in the Future 25m
    
    Speaker: Richard Hopkins (NeSC)
  - 17:30
    
    Case Study: GEMEDA 30m
    
    Speaker: Simon Peters (University of Manchester)
  - 18:00
    
    Close 20m
  - 19:00
    
    Dinner 2h
Tuesday, 28 February
- 10:00 → 14:00
  SRB and Web Services Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams
  
  Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams
  
  This session provides an introduction to Storage Resource Broker (SRB) and Web Services. SRB is a uniform interface to a virtual distributed data storage resource where users can access files and database objects. Web Services is a framework for interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network, by software systems (services) using web-based standards and machine-processable interface definitions.
  - 10:00
    
    Data Services on the NGS 20m
    
    Speaker: Guy Warner (NeSC)
  - 10:20
    
    Introduction to SRB 20m
    
    Speaker: Richard Hopkins (NeSC)
  - 10:40
    
    Practical: SRB 20m
    
    Speaker: Guy Warner (NeSC)
    
    more information
  - 11:00
    
    Tea & Coffee 15m
  - 11:15
    
    Concepts of Web Services 45m
    
    Speaker: Richard Hopkins (NeSC)
  - 12:00
    
    Practical: Quote of the Day 1h
    
    Speaker: Guy Warner (NeSC)
    
    more information
  - 13:00
    
    Lunch 1h
- 14:00 → 21:00
  Condor Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams
  
  Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams
  
  This session provides an introduction to Condor; workload management for High Throughput Computing (HTC) on large collections of distributively owned computing resources e.g. job queueing, scheduling, prioritisation, resource monitoring, and resource management.
  - 14:00
    
    An introduction to Condor 30m
    
    Speaker: Guy Warner (NeSC)
  - 14:30
    
    Practical: Basic job submission 50m
    
    Speaker: Guy Warner (NeSC)
    
    more information
  - 15:20
    
    Tea & Coffee 20m
  - 15:40
    
    Workflows within Condor 30m
    
    Speaker: Guy Warner (NeSC)
  - 16:20
    
    Practical: Condor DAG's 50m
    
    Speaker: Guy Warner (NeSC)
    
    more information
  - 18:00
    
    Close 20m
  - 19:00
    
    Dinner 2h
Wednesday, 1 March
- 10:00 → 14:00
  OGSA-DAI Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams
  
  Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams
  
  This session provides an introduction to data services on the NGS and the Open Grid Services Architecture Data Access and Integration (OGSA-DAI); API inteface to grid-enabled XML and relational databases via web services.
  - 10:00
    
    Introduction to OGSA-DAI 40m
    
    Speaker: Richard Hopkins (NeSC)
  - 10:40
    
    Practical: Data Joins using OGSA-DAI 40m
    
    Speaker: Guy Warner (NeSC)
    
    more information
  - 11:20
    
    Tea & Coffee 20m
  - 11:40
    
    Advanced features of OGSA-DAI 30m
    
    Speaker: Richard Hopkins (NeSC)
  - 12:10
    
    Practical: Writing OGSA-DAI activities 20m
    
    Speaker: Guy Warner (NeSC)
    
    more information
  - 13:00
    
    Lunch 1h
- 14:00 → 21:00
  OGSA-DQP Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams
  
  Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams
  
  This session provides an introduction to the Open Grid Services Architecture Data Access Distributed Query Processing (DQP); supports queries over OGSA-DAI data services and over other services available on the Grid.
  - 14:00
    
    Case study 30m
  - 14:30
    
    OGSA-DQP: Technical Overview 30m
  - 15:00
    
    OGSA-DQP: Backend & Client 15m
  - 15:15
    
    Tea & Coffee 15m
  - 15:30
    demo 15m
    
    setting-up demo
    
    using-it demo
  - 15:45
    
    interaction: potential cases from participants 30m
  - 17:30
    
    Case Study: ConvertGRID 30m
    
    Speaker: Keith Cole (University of Manchester)
  - 18:00
    
    Close 20m
  - 19:00
    
    Dinner 2h
Thursday, 2 March
- 10:00 → 14:00
  Portals Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams
  
  Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams
  
  This session provides an introduction to Portals; a gateway to distributed applications and resources that run on on different types of middleware and hardware.
  - 10:00
    
    Portals Tutorial 1h
    
    Speaker: Rob Allan (Daresbury Laboratory)
  - 11:00
    
    Demo 1: NGS portal 15m
  - 11:15
    
    Tea & Coffee 15m
  - 11:30
    
    Sakai 30m
  - 12:00
    
    Demo 2: Collaboration in Sakai 15m
  - 12:15
    
    Making it all work together 15m
  - 12:30
    
    Demo 3: Sakai + uPortal 15m
  - 13:00
    
    Lunch 1h
- 14:00 → 17:00
  OMII Software Stack Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams
  
  Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams
  
  This session provides an introduction to OMII; a web service infrastructure for building grid applications.
  - 14:00
    
    OMII-UK Introduction 15m
    
    Speaker: Steven Newhouse (OMII)
  - 14:15
    
    OMII Client Distribution 1h 5m
  - 15:20
    
    Tea &Coffee 20m
  - 15:40
    
    Case Study 1h 20m
- 17:00 → 18:05
  Future Directions in Grid Middleware Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams
  
  Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams
  - 17:00
    
    Grid Futures - Where Are We Going Next? A Pragmatic Viewpoint 1h
    
    Speaker: Jennifer M. Schopf (Argonne National Laboratory)
  - 18:00
    
    Close 5m
    
    Speaker: Peter Halfpenny (National Centre for e-Social Science)
- 18:15 → 21:00
  
  NCeSS Node Jamboree Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams
  
  Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams
  
  University of Manchester

National Centre for e-Social Science: Winter Training School

Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams

University of Manchester

Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams

Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams

Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams

Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams

Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams

Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams

Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams

Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams

Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams

Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams

University of Manchester