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National Centre for e-Social Science: Winter Training School

from Monday, 27 February 2006 (09:00) to Thursday, 2 March 2006 (21:00)
University of Manchester (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
27 Feb 2006
28 Feb 2006
1 Mar 2006
2 Mar 2006
AM
09:00
Registration & Coffee (until 09:30) (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
09:30
The Grid & the NGS (until 21:00) (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
09:30 Welcome - Peter Halfpenny (National Centre for e-Social Science)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
09:40 What is Grid Computing? - Richard Hopkins (NeSC)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
10:25 The National Grid Service - Guy Warner (NeSC)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
11:00 --- Tea & Coffee ---
11:15 Gaining Access - Guy Warner (NeSC)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
11:45 Practical: Installing Certificates - Guy Warner (NeSC)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
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12:15 Creating and running an application on the NGS - Richard Hopkins (NeSC)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
12:30 Practical: Job Submission - Guy Warner (NeSC)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
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13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Practical continued   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
15:00 NGS Computation Services: API's and Parallel Jobs - Richard Hopkins (NeSC)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
15:15 Practical: Job Submission Part 2 - Guy Warner (NeSC)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
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15:45 --- Tea & Coffee ---
16:00 Practical continued   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
16:40 Next Steps - Guy Warner (NeSC)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
17:05 NGS in the Future - Richard Hopkins (NeSC)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
17:30 Case Study: GEMEDA - Simon Peters (University of Manchester)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
18:00 Close   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
19:00 --- Dinner ---
10:00
SRB and Web Services (until 14:00) (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
10:00 Data Services on the NGS - Guy Warner (NeSC)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
10:20 Introduction to SRB - Richard Hopkins (NeSC)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
10:40 Practical: SRB - Guy Warner (NeSC)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
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11:00 --- Tea & Coffee ---
11:15 Concepts of Web Services - Richard Hopkins (NeSC)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
12:00 Practical: Quote of the Day - Guy Warner (NeSC)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
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13:00 --- Lunch ---
10:00
OGSA-DAI (until 14:00) (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
10:00 Introduction to OGSA-DAI - Richard Hopkins (NeSC)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
10:40 Practical: Data Joins using OGSA-DAI - Guy Warner (NeSC)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
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11:20 --- Tea & Coffee ---
11:40 Advanced features of OGSA-DAI - Richard Hopkins (NeSC)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
12:10 Practical: Writing OGSA-DAI activities - Guy Warner (NeSC)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
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13:00 --- Lunch ---
10:00
Portals (until 14:00) (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
10:00 Portals Tutorial - Rob Allan (Daresbury Laboratory)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
11:00 Demo 1: NGS portal   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
11:15 --- Tea & Coffee ---
11:30 Sakai   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
12:00 Demo 2: Collaboration in Sakai   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
12:15 Making it all work together   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
12:30 Demo 3: Sakai + uPortal   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
PM
14:00
Condor (until 21:00) (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
14:00 An introduction to Condor - Guy Warner (NeSC)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
14:30 Practical: Basic job submission - Guy Warner (NeSC)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
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15:20 --- Tea & Coffee ---
15:40 Workflows within Condor - Guy Warner (NeSC)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
16:20 Practical: Condor DAG's - Guy Warner (NeSC)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
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18:00 Close   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
19:00 --- Dinner ---
14:00
OGSA-DQP (until 21:00) (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
14:00 Case study   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
14:30 OGSA-DQP: Technical Overview   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
15:00 OGSA-DQP: Backend & Client   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
15:15 --- Tea & Coffee ---
15:30 demo   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
15:45 interaction: potential cases from participants   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
17:30 Case Study: ConvertGRID - Keith Cole (University of Manchester)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
18:00 Close   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
19:00 --- Dinner ---
14:00
OMII Software Stack (until 17:00) (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
14:00 OMII-UK Introduction - Steven Newhouse (OMII)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
14:15 OMII Client Distribution   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
15:20 --- Tea &Coffee ---
15:40 Case Study   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
17:00
Future Directions in Grid Middleware (until 18:05) (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
17:00 Grid Futures - Where Are We Going Next? A Pragmatic Viewpoint - Jennifer M. Schopf (Argonne National Laboratory)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
18:00 Close - Peter Halfpenny (National Centre for e-Social Science)   (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
18:15
NCeSS Node Jamboree (until 21:00) (Kilburn Building--Lascelles Williams)
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