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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
    • 09:15 → 17:00
      Day 1
      • 09:30
        Registration 15m
      • 09:45
        Introduction - Goals and Overview of both days 15m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
      • 10:00
        What is Grid Computing? 50m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        transparencies
      • 10:50
        The National Grid Service 25m
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        transparencies
      • 11:15
        Tea / Coffee 15m
      • 11:30
        Gaining Access 1h
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        more information
        transparencies
      • 12:30
        Creating and Running an Appplication on the NGS 30m
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        more information
        transparencies
      • 13:00
        Lunch 1h
      • 14:00
        Creating and Running an Appplication on the NGS continued 1h 10m
      • 15:10
        NGS Computation Services: API's and Parallel Jobs 30m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        more information
      • 15:40
        Tea / Coffee 15m
      • 15:55
        NGS Computation Services: API's and Parallel Jobs continued 55m
      • 16:50
        Summary of Day 1 10m
        Speaker: Guy Warner
  • Tuesday, 13 June
    • 09:30 → 16:30
      Day 2
      • 09:30
        Web services and Grid Computing 50m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        transparencies
      • 10:20
        Data Services on the NGS: Overview 10m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        transparencies
      • 10:30
        The Storage Resource Broker 20m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        more information
        transparencies
      • 10:50
        GridFTP 20m
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        transparencies
      • 11:10
        Tea / Coffee 15m
      • 11:25
        OGSA-DAI 1h 20m
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        more information
        transparencies
      • 12:45
        Monitoring 15m
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        transparencies
      • 13:00
        Lunch 45m
      • 14:15
        Tools for Windows Users 15m
        Speaker: Guy Warner
      • 14:30
        The P-GRADE Portal and GEMLCA 10m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        transparencies
      • 14:40
        Next Steps 20m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        transparencies
      • 15:00
        Tea / Coffee 20m
      • 15:20
        NGS in the Future: emerging middleware 45m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        transparencies
      • 16:05
        Summary of the event / Final Discussion 25m
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