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Induction to Grid Computing and the National Grid Service

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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
    • 09:15 → 17:00
      Day 1
      • 09:30
        Registration 15m
      • 09:45
        Introduction - Goals and Overview of both days 15m
        Speaker: Guy Warner (Unknown)
      • 10:00
        What is Grid Computing? 50m
        Speaker: Dr Richard Hopkins
        Slides
      • 10:50
        The National Grid Service 25m
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        Slides
      • 11:15
        Tea / Coffee 15m
      • 11:30
        Gaining Access 1h
        Speaker: Guy Warner (Unknown)
        practical
        practical
        Slides
      • 12:30
        Creating and Running an Application on the NGS 30m
        Speaker: Richard Hopkins
        practical
        practical files
        Slides
      • 13:00
        Lunch 1h
      • 13:45
        Creating and Running an Appplication on the NGS continued 1h 10m
      • 14:55
        NGS Computation Services: API's and Parallel Jobs 30m
        Speaker: Richard Hopkins
        practical
        Slides
      • 15:25
        Tea / Coffee 15m
      • 15:40
        NGS Computation Services: API's and Parallel Jobs continued 55m
      • 16:35
        Summary of Day 1 10m
        Speaker: Guy Warner
  • Friday, 10 November
    • 09:30 → 16:30
      Day 2
      • 09:30
        Web services and Grid Computing 50m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        Slides
      • 10:20
        Data Services on the NGS: Overview 10m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        Slides
      • 10:30
        The Storage Resource Broker 40m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        practical
        Slides
      • 11:10
        Tea / Coffee 15m
      • 11:25
        OGSA-DAI 1h 20m
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        practical
        practical files
        Slides
      • 12:45
        Monitoring 15m
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        Slides
      • 13:00
        Lunch 45m
      • 13:45
        GridFTP 30m
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        Slides
      • 14:15
        Tools for Windows Users 15m
        Speaker: Guy Warner
      • 14:30
        The P-GRADE Portal and GEMLCA 10m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        Slides
      • 14:40
        Next Steps 20m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        Slides
      • 15:00
        Tea / Coffee 20m
      • 15:20
        NGS in the Future: emerging middleware 45m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        Slides
      • 16:05
        Summary of the event / Final Discussion 25m
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