Grid Computing and the National Grid Service - Introduction

Europe/Zurich
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
    • 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
        Slides
      • 10:50
        The National Grid Service 25m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        Slides
      • 11:15
        Tea / Coffee 15m
      • 11:30
        Gaining Access 1h
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        more information
        Slides
      • 12:30
        Creating and Running an Appplication on the NGS 30m
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        more information
        Slides
      • 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
        Slides
      • 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, 21 November
    • 09:30 16:30
      Day 2
      • 09:30
        Web services and Grid Computing 50m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
      • 10:20
        Data Services on the NGS: Overview 10m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        Slides
      • 10:30
        The Storage Resource Broker and GridFTP 40m
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        Slides
      • 11:10
        Tea / Coffee 15m
      • 11:25
        OGSA-DAI 1h 20m
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        Slides
      • 12:45
        Monitoring 15m
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        Slides
      • 13:00
        Lunch 45m
      • 13:45
        Tools for Windows Users 15m
        Speaker: Guy Warner
      • 14:00
        The P-GRADE Portal and GEMLCA 10m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        Slides
      • 14:10
        Next Steps 20m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        Slides
      • 14:30
        NGS in the Future: emerging middleware 30m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        Slides
      • 15:00
        Tea / Coffee 20m
      • 15:20
        University of Reading talks 1h
      • 15:35
        Summary of the event / Final Discussion 25m