Grid Computing and the National Grid Service - Induction

27 Sept 2007, 09:30 → 28 Sept 2007, 17:00 Europe/Zurich

e-Science Institute, Edinburgh

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.

To register for this event, please go here

Please note that there will be a £40 charge to cover catering and related costs.

There may be minor modifications made to the agenda that follows.

Thursday, 27 September

09:30 → 17:00 Day 1

09:30 Registration

09:45 Introduction - Goals and Overview

Slides Day1_1_Introduction.pdf Day1_1_Introduction.ppt

10:00 What is Grid Computing

Slides WhatisGridComputing.pdf WhatisGridComputing.ppt

10:50 The National Grid Service

Slides The_National_GridService.pdf The_National_GridService.ppt

11:15 Coffee

11:30 Gaining Access

Slides GainingAccess.pdf GainingAccess.ppt

12:15 Creating and running jobs on the NGS using the Resource broker

Practical http://homepages.nesc.ac.uk/~gcw/NGS/NeSC_0907/RB.html

Slides 20070927_rb_ngs.pdf 20070927_rb_ngs.ppt

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Creating and running jobs on the NGS using the Resource broker continued

14:15 Using the Globus Command Line interface

Practical http://homepages.nesc.ac.uk/~gcw/NGS/NeSC_0907/GRAM.html

Slides Creating_And_Running_Applications.pdf Creating_And_Running_Applications.ppt

15:15 Coffee

15:30 Using the Globus Command Line interface (continued)

16:25 Monitoring and Accounting on the NGS

Slides Monitoring.pdf Monitoring.ppt

16:45 Summary of the day

Friday, 28 September

09:30 → 16:00 Day 2

09:30 Advanced use of Globus job submission: API's, concurrent processing and MPI

Practical http://homepages.nesc.ac.uk/~gcw/NGS/NeSC_0907/GRAM_2.html

Slides Computation_Services-APIs-and-Parallel-Jobs.pdf Computation_Services-APIs-and-Parallel-Jobs.ppt

10:45 Coffee

11:00 Overview of Data and Storage Services on the NGS

11:10 The Storage Resource Broker and Grid FTP

Practical http://homepages.nesc.ac.uk/~gcw/NGS/NeSC_0907/srb.html

12:05 OGSA-DAI

12:30 Lunch

13:30 The NGS Portal

14:45 Coffee

15:00 Alternate submssion systems

15:15 Next Steps

15:40 Summary and Discussion