An Introduction to Grid Computing and the National Grid Service

Monday 10 Sept 2007, 10:00 → 15:30 Europe/Zurich

De Montfort University

This event is an orientation for researchers and others who wish to understand the concepts and current status of Grid Computing. The goal of the day is to help participants to answer the question:
"Does Grid Computing open new horizons for my research, my School, and my University?"

The morning's talk seeks to answer the following questions:

• What are e-Science and e-Research?
• What are Grids?
• Why the excitement, investment and hype?
• What are the most important developments in Grid computing?

The afternoon gives a practical introduction to some aspects of the UK's National Grid Service. If you wish to attend the practical then please register no later than the 31st August, via this link .

The day is given by Mike Mineter and Guy Warner from the Training Outreach and Education team of the National e-Science Centre.

The event is hosted by De Montfort University, in Gateway House, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH. Guidance to find this is at: http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/STRL/about/directions/index.html

10:00 → 11:30 Grid Computing and the National Grid Service

Grid computing empowers collaborations across different institutions by enabling them to share resources of data and computation. Current developments using grid computing are in an ever-widening range of research, engineering, and public service.

The National Grid Service (NGS) is the core UK grid service, for UK academic and scientific communities. Projects involving large data volumes, high computation requirements or geographically widespread collaboration may benefit from using the NGS.

The talk introduces Grids and the NGS, and concludes with a brief overview of international developments: the EGEE (Enabling Grids for e-Science) infrastructure spanning many countries, DEISA linking high-performance computers, and the OMII-Europe project which is building links between the current diverse grids.

This morning session is open to everyone - registration is only required for the afternoon.

talk1 GridConcepts.pdf GridConcepts.ppt

talk2 productionGrids.pdf productionGrids.ppt

13:00 → 15:30 Hands-on Workshop: Submitting a job to the National Grid Service

This workshop will show two of the most important ways of executing jobs using the National Grid Service:

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