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lecture PPARC UK e-Science Postgraduate School
Date/Time: from Monday, 9 May 2005 (09:00) to Friday, 13 May 2005 (17:00) (Europe/Zurich)
Location: e-Science Institute, NeSC, Edinburgh
Chairperson: Mineter, M.J.
Description: 
Purpose of the School

To provide for the students:

    * an opportunity to network with other e-Science students and form a community
    * appropriate training in relevant software
    * an update in production grid initiatives and emerging standards
    * an opportunity to discuss their own work with their peers.

Target audience

UK postgraduate students pursuing a PhD in a relevant discipline and who commenced their PhD studies in October 2003 or earlier. 

The Summer School announcement is at: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/544/
Monday, 9 May 2005 09:00 ->17:00 Day 1: Concepts and production grids    
Tuesday, 10 May 2005 09:00 ->17:00 Day 2: Workshop    
Wednesday, 11 May 2005 09:00 ->13:30 Day 3: Workshop continuation    
Wednesday, 11 May 2005 13:30 ->17:30 Day 3: Visiting Speakers    
Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:30 ->20:15 Evening reception and lecture by Professor Higgs    
Thursday, 12 May 2005 09:00 ->17:00 Day 4: Web Services    
Friday, 13 May 2005 09:00 ->16:00 Day 5:    

 
 Monday, 9 May 2005
Day 1: Concepts and production grids (09:00 ->17:00 ) 
A review of grid concepts and of major initiatives to establish grid infrastructures.

In the UK the National Grid Service (NGS) and internationally the EGEE project, Enabling Grids for e-Science are establishing interoperable sustainable production quality grids to enable e-Research. 

Draft agenda:
Chairperson:
 09:00
Introductions (30')    
 09:30
Introducing Grid Computing (30')   transparencies powerpoint file   Mike Mineter  
 10:00
EGEE: enabling grids for e-science (15')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file    
 10:15
The National Grid Service (15')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file    
10:30  Coffee (30')
 11:00
Practical: gaining access to the NGS (1h0')   document pdf file   transparencies powerpoint file   Guy Warner  
 12:00
Practical: job submission to the NGS (30')   document pdf file   transparencies powerpoint file    
12:30  Lunch (1h0')
 13:30
Practical continues (1h30')   document pdf filedown arrow    
15:00  Coffee (30')
 15:30
Grid middleware: from toolkits to production grids (20')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file    
 16:00
Practical: Using a portal onto GILDA, an EGEE demo grid (50')   document pdf file    
 16:50
End of day review (10')    


 
 Tuesday, 10 May 2005
Day 2: Workshop (09:00 ->17:00 ) 
The students will each make a 20 minute PowerPoint presentation.  Their remit is:
- a brief outline of your project (3 slides)
- your own role in the project (1 slide)
- the main part of the talk will describe your use (present or intended) of grids.  
If you have developed software for grid middelware or grid applications then include:
	- an outline of the requirements and design
	- what have you done that might be useful to others?
- what are the major challenges that remain.

Each student is allocated 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion.

Following these talks there will be a session in which participants will work in small groups, defined to allow further exploration of the issues raised that are of shared interest.
Chairperson:
 09:00
Ahmed Abdelrahim (30')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file    
 09:30
O'Neil Delpratt (30')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file    
 10:00
John Hawkins (30')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file    
10:30  Coffee (30')
 11:00
Shiv Kaushal (30')   transparencies powerpoint file    
 11:30
Peter Moore (30')   transparencies unknown type file    
 12:00
Stuart Paterson (30')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file    
12:30  Lunch (1h0')
 13:30
Craig Robinson (30')   transparencies pdf file    
 14:00
Nicholas Ross (30')    
 14:30
Eric Saunders (30')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file    
15:00  Coffee (30')
 15:30
Andrew Smith (30')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file    
 16:00
Formation of small groups for follow-on (1h0')    


 
 Wednesday, 11 May 2005
Day 3: Workshop continuation (09:00 ->13:30 ) 
A continuation of the workshop from Day 2, working in small groups.
Chairperson:
 09:00
Small groups (1h30')    
10:30  Coffee (30')
 11:00
Small groups (1h30')    
12:30  Lunch (1h0')

Day 3: Visiting Speakers (13:30 ->17:30 ) 
Talks from practioners in the area of Grid & e-Science.
Chairperson:
 13:30
A Portal to Reality Grid (45')   transparencies powerpoint file   video unknown type file   Dr George Beckett (EPCC)  
 14:15
QCDGrid (45')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file   Dr Chris Maynard (Institute for Physics, Edinburgh)  
15:00  Coffee (30')
 15:30
OGSA-DAI (30')   Mr Neil Chue Hong (EPCC)  
 16:00
AstroGrid (45')   Dr John Taylor (Institute for Astronomy, Edinburgh)  
 16:45
GridPP (45')   Dr Steve Thorn (NeSC, Edinburgh)  

Evening reception and lecture by Professor Higgs (17:30 ->20:15 )
Chairperson:


 
 Thursday, 12 May 2005
Day 4: Web Services (09:00 ->17:00 )
Chairperson:
 09:00
Introduction to Web Services (45')   more information pdf file   transparencies powerpoint file   Richard Hopkins  
 09:45
XML and Schemas (45')   more information pdf file   transparencies powerpoint file    
10:30  Coffee (30')
 11:00
WSDL & SOAP (45')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file    
 11:45
WS Tools (45')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file    
12:30  Lunch (1h0')
 13:30
WS Tutorial (1h30')   document word file pdf file    
15:00  Coffee (30')
 15:30
Tutorial continued (40')    
 16:10
Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) (30')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file    
 16:40
Review of day (20')    


 
 Friday, 13 May 2005
Day 5: (09:00 ->16:00 )
Chairperson:
 09:00
Emerging middleware (1h0')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file    
 10:00
GRID and Commercialisation (30')   Dr Mark Parsons (EPCC, National e-Science Centre)  
10:30  Coffee (30')
 11:10
An introduction to UKLight and ESLEA (30')   Dr Clive Davenhall (NeSC)   
UKLight is a national facility to support projects working on developments towards optical networks and the applications that will use them. 
http://www.uklight.ac.uk/
ESLEA: Exploitation of Switched Lightpaths for eScience Applications
 11:40
How to get performance on networks (30')   transparencies pdf filedown arrow   Dr Clive Davenhall (NeSC)  
12:30  Lunch (1h0')
 13:30
Small group final meetings (1h0')   transparencies powerpoint filedown arrow pdf filedown arrow     
On Tuesday small groups were formed; these began work on Wednesday and conclude their efforts by reporting back.
 14:45
Review of the summer school (30')    
15:15  CLOSE (20')