lecture Induction to Grid Computing and the NGS
Date/Time: from Tuesday, 4 April 2006 (09:00) to Wednesday, 5 April 2006 (16:00) (Europe/Zurich)
Location: St. John\'s, Brunel University, UK
Chairperson: Guy Warner
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 and the Grid Operations Support Centre (http://www.grid-support.ac.uk/).
  • Sufficient practical experience to allow initial use of the National Grid Service in future.
Tuesday, 4 April 2006 09:00 ->17:00 Day 1 ()    
Wednesday, 5 April 2006 09:00 ->16:00 Day 2 ()    

 
 Tuesday, 4 April 2006
Day 1 (09:00 ->17:00 )
Chairperson:
 09:00
Registration (15')    
 09:15
Welcome (5')   Navonil Mustafee  
 09:20
A Personal View of Computing: What Have Computers Ever Done For Us? (25')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file   Prof. Ray Paul  
 09:45
Introduction - Goals and Overview of both days (15')   more information pdf file   transparencies powerpoint file   Guy Warner  
 10:00
What is Grid Computing? (50')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file   Mike Mineter  
 10:50
The National Grid Service (25')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file   Guy Warner  
11:15  Tea / Coffee (15')
 11:30
Gaining Access (1h0')   more information link pdf file   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file   Mike Mineter  
 12:30
Creating and Running an Appplication on the NGS (30')   more information link pdf file   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file   Guy Warner  
13:00  Lunch (1h0')
 14:00
Creating and Running an Appplication on the NGS continued (1h10')    
 15:10
NGS Computation Services: API's and Parallel Jobs (30')   more information link pdf file   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file   Mike Mineter  
15:40  Tea / Coffee (15')
 15:55
NGS Computation Services: API's and Parallel Jobs continued (55')    
 16:50
Summary of Day 1 (10')   Guy Warner  


 
 Wednesday, 5 April 2006
Day 2 (09:00 ->16:00 )
Chairperson:
 09:00 ( St. John\'s, Brunel University, UK )
Web Services in Grid Computing (50')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file   Mike Mineter  
 09:50 ( St. John\'s, Brunel University, UK )
Data Services on the NGS: Overview (10')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file   Mike Mineter  
 10:00 ( St. John\'s, Brunel University, UK )
The Storage Resource Broker (20')   more information link pdf file   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file   Mike Mineter  
 10:20
GridFTP (20')   more information pdf file   transparencies powerpoint file   Guy Warner  
10:40  Tea / Coffee (20')
 11:00 ( St. John\'s, Brunel University, UK )
OGSA-DAI (1h15')   more information link pdf file   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file   Guy Warner  
 12:15
Monitoring (15')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file   Guy Warner  
12:30  Lunch (45')
 13:15 ( St. John\'s, Brunel University, UK )
The NGS Portal (30')   more information link pdf file   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file   Guy Warner  
 13:45
Tools for Windows Users (15')   Guy Warner  
 14:00 ( )
The P-GRADE Portal and GEMLCA (10')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file    
 14:10 ( )
Next Steps (20')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file   Mike Mineter  
14:30  Tea / Coffee (20')
 14:50
NGS in the Future: emerging middleware (45')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file   Mike Mineter  
 15:35
Summary of the event / Final Discussion (25')   Guy Warner