Training the Trainers - in conjunction with ISGC 2007

19 Mar 2007, 08:30 → 23 Mar 2007, 17:30 Europe/Zurich

1/1-025 (CERN)

This event is to support those intending to give training courses during EGEE-II. Participants might be members of the NA3 activity, or other EGEE activities, or might be members of partner projects or application comunities associated with EGEE.

The event comprises a 2 day long EGEE induction course, a 2 day long EGEE Application Developer course and a 1 day long EGEE Training the trainer course. The goal is to allow trainers from the Asia Pacific region to give such courses in the future.

Speakers:
Mike Mineter - NeSC (mjm at nesc.ac.uk)
Gergely Sipos - SZTAKI (sipos at sztaki.hu)
Giuseppe La Rocca - INFN (giuseppe.larocca at ct.infn.it)
Hurng-Chun Lee - CERN (Hurng-Chun.Lee at cern.ch)

Local organizers:
http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2007/conf_contact.htm

Prerequisites:
Participants should have Linux user background and must bring their own laptops with an ssh client (e.g. PuTTY), a graphical browser (e.g. IE7) and a Java plug-in (1.5.x JRE) installed.

Monday, 19 March

08:30 → 17:30 EGEE Induction course - Day1

08:30 Registration

09:00 Introductions and overview of the course

Slides Overview.ppt

09:10 Training in EGEE-II and structuring EGEE courses

The objectives and structure of NA3, the training activity in EGEE-II, are described and EGEE course structuring is discussed.

Slides 1a-NA3-Introduction.ppt 1b-structuring.ppt

10:10 Introductions to Grid Computing and the EGEE project

EGEE Intro http://egee.lib.ed.ac.uk:8080/resolve/resolver.jsp?rfr_id=info:sid/nesc.ac.uk:library&rft_title=An%20Introduction%20to%20the%20EGEE%20Project&rft_dat=lib:5996&svc_dat=details

grid Intro http://egee.lib.ed.ac.uk:8080/resolve/resolver.jsp?rfr_id=info:sid/nesc.ac.uk:library&rft_title=What%20is%20Grid%20Computing?&rft_dat=lib:5994&svc_dat=details

Slides 2a-induction.ppt

11:10 break

11:30 Authorisation and Authentication

Slides Authentication,_Authorisation_and_Security.ppt

12:00 Discussion

12:30 lunch break

14:00 Getting started with GILDA

Slides Getting_started_with_GILDA.ppt

14:30 Using a VOMS certificate (practical)

Practical https://grid.ct.infn.it/twiki/bin/view/GILDA/AuthenticationAuthorization

14:50 Workload Management System (talk + practical)

Practical https://grid.ct.infn.it/twiki/bin/view/GILDA/SimpleJobSubmissionWithRB

Slides job_sub.ppt

15:30 break

15:50 continued

16:05 Information system (talk + practical)

PRACTICAL http://homepages.nesc.ac.uk/%7Emjm/NA3ETF/Usage%20of%20lcg-infosites%20and%20lcg-info.htm

Slides gLite3_information_system.ppt

16:50 Discussion

Tuesday, 20 March

09:00 → 18:30 EGEE Induction course - Day2

09:00 Overview of the day

Command summary Summary_commands.doc Summary_commands.pdf

09:10 Porting an application to the EGEE Grid (talk + practical)

Slides+practicals Porting_applications_to_the_GILDA_grid_v09.pdf Porting_applications_to_the_GILDA_grid_v09.ppt

10:10 Data management in gLite

Slides Data_management_in_gLite.pdf Data_management_in_gLite.ppt

10:30 Data management (practical)

Practical http://homepages.nesc.ac.uk/~mjm/EGEE/File_Management_v3.htm

11:10 break

11:30 Operating the EGEE Grid

To introduce the different groups that operate the EGEE infrastructure

Slides operations_IGB-EGEE06-Plenary-270906.pdf operations_IGB-EGEE06-Plenary-270906.ppt

12:05 Discussion

12:30 lunch break

14:00 Building Blocks - More realistic examples (practical)

Practicals http://wiki.nesc.ac.uk/read/egee-na3-etf?BuildingBlocks

Slides BBlocks.pdf BBlocks.ppt

15:00 Applications running on EGEE Grids

Slides http://egee.lib.ed.ac.uk:8080/resolve/resolver.jsp?rfr_id=info:sid/nesc.ac.uk:library&rft_title=Characteristics%20of%20Grid%20Applications&rft_dat=lib:4683&svc_dat=details

15:30 break

15:50 More advanced workload management (talk + practical)

16:50 Discussion

Wednesday, 21 March

08:00 → 17:30 EGEE Application Developer course - Day1

09:00 Overview of the day

09:10 Application Development on grids

Slides appDevOnGrids.pdf appDevOnGrids.ppt

09:50 AMGA metadata catalog

10:10 AMGA metadata catalog (practical)

Practicals http://wiki.nesc.ac.uk/read/egee-na3-etf?InductionNotesAMGA

Slides gLite3_AMGA_mar07.pdf gLite3_AMGA_mar07.ppt

10:30 R-GMA for monitoring applications

practical http://homepages.nesc.ac.uk/~mjm/NA3ETF/RGMA%20Practical.htm

Slides gLite3_RGMA.pdf gLite3_RGMA.ppt

11:10 break

11:30 Discussion

12:00 "Building blocks" of reusable code: gLite APIs (practical)

Slides WMProxy_Java_API_&_SEE-GRID_File_Management_Java_API.pdf WMProxy_Java_API_&_SEE-GRID_File_Management_Java_API.ppt

12:30 lunch break

14:00 continued

15:00 WMS tricks and tips – further scripting (introduction + practical)

Slides WMS_Tricks_and_tips_-_further_scripting.pdf WMS_Tricks_and_tips_-_further_scripting.ppt

15:30 break

15:50 continued

17:00 Discussion

Thursday, 22 March

09:00 → 04:40 EGEE Application Developer course - Day2

09:00 Overview of the day

09:10 GANGA (talk + practical)

Practicals https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/ArdaGrid/EGEETutorialPackage

Slides Ganga_EGEE_Tutorial_ISGC2007.pdf Ganga_EGEE_Tutorial_ISGC2007.ppt

11:10 break

11:30 Discussion

12:30 lunch break

14:00 P-GRADE Portal and GEMLCA

Slides P-GRADE_Portal_GEMLCA_Taipei07.pdf P-GRADE_Portal_GEMLCA_Taipei07.ppt

14:40 P-GRADE Portal and GEMLCA (practical)

Practical P-GRADE_Portal_GEMLCA_hands-on_Taipei07.doc P-GRADE_Portal_GEMLCA_hands-on_Taipei07.pdf

Slides P-GRADE_Portal_GEMLCA_hands-on_Taipei07.pdf P-GRADE_Portal_GEMLCA_hands-on_Taipei07.ppt

15:30 break

15:50 P-GRADE Portal and GEMLCA (practical)

16:50 How to use P-GRADE / GEMLCA for training and dissemination

Slides P-GRADE_Portal_GEMLCA_training_Taipei07.pdf P-GRADE_Portal_GEMLCA_training_Taipei07.ppt

17:00 Discussion

Friday, 23 March

09:00 → 17:30 Training the trainers day

09:00 Introduction and overview of the day

09:15 Discussion

What questions need to be included today?

10:00 NA3 procedures

checklist event_checklist.doc event_checklist.pdf

local organiser checklist local_organisers_checklist.doc local_organisers_checklist.pdf

Slides NA3-Procedures.pdf NA3-Procedures.ppt

11:10 break

11:30 Discussion

12:00 What is required of a trainer?

Slides Required-of-a-Trainer.pdf Required-of-a-Trainer.ppt

12:30 lunch break

14:00 Sources of Information for Trainers

The NA3 ETF, EGEE DIgital Library, GILDA site, gLite documentation.

Slides DigitalLibrary_and_other_sources.pdf DigitalLibrary_and_other_sources.ppt

14:30 t-Infrastructure

Slides GILDA_T-Infrastructure_Taipei.pdf GILDA_T-Infrastructure_Taipei.ppt

15:30 break

15:50 Evaluation Forms and Close of Course