gLite Application Developers' Course

Europe/Zurich
Lascelles Williams Room (Manchester Computing)

Lascelles Williams Room

Manchester Computing

Kilburn Building Oxford Road Manchester
Description
This event will interest those who are seeking to develop applications using the gLite middleware.

This timetable is provisional. Details of presenters will be finalised shortly.

The focus is primarily on different techniques for creating, submitting and orchestrating jobs:

  • scripting
  • the Ganga tool
  • use of APIs
  • P-GRADE and GEMLCA

Brief sessions also give experience of metadata management in gLite and of application monitoring.

Participants will have some basic knowledge of gLite, such as the EGEE Induction course gives. They will for example be familiar with the command line interface for job submission, with voms-proxy-init, with editing UNIX commands and text files.


Registration

The registration page is here.


Location

The event will be held in: Lascelles Williams Room, Location: Manchester Computing, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road

A campus map can be found here. Kilburn is building number 39, in the centre of the map. (This building can be seen from the main road - "Manchester Computing")

See also general information here.

There is no charge for this event. Lunch will be at participants' expense - we will go out to local cafes.

Desktop machines willbe used for the tutorial.

    • 09:30 17:00
      Day 1
    • 09:30 09:40
      Overview of the day 10m
      Speaker: Guy Warner
      Slides
    • 09:40 10:30
      Application Development on Grids 50m
      Speaker: Gergely Sipos
      Slides
    • 10:30 10:50
      Using GILDA 20m
      Speaker: Guy Warner
      Slides
    • 10:50 11:10
      Coffee 20m
    • 11:10 12:20
      WMS tricks and tips - using scripts (introduction & practical) 1h 10m
      Speaker: Guy Warner
      Practical
      Slides
    • 12:20 12:40
      AMGA metadata catalog 20m
      Speaker: Guy Warner
      Slides
    • 12:40 13:00
      AMGA metadata catalog (practical) 20m
      Speaker: Guy Warner
      Practical 1
      Practical 2
    • 13:00 14:00
      Lunch 1h
    • 14:00 15:15
      Ganga 1h 15m
      Speaker: Hurng-Chun Lee
      practical
      Slides
    • 15:15 15:30
      Coffee 15m
    • 15:30 17:00
      Ganga - continued 1h 30m
    • 09:30 16:30
      Day 2
    • 09:30 10:10
      R-GMA for monitoring applications 40m
      Speaker: Mike Mineter
      practical
      Slides
    • 10:10 10:50
      gLite APIs (talk + practical) 40m
      Speaker: Mike Mineter
      CLI summary
      Practical
      RGMA APIS
    • 10:50 11:10
      Coffee 20m
    • 11:10 12:00
      gLite APIs - continued 50m
      see also here
    • 12:00 13:00
      Introduction to P-GRADE 1h
      The P-GRADE Portal provides an intuitive and service rich graphical environment for the development, execution and monitoring of data-driven computational grid workflows and parameter studies. Services and interfaces of P-GRADE, as extensions of the gLite middleware are used on several production VOs of the EGEE Grid for application prototyping and execution.
      Speaker: Gergely Sipos
      Slides
    • 13:00 14:00
      Lunch 1h
    • 14:00 15:15
      P-GRADE and GEMLCA Practical 1h 15m
      Attendees will use P-GRADE Portal to develop and execute workflow applications on GILDA.
      Introduction
      Practical
    • 15:15 15:30
      Next steps with P-GRADE 15m
      Slides
    • 15:30 15:45
      Coffee 15m
    • 15:45 16:05
      A glance to the future 20m
      Some European initiatives supporting middleware and application development: OMII-Europe, ETICS
      Speaker: Dr Mike Mineter
      Slides
    • 16:05 16:30
      Discussion and Evaluation 25m
      Speaker: Mike Mineter