Induction to Grid Computing and the North West Grid

25 Jan 2007, 09:15 → 26 Jan 2007, 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Daresbury Laboratory

John Kewley

The event is being run as a collaboration between the NeSC Training Team and the JISC/ ESRC-funded ReDReSS project. Details of the event are here, and registration here.

The following is a preliminary agenda.

Thursday, 25 January

Day 1

1 Welcome and Introduction

Speakers: John Kewley (DL), Rob Allan (DL)

Slides

• NW-GRID_Intro.pdf
• NW-GRID_Intro.ppt
• nw-grid_train_overview.pdf
• nw-grid_train_overview.ppt

2 What is Grid Computing?

Speaker: Richard Hopkins (NeSC)

Slides 1-02-What-is-Grid-Computing.pdf 1-02-What-is-Grid-Computing.ppt

3 The National Grid Service

Speaker: Guy Warner (NeSC)

Slides The_National_GridService.pdf The_National_GridService.ppt

4 The North West Grid

Speaker: Robert Allan (DL)

Slides nw-grid_train_intro.pdf nw-grid_train_intro.ppt

5 Demonstration: CCP1 GUI

Speaker: Jens Thomas (DL)

Slides NWGrid_CCP1GUI.pdf NWGrid_CCP1GUI.ppt

11:00 Tea / Coffee

6 Grid Security

Speaker: Guy Warner (NeSC)

Slides Grid-Security.pdf Grid-Security.ppt

7 Gaining Access to NW-GRID

Speaker: John Kewley (DL)

Slides http://www.growl.org.uk/presentations/NW-GRID_Access.ppt

8 Creating and Running an Application on NW-GRID

Speakers: Guy Guy Warner (NeSC), Richard Hopkins (NeSC)

Files http://homepages.nesc.ac.uk/~gcw/NWGrid/gram_srb_practical_files.tgz

Slides

• 1-08-Creating_And_Running_Applications.pdf
• 1-08-Creating_And_Running_Applications.ppt
• Connecting_to_training-ui.pdf
• Connecting_to_training-ui.ppt

text http://homepages.nesc.ac.uk/~gcw/NWGrid/GRAM.html

13:00 Lunch

9 ... continued

10 NW-GRID Computation Services: API's and Parallel Jobs

Speakers: Guy Warner (NeSC), Richard Hopkins (NeSC)

Files http://homepages.nesc.ac.uk/~gcw/NWGrid/gram_srb_practical_files.tgz

Slides 1-10-Computation_Services-APIs-and-Parallel-Jobs.pdf 1-10-Computation_Services-APIs-and-Parallel-Jobs.ppt

text http://homepages.nesc.ac.uk/~gcw/NWGrid/GRAM_2.html

15:30 Tea / Coffee and opportunity to ascend Daresbury Tower

11 ... continued

12 Summary of Day 1

Friday, 26 January

Day 2

13 Data Services on the NW-GRID

Speaker: Richard Hopkins (NeSC)

Slides 2-01-DataServices.pdf 2-01-DataServices.ppt

14 SRB and Grid FTP

Speaker: Guy Warner (NeSC)

Files http://homepages.nesc.ac.uk/~gcw/NWGrid/gram_srb_practical_files.tgz

text http://homepages.nesc.ac.uk/~gcw/NWGrid/srb.html

15 Panasas

Speaker: Tim Franks (DL)

16 NGS Portal

Speaker: Dave Meredith (DL)

Slides NGSportal.pdf NGSportal.ppt

11:00 Tea / Coffee

17 Growl and Web Services

Speaker: John Kewley (DL)

Slides http://www.growl.org.uk/presentations/NW-GRID_GROWL.ppt

18 eMinerals grid client environment

Speaker: Rik Tyer (DL)

Slides eMinerals_NWGRID.pdf

12:30 Lunch

19 SCore MPI

Speaker: Cliff Addison (Uni. of Liverpool)

Slides NWGrid_SCore_MPI.pdf NWGrid_SCore_MPI.ppt

20 Next Steps

Speaker: Robert Allan (DL)

Slides nw-grid_train_next.pdf nw-grid_train_next.ppt

14:30 Tea / Coffee

21 NW-GRID - Future Developments

Speaker: Robert Allan (DL)

Slides nw-grid_train_future.pdf nw-grid_train_future.ppt

22 Wider Context and NGS future Developments

Speaker: Richard Hopkins (NeSC)

Slides 2-10-WiderContext.pdf 2-10-WiderContext.ppt

23 Closing discussion