National Grid Service: Application Developer Training

21 Feb 2007, 09:15 → 23 Feb 2007, 16:00 Europe/Zurich

e-Science Institute, Edinburgh

This training course is to support developers of applications that are to be deployed on the NGS. It will explore a selection of services and tools that build on the core services that are provided by the NGS.

This event will be of interest to those who are asking questions such as:

• How can I deploy and invoke my application on the NGS?
• I am developing an application for a research commmunity to use. What tools and services can help me to do this?

Participants will already have some familiarity with grid concepts, Globus commands and use of certificates at the level presented in the NGS Induction course (http://agenda.cern.ch/fullAgenda.php?ida=a063451).

Please go to http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/720/booking.cfm to apply to attend this meeting.

Wednesday 21 February

09:15 → 10:30 Session 1: Application development and the NGS

09:15 Registration

09:30 Application development on Grids - overview

Slides 1-NGSappDev.ppt

10:15 The NGS

Slides The_National_Grid_Service.ppt

10:30 → 14:30 Session 2: The NGS Portal

Presented by David Meredith, CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory

10:30 Introduction to the NGS Portal

This talk is aimed at 'users' of the Grid and those who are interested in running their own codes on Grid resources (no distributed/enterprise programming experience required).

Slides NGSportal.pdf NGSportal.ppt

11:00 Coffee

11:20 Practical Session

practical http://clyde.dl.ac.uk/~djm76/nescAppDevTraining/index.html

12:45 Lunch

13:30 Portal Application Development

Introduces topics of relevance to those who might be deploying project specific portals:

1. Hosting environment (JSR 168 portlets in a portal compliant container - Pluto, uPortal, GridSphere etc)
2. Suitable MVC portal programming frameworks - JSF, Portlet API, Spring Web-flow
3. Grid Interfaces - Globus command line (and shelling out), Java CogKit, GridSam, WSRF etc.

Slides portalApplicationDevelopment.pdf portalApplicationDevelopment.ppt

14:30 → 17:00 Session 3: Condor and Condor-G

Presented by Guy Warner, NeSC-TOE

14:30 Concepts of Condor and Condor-G

Slides Concepts_of_Condor_and_Condor-G.pdf Concepts_of_Condor_and_Condor-G.ppt

15:00 Coffee

15:15 Condor Practical

practical http://homepages.nesc.ac.uk/~gcw/NGS/AppDev/Condor.html http://homepages.nesc.ac.uk/~gcw/NGS/AppDev/Condor.html

Thursday 22 February

09:30 → 12:45 Session 4: The GridSAM service

Presented by Dr Steve McGough and Dr Vesselin Novov from the London e-Science Centre, Imperial College London.

09:30 Introduction to JSDL

Slides Session_4_GridSAM.ppt.pdf Session_4_GridSAM.ppt.ppt

10:00 GridSAM

10:30 Practical Session

Practical http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~asm/GridSAM/GridSAM.html

11:00 Coffee

11:15 Practical Session continued

12:45 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 17:00 Session 5: The Application Hosting Environment

Presented by Stefan Zasada, Centre for Computational Science, Chemistry Department, University College London

13:30 What is AHE?

Slides 1_AHE_intro.pdf 1_AHE_intro.ppt

13:45 Practical: Launching Applications on the NGS using the AHE

Practical http://www.realitygrid.org/AHE/training/nesc/ex1/

14:45 Workflow in AHE

Slides 2_AHE_workflow.pdf 2_AHE_workflow.ppt

14:55 Coffee

15:15 Practical: Scripting the AHE Clients to Create Application Workflows

Practical http://www.realitygrid.org/AHE/training/nesc/ex2/

16:25 Overview of AHE server installation

Slides 3_4_5_AHE_Server_Install.pdf 3_4_5_AHE_Server_Install.ppt

16:40 Deploying a new Application

16:50 Next steps with AHE

Friday 23 February

09:30 → 12:45 Session 6: GEMLCA-P-GRADE: a workflow-oriented portal and application hosting environment

The P-GRADE Portal provides an intuitive and service rich graphical environment for the development, execution and monitoring of data-driven computational grid workflows. Its GEMLCA extension enables P-GRADE users to turn application components into secured Grid services and to share these services with other portal users making the creation of grid workflows even more convenient. Any GEMLCA - P-GRADE Portal can be configured to access multiple grids at the same time, thus workflow components can be distributed in multiple grids, as will be shown with the example of the UK NGS and EGEE GILDA.

Attendees of the tutorial will gain experience in GEMLCA/P-GRADE based workflow development, execution and monitoring using the UK NGS and EGEE GILDA grids.

Presented by Gergely Sipos on behalf of MTA SZTAKI and University of Westminster

09:30 Introduction to P-GRADE Portal and GEMLCA

Slides GEMLCA-PGRADE_Edinburgh.pdf GEMLCA-PGRADE_Edinburgh.ppt

10:30 Practical hands-on with the GEMLCA/P-GRADE Portal

document NGS-GILDA_hands-on_Edinburgh.doc NGS-GILDA_hands-on_Edinburgh.pdf

Slides Handson_intro_Edinburgh.pdf Handson_intro_Edinburgh.ppt

11:00 break

11:15 Practical hands-on with the GEMLCA/P-GRADE Portal cont.

12:30 Future steps and GEMLCA / P-GRADE roadmap

Slides Roadmap&future_steps_Edinburgh.pdf Roadmap&future_steps_Edinburgh.ppt

12:45 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Session 7: Data Services

13:30 Overview of Data services and the SRB

14:00 OGSA-DAI

Slides ogsadai_ngs.pdf

15:00 → 15:20 Coffee

15:20 → 16:00 Session 8

15:20 Some future developments of NGS services

15:45 Discussion and evaluation