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Induction to Grid Computing and the National Grid Service
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Brunel University, London
Brunel University, London
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 (http://www.ngs.ac.uk/).
- Sufficient practical experience to allow initial use of the National Grid Service in future.
To register for this event go to http://www.nesc.ac.uk/action/registration/egee/index.cfm?id=781
There may be minor modifications made to the agenda that follows.
The event will be held in the St John's building on the Brunel Uxbridge campus. A map of the campus can be found at http://brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/siscm/disc/about and information on getting to the campus can be found http://brunel.ac.uk/about/where/ux