Induction to Grid Computing and the National Grid Service

Europe/Zurich
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

    • 09:30 17:00
      Day 1
      • 09:30
        Registration 15m
      • 09:45
        Introduction - Goals and Overview 15m
        Speaker: Dr Mike Mineter (TOE-NESC)
        Slides
      • 10:00
        What is Grid Computing 50m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        Slides
      • 10:50
        The National Grid Service 25m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        Slides
      • 11:15
        Coffee 15m
      • 11:30
        Gaining Access 45m
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        Slides
      • 12:15
        Creating and running jobs on the NGS using the Resource broker 45m
        Speaker: Matthew Viljoen
        Practical
        Slides
      • 13:00
        Lunch 1h
      • 14:00
        Creating and running jobs on the NGS using the Resource broker continued 15m
      • 14:15
        Using the Globus Command Line interface 1h
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        Practical
        Practical Files
        Slides
      • 15:15
        Coffee 15m
      • 15:30
        Using the Globus Command Line interface (continued) 55m
      • 16:25
        Monitoring the NGS 20m
        Speaker: Guy Warner
      • 16:45
        Summary of the day 15m
    • 09:30 17:00
      Day 2
      • 09:30
        Overview of Data and Storage Services on the NGS 20m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        Slides
      • 09:50
        The Storage Resource Broker and Grid FTP 55m
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        Practical
        Slides
      • 10:45
        Coffee 15m
      • 11:00
        The NGS Portal 2h
        Speaker: David Meredith
        Practical
        Slides
      • 13:00
        Lunch 1h
      • 14:00
        The NGS Portal (continued) 1h 15m
      • 15:15
        Coffee 15m
      • 15:30
        The NGS Portal (continued) 45m
      • 16:15
        Next Steps 25m
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        Slides
      • 16:40
        Summary and Discussion 20m