Cancelled - Grid Computing and the National Grid Service - Induction

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e-Science Institute, Edinburgh

e-Science Institute, Edinburgh

Description

We regret that this event has been cancelled: the next run of this course is: here, in September.

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.

Please note that there will be a £40 charge to cover catering and related costs.

There may be minor modifications made to the agenda that follows.

  • Thursday 26 July
    • 09:30 → 17:00
      Day 1
      • 09:30
        Registration 15m
      • 09:45
        Introduction - Goals and Overview 15m
        Slides
      • 10:00
        What is Grid Computing 50m
        Slides
      • 10:50
        The National Grid Service 25m
        Slides
      • 11:15
        Coffee 15m
      • 11:30
        Gaining Access 45m
        Slides
      • 12:15
        Creating and running jobs on the NGS using the Resource broker 45m
        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
        Practical
        Practical Files
        Slides
      • 15:15
        Coffee 15m
      • 15:30
        Using the Globus Command Line interface (continued) 55m
      • 16:25
        Monitoring the NGS 20m
      • 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
        Slides
      • 09:50
        The Storage Resource Broker and Grid FTP 55m
        Practical
        Slides
      • 10:45
        Coffee 15m
      • 11:00
        The NGS Portal 2h
        Practical
      • 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
        Slides
      • 16:40
        Summary and Discussion 20m