Grid Computing and the National Grid Service - Induction

from Thursday 27 September 2007 (09:30) to Friday 28 September 2007 (17:00)
e-Science Institute, Edinburgh

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
27 Sept 2007
28 Sept 2007
AM
09:30
Day 1 (until 17:00)
09:30 Registration  
09:45 Introduction - Goals and Overview  
Slides
10:00 What is Grid Computing  
Slides
10:50 The National Grid Service  
Slides
11:15 --- Coffee ---
11:30 Gaining Access  
Slides
12:15 Creating and running jobs on the NGS using the Resource broker  
Practical
Slides
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Creating and running jobs on the NGS using the Resource broker continued  
14:15 Using the Globus Command Line interface  
Practical
Slides
15:15 --- Coffee ---
15:30 Using the Globus Command Line interface (continued)  
16:25 Monitoring and Accounting on the NGS  
Slides
16:45 Summary of the day  
09:30
Day 2 (until 16:00)
09:30 Advanced use of Globus job submission: API's, concurrent processing and MPI  
Practical
Slides
10:45 --- Coffee ---
11:00 Overview of Data and Storage Services on the NGS  
11:10 The Storage Resource Broker and Grid FTP  
Practical
12:05 OGSA-DAI  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30 The NGS Portal  
14:45 --- Coffee ---
15:00 Alternate submssion systems  
15:15 Next Steps  
15:40 Summary and Discussion  
PM