Grid Computing and the National Grid Service - Induction

Europe/Zurich
e-Science Institute, Edinburgh

e-Science Institute, Edinburgh

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, please go here

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 27 September
    • Day 1
      • 1
        Registration
      • 2
        Introduction - Goals and Overview
        Slides
      • 3
        What is Grid Computing
        Slides
      • 4
        The National Grid Service
        Slides
      • 11:15
        Coffee
      • 5
        Gaining Access
        Slides
      • 6
        Creating and running jobs on the NGS using the Resource broker
        Practical
        Slides
      • 13:00
        Lunch
      • 7
        Creating and running jobs on the NGS using the Resource broker continued
      • 8
        Using the Globus Command Line interface
        Practical
        Slides
      • 15:15
        Coffee
      • 9
        Using the Globus Command Line interface (continued)
      • 10
        Monitoring and Accounting on the NGS
        Slides
      • 11
        Summary of the day
  • Friday 28 September
    • Day 2
      • 12
        Advanced use of Globus job submission: API's, concurrent processing and MPI
        Practical
        Slides
      • 10:45
        Coffee
      • 13
        Overview of Data and Storage Services on the NGS
      • 14
        The Storage Resource Broker and Grid FTP
        Practical
      • 15
        OGSA-DAI
      • 12:30
        Lunch
      • 16
        The NGS Portal
      • 14:45
        Coffee
      • 17
        Alternate submssion systems
      • 18
        Next Steps
      • 19
        Summary and Discussion