Joint EGEE - SEEGRID Summer School on Application Support

25 Jun 2007, 08:00 → 30 Jun 2007, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

1/1-025 (CERN)

Dear Activity Managers and School Program Committee members, The "Joint EGEE - SEE-GRID Summer School on Grid Application Support" was organized between 25-30 June by MTA SZTAKI at Budapest. Here is the summary of the event: The school was attended by 22 people, 17 from European institutes/universities (6 Hungarian) and 5 (4 students, 1 professor) from the University of Seoul. Lectures and hands-on practicals were given by representatives of the EGEE, SEE-GRID and ICEAGE trainer and application communities. The detailed program of the event and teaching material from the school is available at www.egee.hu/grid07. The first 4 days were based on the content of "EGEE Induction" and "EGEE Application developer courses", containing some extra modules related to tools used in and developed by the SEE and CE federations. The 5th morning was dedicated to application success stories. The afternoon was for application porting, similarly to the last morning when we also had presentations about OMII, EGEE User support mechanisms and EGEE-III/EGI. During the application porting sessions the attendees could port their own applications onto EGEE. GILDA was used during both the training and application porting sessions, and it worked very well. There were three applications, all successfully ported during these sessions: 1. Time evolution of spherically symmetric nonlinear fields: originates from the Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest) The application was ported onto EGEE as a parametric study workflow in P-GRADE, that uses storage elements and file catalogs. 2. Simulation of pellet - plasma interaction: originates from the Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest. The application was ported onto EGEE as a parametric study job with P-GRADE that uses Storage files and file catalogs. 3. HYP3D code which is used in molecular physics (quantum mechanics theory) and originates from University of Rennes, CNRS. The application works with large data files and requires large memory on WNs. It consists of 3 jobs, and its first two jobs were ported to the grid during the school with command line tools and JDL. The work will be finished with the help of the NA4 application porting support group. (www.lpds.sztaki.hu/gasuc) (Report slides from these sessions are also available on the event webpage.) Participants enjoyed the gridification sessions the most, as they could work on real problems then. I recommend everyone to include such sessions in the program of similar events whenever possible. We used this form to collect potential applications from registered attendees: http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu/gasuc/download/SZTAKI-GASUC_application-description-template_v1.doc I will evaluate the feedback forms and will publish the usual event statistics on the EGEE NA3 page sometimes next week. Photos taken during the school will be available next week on the event webpage. There were a few technical questions that the tutors were not able to answer. I will send these questions directly to those activity managers that I think are competent and are able to answer them. Regards, Gergely