e-Science and "The Grid" for Bio/Health Informaticians

from Monday 14 January 2008 (10:30) to Friday 18 January 2008 (16:00)
University of Manchester (IT 407)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
14 Jan 2008
15 Jan 2008
16 Jan 2008
17 Jan 2008
18 Jan 2008
AM
10:30 Welcome and introduction  
11:00 Introduction to e-science concepts  
Slides
11:45 --- break ---
09:30 Introduction to day 2  
09:40 Advanced Features of Taverna - Dr Georgina Moulton (University of Manchester) Dr Katy Wolstencroft (The University of Manchester)  
09:50 Advanced Features of Taverna - A Practical  
11:00 --- break ---
11:20 Advanced Features of Taverna - A Practical Continued  
09:30 Introduction to day 3  
09:40 An Introduction to Grid Computing and the National Grid Service  
Slides
10:20 Gaining access to the NGS  
Slides
11:00 --- break ---
11:15 The Resource Broker  
practical 1
practical 2
Slides
09:30 Introduction to day 4  
09:40 Data and Storage Services on the NGS  
Slides
10:00 Storage Resource Broker  
GridFTP practical
Slides
SRB practical
11:00 --- break ---
11:20 GridFTP  
11:40 The NGS Oracle Service - Simon Collins (University of Manchester) Keir Hawker (Rutherford Laboratories)  
Demo
Practical 1
Slides
09:30 Introduction to day 5  
09:40 Computational steering on the NGS  
Slides
10:15 Virtual Organisations and the NGS  
Slides
11:00 --- break ---
11:20 EGEE: an infrastructure for international e-science  
PM
12:00 Case studies introducing successful eScience projects - Mr Paul Fisher (The University of Manchester) Georgina Moulton (The University of Manchester) Dr Katy Wolstencroft (The University of Manchester, myGrid Team)  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00 A Dictionary of Terms for Taverna - Georgina Moulton (The University of Manchester)  
Slides
14:30
Basic Features of Taverna - A practical (until 15:30)
Practical
15:30 --- break ---
15:50 Basic Features in Taverna - A Practical Continued  
16:50 Discussion  
12:40
Workflow Issues (until 13:00)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Building Web Services - A Practical  
15:30 --- break ---
15:50 A Taste of the Future - Taverna2 - Mr Stian Soiland (The University of Manchester, myGrid Team)  
Slides
16:35
Final Discussion (until 17:00)
12:30 The NGS Applications Repository  
practical
Slides
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00 The NGS Applications Repository - practical  
14:40 The P-Grade Portal - Tamas Kiss (University of Westminster)  
Slides
15:30 --- break ---
15:50 P-Grade continued - Tamas Kiss (University of Westminster)  
Hands-on
hands-on in pdf
Manhattan
Slides
16:30 Case Study - GENIUS  
Slides
16:50 End of day discussion  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00 continued  
14:45 Grid Data Services using OGSA-DAI  
practical
Slides
15:30 --- break ---
15:50 OGSA-DAI continued  
16:20 End of day discussion  
12:40 --- Lunch ---
13:40 OMII-Europe: Bridging grids  
14:40 Next steps  
15:10 Closing discussion  
15:40 --- Coffee ---