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e-Science Institute, NeSC, Edinburgh

e-Science Institute, NeSC, Edinburgh
Mineter, M.J.
Description
Purpose of the School To provide for the students: * an opportunity to network with other e-Science students and form a community * appropriate training in relevant software * an update in production grid initiatives and emerging standards * an opportunity to discuss their own work with their peers. Target audience UK postgraduate students pursuing a PhD in a relevant discipline and who commenced their PhD studies in October 2003 or earlier. The Summer School announcement is at: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/544/
  • Monday 9 May
    • Day 1: Concepts and production grids

      A review of grid concepts and of major initiatives to establish grid infrastructures.

      In the UK the National Grid Service (NGS) and internationally the EGEE project, Enabling Grids for e-Science are establishing interoperable sustainable production quality grids to enable e-Research.

      Draft agenda:

      • 1
        Introductions
      • 2
        Introducing Grid Computing
        Speaker: Mike Mineter
        transparencies
      • 3
        EGEE: enabling grids for e-science
        transparencies
      • 4
        The National Grid Service
        transparencies
      • 10:30
        Coffee
      • 5
        Practical: gaining access to the NGS
        Speaker: Guy Warner
        document
        transparencies
      • 6
        Practical: job submission to the NGS
        document
        transparencies
      • 12:30
        Lunch
      • 7
        Practical continues
        document
      • 15:00
        Coffee
      • 8
        Grid middleware: from toolkits to production grids
        transparencies
      • 9
        Practical: Using a portal onto GILDA, an EGEE demo grid
        document
      • 10
        End of day review
  • Tuesday 10 May
    • Day 2: Workshop

      The students will each make a 20 minute PowerPoint presentation. Their remit is:
      - a brief outline of your project (3 slides)
      - your own role in the project (1 slide)
      - the main part of the talk will describe your use (present or intended) of grids.
      If you have developed software for grid middelware or grid applications then include:
      - an outline of the requirements and design
      - what have you done that might be useful to others?
      - what are the major challenges that remain.

      Each student is allocated 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion.

      Following these talks there will be a session in which participants will work in small groups, defined to allow further exploration of the issues raised that are of shared interest.

      • 11
        Ahmed Abdelrahim
        transparencies
      • 12
        O'Neil Delpratt
        transparencies
      • 13
        John Hawkins
        transparencies
      • 10:30
        Coffee
      • 14
        Shiv Kaushal
        transparencies
      • 15
        Peter Moore
        transparencies
      • 16
        Stuart Paterson
        transparencies
      • 12:30
        Lunch
      • 17
        Craig Robinson
        transparencies
      • 18
        Nicholas Ross
      • 19
        Eric Saunders
        transparencies
      • 15:00
        Coffee
      • 20
        Andrew Smith
        transparencies
      • 21
        Formation of small groups for follow-on
  • Wednesday 11 May
    • Day 3: Workshop continuation

      A continuation of the workshop from Day 2, working in small groups.

      • 22
        Small groups
      • 10:30
        Coffee
      • 23
        Small groups
      • 12:30
        Lunch
    • Day 3: Visiting Speakers

      Talks from practioners in the area of Grid & e-Science.

      • 24
        A Portal to Reality Grid
        Speaker: Dr George Beckett (EPCC)
        transparencies
        video
      • 25
        QCDGrid
        Speaker: Dr Chris Maynard (Institute for Physics, Edinburgh)
        transparencies
      • 15:00
        Coffee
      • 26
        OGSA-DAI
        Speaker: Mr Neil Chue Hong (EPCC)
      • 27
        AstroGrid
        Speaker: Dr John Taylor (Institute for Astronomy, Edinburgh)
      • 28
        GridPP
        Speaker: Dr Steve Thorn (NeSC, Edinburgh)
    • Evening reception and lecture by Professor Higgs
  • Thursday 12 May
    • Day 4: Web Services
      • 29
        Introduction to Web Services
        Speaker: Richard Hopkins
        more information
        transparencies
      • 30
        XML and Schemas
        more information
        transparencies
      • 10:30
        Coffee
      • 31
        WSDL & SOAP
        transparencies
      • 32
        WS Tools
        transparencies
      • 12:30
        Lunch
      • 33
        WS Tutorial
        document
      • 15:00
        Coffee
      • 34
        Tutorial continued
      • 35
        Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF)
        transparencies
      • 36
        Review of day
  • Friday 13 May
    • Day 5:
      • 37
        Emerging middleware
        transparencies
      • 38
        GRID and Commercialisation
        Speaker: Dr Mark Parsons (EPCC, National e-Science Centre)
      • 10:30
        Coffee
      • 39
        An introduction to UKLight and ESLEA
        UKLight is a national facility to support projects working on developments towards optical networks and the applications that will use them. http://www.uklight.ac.uk/ ESLEA: Exploitation of Switched Lightpaths for eScience Applications
        Speaker: Dr Clive Davenhall (NeSC)
      • 40
        How to get performance on networks
        Speaker: Dr Clive Davenhall (NeSC)
        transparencies
      • 12:30
        Lunch
      • 41
        Small group final meetings
        On Tuesday small groups were formed; these began work on Wednesday and conclude their efforts by reporting back.
        transparencies
      • 42
        Review of the summer school
      • 15:15
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