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Introduction to the Application Hosting Environment and the National Grid Service

Europe/Zurich
University College London

University College London

Stefan Zasada
Description

The Application Hosting Environment (AHE) is designed to provide the scientist with a simple, lightweight mechanism for launching and monitoring scientific applications, such as NAMD, LB3D, LAMMPS, Gromacs, GAUSSIAN, CASTEP and VASP, running on remote grid resources, including those provided by the UK National Grid Service.

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.

This course will provide the attendee with practical experience of deploying and hosting scientific applications on the NGS, and sharing an application with a community of users via the AHE. 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
  • Sufficient experience to allow participants to begin to use the AHE in future

To register for this event please go here

For background information and accommodation details please click here

The course is presented by the AHE team from UCL and the training team from the National e-Science Centre.

The agenda is subject to minor modification.

  • Tuesday 12 December
    • 09:30 18:00
      Day 1
      • 09:30
        Registration 15m
      • 09:45
        Welcome and Introduction from Peter Coveney 15m
        Slides
      • 10:00
        Overview of Grid Computing 40m
        Speaker: Dr Richard Hopkins (TOE-NeSC)
        Slides
      • 10:40
        Introduction to AHE 15m
        Slides
      • 10:55
        The National Grid Service 20m
        Slides
      • 11:15
        Tea / Coffee 15m
      • 11:30
        Gaining Access 1h
        more information
        Slides
      • 12:30
        Creating and Running an Application on the NGS 30m
        more information
        Slides
      • 13:00
        Lunch 1h
      • 14:00
        Creating and Running an Application on the NGS continued 40m
      • 15:10
        Installing and Configuring the AHE Client 45m
        more information
      • 15:55
        Tea / Coffee 15m
      • 16:10
        Launching Applications on the NGS using the AHE 1h 40m
        more information
      • 17:50
        End of day discussion 10m
  • Wednesday 13 December
    • 09:30 18:00
      Day 2
      • 09:30
        Registration 15m
      • 09:45
        Introduction and Aims of Day 2 15m
      • 10:00
        NGS Computation Services: API's and Parallel Jobs 1h 30m
        more information
        Slides
      • 11:30
        Tea/Coffee 15m
      • 11:45
        Scripting the AHE Clients to Create Application Workflows 1h 15m
        more information
      • 13:00
        Lunch 1h
      • 14:00
        Deploying the AHE Server 1h 30m
      • 15:30
        Tea/Coffee 15m
      • 15:45
        Hosting Applications in the AHE 2h
      • 17:45
        Closing Remarks and Wrap-up from Peter Coveney 15m