Pre HEP SYSMAN: Workshop on Ganga

Thursday 14 Jan 2016, 13:00 → 18:00 Europe/London

Moseley Room (University of Manchester)

Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester (GB)), Mark William Slater (University of Birmingham (GB))

UK HEP System Managers Pre Meeting Workshop on Ganga. PREREQUISITE: Ganga is pure python but for this workshop, we recommend running the CernVM on a laptop. Run through the tutorial here: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_and_the_CERN_VM_service This will get you a system that can not only try out Ganga but also submit to the GridPP Dirac service. If you don't have access to the GridPP Dirac service or just want to try out Ganga on local backends, any SL6 installation should work though having CMVFS would be an advantage. Running from Lxplus would be the obvious choice here.

Ganga Full Tutorial

13:00 → 14:00 First Steps with Ganga

This session will cover the first 4 sections of the Ganga Tutorial and be an initial introduction to Ganga and it's basic functionality.

1. Installation and Basic Usage
2. Configuration
3. Job Manipulation
4. Running Executables

HEPSYSMAN_GangaFirstSteps.pdf

14:00 → 15:00 Backends and Data

This session will cover running jobs on different backends including DIrac. It will also look at how Ganga handles input and output data with for it's jobs. It will cover the following sections in the tutorial:

1. Using different backends
2. Input and Output Data

HEPSYSMAN_GangaBackendsData.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Splitters

This session will cover the use of splitters in Ganga to create many subjobs from one master job.

1. Splitters

HEPSYSMAN_SplittersPostProcessors.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 16:30 Post Processors

This session will cover the various things you can get Ganga to do after you job finishes including Merging and File Checking

1. Post Processors

16:30 → 17:30 Advanced Topics

This last practical session will cover the some miscellaneous and advanced uses of Ganga including Tasks and Threads/Queues.

1. Miscellaneous functionality
2. Queues
3. Tasks

HEPSYSMAN_AdvancedTopics.pdf

17:30 → 18:00 Additional and Future Topics

This will just highlight some of the areas of Ganga we haven't covered and those that are coming soon

HEPSYSMAN_Future.pdf