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After school

Where to next?

Using the Wits cluster

If you want to continue with the exercises / play around with submitting jobs etc. on the Wits cluster, we will have a ssh login available to you. Connectivity might be a bit unreliable over the next week or two, because we need to do some system maintenance. We will keep this page updated with details as they become available. Contact Norman Ives at norman.ives@gmail.com for more information.

Getting involved in the OSG

The online version of the grid school lab sessions can be found at http://opensciencegrid.org/OnlineGridCourse.

If you would like to become more involved in the OSG (either gaining direct access from your machine to OSG resources, or by connecting your cluster to the OSG), send an email to Ben Clifford, at benc@ci.uchicago.edu.

Getting involved in the SA national grid

The best person to chat to is Bruce Becker (bruce.becker@ca.infn.it).

There are several training sessions occurring in the near future, including

• * User
• * Application porting
• * Site administration

There is a training session that is on next week (the week of the 28th of July), see indico.ct.infn.it/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=67. After that, there are is an admin training session in Lyon in September, and then user/admin training in Gauteng in October. More sessions will follow in November and December, and in 2009.

If you would like to get involved in the discussion around setting up virtual organisations (VOs), contact either Bruce Becker (bruce.becker@ca.infn.it), or Albert Gazendam (agazendam@csir.co.za).

Other supercomputing and grid resources

If you have any interest in video broadcast of a course in "Supercomputing in plain English", see http://www.oscer.ou.edu/education.php. If you are interested in utilising Windows machines with a coLinux Condor pool, see http://www.oscer.ou.edu/CondorInstall/condor_colinux_howto.php. Contact Horst Severini at hs@nhn.ou.edu for more information. The main OSCER (OU Supercomputing Center for Education and Research) site can be found at http://www.oscer.ou.edu.

DOSAR is a grass roots grid organisation that is dedicated to getting people involved in grid computing. See http://www-hep.uta.edu/dosar.

Talks

Serena Coetzee	NAD on the Grid (odp)
Simon Connell	Computing for the ATLAS High Energy Physics Experiment (odp) (pdf) Animations: (swf) (swf)
Albert Gazendam	Integrating an SGE-equipped HPC resource into the national glite-based grid infrastructure (pdf)
Bruce Becker	The South African National Compute Grid (odp)
Ben Clifford	Introduction to the grid (odp)
	Data (ppt)
	Job management (Condor) (ppt)
	Security (ppt)
	Using production grid infrastructure (ppt)
	Grid applications and grid workflows (ppt)

Pictures

If you have some nice pictures from the grid school, please contact us and we will link to them.