Programme
See the venue page for more info on finding venues.
The lab content can be found here.
Slides from talks are available on the after school page (if a talk is not up yet, check again in a day or two).
The programme below has also been updated to link to the relevant pages.
All OSG talks were presented by Ben Clifford.
| Wednesday 23 July | ||
| 08:00 | Welcome and introductions | SH3123 |
| 09:00 | OSG lecture: Introduction to the grid (odp) | SH3123 |
| 10:00 | Morning tea | Senate Room |
| 10:20 | OSG lab session: Introducing the Grid | e-lab |
| 12:00 | OSG lecture: Data (ppt) | SHB1 |
| 13:00 | Lunch | Senate Room |
| 14:15 | OSG lab session: Data Management | e-lab |
| 16:00 | Afternoon tea | Senate Room |
| 16:20 | Serena Coetzee: NAD on the Grid (pdf) | SH3123 |
| 17:20 | Simon Connell: Computing for the ATLAS High Energy Physics Experiment (odp) (pdf) Animations: (swf) (swf) | SH3123 |
| 19:00 | Braai (barbeque) | Wits Club |
| Thursday 24 July | ||
| 08:10 | Scott Hazelhurst: Scientific computing using virtual high-performance computing | SHB1 |
| 08:45 | Scott Hazelhurst: Bioinformatics applications of high performance computing | SHB1 |
| 09:00 | OSG lecture: Job management (Condor) (ppt) | SHB1 |
| 10:00 | Morning tea | Senate Room |
| 10:20 | OSG lab session: Condor components for job management | e-lab |
| 12:00 | OSG lecture: Security (ppt) | SHB2 |
| 13:00 | Lunch | Amphitheater foyer |
| 14:15 | OSG lab session: Security and Certificates on the Grid | e-lab |
| 16:00 | Afternoon tea | Senate Room |
| 16:20 | Albert Gazendam: Integrating an SGE-equipped HPC resource into the national glite-based grid infrastructure (pdf) | SH3113 |
| 16:50 | Bruce Becker: The South African National Compute Grid (odp) (pdf) | SH3113 |
| 19:00 | Banquet | Moyos, Zoo lake |
| Friday 25 July | ||
| 08:00 | OSG lecture: Using production grid infrastructure (ppt) | SHBA |
| 09:00 | OSG lecture: Grid applications and grid workflows (ppt) | SHBA |
| 10:00 | Morning tea | Senate Room |
| 10:20 | OSG lab session: Running Applications on other Grid sites Packaging A Grid Application Grid workflow | e-lab |
| 13:00 | Lunch | Senate Room |
| 14:15 | Discussion: where to next? | SH3123 |
| 14:40 | Afternoon tea | SH3123 |
| 15:00 | Conference closes | |
Selected abstracts
Scott Hazelhurst: Scientific computing using virtual high-performance computing
High-performance computing systems are important in many application domains, particularly in scientific computing. Clusters of computer systems are a common architecture for high-performance computing because of their perceived cost effectiveness, and there are software system that supports their effective use, such as MPI. Clusters come in different sizes, ranging from relatively small dedicated clusters to large shared clusters of hundreds or thousands of CPUs.
An alternative model is that of a virtual cluster, as exemplifed by Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This provides customers with storage and CPU power on an on-demand basis, and allows a researcher to dynamically build their own, dedicated cluster of computers when they need it, and have full control over that cluster. Although intended for commercial use by web services deployers, this technology can be used in scientific computing applications. This talk will briefly describe the EC2 technology and related Amazon Web Services and present a case study of the use of these services for scientific computing.
Albert Gazendam: Integrating an SGE-equipped HPC resource into the national glite-based grid infrastructure
The Sun Grid Engine is a popular open source scheduler/job manager for high performance computing purposes. The use of the word "grid" in its name is however a fallacy, since it is really serves the same purpose as LSF, LoadLeveler, Torque + Maui, etc. The grid middleware that underpins the efforts of the EGEE in Europe is called glite, and by default does not provide support for the integration of an SGE-equipped HPC resource in the grid. This presentation outlines our experiences in doing exactly this in order to join the CSIR Cluster Computing Centre (C4) to the new national glite-based grid infrastructure
Bruce Becker: The South African National Compute Grid
Since March 2008, a co-ordinated project has been underway to implement a cyber-infrastructure in South Africa in order to provide the basis for a national compute grid, relying on the national research network SANReN, which is currently being deployed. This project is based on the gLite middleware from EGEE, and has as its scope to provide the framework for integrating existing and future HPC resources around the country into a federated distributed computing environment, which will provide an essential tool for collaboration and research in several fields of science, as well as opening several opportunities for international collaboration. The project is supported by several universities, research labs and sponsors, the Meraka Institute of South Africa, and is done in collaboration with the INFN (Italy) and CNRS (France).
I will give an overview of the South African National Compute Grid : the background and organisation of the project, the current status of the sites, the near future development planned until the end of the year, and long-term goals.
In particular, I will highlight :
* Novel extensions to the gLite middelware that the GILDA lab and COMETA Consortium in Sicily have been working on.
* Applications being used on the grid for the prototyping stage.
* Opportunities for collaboration at the scientific level
A brief discussion on interoperability with EGEE production grids and in particular OSG will also be covered.
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