Programme
Thursday 9th April (Venue : Council Chambers - access from B-Ring on 3rd floor)
| Time |
Event |
Speaker |
| 8:00 |
Convene, be seated by 8:30 |
|
| 8:30 (5 min) |
Welcome address |
|
| 8:35 (10 min) | HPC at UJ |
Chief Information Officer - Adriaan Vorster |
| 8:45 (10 min) | Science Perspective | Dean of Science - Kinta Burger |
| 8:55 (10 min) | The SA GRID | Director: SAGrid - Bruce Becker |
| 9:05 (10 min) | Open Science Grid | Ben Clifford (University of Chicago) |
| 9:15 (10 min) | Bateman Engineering Projects | GM - Global Business Development - Liam Cafferty |
| 9:25 (5 min) | Unveiling | video-link |
| 9:30 (20 min) |
Coffee, tea and light breakfast |
Six modules (lecture section) : Ben Clifford and Bruce Becker
* Introduction: from your workstation to the cluster to the grid
* Building an application to run on the UJ cluster
* Building an application to run on the open science grid
* A comparison of two workflow systems (dagman and swift)
* Under the covers
* Interactive discussion on actual user applications
Thur:
morning: introduction - high level arm wavy
afternoon: PCs to Clusters to Grid - actually running code on the metal
Fri:
morning: basic grid execution using condor (condor-g and dagman)
afternoon: more advanced distributed applications (using Swift)
Sat:
morning: more details about the cluster
Sun:
morning: gLITE material
Discussion of Policy
See the draft Memorandum of Undestanding
Mon:
morning: OSG material
afternoon: OSG material continued
Tue:
morning: UJ application porting, interactive discussion, hands on
afternoon: revision session open to the floor
morning: introduction - high level arm wavy
afternoon: PCs to Clusters to Grid - actually running code on the metal
Fri:
morning: basic grid execution using condor (condor-g and dagman)
afternoon: more advanced distributed applications (using Swift)
Sat:
morning: more details about the cluster
Sun:
morning: gLITE material
Discussion of Policy
See the draft Memorandum of Undestanding
Mon:
morning: OSG material
afternoon: OSG material continued
Tue:
morning: UJ application porting, interactive discussion, hands on
afternoon: revision session open to the floor
Morning sessions will run from 8:00 to 13:00 in C-Ring 307
Afternoon sessions will run from 14:15 to 19:00 C-Ring 307
1. Power Point Slides from Ben Clifford - OSG
2. Tutorial Material
Use Putty to connect from windows to osg-ui.grid.uj.ac.za (with your course-assigned account)
Use a shell and ssh to connect from a linux / Mac machine
| Wednesday
15th April - Tuesday 5th May |
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| 08:00 - 17:00 |
Tutorial and Development Component. Ben Clifford is available for consultation at this time in this office in the Physics building. e-mail: benc@ci.uchicago.edu phone: 072 380 7745 |
Physics C1LAB 116 |
