Jornadas Chilenas de Computación 2010
INFONOR-CHILE 2010
November 15th - 19th, 2010
Antofagasta, Chile

Short Course on Grid Computing
November 18-19, 2010
Barry Wilkinson
 University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA

Agenda
Thursday
Nov. 18, 2010
 Running Grid Jobs
 Materials
2:30 am - 4:30 pm
(14:30 - 16:30)
 Session 1
Welcome and opening remarks: Workshop outline, brief introduction to Grid computing.
Presentation: Brief outline on using a Grid portal, command line, and GridNexus to run Grid jobs, mulch computation used in hands-on sessions. (50 minutes)

Hands-on practice session using UNCC/UNCW Grid platform
  • Portal
Needs Internet access and a browser.
Intro slides (18 slides)

Session 1 slides (42 slides)

Hands-on notes:

Using portal (10 pages)
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
(16:30 - 17:00)
 		Coffee
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
(17:30 - 19:00)

 Session 2: Grid Platform Command Line Interface

Presentation - review of command line interface (30 minutes)

Hands-on practice session using UNCC/UNCW Grid platform
  • Command line
Guest accounts used on UNC-C/UNC-W computers.
Need ssh/scp clients installed and Internet access. Instructions in notes.

Session 2 notes (22 slides)

Hands-on notes:

Using command line (8 pages)
Friday
Nov. 19, 2010 		Grid Interface Design
8:30 am - 10:30 am


 Session 3: GridNexus Workflow Editor

Presentation (30 minutes)

Hands-on practice session
  • GridNexus workflow editor
Needs Java and GridNexus  installed and Internet access. Instructions in notes.

Session 3 slides (13 slides)

Hands-on notes:
GridNexus worflow editor (7 pages)
10:30 am - 11:00 am
 Break
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
(11:00 - 13:00)

 Session 4: UNC-Charlotte’s Grid Computing “Seeds” framework

Presentation (30 minutes)

Hands-on practice session
  • Seeds assignment:
    • Distributed workpool sample (pi by Monte Carlo method, code given)
    • Distributed workpool sample (numerical integration, code partially given)
    • Pattern Adder Operator
Need Java, ant, Eclipse, and Seeds framework installed. Internet access only for installing software. Instructions in notes.

Session 4 slides (31 slides)


Hands-on notes:

Seeds tutorial (11 pages)

Pattern Adder Operator
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
(13:00 - 14:30)
 Lunch
2:30 am - 4:30 pm
(14:30 - 16:30) 		Session 5: Designing Portals/Portlets to Front-end Applications

Presentation (40 minutes)

Hands-on practice session
  • Gridsphere assignment
    • GridSphere version 3 portlets

  • For information:
    • GridSphere version 2 portlets
NeedGridsphere installed. Internet access only for installing software. Instructions in notes.

Session 5 slides (39 slides)



GridSphere 3 Portlets (13 pages)

GridSphere 2 Portlets (13 pages)
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
(16:30 - 17:00)		 Coffee
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
(17:00 - 19:00)		 Open discussion
  • What computers systems and software needed
  • Cloud computing for HPC

Additional Resources
Grid computing book
UNC-C/UNC-W Grid computing courses 2004-2010
INFONOR-CHILE 2010 Tutorial on Distributed High Performance Computing

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