GridChem training offered on Oct. 10

released September 28, 2005

There will be an Access Grid-enabled training workshop on "GridChem: An Application-Oriented Computational Grid" from noon to 4 p.m. on Oct. 10. The workshop will be available locally via the AG node in Room 2000 of the NCSA Building.

The Computational Chemistry Grid (CCG) is a distributed infrastructure for open scientific research that provides a collection of grid-based resources to routinely run chemical physics applications. It aims to integrate the desktop environment into infrastructure for computational chemists and other researchers.

Grid technologies have been developed to address security, data transport and job submission from desktop environments; however, heavyweight approaches are often challenging to set up, maintain, and use. Another approach is to push the heavyweight grid technologies to a server and to provide a lightweight client on the desktop. The client interacts with the server, which in turn communicates with a remote high-performance computing system running the applications. This lightweight desktop model is implemented in the CCG as a three-tier system (client/gridserver/HPC-resource) with the end user seeing only a two-tiered system (client/HPC-systems).

This workshop will include a description and discussion of the components of the model: the CCG infrastructure, desktop client, middleware services and scientific applications. General topics include:

• GridChem overview
• Interface demonstration
• User support
• Back-end details

This event is being offered over the Access Grid by NCSA and the other four GridChem partners: the Center for Computational Sciences/University of Kentucky; the Center for Computation and Technology/Louisiana State University; the Ohio Supercomputer Center; and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)/University of Texas.

To register for the workshop, go to the registration form.

 

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