NCSA Staffers Give Grid Tutorial at SC05
released 11.11.05
Contact
Trish Barker
NCSA Public Information Specialist
tlbarker@ncsa.uiuc.edu
217.265.8013
URBANA, IL —
Two GRIDS Center Members, Mike Freemon and David Gehrig of NCSA, will present a one-day tutorial geared toward novice grid users, Hands-On: Introduction to Grid Computing, at SC05 this year. Also presenting will be Jaime Frey of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
The hands-on, full-day tutorial moves the new grid user through a series of activities introducing concepts such as the Globus toolkit, grid-security certificates, reliable file transfer, simple job management, and workflow management. The tutorial introduces essential skills that will be needed to conduct and support use of the grid computing environment. The tutorial will alternate between presentations and hands-on labs during which users will connect to hosts at NCSA to perform various grid-related tasks. Subjects covered will include: - Introduction to the grid world: who's who
- Grid security concepts: PKI, X-509, certificate authorities
- Grid accounts, from the user perspective
- Data management
- Data replication services
- File transfer utilities and reliable file transfer
- Job management with Globusrun and Condor-G
- Metaschedulers and workflow managers
- DAGman
The tutorial will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 14. Attendees will use their own laptops to connect to NCSA; all that is necessary is basic connectivity and an SSH client. A certain number of user accounts will be pre-created to ensure that each user will already have a grid certificate for the exercises.
GRIDS Center is a consortium representing: - NCSA
- San Diego Supercomputing Center
- University of Chicago
- University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute
- University of Wisconsin at Madison
GRIDS is funded by the National Science Foundation to provide direct services to designated cyberinfrastructure application projects and general services to the larger grid computing community.
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