Tutorials at OGF-Europe's 1st International Event
Tutorials at OGF-Europe's 1st International Event
OGF23/OGF-Europe's 1st International Event & BEinGRID Industry Days
2-6 June 2008, Barcelona, Spain
Tutorial 1: Managing Computational Activities on the Grid - From Specifications to Implementation
Experts: Sergio Andreozzi, Aleksandr Konstantinov, Balazs Konya, Morris Riedel, Gabor Roczei
Click here to link to this tutorial on the OGF Program Page
During the OGF 23 event, the first set of OGF-Europe in-depth tutorials took place. The first tutorial was targeted at Grid developers and advanced end users and addressed the issue of managing computing activities in a Grid system using core OGF standards such as OGSA-BES, JSDL, HPC-BP as well as the recently emerging GLUE. Around 25 participants representing a variety of countries attended the 3-session-long seminar, discovering more details of these specifications.
The ongoing implementations activity for the gLite, UNICORE and ARC middlewares was described together with the main design choices and supported features, with participants getting hands-on experience of the working systems. Initially, a job submission from the GridSphere portal to two different computing resources managed by different middleware exposing the same interface was presented. Participants then created their own Grid credentials and submitted jobs via a command line client to the two computing resources, thus showing the benefit of standardization (same client to submit to two different resources managed by different middleware).
Aleksandr Konstantinov helping participants with the hands-on exercises
Tutorial 2: Accessing and Integrating Structured Data with OGSA-DAI 3.0 Links with WS-DAI
Experts: Mike Jackson, EPCC, UK
Click here to link to this tutorial on the OGF Program PageTutorial 3: Managing Files & Storage Spaces using the Storage Resource Manager
Experts: Flavia Donno
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The second and third tutorials were focused on the data and storage area and targeted at business managers and decisions makers. Both tutorials were attended by around 20 participants with the first focussing on the SRM (Storage Resource Manager) specification with application scenarios related to the High-Energy Physics community. The second tutorial addressed aspects of data access and integration as faced by the OGSA-DAI software product. A large number of application scenarios and the relationships with the WS-DAI specification were also described.
These first tutorials can be considered a success when the amount of competing sessions taking place and the fact that the final two tutorials were held on Friday morning are taken into consideration. Feedback from participants was extremely positive with requests for further hands-on sessions at future OGF events. This is clear sign of the importance of having tutorials of this kind of nature a regular feature of OGF conferences.