Introduction to Grid Computing and e-Infrastructure
AHESSC 6 June 2006
Description
This is a closed meeting convened by the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre, Centre for Computing in the Humanities.
Participants will be from AHeSSC, Methods Network and AHDS
staff, and from the training team of the National e-Science Centre.
The goals are:
- to help AH colleagues to adopt the tools and methods of grid
computing and e-infrastructure
- to help NeSC trainers to better identify how their training and outreach activities can contribute to the Arts and Humanities.
The agenda will include presentations and discussion on the themes
of:
- introductions to grids and e-infrastructure concepts
- the current status of e-infrastructure at UK and international scales
- exploration of commonly used solutions for data, compute and collaboration services
- building effective user communities
- establishing education in grids and e-infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
Location
Seminar Room (1st Floor) at CCH:
Centre for Computing
in the Humanities
King's College London
Kay House,
7 Arundel Street,
London WC2R 3DX
Registration
This initial event is by invitation only.If you are interested in attending or hosting a similar event then please email to both:
Stuart Dunn, stuart.dunn@kcl.ac.uk
Mike Mineter, mjm@nesc.ac.uk
Agenda
| Time | Agenda item | Outline |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | Introductions | |
| 09:45 | e-Infrastructure and Grid Computing | Introduction to concepts, motivations, status and frontiers - and including Authorisation and Authentication. |
| 10:45 | Coffee | |
| 11:00 | Computation services | How grids currently support computation; workflow; towards service oriented research |
| 11:30 | Data services | Virtual filesystems and federation of databases |
| 11:55 |
Collaboration services |
Access Grid; Virtual Research Environments; portals |
| 12:15 | UK and International e-Infrastructure | National Grid Service, OMII-UK, EGEE |
| 13:15 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Building effective user communities | Discussion and presentation including:
|
| 15:15 | Tea | |
| 15:30 | Further discussion |
Related Links
- www.ahessc.ac.uk
- The NeSC traiing team has run several one day events introducting e-Infrastructure: the latest of these was at University of Leeds with the White Rose Grid: http://www.wrgrid.org.uk/workshop2006_slides.html .
- ICEAGE http://www.iceage-eu.org/
Page last modified
12 May 2006 mjm@nesc.ac.uk
