Tutorials

• Enterprise Grid Computing 101 Tutorial (cancelled)
• EGEE Tutorial
• Taverna Tutorial (details at W4G website)
• OWL Reasoning Tutorial (details at W4G website)
• BOINC Tutorial
• GridMP Tutorial (cancelled)

Course Conducted by: IBM Singapore Private Limited

Course Description: Grid Computing and Virtualization have become increasingly relevant to enterprise Infrastructures. Peak-resource requirements, heterogeneous resource management and data virtualization are some of the issues that require innovative solutions that deliver shorter time to market, greater infrastructure flexibility and consistent operating cost reduction. This tutorial covers the introduction to Grid Computing from an Enterprise perspective and addresses key common problems, available solutions to these issues and runs through several example showcases of successful Enterprise Grid deployments, enabling prospective Enterprises to consider Grid Computing adoption.

Course Outline:

• Grid Computing Introduction: "What is Grid Computing, What are the common pain-points addressed with GRID Computing solutions, and how do these apply in the Enterprise commercial solution domains"
• Grid Computing Technologies: "Globus Toolkit in the Enterprise, Job Scheduling solutions, offered Functionalities"
• Data Connectivity: "Data Distribution options, Managing simultaneous access to common data"
• Resource Management::"System Management, Resource Monitoring, Application Provisioning"
• Resource Accounting: "Usage Monitoring, Accounting and Billing"
• Solution Showcases: "References, Showcases and Success Stories"

Intended Audience: Enterprise CIO's, IT Managers and Systems Administrators

Course Type: Lecture

Pre-requisites for Tutorial: Understanding of Enterprise Computing Resources Fundamentals

Course Conducted by: ST Electronics (Info-Software Systems) Private Limited

Course Description: This tutorial will teach you to use Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) to create a PC-Grid project, like SETI@home that taps on thousands or millions of computers, when they are idle, to do scientific computing. This is possibly the next generation type of applications.

Course Outline:

• Overview of BOINC
• Basic Concepts
• Creating BOINC Project
• Introduction to BOINC application development
• Processing Work in BOINC
• Suitable Applications for BOINC

Intended Audience: Developers, System Administrators and Grid Practitioners interested in BOINC development.

Course Type: Hands-on Workshop

Pre-requisites for Tutorial: Attendees should have the laptop installed with Linux Cent OS-4.4 or Windows XP Professional with Visual studio 2005 Professional edition. It should also have ssh client installed to access BOINC server for application setup.

More information on BOINC at http://boinc.berkeley.edu

Course Description: This tutorial briefly introduces various concepts in grid computing and its applications and then delve into UD Grid MP, an enterprise grid platform adopted by Novartis, J&J, NUS and alike. It demonstrates the ease of deployment and application enabling through hands-on sessions. At the end of the tutorial, participants will have practical experience on deploying and using a grid.

Intended Audience: Developers, system administrators, grid practitioners.

Pre-requisites for Tutorial: Experience in installing Windows software. Knowledge of Linux environment and a scripting language will be an added advantage.

Note: Attendees are expected to bring along their own laptop equipped with a wireless adapter for accessing the internet.