Dear All,
For those who have not yet attended a Globus tutorial, here's an
opportunity to hear all about it from Steve Tuecke on Friday October 12.
Cheers, Tony
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Tony Doyle, GridPP Project Leader Telephone: +44-141-330 5899
Rm 482, Kelvin Building Telefax: +44-141-330 5881
Dept of Physics and Astronomy EMail: [log in to unmask]
University of Glasgow Web: http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~doyle
G12 8QQ, UK Video - IP: 194.36.1.234
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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:49:34 +0100
From: Anna Kenway <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Invitation to a free Tutorial on Grid Computing and Globus
Apologies if you have already received this email by another route
What: Introduction to Grid Computing and the Globus Toolkit
When: Friday, October 12, 9:30am - 5:30pm
Where: e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh, Scotland
Who: Steve Tuecke, Globus Project lead architect, Argonne National
Laboratory
This tutorial is a practical introduction both to Grid computing, and to
the Globus Toolkit.
Grid computing has emerged as an important new field, distinguished from
conventional distributed computing by its focus on large-scale resource
sharing, innovative applications, and, in some cases, high-performance
orientation. The Globus Project is leading the definition of standard
Grid protocols and APIs, in such areas as security, resource management,
data management, and information discovery. The open source Globus
Toolkit, which provides a reference implementation of these Grid
protocols and APIs, has been adopted my most of the major Grid projects
world-wide, to provide a common, robust infrastructure for building
applications that exploit distributed, heterogeneous, Grid-enabled
resources.
This tutorial begins with an introduction to the Grid "problem", which
we define in as flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among
dynamic collections of individuals, institutions, and resources—what we
refer to as virtual organizations
[http://www.globus.org/research/papers/anatomy.pdf]. Next, we present an
extensible and open Grid architecture, in which protocols, services,
application programming interfaces, and software development kits are
categorized according to their roles in enabling resource sharing. We
then introduce the Globus Toolkit, describe each of its core components,
and discuss how they address the requirements of Grid applications.
Finally, we present how Globus is used in various applications, how
Globus and Grid technologies relate to other contemporary technologies,
and future directions of Grid computing and the Globus Toolkit.
Target Audience:
Those working on Grid projects in the UK e-Science or European Data Grid
programmes. Those whose research interest or development projects may
benefit from use of the Grid. Those whose research is in areas, such as
distributed computing, where knowledge of the emerging Grid architecture
and standards may be a significant benefit.
Costs:
Attendance, refreshments and lunch is free for participants from UK
research, education, governmental and industrial organisations. The
National e-Science Centre is using its funds to sponsor this event in
order to support UK e-Science and Grid activities.
Participants will normally have to pay their own travel expenses and
accommodation costs. However, we have funds to provide moderate travel
bursaries to research students at Scottish HEIs. There may be other
moderate travel support available, but we will not know this until after
5 Oct.
Registration:
To register for this event please e-mail [log in to unmask] before 6
Oct.
Limited places:
The number of places at this event is restricted by our room capacity.
We will cut off registration as soon as that number is met, but place
names on a wait list for several further events that we intend to run.
Future Presentation by Steve Tuecke:
A further presentation by Steve Tuecke and his colleagues, going into
greater depth, in January. Attendance at the meeting on October 12 will
be approximately equivalent to the first day of that 4-day workshop (21
January 2002), for which there may be a small fee. However, attendance
at this earlier tutorial will allow you to get on with your Grid
development now and allow you to use that experience to enhance the
value of attending the following three days in January.
Travel:
The e-Science Institute is less than 15 minutes walk from Waverley rail
station, and from St Andrews square bus stations. It is approximately
20 minutes by taxi from Edinburgh airport (40 minutes by bus). Please
see our web site
http:\\www.nesc.ac.uk
for further details.
Please Forward:
If you know someone who might be interested in this, please forward this
message to them.
Malcolm Atkinson
Director, NeSC
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Dr Anna Kenway NeSC Manager
Email: [log in to unmask]
Website: http://www.nesc.ac.uk
Tel: (0131)650 5247 Fax: (0131)650 5902
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