Grid Application Development with gLite and P-GRADE Portal

Introduction:

The course introduces the generic concepts of application development on gLite grid middleware and details the P-GRADE Grid Portal from the application developers' point of view. The focus of the course is on how to create and manage data parallel "parameter study" and functional parallel "workflow" applications on EGEE. Workflows and parameter studies are two of the most popular application types on grids, although they require the integration of several grid services thus assume complex knowledge from the developer. The latest release of gLite includes command line support to create and manage such applications. P-GRADE Grid Portal extends this basic support with extra features that simplifies the task of application developers. P-GRADE provides graphical tools to define, execute and monitor grid workflows and workflow based parameter studies in single or in multi-VO environments. P-GRADE Portal is and open source software used and further developed by EGEE, SEE-GRID, ICEAGE, CoreGRID and other international and Hungarian projects. P-GRADE Portal is used by various user communities of different EGEE VOs and Globus based grid systems. Attendees of the course will understand the concept of grid based workflows and parameter studies, will learn about the gLite and P-GRADE implementations of these concepts and will learn how to define and execute such applications on EGEE with P-GRADE Portal. Real life examples from various application domains will be used through the course to demonstrate the power of the presented approaches.

Speakers:

  • Gergely Sipos, Hungarian Academy of Sciences - MTA SZTAKI, Hungary
  • Peter Kacsuk, Hungarian Academy of Sciences - MTA SZTAKI, Hungary

Prerequisites:

The course assumes that attendees are familiar with the basic concepts of grids but does not assumes any knowledge on gLite, P-GRADE or other EGEE-specific software. The course includes hands-on session. Attendees are advised to bring their own laptops with the following software installed:

  1. SSH client (e.g. PUTTY on Windows)
  2. Graphical Web browser with Java plug-in (e.g. Mozilla, Internet Explorer)

Attendees without laptop will pair up with laptop owners. Working in pairs will not limit the efficiency of the course.

Registration:

The tutorial is outside of the main User Forum program and additional attendance fees apply. Registration fee for the training is 50 euros. To register to the event, please go to the registration page. To be able to register you need an account on the Health grid portal. You can create an account here.

Agenda

Detailed agenda and further information are available.