Day 4: Open Science Grid Summer School 2012

Yesterday, I taught the class storage on the OSG.  Since I was teaching, I was unable to write or take any pictures.

Today focuses on actual science on the OSG.  First, how actual science runs on the OSG with Greg Thain.

Greg teaching rules of thumb on the OSG

This afternoon was focused on success stories of running on the OSG.  For example, Edgar Spalding talk on his botany workflow that run successfully not only at Wisconsin, but ran on the OSG as well.

Edgar talking about plant genetics

Today is the last day of the summer school, and we are all feeling very exhausted.  It was a very successful summer school.  Many students learned how their science can be done with HTC.  I am starting to see students think in terms of HTC, such as how they can split their jobs into manageable sizes, what input data would be required?  What output?

Tonight is the final dinner, and then we are done.  I will be driving back to Fermilab, then I will be back in Lincoln next week.

Again, pictures from the summer school can be found here.

Video of Igor's Exercise

Igor had a very interesting exercise during the OSG Summer School.

It's a little difficult to explain, but:
Each student at the tables is a worker node.  The people walking around are the 'network', sending jobs to the scheduler which is near the podium.  The students in the stands are 'users'.

The worker nodes can report wrong results, and also mis-represent themselves.  This is a security exercise.

Day 2 of OSG Summer School

We had a great day yesterday at the OSG Summer School.  Not only was the weather great, but the exercises went very well (a testament to Alain).

Monday Evening Work Section

The evening work section was great as well.  We where able to debug some problems that we didn't have time to work on during the day.  Also, we where able to answer questions about the OSG in a much more informal setting.

Today is Igor's day, dealing with Glidein.  So far, the exercises have worked very well.  Blast has been an excellent example for the users.

Igor Presenting Tuesday Morning

Students exercises Tuesday morning

On a side note, parrot is finally working with blast on glidein.  So the Remote I/O talk tomorrow is a GO.

Again, pictures are on a public album on my Google Plus.

Summer School Pictures

I'm putting pictures from the summer school on my Google Plus.

Day 1 of OSG Summer School

I was asked to teach at the OSG Summer School.  I think teaching the next generation of OSG users is a great opportunity.  This is how I learned about the OSG, at the International Summer School for Grid Computing (ISSGC).

Anwar and I learning grid computing in Nice, France

This week we are at the OSG Summer School in warm Madison (not quite the same as Nice).

Alain working the room

Students hard at work on Alain's Exercises

More updates as they happen.