Campus Infrastructures Community Workshop at Duke University: Connecting Science to Cycles and Data

27 Aug 2013, 08:00 → 28 Aug 2013, 16:20 US/Eastern

Duke University

Overview: This fall's OSG Campus Infrastructures Community Workshop will take place at Duke University, sponsored by the Information Initiative at Duke (iiD).   The 1.5 day workshop will have a mix of introductory campus grid and cyberinfrastructure presentations and hands-on tutorials aimed for the end-user scientist. 
Dates: August 27th - August 28th  Timezone: US/East Coast
Location: R. David Thomas Executive Conference Center at Duke University 
Organizers: Steffen A. Bass (Duke University, Department of Physics), Jeff Chase (Duke University, Department of Computer Science), Rob Gardner (University of Chicago), John McGee (The RENCI Institute at the University of North Carolina), John Pormann (Duke University, Office of Information Technology)
Lodging: A block of 30 rooms has been reserved at the R. David Thomas Center on a first come first serve basis. Please make your arrangements early via email to: reservations@fuqua.duke.edu. Make sure to mention "Fall 2013 Open Science Grid Campus Infrastructures Workshop" when making your reservation.  The conference rate is $139 and includes breakfast.
Directions: Directions to Duke campus and the R. David Thomas Center can be found here.
Registration: http://osgcic-duke.eventbrite.com/ 
Remote participants:  The event will be webcast one-way via Adobe Connect: http://osg.adobeconnect.com/osgcic-duke-aug2013. If you have never attended an Adobe Connect meeting before, test your connection here: http://osg.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm. To join via audio conference: 1-866-740-1260, access code: 8349885

OSG Connect: https://osgconnect.net/
OSG ConnectBook: https://confluence.grid.iu.edu/display/CON/Home 

Slides https://confluence.grid.iu.edu/display/CON/Registration+and+login+instructions

Tuesday, 27 August

08:30 → 09:30 Registration and Coffee

09:30 → 09:40 Opening and Welcoming Remarks

Speaker: Steffen Bass (Duke University)

09:40 → 10:00 OSG Roadmap for Connecting Science to Cycles and Data

Speaker: Robert Gardner (University of Chicago)

Slides osg-roadmap-v2.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 An Overview of Campus Cyberinfrastructure at Duke University

Speaker: John Pormann (Duke University)

Slides osg_conf.pptx.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Cyberinfrastructure Futures: Enhanced Workflow Services, Science DMZs and Software Defined Networks

Speakers: Jeff Chase (Duke University), Paul Ruth (RENCI)

Slides chase-ruth-osg-workshop.pdf

11:00 → 11:20 Break

11:20 → 11:40 Computational Needs for the Growing Field of Neural Engineering

Speaker: Bryan Howell (Duke University)

Slides osgworkshop_presentation_20130827.pptx

11:40 → 12:00 Computational Chemistry

Speakers: Aaron Virshup (Duke University), Agostino Migliore (Duke University)

Slides Virshup_Migliore_OSG.pdf

12:00 → 12:20 Recreating the Big Bang in the Lab - Computational Challenges in High-Energy Nuclear Physics

Speaker: Steffen Bass (Duke University)

Slides OSG_2013.pdf

12:20 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:30 Tutorial Session I: Getting Started with the OSG Connect Service

13:30 Properties of High Throughput Applications

Speaker: Mats Rynge (USC / Information Sciences Institute)

more information https://confluence.grid.iu.edu/x/iQCn

Slides 2013-08-27_Introduction_to_DHTC.pdf

13:45 OSG Connect registration and login services

Speaker: David Champion (University of Chicago)

more information https://confluence.grid.iu.edu/display/CON/Registration+and+login+instructions

14:00 QuickStart to using OSG Connect

Speaker: Mr Lincoln Bryant (University of Chicago)

more information https://confluence.grid.iu.edu/display/CON/OSG+Connect+Quickstart

14:15 Access OSG Connect cycles from your laptop using Bosco

Speaker: Marco Mambelli (University of Chicago)

more information https://confluence.grid.iu.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=10944561

14:30 Scaling up to more resources

Speaker: Mr Lincoln Bryant (University of Chicago)

more information https://confluence.grid.iu.edu/display/CON/Scaling+up+to+more+resources

14:42 A simple R (statistical analysis) calculation on OSG Connect

Speaker: Marco Mambelli (University of Chicago)

more information https://confluence.grid.iu.edu/x/kQCn

14:57 A simple Mathematica calculation on OSG Connect

Speaker: Mr Lincoln Bryant (University of Chicago)

more information https://confluence.grid.iu.edu/x/kwCn

15:30 → 15:50 Coffee

15:50 → 17:50 Tutorial Session II: OSG Connect Storage, Software and Data Access

15:50 Stash: The OSG Connect Storage Service

Speaker: David Champion (University of Chicago)

more information https://confluence.grid.iu.edu/x/swCn

16:00 Using Globus Online with Stash

Speaker: Steve Tuecke (University of Chicago)

more information http://confluence.grid.iu.edu/display/CON/Using+Globus+Online+with+Stash

16:15 Data Transfers via HTCondor transport mechanisms

Speaker: Mr Suchandra Thapa (Computation Institute / University of Chicago)

more information https://confluence.grid.iu.edu/x/pACn

16:25 Accessing Stash remotely from your job

Speaker: Mr Suchandra Thapa (Computation Institute / University of Chicago)

more information https://confluence.grid.iu.edu/x/pgCn

16:40 Software access using HTCondor transport mechanisms

Speaker: Marco Mambelli (University of Chicago)

more information https://confluence.grid.iu.edu/x/qACn

16:50 Software access using OASIS - the OSG software service

Speaker: Marco Mambelli (University of Chicago)

more information https://confluence.grid.iu.edu/x/qgCn

17:05 Using Parrot and OASIS

Speaker: Mr Suchandra Thapa (Computation Institute / University of Chicago)

more information https://confluence.grid.iu.edu/x/rACn

Wednesday, 28 August

08:30 → 09:00 Coffee

09:00 → 10:30 Tutorial Session III: Application Focus and OSG Connect

09:00 An example using GNU Octave on OSG Connect

Speaker: Mr Lincoln Bryant (University of Chicago)

more information https://confluence.grid.iu.edu/display/CON/Example+Application+-+Octave

09:15 Using the CERN ROOT application (high energy physics) on OSG Connect

Speaker: Mr Lincoln Bryant (University of Chicago)

more information https://confluence.grid.iu.edu/display/CON/Application+Example+-+ROOT

09:25 Using BLAST on OSG Connect

Speaker: Mr Derek Weitzel (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)

more information https://confluence.grid.iu.edu/x/SQCn

10:30 → 10:50 Coffee

10:50 → 12:00 Advanced Capabilities: Workflow Systems on OSG Connect

10:50 Bosco integrated with R (BoscoR) on OSG Connect

Speaker: Mr Derek Weitzel (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)

more information https://confluence.grid.iu.edu/x/vgCn

11:05 Using Pegasus to manage workflows on OSG Connect

Speaker: Mats Rynge (USC / Information Sciences Institute)

more information http://confluence.grid.iu.edu/display/CON/Using+Pegasus+to+manage+jobs

11:25 Using Swift (a parallel scripting language) on OSG Connect

Speaker: Mr Suchandra Thapa (Computation Institute / University of Chicago)

more information https://confluence.grid.iu.edu/display/CON/Using+SWIFT+on+OSG+Connect

12:00 → 12:20 Panel Discussion

Speakers: Jeff Chase (Duke University), John McGee (RENCI), John Pormann (Duke University), Robert Gardner (University of Chicago), Steffen Bass (Duke University), Steve Tuecke (University of Chicago)

12:20 → 12:30 Workshop Adjourns

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 16:20 Workshop Annex: Focus on Duke Research: Several Duke IT, RENCI and OSG staff will be on hand to follow-up with user issues, project planning, and general distributed high throughput issues relevant to the Duke research community

Convener: John Pormann (Director of Research Computing, OIT, Duke University)

13:30 Research Computing at Duke & RENCI Discussion

14:00 Starting a Project on OSG Connect - Guidance for PIs and Project Managers

Speaker: Robert Gardner (University of Chicago)

more information https://confluence.grid.iu.edu/display/CON/For+the+Principal+Investigator%3A+starting+a+Project+with+OSG+Connect

14:20 Breakout I: Strategies for connecting Duke campus grid resources, OSG Connect working group

14:20 Breakout II: Launching Projects on OSG Connect working group

15:10 Breakout III: More on user software and libraries: using PALMS with OASIS - the OSG software server

Speaker: Marco Mambelli (University of Chicago)