SIGCSE 2010 Workshop 20: Teaching a Hands-on Undergraduate Grid Computing Course

SIGCSE 2010 - The 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education March 10-13, 2010, Milwaukee, WI, USA Workshop 20: Teaching a Hands-on Undergraduate Grid Computing Course Friday March 12, 2010, 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm, Room 102C
Barry Wilkinson University of North Carolina Charlotte	Clayton Ferner University of North Carolina Wilmington

Agenda		Materials
7:00 pm - 7:15 pm	Welcome and opening remarks: Introduction to Grid computing and the Grid computing course	Intro slides
7:15 pm - 7:40 pm (25 minutes)	Session 1: Use of a Grid computing portal to access Grid resources Presentation (10 mins) Hands-on experience accessing Grid platform through a portal (15 mins)	Portal slides Portal Instructions
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm (40 minutes)	Session 2: Using a command line to execute jobs on a Grid platform Presentation (10 mins) Demonstration/hands-on experience accessing Grid platform through a command line (30 mins) (Install ssh client from Internet for hands-on experience if necessary.)	Job submission slides Job submission instructions
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm	Break
8:30 pm - 9:25 pm (55 minutes)	Session 3: GridNexus workflow editor Presentation (15 mins) GridNexus demonstration/hands-on experience (40 mins) (Install GridNexus from Internet for hands-on experience.)	GridNexus slides GridNexus instructions
9:25 pm - 9:45 pm (20 minutes)	Session 4: Overview of other assignments Condor scheduler Installing GT4 core, creating, deploying, and testing a GT4 Web service. GridSphere portlet design assignment	Session 4 slides
9:45 pm - 10:00 pm (15 minutes)	Open discussion Different ways to construct a Grid computing course What computers sytsems and software is needed Etc.