HCC OSG Workshop, June 2013

Location: Unity Room/212 in the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center

Time	Title	Description
9am	Intro to HTC	Introduction to High Throughput Computing
10:30am	Practice Blast Job	Run a real science application, Blast, on a Condor based system.
12pm	Lunch	Lunch is provided.
1pm	Workflows	Learn how to describe a workflow in DAG format.
2pm	Portability	Transfer input and output files with the jobs
3pm	Big Data	Learn how to handle large data in HTC

Password for demo account is ‘OSG@HCC2013’.

1. Intro to HTC (A)
   
   1. HTC vs. HPC
   2. Submitting HTC jobs
2. Practice Blast Job (D)
   1. input files
   2. output files
   3. job monitoring - where to look for problems
   4. Condor clustering?
      <lunch>
3. Dagman (D)
   
   1. Intro to dagman
   2. Multiple queries and summarize OSG Page
4. Portability (A)
   1. Compiling for lowest common denominator
   2. Data Requirements
   3. Packaging (wrapper scripts?)
   4. Example:  Running R on the OSG
5. Big Data (A)
   
   1. Medium Data 10MB - 500MB - HTTP
   2. Large Data 500MB+ - SRM / GridFTP
   3. Example:  Using HTTP

 

Materials borrowed from OSG