ASP 2018 Materials

We will be using OSG Connect for this set of sessions. Please visit http://www.osgconnect.net for more information.

Tuesday Morning - Computational Infrastructures - Session 1

• Welcome and Introduction - The Landscape of Academic Research Computing
• Lecture 1 - Slides
• Introduction
• Our Job Manager (HTCondor)
• Your First Managed Job
• A few tips and tricks

Tuesday Afternoon - Computational Infrastructures - Session 2

• Lecture 2 - Slides
• A scripting job
• An R Job
• Working with file I/O

Tuesday Afternoon - Computational Infrastructures - Session 3

• Lecture 3 - Slides
• A brief detour through the Mandlebrot set
• Coordinating sets of jobs: A simple DAG
• A more complex DAG

Challenge Exercises on DAGs

• Handling jobs that fail
• Variable Substitution

Wednesday Morning - Computational Infrastructures - Session 4

• Lecture 4 - Slides
• Discipline specific tutorials
• Containers with Singularity

Wednesday Morning - Computational Infrastructures - Session 5

• ATLAS Analysis Example Lecture
• ATLAS Analysis Example Exercise

Wednesday Afternoon - Computational Infrastructures - Session 6

• Computational Infrastructures Wrap Up - Slides

Contact information

• Rob Quick - [email protected]
• Horst Severini - [email protected]
• Patrick Skubic - [email protected]
• Julia Gray - [email protected]
• Jae Yu - [email protected]
• Dick Greenwood - [email protected]
• Chris Walker - [email protected]
• http://www.osgconnect.net/
• DOSAR: Distributed Organization for Scientific and Academic Research http://www.dosar.org/ You are welcome to join our bi‐weekly video (Vidyo) meetings. Send request to be added to DOSAR email list to Prof. Greenwood: [email protected] reference you attended the African School of Physics 2018.
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