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Data Kigali 2018

High-Level Cirriculum Overview

Thursday AM Session

  • Welcome and Background
  • The Landscape of Research Computing
  • Profiling your application and choosing appropriate computing resources
  • Introduction to High Throughput Computing (HTC)

Thursday PM Session

  • Workflows and distributed environments
  • Workflows with Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs)

Friday AM Session

  • A few words on clouds and containers
  • Close out and resources for further collaboration
  • Disclipline spefic tutorials

Detailed Schedule

Thursday 16-August-2018

Time Discription Instructor
09:30 Welcome and the Landscape of Research Computing Rob Quick
10:00 Exercise - UNIX Refresher, Running Locally, Batch Services Rob Quick
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Profiling your application and finding a home for your workflow Rob Quick
12:00 Exercise - Single and batch submittion with HTCondor Rob Quick
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Worflows and distributed environments Rob Quick
14:30 Exercise - Accessing Distributed Resources on the Open Science Grid Rob Quick
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Workflows with Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) Rob Quick
17:15 Exercise - DAGMAN Rob Quick

Friday 17-August-2018

Time Discription Instructor
09:30 Clouds, Containers and Parting Words Rob Quick
10:00 Exercise - Complete Earlier Lessons Rob Quick
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Becoming Involved and Closing Thoughts Rob Quick
13:30 Lunch

Materials

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