OSG User School Schedule¶
Schedule subject to change prior to the start of the school.
All events happen in the Computer Sciences building (1210 West Dayton Street), Room 1240, except when noted otherwise.
Sunday, 8 July 2018¶
Welcome Dinner for Students and Staff
| Location | Fluno Center (601 University Avenue), Skyview Room |
|---|---|
| Time | 6:30 p.m. |
We will have instructors at the hotel lobbies prior to dinner, and walk with groups to the Fluno Center. Join us for the walk if you want, or otherwise meet us in the dinner room by 6:30 p.m.
For those joining us to walk over together, instructors will be at the hotel lobby by ~5:45pm. See the list below for which instructor will be at your hotel and their expected departure time for the Fluno.
- HotelRED, Bala, leave at 6:05
- Union South, Lauren, leaving at 6:10
- DoubleTree, Christina, leaving at 6:15
Monday, 9 July 2018¶
Main Idea: High Throughput Computing at a Local Site
| Start | End | Event | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | 8:45 | Breakfast and group discussion | |
| 9:00 | 9:15 | Welcome | Tim Cartwright |
| 9:15 | 9:45 | Introduction to High Throughput Computing (lecture) | Lauren Michael |
| 9:45 | 10:45 | Running simple jobs with HTCondor (hands-on) | " |
| 10:45 | 11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | Running Many HTC Jobs (lecture) | Lauren Michael |
| 11:30 | 12:15 | Submitting and managing many HTCondor jobs (hands-on) | " |
| 12:15 | 1:15 | Lunch | |
| 1:15 | 1:45 | HTCondor Job Matching and Automation (lecture) | Lauren Michael |
| 1:45 | 2:45 | Job attributes and automation (hands-on) | " |
| 2:45 | 3:00 | Break | |
| 3:00 | 3:45 | Automating HTC Workflows (lecture) | Lauren Michael |
| 3:45 | 5:00 | Running workflows locally with HTCondor's DAGMan (hands-on) | " |
| 5:00 | — | On your own | |
| 7:00 | 9:00 | Evening work session Union South, Traditions room (2nd floor) |
Bala, Derek, Lauren, Tim |
Tuesday, 10 July 2018¶
Main Ideas: Distributed High Throughput Computing; Security; Connecting to OSG
| Start | End | Event | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | 8:45 | Breakfast and group discussion | |
| 9:00 | 9:30 | Introduction to DHTC and overlay systems (lecture) | Brian Lin |
| 9:30 | 10:30 | Interacting with overlay systems (hands-on) | " |
| 10:30 | 10:45 | Break | |
| 10:45 | 11:15 | What's different about overlay systems? (lecture) | Brian Lin |
| 11:15 | 12:15 | Seeing differences with overlay systems (hands-on) | " |
| 12:15 | 1:15 | Lunch | |
| 1:15 | 2:25 | High throughput computing in action (interactive) | Group |
| 2:25 | 2:40 | Security in the OSG (lecture) | Brian Lin |
| 2:40 | 2:55 | Break | |
| 2:55 | 3:25 | Troubleshooting (lecture) | Brian Lin |
| 3:25 | 4:45 | Troubleshooting (hands-on) | " |
| 4:45 | 5:00 | Ways to connect to OSG (lecture) | Lauren Michael |
| 5:00 | — | On your own | |
| 7:00 | 9:00 | Evening work session Union South, Wisconsin Idea room (2nd floor) |
Bala, Derek, Brian |
Wednesday, 11 July 2018¶
Main Ideas: Software Portability + take a break
| Start | End | Event | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | 8:45 | Breakfast and group discussion | |
| 9:00 | 9:30 | Software portability considerations | Christina Koch |
| 9:30 | 10:30 | Compiled software and wrapper scripts (hands-on) | " |
| 10:30 | 10:45 | Break | |
| 10:45 | 11:15 | Licensing challenges and research software (lecture) | Christina Koch |
| 11:15 | 12:15 | Matlab and Python portability (hands-on) | " |
| 12:15 | 1:15 | Lunch | |
| 1:15 | 5:00 | Free Choice (with options provided) | Group |
| 5:00 | — | On your own | |
| 7:00 | 9:00 | Evening work session Union South, Traditions room (2nd floor) |
Derek, Christina, Tim |
Thursday, 12 July 2018¶
Main Ideas: OSG Connect; Data Handling
| Start | End | Event | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | 8:45 | Breakfast and group discussion | |
| 9:00 | 9:30 | OSG Connect (lecture) | Bala Desinghu |
| 9:30 | 10:45 | Using OSG Connect and OASIS | " |
| 10:45 | 11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | HTC considerations for "big data"? (lecture) | Derek Weitzel |
| 11:30 | 12:25 | Determining data requirements (hands-on) | " |
| 12:25 | 1:15 | Lunch | |
| 1:15 | 1:45 | Solutions for large input data (lecture) | Derek Weitzel |
| 1:45 | 3:15 | Handling large input data (hands-on) | " |
| 3:15 | 3:30 | Break | |
| 3:30 | 4:00 | Large output and local file systems (lecture) | Derek Weitzel |
| 4:00 | 5:00 | Leveraging shared file systems (hands-on) | " |
| 5:00 | — | On your own | |
| 7:00 | 9:00 | Evening work session | Bala, Derek, Ian |
The evening work session will be at Union South; search the “Today In The Union” (TITU) display for the exact room.
Friday, 13 July 2018¶
Main Ideas: Science Workflows; High-Throughput Computing; HTC Showcase
| Start | End | Event | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | 8:45 | Breakfast and group discussion | |
| 9:00 | 9:30 | From science to workflow (lecture) | Christina Koch |
| 9:30 | 10:15 | Workflow development (hands-on) | " |
| 10:15 | 10:30 | Break | |
| 10:30 | 10:50 | From workflow to production (lecture) | Christina Koch |
| 10:50 | 11:55 | Workflow execution (hands-on) | " |
| 11:55 | 12:40 | Lunch | |
| 12:40 | 1:05 | Group photo; Tour of Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery | Lauren/Christina |
| 1:05 | 1:15 | Walk back to Comp Sci | |
| 1:15 | 2:55 | High-throughput computing showcase | |
| 1:20 | 1:40 | Exploring virtual screening approaches with HTC | Spencer Ericksen |
| 1:45 | 2:05 | High-Throughput Computing in Atomic Physics | Josh Karpel |
| 2:10 | 2:30 | High-Throughput Machine Learning from Electronic Health Records | Ross Kleiman |
| 2:35 | 2:55 | When Low Throughput Biologists Meet High Throughput Computing | Prof. Dave O'Connor |
| 2:55 | 3:25 | Break and Q&A | |
| 3:25 | 4:40 | Principles for high-throughput computing (lecture) | Miron Livny |
| 4:40 | 4:45 | Short Break | |
| 4:45 | 5:15 | Where to go and what to do next? | Tim Cartwright |
| Final assignment | |||
| 5:15 | 6:30 | On your own |
Closing Dinner for Students and Staff
| Location | Union South (1208 Dayton Street), search the “Today In The Union” (TITU) display for the exact room |
|---|---|
| Time | 6:30 p.m. |