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.

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.