MOOC - Introduction to Grid Computing¶
This page includes the complete course material as presented during the SURFsara MOOC Introduction to Grid Computing:
About¶
As of 18 November 2013, SURFsara offered the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Introduction to Grid Computing. The course aimed to help researchers to understand the Grid key concepts and the role of Grid Computing in computationally intensive problems. This included working with portals, workflow management systems and the Grid middleware.
The taught material consists of:
a set of video lectures.
a set of quizzes, assignments and exercises.
real world examples of use cases on Grid.
Note
The mooc participants were provided with student accounts and a preconfigured Virtual Machine (VM) with all the necessary Grid tools installed. If you want to run the examples presented in the video lectures below you will have to request your personal Grid account, see Prerequisites. Please contact helpdesk@surfsara.nl if you need help with this.
Lectures¶
The entire course video lectures can be found in the MOOC Video lectures.
Course Overview¶
Course Overview slides pdf
Introduction to Parallel and Distributed Computing¶
Intro to Parallel and Distributed Computing pdf
Cluster Computing¶
Cluster Computing pdf
Grid Computing Overview¶
Grid Computing Overview pdf
Grid_Glossary¶
Grid Glossary pdf
Hands-on set¶
Exercises Distributed Cluster Grid pdf
Quiz Distributed Cluster Grid pdf
Working Environment - Grid prerequisites¶
Working Environment_I Grid prerequisites pdf
Working Environment - Remote access¶
Working Environment II Remote access pdf
Code gridpi tar
Grid Certificate - Security¶
Grid Certificate I (security) pdf
Grid Certificate I (extras) pdf
Obtain a Grid Certificate¶
Grid Certificate II (Obtaining a certificate) pdf
User Interface machine¶
User Interface machine pdf
Virtual Organisations¶
Virtual Organisations pdf
Hands-on set¶
Exercises Install Certificate pdf
Quiz_Install Certificate pdf
Grid job Lifecycle¶
Grid job Lifecycle pdf
Start a Grid_Session¶
Start a Grid Session pdf
My First Grid job¶
My First Grid job pdf
Code MyFirstJob tar
Grid Toolkit¶
Grid Toolkit pdf
Hands-on set¶
Quick start guide pdf
Exercises First Grid job pdf
Quiz_First Grid job pdf
Application_submission to Grid I¶
Application submission to Grid I script pdf
Code script tar
Application_submission to Grid II¶
Application submission to Grid II executable pdf
Code compiled tar
Advanced Grid jobs I¶
Advanced Grid jobs I Collections & Parametric pdf
Code Collections Parametric tar
Advanced Grid jobs II¶
Advanced Grid jobs II Multicore pdf
Code multicore tar
Data parallel processing Hadoop¶
Data parallel processing Hadoop pdf
Hands-on set¶
Exercises Advanced Jobs pdf
Quiz Advanced Jobs pdf
Data Management on the Grid I¶
Data Management on the Grid I pdf
Data Management on the Grid II¶
Data Management on the Grid II pdf
Data Management on the Grid III¶
Data Management on the Grid III pdf
Code DMlargefiles tar
Storage Resource Manager¶
Storage Resource manager pdf
Code DMsrm tar
Hands-on set¶
Exercises_Data Management pdf
Quiz_Data Management pdf
Introduction to Workflows I¶
Introduction to Workflows I pdf
Introduction to Workflows II¶
Introduction to Workflows II pdf
WS-Pgrade I¶
WSpgrade I pdf
WS-Pgrade II¶
WSpgrade II pdf
Science Gateways¶
Science Gateways pdf
Hands-on set¶
Exercises Workflows pdf
Code Exercises Workflows tar
Code Solutions Workflows tar
Quiz Workflows pdf
Pilot Job Frameworks¶
Pilot job frameworks pdf
Picas Server side I¶
Picas server side I pdf
Picas Server side II¶
Picas server side II pdf
Picas client side¶
Picas client side pdf
Picas practise I¶
Code Picas tar
Picas practise II¶
Code Picas tar
Course Summary¶
Course summary pdf
Use cases¶
Use case: EGI overview¶
EGI overview pdf
Use case: LOFAR¶
Extreme physics in space pdf
Use case: Climate change over Europe¶
Climate change pdf
Use case: VisIVO Science Gateway¶
VisIVO Science Gateway pdf
Use case: Picas¶
Picas pdf
Use case: Molecular Biology¶
Molecular Biology pdf
Animations¶
We have prepared a set of animations to display the basic usage of Grid Infrastructure. The animations were presented during the lectures.
EGI-InSPIRE¶
The work is supported by the EGI-InSPIRE project (Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe), co-funded by the European Commission (contract number: RI-261323) for four years from the 1st of May 2010. EGI-InSPIRE is a collaborative effort involving more than 50 institutions in over 40 countries. Its mission is to establish a sustainable European Grid Infrastructure (EGI).