SeIUCCR Summer School Presentations - September 2011

Using e - infrastructure for Research Summer School

Date: Sep 12 2011 11.00 - Sep 15 2011 - 15.00

Lcation: Abingdon .

The residential Summer School was a unique four day event aimed at UK doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in the Engineering and Physical Sciences.

Here are the presentations by the participants:

Presentation Title Speaker Name

Day 1 Monday 12th Sept 2011

Introduction & welcome                  

Claire Devereux, NGS / SeIUCCR, STFC Ruther ford Appleton Laboratory   (RAL)

Introduction to the NGS

David Wallom, NGS Technical Director, University of Oxford

Introduction to the Software Sustainability Institute

Steve Crouch

Introduction to cloud computing David Wallom, NGS Technical Director, University of Oxford
Eduserv cloud Matt Johnson, Head of Research and Development, Eduserv

Making images & data storage in the Cloud     

Richard Tarrant, University of Reading
Introduction to Linux                                               

Andrew Richards, Associate Director - Operations and Services, Oxford   e-Research Centre

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Day 2 Tuesday 13th Sept 2011

Using different e-infrastructure(1)

Using different e-infrastructure (2)

David Wallom, NGS Technical Director, University of Oxford

Grid Certificates 

Running jobs on the NGS

John Kewley, NGS Support Centre Manager

Jon Churchill, NGS

HECToR national resource Adrian Jackson, Principal Consultant, EPCC, University of Edinburgh
Computational science & engineering support Ian Reid, Chief Commercial Officer, NAG
How to use a cloud

Steve Thorn Research Systems Consultant,University of Edinburgh

Richard Tarrant, e-Research Support, University of Reading

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Day 3 Wednesday 14th Sept 2011

Running workflows with Taverna                               

Taverna Tutorial

Donal Fellows, Research Computing Senior Engineer (Grid), University of Manchester
P-grade Portal Tamas Kiss, Senior Lecturer, University of Westminster
Data management tool kit Martin Donnelly, Curation Research Officer, Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
Practical data management Jens Jensen, STFC RAL
Software management Steve Crouch, Software Architect, Software Sustainability Institute (SSI)
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Day 4 Thursday 15th Sept 2011

Summer School logistics and final day agenda    Claire Devereux, NGS / SeIUCCR, STFC Ruther ford Appleton Laboratory 
Ask the experts – managing code                  Previous speakers
Ask the experts – managing software Previous speakers
Real Science enabled using e-infrastrecture

Phil Flower, Rebecca Nottman, Nick Holliman