[kepler-users] Kepler + Java API 4 HPC/GRID tutorials at GridKa summer school/ITM meeting

[Michal Owsiak]

Hello all,

we would like to announce, that Kepler was recently introduced to wide
audience during two events related to high performance computations:

- GridKa school 2009 - Karlsruhe (Germany) - http://gks09.fzk.de/
- EFDA ITM meeting - Juelich (Germany) -
http://itm2009.efda-itm.eu/agenda.php

There were four tutorials (hand-on) conducted by us personally. These
tutorial presented Kepler's features as well as Java API 4 HPC/GRID.
Each tutorial lasted more than four hours and was meant to provide users
with both: basic usage of Kepler and to present complex workflows
related to HPC/GRID.

If it comes to Java API 4 HPC/GRID it is meant to provide Kepler users
with ability for job management during GRID and HPC computations.

During ITM meeting we have successfully integrated with HPC machine at
Juelich (JUMP - http://www.fz-juelich.de/jsc/jump) using UNICORE
middleware. We have also managed to present one of the  features of Java
API 4 HPC/GRID - ability to utilize HPC and GRID resources within single
workflow.

During these two events, more than 90 people were working with Kepler
building simple workflows, getting knowledge regarding loops, ifs, and
composite actors. Users were also presented with ability to use HPC/GRID
machines directly from the Kepler.

You can find tutorial related information at following locations:

http://scilla.man.poznan.pl/GridKa2009
http://scilla.man.poznan.pl/ITMJulich2009

If you are interested with any information related to EUFORIA project or
Java API 4 HPC/GRID feel free to visit our Wiki:

http://scilla.man.poznan.pl:8080/confluence

And last, but not least. We would like to thank all the people who have
contributed to the to topics  that we have posted at [kepler-dev] and
[kepler-users] groups (David Welker, Matt Jones,  et al.) - many of your
suggestions helped us a lot. We
would like also thank Daniel Crawl who was primary contact for us
when it comes to support during Kepler related development.

Thanks again

Regards

Michal Owsiak and Marcin Plociennik

-- 
Michal Owsiak <michalo at man.poznan.pl>
Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
ul. Noskowskiego 10, 61-704 Poznan, POLAND
http://www.man.poznan.pl