TITLE:

	Computing Portals and the Grid Computing Environment

INSTRUCTOR:

	Prof. Geoffrey Fox
	Indiana University
	
LOCATION:

	U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)
	Information Technology Laboratory (ITL), Bldg. 8000
	Training and Education Facility (TEF), Room 1055
	Vicksburg, Mississippi

TIME:

	?????09:00-17:00 Central Time, Thursday, 16 August 2001
		
INSTRUCTION MODE:

	Lecture and hands-on laboratory.  A broadcast of the
	course will also be available over the web.


TARGET AUDIENCE:

	Potential users of computational portals and grids 
	
PREREQUISITES:
	
	Interest in the field.  Experience with systems like 
	web programming/development and the Globus toolkit 
	helpful but not required.

OVERVIEW:

	Grid computing environments such as computational web
	portals are being developed both within the DoD and in
	the high performance computing community at large.  The
	primary purposes of these portals are to simplify the use
	of computational grid technologies such as Globus, 
	provide an overlayer that binds both grid and non-grid
	resources, and makes grid and other distributed resources easily 
	accessible to users through a web browser interface.
	This tutorial will present case studies of computational
	web portals and outline general capabilities and architectures.  
	We will review relevant technologies such as JavaServer Pages, 
	Java, HTML, and XML.  The role of the latest standards efforts of the
	Global Grid Forum will be discussed.  Class attendees will
	have the opportunity to write JSP pages to access computing
	resources.

AGENDA:

	The follow topics will be covered during the tutorial

	 1. Introduction: What are computational grids
	    and computational portals?
	 2. Globus toolkit overview and the role of grid portals
	 3. Portal case studies: Mississippi Computational Web Portal (MSU),
	    HotPage (SDSC), Indiana NCSA Science Portal (IU), 
	    Gateway (ASC/ARL)
	 4. Overview of computational portal services
	 5. Grid Computing Environment activities
	 6. Introduction to web technologies (HTML, XML, Java, JSP)
	 7. Overview of WebFlow middleware and interfaces
	    to standard services.
	 8. Installing and configuring third party software (Apache,
	    Tomcat).
	 9. Building secure web portals and security issues.
  
	 

COURSE MATERIAL:

	Attendees will receive training materials in class.

POINTS OF CONTACT:

	Further information may be obtained by contacting 
	Wayne Mastin, 601-634-3063, mastin@wes.hpc.mil.

REGISTRATION:

	All participants are required to register. To register,
	contact the ERDC MSRC HPC User Support by email at
	info-hpc@wes.hpc.mil or phone at 634-4400 option 1 
	or 1-800-500-HPCC with the following information.  
	Online registration is available at
	http://www.wes.hpc.mil/training/schedule/schedule.htm.

	The class will be limited to 12 participants.

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VISITOR INFORMATION:

	Visitors should report to the Public Affairs Office 
	upon arrival at	ERDC.  Travel information, including 
	a map of ERDC, directions, and lodging, may be found 
	on the ERDC Web site at
	http://www.wes.hpc.mil/about_us/about.htm.  Upon 
	request, we will also send visitor information by mail.  

	Foreign nationals are required to contact security 
	(Linda McGowan) at 601-634-2776.  Individuals who fail 
	to satisfy security requirements will be denied access 
	to the station.

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This training class is a Programming Environment and Training 
(PET) effort for the ERDC MSRC as a part of the DoD HPCMP 
contract to CSC/Nichols.