CCGrid Tutorial Agenda

Agenda for the CCGrid 2014 Tutorial

1. Introduction:

   • Airavata
     

   • XSEDE

   • ECSS

   • Science Gateways

2. Should I Build a Science Gateway?

   • What makes a good gateway?

   • Does the gateway already exist?

   • What kind of developers will I need?

3. Gateway Parade

• What gateways are available now?

• What are some gaps and opportunities for new gateways?

4. Representative Production Gateways with Usage Examples

   • Computational chemistry with GridChem.

   • Integrating instruments, laboratory infrastructure management, and data analysis for biophysics: UltraScan

   • Bioinformatics and gateways: CIPRES

5. How Gateways are Built.

   • Description of various approaches used by current gateways: gateway software stack.

   • Layers of Cyberinfrastructure

   • Science Gateway Abstractions

6. Hands on tutorial with executing applications through Apache Airavata Science Gateway API

   • Introduce Airavata Architecture

   • Download and install Airavata

   • Register applications descriptions

   • Execute applications through Airavata API and GUI tools

     • Gateway Login
     • Create Project
     • Create, Configure, Modify & Launch an Experiment
     • Monitor Experiments & View results
     • Search & List Experiments
     • Delete Experiment