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OMII-UK LiveCD Demonstrations – Providing Access to Computational Resources for Researchers AHM 2009 Steve Crouch, Justin Bradley, Yew Bie Cheng, Richard Boardman Web: www.omii.ac.uk Email: [email protected] Background • Evaluating Grid software is difficult! o o Just want ‘to have a go’ – determine suitability Non-trivial: installation, configuration, security • Evaluation should be easy o o o But not sacrifice demonstration of features Provide pre-installed demonstrations of software using real scientific applications Straightforward, minimum number of steps to use • Time-to-evaluation should be minimal o o Obtaining demonstration package Initialising the package http://www.omii.ac.uk/wiki/AHM2009 Web: www.omii.ac.uk Email: [email protected] What is the LiveCD? • Based around Slax LiveCD distribution • Designed to run completely from system RAM o Doesn’t access machine harddisk(s) • Users can either: o o Simply boot normal desktop/laptop from the CD From within a virtual machine, boot from .iso image file • 2GB RAM recommended! http://www.omii.ac.uk/wiki/AHM2009 Web: www.omii.ac.uk Email: [email protected] What’s on the LiveCD? • Campus Grid Toolkit (CGT) o o Includes GridSAM and AHE Easy to install and use package providing access to computational and data resources • e.g. PBS, Condor, Sun GridEngine, Globus, LSF o Demonstrations using computational resources: • Fractal – calculate a Mandelbrot set, • Primes – calculate prime numbers o Utilise PBS/Torque cluster (pre-installed) or local ‘fork’ http://www.omii.ac.uk/wiki/AHM2009 Web: www.omii.ac.uk Email: [email protected] What’s on the LiveCD? • RAPID o Design and deliver web portal interfaces to research applications requiring computational resources • e.g. PBS, Condor, Sun GridEngine o RAPID-created portal demonstrations: • RapidDemo – BLAST application – used by bioinformaticians to take a protein sequence, model it, and attempt to find match in protein database • MinemDemo – Minem application – physics application to model charge distribution in a plasma http://www.omii.ac.uk/wiki/AHM2009 Web: www.omii.ac.uk Email: [email protected]