On Tuesday, April 29th, in Madison, WI, we will hold the first annual NMI Build and Test Workshop at UW-Madison in conjunction with Condor Week 2008. The workshop will consist of a dedicated track of tutorials and talks by users and developers regarding Metronome, the NMI Lab, and the build and test needs of NSF projects and collaborators in general.

Please mark the date, and let us know if you have thoughts or ideas for what you’d like to see included!

Logistics

The workshop will be held at Grainger Hall room 4151, two blocks from the Fluno Center and Condor Week 2008. See the Condor Week hotel page for information on accomodations.

Registration is now open, and costs $75 (or free if you’re attending the rest of Condor Week).

Agenda

09:00 am – 09:10 am: Welcome & Introductions
09:10 am – 09:30 am: Background: What are Metronome and the NMI Lab? Why Should I Care?

09:30 am – 11:30 pm: User Talks: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Experiences, tips, issues, and feedback from production Metronome and NMI Lab users.

• 09:30 am – 09:50 am: iRODS, SRB, and More – Wayne Schroeder (San Diego Supercomputing Center)
• 09:50 am – 10:10 am: OGCE Portal – Marlon Pierce (Community Grids Lab, Indiana University)
• 10:10 am – 10:30 am: TeraGrid & Globus – Charles Bacon (Argonne National Labs)
• 10:30 am – 10:50 am: Condor – Derek Wright (UW-Madison)
• 10:50 am – 11:10 am: Open Science Grid – Alain Roy (UW-Madison)

• 11:10 am – 11:30 am: ETICS – Marian Zurek (CERN)

11:30 pm – 01:00 pm: Lunch at the Fluno Center (joint with Condor Week)

The afternoon sessions will resume in the same room (Grainger Hall, Room 4151).

01:00 pm – 03:15 pm: Metronome Developer Talks
Metronome developers and NMI Lab admins discuss the current status of our technology, highlights of some major features, and future plans.

• 01:00 pm – 01:20 pm: State of the NMI Lab & Future Plans – Ross Oldenburg
• 01:20 pm – 01:40 pm: Tools for Automated Testing – Todd Miller
• 01:40 pm – 02:00 pm: Dynamic Testbed Deployment Using Parallel Scheduling – Becky Gietzel
• 02:00 pm – 02:15 pm: break
• 02:15 pm – 02:35 pm: Metronome Beyond the NMI Lab: Job Migration, Custom Platforms, Etc. – Todd Miller
• 02:35 pm – 02:55 pm: Crash Course in Debugging Metronome runs (or, “What Does Error -1003 mean?”) – Peter Couvares

• 02:55 pm – 03:15 pm: Metronome Roadmap – Peter Couvares

03:15 pm – 03:30 pm: Break

03:30 pm – 05:00 pm: Track 1: Hands-On Tutorial: Using Metronome and the NMI Lab (Grainer Hall, Room 4151)
03:30 pm – 05:00 pm: Track 2: Problem-Solving Q&A With the Developers & Admins (Grainer Hall, Room 3180)