myGrid Users Day 5 May 2005

See Users Day page on main website.

See also DevelopersDay topic

What is myGrid? – Carole Goble

• UsersDayIntroduction-CAG.ppt

• The problem it is trying to address
  • Use cases: Graves Disease & Williams-Beuren Syndrome
• The context in which it operates
• The users it is aimed at
• The components and their relationships

Spotlight on workflows – Tom Oinn

• Taverna-TMO.ppt

• The Scufl language
  • Operation types
  • Data & control dependencies
  • Coping with failure: retries & alternative services
  • Implicit iteration
• The Taverna workbench
• Finding and including a service or a workflow via Feta
• Building & testing a workflow interactively

First practical – Tom Oinn

• Finding and running a workflow
• Building a simple workflow
• Just looking at the end result

Spotlight on data & metadata

• MIR, Kave & information model - Chris Wroe
  • ResultsManagement-CJW.ppt
  • How to access data results (files and the MIR)
  • How to access metadata results (provenance in the MIR & KAVE)

• The myGrid Portal Stefan Rennick Egglestone
  • Portal-SRE.ppt
  • How to save results in Taverna

Advanced features and components

• Describing services and workflows with Feta - Pinar Alper
  • Feta-PA.ppt

• Dealing with interface mismatch: using shims in workflows - Duncan Hull
  • Shims-DH.ppt

• Reusing and repurposing workflows - Antoon Goderis
  • Repurposing-AG.ppt

-- NickSharman - 27 Apr 2005