Hands-On Tutorial: Grid Application Toolkit (GAT)

Thursday October 13^th, 2005.
Fourth day of the GRIDs@Work week.

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Organizers, Speakers and Tutors:              Rob van Nieuwpoort Objective: Slide presentations followed by demonstrations and a guided hands-on programming session. At the end of the day, participants should be able to develop and deploy GAT applications. The subjects to be covered include: GAT philosophy and Design  Using the GAT API How to Deploy GAT and GAT applications One Liners in GAT SAGA: a peek into the future Participants will have the freedom to choose the features and the applications most significant to them, potentially their application to be solved on the GRID. Full beginners as well as users with a parallel programming experience are welcome. The tutorial attendees should bring a laptop for actually programming and deploying GAT. Meeting Material: We'd like to ask all participants to contact the tutorial organizers one week in advance for material, and for information about required software installation for the Hands-On session. Thank you! What you will at least need is: Java 1.4 or newer, download at java.sun.com Ant 1.6 or newer (Java's equivalent of "make"), download at ant.apache.org Tentative agenda: 9:00-11:00 GAT and its programming models 11:00-12:00 Hands-on Session