National
e-Science
Centre
OGSI and Microsoft.NET Course Report
e-Science Institute 9-10th September 03
The first OGSI on Microsoft .NET course, provided as part of a collaboration between NeSC,
EPCC and Microsoft Research Ltd and held at the UK e-Science Institute in Edinburgh, was held
on September 9-10th
2003.
Thirteen delegates attended the course from a range of institutions across the UK involved in eScience. The research interests of the attendees included automated reasoning, particle physics
and Grid research.
The goals of the course were to provide attendees with information on both the Open Grid
Services Infrastructure and Microsoft .NET and to demonstrate the applicability of Microsoft .NET
to the development and hosting of Grid services. An implementation of OGSI on .NET
MS.NETGrid-OGSI - was used as a focus for this demonstration. Both lectures and practicals
were used to facilitate the achievement of these goals.
The attendees viewed the course very positively and worth their while attending. The hands-on
Grid service development practicals were viewed as particularly useful and interesting. The
majority of attendees expressed an intent to use MS.NETGrid-OGSI in the near future for
applications development, inter-operability testing, benchmarking and learning more about
Microsoft .NET technologies.
The e-Science Institute will host another run of the OGSI on Microsoft.NET training course on
November 4-5th 2003. Registration for this course is now open.
Mike Jackson
EPCC
University of Edinburgh