NGS Surgery meetings

NGS Surgery meetings happen on alternate Wednesdays to support new and prospective NGS partner sites in becoming part of the NGS.

Upcoming surgery events

• 8 Sep 2010 Topic: WMS Portal.  Presentation by David Meredith
• 22 Sep 2010 Topic: NGS BDII and Information Publishing Changes.  Presentation by Jonathan Churchill (STFC) BDII-Surgery.pdf

Presentations from previous surgery events

Here is the collection of NGS Surgery presentations:

• 11 Feb 2009: Topic: GOCDB. Discussion led by Gilles Mathieu, STFC
  • Wiki discussion page: http://wiki.ngs.ac.uk/index.php?title=NGS_Use_Of_GOCDB
  • Another useful wiki page: http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gocwiki/GOCDB4_development
• 25 Mar 2009: Topic: Security policies and procedures. Presentation by Mingchao Ma NGS-Security.pdf
• 22 Apr 2009: Topic GLUE Information Publishing. Rough notes presented by Steven Young, Oxford NGS Surgery GLUE notes.ppt
• 20 May 2009: Topic NGS UEE Uniform Execution Environment. Presentation by Jonathan Churchill, STFC NGS UEE.ppt
• 3 Jun 2009: Topic LCAS/LCMAPS. Rough notes presented by Steven Young, Oxford NGS Surgery LCAS-LCMAPS notes.ppt
• 15 Jul 2009: Topic RUS client installation. Discussion led by Matt Ford, Manchester Documentation page: http://vidar.ngs.manchester.ac.uk/rus.html
• 29 Jul 2009: Topic GridSAM installation. Presentations by Steve Crouch, OMII GridSAM-NGSSurgery-20090729.ppt and Matteo Turilli, Oxford gridsam.ppt
• 26 Aug 2009: Topic Dealing with the recent linux kernel vulnerability.  Notes by Jason Lander, Leeds linux-security-aug-2009.ppt
• 4 Nov 2009: Topic SARoNGS site configuration.
• 2 Dec 2009: Topic Workload Management System (WMS)/User Interface (UI).  Presentation by Jonathan Churchill, STFC UIWMSTDG.pdf
• 16 Dec 2009: Topic Certificate Management Wizard.  Presentation by David Meredith, STFC certWizard.pptx
• 27 Jan 2010: Topic UK e-Science CA Development work.  Presentation by Jens Jensen, STFC NGS-Surgery-2010.1.27-RA-CA.pdf
• 10 Feb 2010: Topic NGS Communities.  Discussion led by Gillian Sinclair and Simon Collins, Manchester
• 23 Feb 2010 Topic: SARoNGS in production.  Demonstration by Mike Jones (Manchester)
• 11 Mar 2010 Topic: Eucalyptus cloud services.  Presentation by David Fergusson, Steve Thorn (Edinburgh), Matteo Turilli (Oxford) eucalyptus_ngs_surgery.{pptx,pdf}
• 24 Mar 2010 Topic: Editing your site pages on the NGS website.  Presentation by Gillian Sinclair (Manchester), Martin Jones (Edinburgh)
• 31 Mar 2010 Topic: NGI Operations.  Presentation by Andrew Richards (STFC)
• 21 Apr 2010 Topic: CREAM CE.  Presentation by Dug McNab (Glasgow), Kashif Mohammad (Oxford).  ngs_creamce.{ppt,pdf}
• 5 May 2010 Topic: Grid-SAFE.  Presentation by Stephen Booth (EPCC)
• 23 Jun 2010 Topic: NGS Technical Roadmap.  Presentation by David Wallom (Oxford) 10-6-23-Wallom-NGS-Technical-Roadmap.{pptx,pdf}
• 30 Jun 2010 Topic: LFC, the LCG File Catalog.  Presentation by Catalin Condurache (STFC) LFC_Jun2010.pdf
• 28 Jul 2010 Topic: WLCG Nagios.  Presentations by Cristina Del Cano Novales (STFC) WLCG_Nagios_NGS_Surgery.{pptx,pdf} and Kashif Mohammad (Oxford) NAGIOS_ngs_final.{ppt,pdf}