Tutorials
In response to the requirements gathered from the UK research community through the JISC eUptake projects, the NGS has recently taken a lead in producing a basic introductory text for researchers wishing to understand the aspects of distributed computing that may be of use to them. This text has been created by a community of experts and researchers in many domains and is expected to be an eveolving community resource.
The book can be accessed or printed from this link or ordered from the Lulu service in hard copy or the PDF downloaded from here.
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This tutorial introduces the new NGS component which allows you to submit your jobs to the infrastructure without having to know which resources it needs to run on or the details of resource addresses. The WMS has information about the resources on the NGS and can select appropriate ones to run your job. |
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Web-based Practical Tutorials.
In order to take full advantage of running these tutorials online you will need to already have an eScience certificate. Information on obtaining one is availbale on the NGS joining pages.
The turtorials use a JavaScript applet to allow you to access a terminal widget on the same page as the tutorial instructions. You will need to have JavaScript support enabled in your browser to access this feature. The instructions can still be followed in a separate SSH terminal if your site configuration does not allow the terminal window widget to run.
| NGS Portal | Job Submission on NGS Portal |
| NGS Job submission | Job Submission to NGS using command line (GSI-SSHTerm) |
| NGS Job Submission | Command line Job submission practical used by CCPB (same as above) |
| gLite Practical | A Practical showing some of the aspects of the gLite middleware using the GILDA infrastructure |
| Using GT4 for bioinformatics | Build client and services calling BLAST to query a sequence database |
Self Guided Tutorials
Please follow the links to tutorials on various topics on the NGS:
NGS Storage Resource Broker Tutorial is at this link.
Help and Support
if you require assistance please contact the NGS support centre.