:: Setting Exercises

Sven van den Berghe, Ralf Ratering, Vivian Li

Contents:
Four exercises will be described, each requiring different abilities of the students. We hope that the students will attempt at least one. They may try them all.
- Client Plug-in Programming
     - requires a basic knowledge of Java programming
     - aim is to develop a plugin for the Unicore client and test it on the local Unicore sites
- Unicore server installation
     - requires some basic Unix knowledge - comfort with scripts, editting text files etc
     - aim is to set up a Unicore site, configure it, test the installation and run simple jobs
- Using Unicore
     - no requirements (apart from attending the morning's lectures)
     - one or more problems will be set that can be solved by creating jobs using the Unicore Client and executing them on one or more Unicore sites.
- Command line interface integration
     - requires basic XML knowlege and some programming skills
     - aim is to make use of client-side workflow & command line interface within a simple program