Free tutorial for registered ESSA 2009 participants: Social Simulation on the Grid. 14 September 2009, 09:30-12:50, Griffith Theatre, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.

Grid technology allows access to computing resource, often for free; so there's no excuse for not exploring that extra region of parameter space with your model. This tutorial will be useful for anyone wanting to find out more about the Grid/e-Infrastructure, and how to run social simulations on it.

Final programme:

09:30 Welcome

(Gary Polhill, Research Scientist, Macaulay Land Use Research Institute.)

09:40 Integration of e-Research Software with Social Simulation Software

(Neil Chue Hong, Director, OMII-UK.)

10:15 Grid Computing: EGEE and NGS Projects

(Hamza Mehammed, Senior Trainer, National e-Science Centre.)

10:45 Coffee break

11:15 Experience: Social Simulation on the Grid with FEARLUS

(Gary Polhill)

This session will feature a live demo of using simulationBox to run a simulation, and a video of using simulationBox on a cluster.

12:15 Discussion and Q&A

12:50 Close

For more information, see: ESSA 2009 Tutorials: http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/essa2009/tutorials.php SimulationBox: http://www.simulationbox.net/ National Grid Service (NGS): http://www.grid-support.ac.uk/ Enabling Grids for E-scienceE (EGEE): http://www.eu-egee.org/ OMII-UK: http://www.omii.ac.uk/ National e-Science Centre (NeSC): http://www.nesc.ac.uk/ European Social Simulation Association: http://www.essa.eu.org/ Macaulay Land Use Research Institute: http://www.macaulay.ac.uk/ Computing Science, University of Aberdeen: http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/