Special Features:
GRID SCHOOL IS HERE!
A topical school on Grid computing will be held in Vico Equense, Italy
(near Naples) during the last two weeks of July, 2003.
Grid computing has emerged as an important new field, distinguished from
conventional distributed computing by its focus on large-scale resource
sharing and innovative applications but there are few opportunities to learn
the basics of grid computing hands-on.
This initiative was inspired by the success of the Grid track at the 2002
CERN School of Computing ( http://see www.cern.ch/csc . ). The school will
consist of lectures by experts in various aspects of grid middleware and grid
applications and laboratory sessions in which the students will carry out
practical exercises.
The target audience consists of young researchers (from technical
industries, research laboratories, and academic environments) who have
recently started (or are about to start) working on grid research projects -
of which there are many funded by the EU, the US and countries in Asia
Pacific. Prospective students from both "computer science" and "application"
backgrounds will be encouraged to apply; the school will be designed assuming
students have diverse preparation.
The curriculum for the school is being designed by an international program
committee of experts, chaired by Paul Messina of Argonne National Laboratory
and CERN and chair fo the GFAC.
The members of the program committee are:
- Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago)
- Geoffrey Fox (Indiana University)
- Fabrizio Gagliardi (CERN) Tony Hey (UK e-Science Programme and University
of Southampton)
- Lennart Johnsson (University of Houston and Royal Institute of Technology,
Sweden)
- Robert Jones (CERN) Peter Kacsuk (MTA SZTAKI Research Institute)
- Carl Kesselman (University of Southern California Information Sciences
Institute)
- Miron Livny (University of Wisconsin)
- Paul Messina (Argonne National Laboratory, CERN, and USC-ISI) -- Almerico
Murli (University of Naples and ICAR-CNR)
- Alexander Reinefeld (Zuse Institute and Humboldt University, Berlin)
- David Snelling (Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe)
- Roy Williams (California Institute of Technology)
The initiative is being sponsored by the Global Grid Forum and funding support
has been pledged by a number of organizations and computer companies.
Content And Approach
The curriculum of the school will include lectures on the main topics of
Grid development and technology, as well as emerging key grid applications.
The lectures will be given in the mornings. In the afternoons the practical
exercises will take place on the equipment installed in the school site in
Vico Equense, Italy (near Naples), which will be the same hotel that
successfully hosted the 2002 CERN School of Computing.
The school will provide an in-depth introduction to Grid technologies and
applications. The hands-on laboratory exercises will give participants
practical experience with widely used Grid middleware software for basic Grid
activities. By the end of the school, students will be familiar with the
fundamental components of Grid environments, such as authentication,
authorization, resource access, and resource discovery; able to use grid
environments for basic and advanced job submission; and conversant in Grid
efforts worldwide and key emerging Grid applications.
There will also be several evening speakers from industry, academia, and
research laboratories who will present overviews of grid activities and
efforts in various countries and commercial companies. For example, one of the
evening lectures will describe the Global Grid Forum.
To support the hands-on laboratory sessions, a testbed will be established
that will host widely used middleware produced by projects in the US, the EU,
and in Asia Pacific (AP). The testbed will be connected to major international
science grids and thus provide a rich environment for hands-on learning and
experimentation.
A total of 80 students will be admitted to the school. Admission will be
based on applications from the students in which they state their reason for
wanting to learn about grids and with what grid project they are associated or
expect to be associated. The applications will be supported by two reference
letters from the applicant's supervisor.
The typical student will be a postdoctoral researcher who will be working
on a grid project at his or her home institution. Given the anticipated
funding of this school by European and US organizations, preference will be
given to students from the EU and the US. However, applicants from other areas
such as Asia Pacific will be considered for admission.
Those who are interested in attending the school should send an email to
grid-school@ggf.org. The application process and cost of attendance will be
finalized soon and detailed information will be sent to those who expressed
interest, as well as posted on the GGF web site and the Grid Summer School web
site that is being prepared.
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