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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JULY 7, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 27
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Special Features:
GGF SCHOOL -- TRAINING A GRID WORKFORCE
by J.S. Hurley, Editor-at-Large
The growing interest in Grids as viable compute resource brokers is largely
responsible for their acceptance beyond the traditional high performance
computing (HPC) research community. As applications become more grid-enabled,
the business community is expected to significantly increase its investments
in Grid Computing over the next decade. This increasing demand for Grids
coupled with continued advancements in middleware and networking technologies
have begun to raise concerns about the availability of a qualified workforce
to address Grid-related issues.
Noticeably absent until recently was an examination of the training needed
for
those involved in Grid implementation and deployment. There are a very limited
number of programs dedicated to training Grid practitioners, internationally.
Many of these programs are extensions of traditional Computer Science
curriculums and primarily devoted to simply exposing students to fundamental
Grid concepts. There is general agreement that, at a minimum, such training is
necessary. However, increasingly, discussions are focusing on whether this
approach is sufficient to handle the expected needs and demands of users as
Grids continue to evolve.
A number of collective and individual efforts seeking to address training
of
potential Grid practitioners have been recently undertaken. We will highlight
many of them in future issues. One such collective effort is sponsored by The
Global Grid Forum (GGF) which will hold its 1st GGF School of Grid Computing
in Vico Equense, Italy (near Naples) during the last two weeks of July 2003.
This initiative, inspired by the success of the Grid track at the 2002 CERN
School of Computing (see www.cern.ch/csc), 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 in Asia Pacific,
Europe, and the US (see www.ggf.org).
Please see the link:
www.dma.unina.it/~murli/SummerSchool/
for more
details.
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