EPIKH (Exchange Programme to advance e-Infrastructure Know-How: www.epikh.eu/), EGEE-III (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE: www.eu-egee.org/) and SAGrid (South African national Grid: www.sagrid.ac.za/) are pleased to announce the Africa1 2009 (Grid site administration) and Africa1 2009 (Application porting) events to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 16 November to 3 December 2009.

  Joint EPIKH/EGEE-III/SAGrid Grid School

Africa1 2009 (Grid site administration)

16-20 November 2009

CapeTown, South Africa

Grid Computing is an important paradigm for e-Science enabling rapid advances in many disciplines. Its combination of services and dynamic algorithms is delivering large and sustained data, knowledge, and computing intensive resources across heterogeneous sites spanning the whole world. The one-week EPIKH School for grid site administrators focuses on grid middleware installation, configuration, and testing and will provide participants with the capability to manage a grid site belonging to a production quality e-Infrastructure. The training programme will include lectures on the principles, technology, experience and exploitation of the Grid paradigm. Half of the curriculum of the school will consists of hands-on sessions, giving participants the possibility to gain concrete expertise on different middleware services needed at the grid sites. To support the hands-on laboratory sessions, a testbed will be established based on world-widely used gLite middleware developed in the context of the EGEE-III project and which will provide a rich environment for hands-on learning and experimentation. Exercises and team work will encourage students to learn by actually deploying and using this testbed.
We expect participants from computer science, engineering, physics, etc. The School will assume that students have diverse backgrounds and will build on existing experience with shell programming, operating systems (Linux-flavours and Windows XP) and computer languages (python, C++, perl, Java).

Africa1 2009 (Grid site administration) web site: http://agenda.ct.infn.it/events/africa1_site

Registration Form:

http://agenda.ct.infn.it/confRegistrationFormDisplay.py/display?confId=182

Joint EPIKH/EGEE-III/SAGrid Grid School

Africa1 2009 (Application porting)

23 November 2009 – 3 December 2009

CapeTown, South Africa

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

This school aims at increasing the number of applications running on the SAGrid e-Infrastructure, as well as bringing new research groups to use the SAGrid service so as to increase the number of diverse application domains and scientific communities.

The Africa1 2009 curriculum, based both on lectures and hands-on practicals, will cover in-depth the main topics of Grid technology as well as the gLite middleware technicalities. Good previous knowledge on Linux, for Linux applications, and on Windows, for Windows applications, is assumed.

All application candidatures must be submitted to the Selection Board of the School by a team of at most two persons before the 21^st of October 2009. Each application team should fill the questionnaire available on the web at: http://grid.ct.infn.it/infn/questionario/index.php?sid=71251&lang=en. The Selection Board will rank the questionnaires received and at most one application per team will be selected. To maximize the impact and effectiveness of the school, the number of applications to be ported will be limited to 8-10.

Accepted candidates will be notified by the 26^th of October 2009 and invited to fill the registration form to participate to the school.

Africa1 2009 (Application porting) web site: http://agenda.ct.infn.it/events/africa1_applications

Application Survey: http://grid.ct.infn.it/infn/questionario/index.php?sid=71251&lang=en

IMPORTANT DEADLINES:

Application submissions: October 21, 2009.

Notification of accepted candidates: October 26, 2009.

Registration (only for accepted candidates): Between October 26 and November 8, 2009.