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SUMMARY:e-Science and "The Grid" for Bio/Health Informaticians
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080114T093000Z
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DESCRIPTION:\n\nOverview\n\n\nThe Northwest Institute for Bio-Health Infor
 matics  and the training teams from the UK's National Grid Service and the
  EU-funded OMII-Europe project invite you to participate in their introduc
 tory course about e-Science technologies for bio and health informaticians
  in the UK.  This ‘hands-on’ course is aimed at those who are interest
 ed in exploring the potential of grid computing to enhance their life scie
 nces or health research.  \n\n\nWith an emphasis on application to the Bio
 /Health domain\, this course has been designed to:\nReveal and explain the
  architecture of Grids. Grids provide infrastructure for collaboration\, b
 y permitting resources such as computers\, data\, software to be orchestra
 ted across and between research communities that span different organisati
 ons. \nExplore the potential for established grids and e-science technolog
 ies to enhance research.\nCommunicate an understanding of how to exploit G
 rids\n\nThe course focuses on technologies and infrastructures that are in
  production use at different scales (project\, national\, international)\,
  and then explores progress towards what has sometimes been called “The 
 Grid.”\n\nAudience and pre-requisites\nThe course is primarily intended 
 for informaticians\, members of research projects who are responsible for 
 creating and deploying software applications for the bio/health domains.  
 Although prior experience of command-line or file editing using Linux will
  be useful in a minority of the practicals\, this is not an essential pre-
 requisite.\n\n\nTeaching outcomes\nIn this course attendees will:\n Learn 
 and understand the concepts and architecture of Grids including the UK’s
  National Grid Service (NGS) and the EU’s EGEE infrastructures.\n Learn 
 how e-Science technologies have been applied in the Bio/Health domain\n Ga
 in hands on experience using a variety of software\, including for:\n Work
 flow (with Taverna and also P-GRADE)\n Computation on Grids \nData managem
 ent on Grids\n\n Gain insight into the challenges of using the technologie
 s\n\nBy the end of the course attendees should be able to communicate effe
 ctively about e-Science technologies\, and also have gained sufficient kno
 wledge and hands-on experience to begin working with them\n\nLocation: Roo
 m IT407.\nSchool of Computer Science\, Kilburn Building\, Oxford Road\nA c
 ampus map can be found here. Kilburn is building number 39\, in the centre
  of the map.   For more general information see here.\n(This building can 
 be seen from the main road - "Kilburn Building")\n Costs For participants 
 from a UK University or related institution\nthe course is free.\n Registr
 ation Please register  here.  \n The following agenda is subject to minor 
 amendment. \n A booklet will be provided on the day\, but material that ha
 s changed since printing or is not in the booklet will be available from t
 he  NIBHI website.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=24
 377
LOCATION:University of Manchester IT 407
URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=24377
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