Advanced Course on Grid Technologies, U of Thessaly, Greece

Europe/Zurich
Teleconference Room (University of Thessaly)

Teleconference Room

University of Thessaly

Manolis Vavalis (University of Thessaly)
Description
The Centre for Research and Technology - Thessaly and the Department of Computer and Communication Engineeringof the University of Thessaly in conjunction with the Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET) are organizing the "Advanced Course on Grid Technologies" two day seminar in Volos, Greece. The seminar, held in the context of the 2nd phase of "Enabling Grids for E-sciencE" (EGEE-II) project which is funded by the European Union, will take place at the Central Library of the University of Thessaly Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th of May 2007.
The seminar will include:
• Introduction to Grid systems
• Grid systems and e-Science
• Presentation of the EGEE project and the Grid initiative in Greece
• Presentation on the EGEE architecture, infrastructure and middleware
• Hands-on exercises for submitting Grid job and developing Grid Applications
• Introduction to Grid applications development (application programming, MPI)
The seminar is intended for researchers and members of academia of our region who would like to get hands-on experience with the services provided by the EGEE project.
Venue:
Monday and Tuesday, 14-15/5/2007
Central Library
University of Thessaly
Volos
Greece

In order to participate in the hands-on exercises, a WiFi enabled (801.11b/g) laptop is required. Participation to the seminar is free of charge. There is a limit in participants to 50-60 persons.
Seminar material language:English
Seminar language:Greek

    • 09:00 11:00
      Introduction to the Grid/ HellasGrid/ EGEE 2h
      Speaker: Ms Athanasia Assiki (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems)
      Slides
    • 11:00 11:30
      Break (Coffee) 30m
    • 11:30 13:30
      Job Submision - Laboratory 2h
      Speaker: Ms Athanasia Assiki (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems)
      Slides
    • 13:30 14:30
      Break (Snack - Coffee) 1h
    • 14:30 16:00
      Entering the Grid 1h 30m
      Speaker: Mr Vasilios Gkamas (Research Academic Computer Technology Institute)
      Slides
    • 16:00 17:00
      Grid and Applications 1h
      Speaker: Prof. Manolis Vavalis (University of Thessaly)
      Slides
    • 09:00 10:00
      Introduction to Grid Application Development with gLite 1h
      Speakers: Mr Christos Filippidis (NCSR Demokritos), Mr Vangelis Floros (NCSR Demokritos)
      Slides
    • 10:00 12:00
      Command Line Grid Programming 2h
      Speakers: Mr Christos Filippidis (NCSR Demokritos), Mr Vangelis Floros (NCSR Demokritos)
    • 12:00 13:00
      Break (Snack - Coffee) 1h
    • 13:00 15:00
      Introduction to MPI 2h
      Speaker: Mr Vangelis Koukis (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems)
    • 15:00 15:15
      Break (Coffee) 15m
    • 15:15 15:30
      gLite Basic APIs 15m
      Speakers: Mr Christos Filippidis (NCSR Demokritos), Mr Vangelis Floros (NCSR Demokritos)
      Slides
    • 15:30 16:30
      Hands-on GFAL Programming 1h
      Speakers: Mr Christos Filippidis (NCSR Demokritos), Mr Vangelis Floros (NCSR Demokritos)
    • 16:30 17:30
      Hands-on R-GMA Programming 1h
      Speakers: Mr Christos Filippidis (NCSR Demokritos), Mr Vangelis Floros (NCSR Demokritos)
    • 17:30 17:40
      Wrap-up 10m