Advanced Issues on Grid Technologies, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

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Multimedia Room (30 persons) (National Technical University of Athens)

Multimedia Room (30 persons)

National Technical University of Athens

Aris Sotiropoulos (GRNET)
Description
The Computing Systems Laboratory of the National Technical University of Athens in conjunction with the Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET) are organizing the "Advanced Course on Grid Technologies" two day seminar in Athens, 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 multimedia room of Central Library Building on Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th of January 2008.
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, 28-29/1/2008
Multimedia Room of Central Library
National Technical University of Athens
Athens
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 30 persons.
Seminar material language:Greek, English
Seminar language:Greek

  • Monday, 28 January
    • 09:00 10:30
      Introduction to the Grid/ HellasGrid/ EGEE 1h 30m
      Speaker: Ms Athanasia Assiki (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems)
      Slides
    • 10:30 11:00
      Break (Coffee) 30m
    • 11:00 13:00
      Job Submision - Laboratory 2h
      Speaker: Ms Athanasia Assiki (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems)
      document
      Slides
    • 13:00 14:00
      break (Snack - Coffee) 1h
    • 14:00 15:30
      Entering the Grid 1h 30m
      Speaker: Mr Vasileios Gkamas (Research Academic Computer Technology Institute)
      Slides
    • 15:30 17:00
      Introduction to MPI 1h 30m
      Introduction to MPI
      Speaker: Mr Vangelis Koukis (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems)
      Slides
  • Tuesday, 29 January
    • 09:00 11:00
      E-Science Applications on the Grid 2h
      Speaker: Mr Fotis Georgatos (GRNET)
      Slides
    • 11:00 11:30
      Break (Coffee) 30m
    • 11:30 12:00
      gLite Basic APIs 30m
      gLite Basic APIs
      Speaker: Mr Christos Filippidis (NCSR Demokritos)
      Slides
    • 12:00 13:00
      Hands-on GFAL programming (laboratory) 1h
      Hands-on GFAL programming (laboratory)
      Speaker: Mr Christos Filippidis (NCSR Demokritos)
    • 13:00 14:00
      break (Snack - Coffee) 1h
    • 14:00 15:00
      Hands-on R-GMA Programming 1h
      Hands-on R-GMA Programming
      Speaker: Mr Christos Filippidis (NCSR Demokritos)
    • 15:00 15:30
      Case Study: GridNEWS 30m
      Case Study: GridNEWS-A distributed Grid platform for efficient storage, annotating, indexing and searching of large audiovisual news content
      Speaker: Ioannis Konstantinou (Computing Systems Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens)
      Slides
    • 15:30 16:00
      Wrap-up 30m
      Wrap-up