Advanced Issues in Grid Technologies, NOA, Athens

2 Oct 2006, 08:45 → 3 Oct 2006, 17:50 Europe/Zurich

National Observatory of Athens, Greece

Kostas Koutroumbas

The Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing of the National Observatory of Athens in conjunction with the “Greek Research and Technology Network” (GRNET) are organizing the “Advanced Issues in 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 the "Emilios Harlaftis" Seminar room, National Observatory of Athens, Metaxa & V. Pavlou, Lofos Koufos, Palea Penteli on Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd of October 2006.

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 jobs to the Grid
• Introduction to Grid applications development (application programming, MPI)
• Introduction to Grid administration

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, 2-3/10/2006
"Emilios Harlaftis" Seminar room, National Observatory of Athens, Metaxa & V. Pavlou, Lofos Koufos, Palea Penteli, 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.

Seminar material language: Greek
Seminar language: Greek

Monday, 2 October

Day One

08:45 Coffee

1 Welcome Note

Speaker: Aristidis Sotiropoulos (GRNET)

2 Introduction to the Grid

Speaker: Athanasia Assiki (Computing Systems Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens)

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11:00 Coffee

3 Laboratory

Speaker: Fotis Georgatos (GRNET)

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13:30 Lunch

4 Grid and Sciences

Speaker: Fotis Georgatos (GRNET)

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5 Discussion

Discussion of various subjects proposed by the trainees

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6 End of first Day

Tuesday, 3 October

Day Two

08:45 Coffee

7 Entering the Grid

Speaker: Christos Filippidis (NSCR-Demokritos)

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11:00 Coffee

8 Introduction to MPI

Speaker: Vangelis Koukis (Computing Systems Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens)

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9 Grid Applications

Speaker: Fotis Georgatos (GRNET)

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13:30 Lunch

10 Grid Administration

Speaker: Fotis Georgatos (GRNET)

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11 Discussion

Discussion of various subjects proposed by the trainees

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12 End of Tutorial