Advanced Issues in Grid Technologies, UOA, Greece

Europe/Zurich
Department of Informatics, University of Athens

Department of Informatics, University of Athens

Nikos Voutsinas
Description
The Department of Informatics and Tecelomunnications of the National and Kapodistrian University 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 "GU eLearning & Media Center" Teleconference room of the UOA Network Operations Center, in UOA campus on Wednesday 25rd and Thursday 26th 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:
Wednesday and Thursday, 25-26/10/2006
"GU eLearning & Media Center" Teleconference room, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, UOA Campus, 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

  • Wednesday, 25 October
    • Day One NOC Teleconference Room

      NOC Teleconference Room

      • 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)
        transparencies
      • 11:00
        Coffee
      • 3
        Laboratory
        Speaker: Fotis Georgatos (GRNET)
        transparencies
      • 13:30
        Lunch
      • 4
        Grids: LCG/EGEE, SEE & HellasGrid
        Speaker: Fotis Georgatos (GRNET)
        transparencies
      • 5
        Grids & E-Science
        Speaker: Fotis Georgatos (GRNET)
        transparencies
      • 6
        Discussion
        Discussion of various subjects proposed by the trainees
        Speaker: ALL
      • 7
        End of first Day
  • Thursday, 26 October
    • Day Two NOC Teleconference Room

      NOC Teleconference Room

      • 08:45
        Coffee NOC Teleconference Room

        NOC Teleconference Room

      • 8
        Entering the Grid
        Speaker: Vasilis Gkamas (Computer Technology Institute)
        transparencies
      • 11:00
        Coffee NOC Teleconference Room

        NOC Teleconference Room

      • 9
        Introduction to Grid Application Development
        Speaker: Vangelis Floros (NCSR-Demokritos)
      • 10
        Command Line Grid Programming
        Speaker: Vangelis Floros (NCSR-Demokritos)
      • 11
        gLite Basic APIs
        Speaker: Christos Filippidis (NCSR-Demokritos)
        more information
      • 13:30
        Lunch NOC Teleconference Room

        NOC Teleconference Room

      • 12
        Introduction to MPI
        Speaker: Vangelis Koukis (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems)
        transparencies
      • 13
        Grid Administration
        Speaker: Fotis Georgatos (GRNET)
        transparencies
      • 14
        Discussion
        Discussion of various subjects proposed by the trainees
        Speaker: ALL
      • 15
        End of Tutorial