Issues on Grid Technologies, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Europe/Athens
FORTH, Heraklion, Crete

FORTH, Heraklion, Crete

Charalampos Gkikas (Fooundation for Research and Technology - Hellas), Christos Papachristos (Fooundation for Research and Technology - Hellas)
Description
The Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) in conjunction with the Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET) are organizing the "Issues on Grid Technologies" two day seminar in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. The seminar, held in the context of the 3nd phase of "Enabling Grids for E-sciencE" (EGEE-III) project which is funded by the European Union, will take place at the "Stelios Orphanoudakis" Conference Room of FORTH on Thursday 30th and Friday 31st of October 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:
Thursday and Friday 30-31/10/2008
"Stelios Orphanoudakis" Conference Room
Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH)
Heraklion
Crete
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

  • Thursday, 30 October
    • 09:00 10:30
      Introduction to the Grid/ HellasGrid/ EGEE 1h 30m
      Speaker: Ms Athanasia Asiki (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 Asiki (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems)
      Slides
    • 13:00 14:00
      break (Snack - Coffee) 1h
    • 14:00 16:00
      E-Science Applications on the Grid 2h
      Speaker: Mr Fotis Georgatos (GRNET)
      Slides
    • 16:00 17:30
      Introduction to MPI 1h 30m
      Introduction to MPI
      Speaker: Evangelos Koukis
      Slides
  • Friday, 31 October
    • 09:00 10:30
      Entering the Grid 1h 30m
      Speaker: Mr Vasileios Gkamas (Research Academic Computer Technology Institute)
      Slides
    • 10:30 11:00
      Break (Coffee) 30m
    • 11:00 11:30
      gLite Basic APIs 30m
      gLite Basic APIs
      Speaker: Christos Markou (NCSR-Demokritos)
      document
    • 11:30 12:30
      Hands-on GFAL programming (laboratory) 1h
      Hands-on GFAL programming (laboratory)
      Speaker: Christos Markou (NCSR-Demokritos)
    • 12:30 13:30
      break (Snack - Coffee) 1h
    • 13:30 14:30
      Hands-on R-GMA Programming 1h
      Hands-on R-GMA Programming
      Speaker: Christos Markou (NCSR-Demokritos)
    • 14:30 15:00
      Case Study (Local Party) 30m
      Speaker: Christos Papachristos (Fooundation for Research and Technology - Hellas)
    • 15:00 15:30
      Wrap-up 30m
      Wrap-up