Advanced Course on Grid Technologies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Europe/Athens
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Aristidis Sotiropoulos (GRNET SA), Nikolaos Voutsinas (Department of Informatics, UoA)
Description
The Department of Informatics and Telecomunications of the National and Kapodistrian 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 3nd phase of "Enabling Grids for E-sciencE" (EGEE-III) project which is funded by the European Union, will take place at the Teleconference Room of the Department of Informatics and Telecomunications (2nd floor) on Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th of February 2009.
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 23-24/02/2009
Teleconference Room
Department of Informatics and Telecomunications (2nd floor)
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, 23 February
    • 09:30 10:45
      Introduction to the Grid/EGEE-III 1h 15m
      Speaker: A. Asiki
      Slides
    • 10:45 11:15
      Break (Coffee) 30m
    • 11:15 12:30
      gLite Middleware - Job submission (Hands-on) 1h 15m
      gLite Middleware - Job submission (Hands-on)
      Speaker: A. Asiki
      Slides
    • 12:30 13:15
      Break (Snack - Coffee) 45m
    • 13:15 14:45
      Introduction to MPI/Parallel Processing 1h 30m
      Introduction to MPI/Parallel Processing
      Speaker: Evangelos Koukis (Unknown)
      Slides
    • 14:45 15:00
      Break (Coffee) 15m
    • 15:00 17:00
      Grid Data Management using command line (Hands-on) 2h
      Grid Data Management using command line (Hands-on)
      Speaker: A. Asiki
      Slides
  • Tuesday, 24 February
    • 09:30 11:00
      Entering the Grid 1h 30m
      Speaker: Mr Vasileios Gkamas (Research Academic Computer Technology Institute)
      Slides
    • 11:00 11:30
      Break (Coffee) 30m
    • 11:30 12:00
      gLite Basic APIs 30m
      gLite Basic APIs
      Speaker: Evangelos Koukis (Unknown)
      Slides
    • 12:00 13:00
      Hands-on GFAL programming (laboratory) 1h
      Hands-on GFAL programming (laboratory)
      Speaker: Evangelos Koukis (Unknown)
      document
    • 13:00 14:00
      break (Snack - Coffee) 1h
    • 14:00 15:00
      Hands-on R-GMA Programming 1h
      Hands-on R-GMA Programming
      Speaker: Evangelos Koukis (Unknown)
      document
    • 15:00 16:00
      Grid Application Development and Support 1h
      Grid Application Development and Support
      Speaker: Marios Chatziangelou (Unknown)
      Slides
    • 16:00 16:30
      Wrap-up 30m
      Wrap-up