[THEGrid] Grid summer workshops; THEGrid plans
Alan Sill
Alan.Sill at ttu.edu
Thu May 19 10:17:20 CDT 2005
Below is some information on summer workshops of interest in our
region. If you are interested in any of these, please contact the
organizers or get in touch with me and I will try to find out more
information. Note registration deadlines are approaching rapidly in
each of the 3 cases listed below, so please follow up quickly if you
would like to attend.
In addition to these events and activities, please note that THEGrid is
following closely with interest the emerging plans of the Open Science
Grid to spawn a deployment-quality version of its grid software by the
summer timescale, currently targeted for July. THEGrid will host at
least one meeting in the summer and host another full-blown workshop
shortly thereafter (late summer or early fall) with the intent to
create a VO within Open Science Grid for Texas-based high energy
physics computing. We plan to discuss the details at an upcoming
executive board meeting. THEGrid members, please contact your
institutional representative for details.
All things considered, a very active summer for grid computing! But
more than having workshops, we need to focus on the work needed to
build high energy physics and related astrophysics and nuclear physics
grid computing in Texas. Please tune in as we learn how to take
advantage of recent developments to further our project mission.
Alan
UTB / TSC / GRiPhyN / iVDGL Grid Summer Workshop 2005
July 11, 2005 - July 15, 2005
The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College
(UTB/TSC), the Grid Physics Network (GriPhyN), the International
Virtual Data Grid Laboratory (iVDGL), and the Grid Research Integration
Deployment and Support Center (GRIDS) will sponsor a one-week intensive
summer workshop program in grid computing and its application in
scientific data analysis. This school will be held on South Padre
Island, a resort located on the Gulf of Mexico, twenty miles from
downtown Brownsville, Texas.
The aim of the program will be to give students a basic foundation in
distributed computing, and valuable hands-on training in computing
techniques. The workshop introduces essential skills that will be
needed by students in the natural and applied sciences, engineering,
and computer science to conduct and support scientific analysis in the
emerging grid computing environment.
The school's Scientific Organizing Committee consists of scientists
from GriPhyn, iVDGL, the Grid Center, NCSA, and UTB/TSC. Workshop
participants will work with some of the world's leading experts in grid
computing, through a blend of lectures, discussions, and hands-on
computing exercises completed on large-scale grid hardware and software
resources.
For more information, visit
http://cgwa.phys.utb.edu/Events/Summer2005/summergridws2005.php
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OUHEP Parallel & Cluster Computing workshop (July 31 - Aug. 6):
SUMMARY:
Would you be interested in attending a weeklong Parallel & Cluster
Computing workshop at OU July 31 - Aug 6 for $100 (including hotel
and food)?
It's for people who want to learn about parallel computing in order
to teach it to others.
Space is limited, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Applications are due by June 1 2005.
DETAILS:
The National Computational Science Institute (NCSI) will be hosting a
Parallel and Cluster Computing Workshop July 3 - Aug 6 at the
University of Oklahoma (OU), and you're invited to register.
NCSI sponsors a variety of summer Computational Science & Engineering
workshops for faculty who want to teach this topic to their students.
For an overview of NCSI, see:
http://www.computationalscience.org/
The Parallel & Cluster Computing workshop at OU July 31 - Aug 6 will
target faculty who intend to teach High Performance Computing (HPC)
to their students. The OU workshop will focus on using parallel and
cluster computing in an educational setting, as well as teaching issues
in parallel computing.
Examples suitable for classroom use will be presented and source code
will be made available. Further examples using publicly available
research codes will be used. Cluster installation tools designed for
educational institutions will be presented. Participants will get an
introduction to programming using the most common cluster parallel
protocol, MPI (Message Passing Interface), as well as an opportunity
to network with potential research and education collaborators.
To offset the costs of the class and to help decrease no-shows, there
will be a $100 registration fee this year, which can be refunded if the
participant withdraws before the cutoff date. There are scholarships
available for the registration fee if a need exists. Participants are
responsible for their own travel, but NCSI will take care of
accommodations, provide a daily per diem for meals, as well as provide
all training and materials free of charge.
If you're interested, please go to
http://www.computationalscience.org/workshops/summer05/
and scroll down to the bottom of the page to register.
Applications are due by June 1 2005.
PREREQUISITES:
a) Familiarity with at least one high-performance programming language
(e.g., C, C++, Fortran 77, Fortran 90 or Java)
b) Familiarity with Unix-style operating systems (including but not
limited to any of Linux, BSD, or any proprietary single-vendor flavor
of Unix)
c) An interest in incorporating topics from HPC into the curriculum.
Attendees are expected to begin to develop curricular material during
the
workshop and to present it to their fellow attendees.
Please feel free to forward this note to others who may be interested.
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SURA second Cyberinfrastructure workshop (Aug. 1-4):
SURA will be holding its second Cyberinfrastructure workshop focused
on Grid Application Planning & Implementation on August 1 - 4, 2005
at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), UT Austin.
Join both experts and peers for presentation and interaction to -
* extend your understanding of grid concepts and applicability to
advanced applications;
* gain insight into a broad range of applications that are benefiting
from grids;
* share recommendations and road maps for successful grid application
deployment;
* establish contacts for ongoing collaboration and peer support.
Presentations from major grid initiatives will illuminate the broader
uses of grids, followed by case studies of "grid-enabling"
applications. Interactive sessions will offer a closer look at key
issues, and selected related topics will provide additional context
for implementation - all designed to leave you better prepared to
move ahead with grid application development or deployment.
This workshop is appropriate for:
- Faculty and researchers to learn more about grids and project
groups beginning to use grids;
- Application developers to better understand implementation
considerations for running on a grid;
- Funding agencies to disseminate information on funding opportunities;
- Strategic planners to learn more about the "climate" of grid
application deployment
- Research officers to understand the "language of grids";
- Campus teams (IT, application, policy, funding) working
collaboratively on grid deployment.
A post-event workshop is also being planned to offer additional depth
on technical topics.
For more detail and to be notified when registration opens, see:
http://www1.sura.org/6000/gridworkshopAug05.html
For more on the first workshop, held January 2005, see:
http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwacs/suragridconf/index.html
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