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• May 23 - 27 (Site Administrator and Advanced Services)
• May 30 - June 9 (User induction and Application porting)
• EPIKH workshop and Open Day: 10 June

What's it all about ?

Entire infrastructures have been deployed in South Africa and worldwide to respond to the growing need of scientists in a digital world, and the grid computing paradigm is a crucial aspect of today's e-Science environments. However, development and support of user communities, and applications is just as crucial as that of the infrastructure itself. The EPIKH project aims to re-inforce both sides of the equation, stimulating development in technical and support services as well as identification and integration of relevant scientific and industrial applications.

For the third year running, EPIKH will be bringing South African and European experts together in order to further encourage usage and develop of the national e-Infrasructure. This year, we have the privilege of being hosted by the University of Stellenbosch.

This EPIKH school aims at bringing new research groups to use the SAGrid services, so as to increase the number and diversity of application domains and scientific communities supported by the regional e-Infrastructure. The school will consist of a technical experts school, and a school for general scientific users as well as application developers and support teams. Candidate applications can be submitted at http://wiki.epikh.eu/applications/survey, selecting the school "Africa 5 - Stellenbosch". These submissions will be evaluated by a panel of experts and successful candidates will be invited to register.

What will be covered in the school ?

The user and application porting school will address adoption of the grid in areas of

• basic usage and interaction with the services offered by SAGrid
• application porting and usage on the grid
• distributed data management
• HPC and distributed computing
• metadata and large data set processing

Advanced topics will include development of :

• dynamic infrastructure management
• virtual research environments
• workflow tools

Important dates :

1. Registration is open : closes 17 May 2011
2. Application Submission is open. Applications to be submitted by : 13 May 2011
3. Application Selection Announcement : 15 May
4. Site administration school : Week 21 (23 - 27 May 2011)
5. User induction and application porting school : weeks 24 and 25 (30 May - 9 June)
6. EPIKH workshop and Open Day: 10 June

There is no fee for participation and a limited number of travel sponsorships are available, thanks to SuperMicro, who is sponsoring the event. Please register as soon as possible if you are attending, at the following linsks :

• Site Administration and Advanced Services Course
• Application Porting and User Induction Course

For more information : www.epikh.eu | www.sagrid.ac.za Share

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