The South African National Grid (SAGrid), in collaboration with
EGEE-II (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE) and GILDA (Grid INFN Laboratory for Dissemination Activities) announce the
School for Grid Appication Porting,
jointly hosted by the
University of Johannesburg and the University of the Witwatersrand
March 15 to March 26.
During the last few months, the South African National Grid (SAGrid) federation has been preparing to move from prototype to production phase. In order to encourage usage and develop user communities, two member institutes - the universities of Johannesburg (UJ) and the Witwatersrand (Wits) will be hosting a user training and application development school from March 15 to 26. The school will be run in collaboration with EGEE-II (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE) and GILDA (Grid INFN Laboratory for Dissemination Activities)
In scientific research, collaboration, resource sharing, advanced computing facilities and data are enabling the acceleration of discovery, innovation and efficiency more than ever. The grid-computing paradigm is a crucial aspect of today's e-Science, and national infrastructures have been deployed worldwide, with a strong emphasis on usability, interoperability and collaboration. However, development and support of the user communities is just as crucial as that of the infrastructure itself.
This 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 SAGrid e-Infrastructure. While the course is aimed at porting new applications to run natively on the SAGrid infrastructure, beginners who would like to have a first contact" with the grid are also strongly encouraged to attend.
Training and Curriculum
The training programme will include lectures, as well as practical hands-on tutorial sessions, and dedicated application development
sessions. Fields of research including, but not limited to
- Computer Science and informatics,
- physics, astronomy,
- life sciences and biomedical informatics
- engineering,
- chemistry,
- geomatics and earth observation,
- human languages,
- humanities.
Application porting prerequisites
The School will assume that students have diverse backgrounds and no prior experience with grid computing, however will build on existing experience with shell programming, operating systems (Linux flavours and Windows XP) and programming languages (python, C++, perl, Java).
All application candidatures must be submitted to the Selection Board of the school by a team of at most two persons before the 19th of February 2010. Each application team should fill the questionnaire available on the web at:
http://grid.ct.infn.it/infn/questionario/index.php?sid=94964<=en
The Selection Board will rank the questionnaires received and at most one application per tea m will be selected. To maximize the impact and effectiveness of the school, the number of applications to be ported will be limited to 8-10. Accepted candidates will be notified by the 3rd of March 2010 and invited to fill the registration form to participate to the school, at which point general registration for users will be open.
Important dates :
- Candidate Application Submission Closure Date : 19 February 2010.
- Application Selection Announcement : 3 March 2010
- Registration Open : 3 March to 10 March.
Important links :
- Event Home for more info and registration : http://indico.sagrid.ac.za/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=64
- SAGrid Home Page: http://www.sagrid.ac.za
- EGEE-III project : http://eu-egee.org
- GILDA home page : http://gilda.ct.infn.it
- University of Johannesburg Research Cluster : http://physics.uj.ac.za/wiki/cluster
- University of Witwatersrand Knowledge and Information Management : http://kim.wits.ac.za/
For more information, please contact SAGrid Coordinator : Bruce Becker (bbecker.at.csir.co.za)
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