Advanced Issues in Grid Technologies, UoA, Greece

23 Oct 2006, 08:45 → 24 Oct 2006, 17:50 Europe/Zurich

Department of Informatics, University of Athens

Nikos Voutsinas

The Department of Informatics and Tecelomunnications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in conjunction with the “Greek Research and Technology Network” (GRNET) are organizing the “Advanced Issues in Grid Technologies” two day seminar in Athens, Greece. The seminar, held in the context of the 2nd phase of “Enabling Grids for E-sciencE” (EGEE-II) project which is funded by the European Union, will take place at the "GU eLearning & Media Center" Teleconference room of the UoA Network Operations Center, in UoA campus on Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th of October 2006.

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 jobs to the Grid
• Introduction to Grid applications development (application programming, MPI)
• Introduction to Grid administration

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, 23-24/10/2006
"GU eLearning & Media Center" Teleconference room, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, UOA Campus, 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.

Seminar material language: Greek
Seminar language: Greek

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The 2-day course has been fully videotaped. All sessions are available to view directly from this page in 350kbps and 150kbps formats; use FireFox & RealPlayer.
Also, you may find all original mpegs on the grid itself, eg.

lfn:/grid/see/NA3/videos/uoa_d1s1.mpg
lfn:/grid/see/NA3/videos/uoa_d1s1extras.mpg
lfn:/grid/see/NA3/videos/uoa_d1s2.mpg
lfn:/grid/see/NA3/videos/uoa_d1s3a.mpg
lfn:/grid/see/NA3/videos/uoa_d1s3b.mpg
lfn:/grid/see/NA3/videos/uoa_d2s1.mpg
lfn:/grid/see/NA3/videos/uoa_d2s2a.mpg
lfn:/grid/see/NA3/videos/uoa_d2s2b.mpg
lfn:/grid/see/NA3/videos/uoa_d2s2c.mpg
lfn:/grid/see/NA3/videos/uoa_d2s2d.mpg
lfn:/grid/see/NA3/videos/uoa_d2s3.mpg

In order to retrieve the files from the Grid, you must belong to the SEE VO.

Monday, 23 October

08:45 → 17:50 Day One

08:45 Coffee

09:00 Welcome Note

Speaker: Aristidis Sotiropoulos (GRNET)

live broadcast rtsp://vod.grnet.gr/grnet/grid/uoa_d1s1_grids.rm

streaming video rtsp://vod.grnet.gr/grnet/grid/uoa_d1s1_grids_small.rm

09:10 Introduction to the Grid

Speaker: Athanasia Assiki (Computing Systems Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens)

live broadcast rtsp://vod.grnet.gr/grnet/grid/uoa_d1s1extra_grids.rm

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11:00 Coffee

11:30 Laboratory

Speaker: Fotis Georgatos (GRNET)

live broadcast rtsp://vod.grnet.gr/grnet/grid/uoa_d1s2_grids_large.rm

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13:30 Lunch

14:30 Grids: LCG/EGEE, SEE & HellasGrid

Speaker: Fotis Georgatos (GRNET)

live broadcast rtsp://vod.grnet.gr/grnet/grid/uoa_d1s3a_grids.rm

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15:30 Grids & E-Science

Speaker: Fotis Georgatos (GRNET)

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16:30 Discussion

Discussion of various subjects proposed by the trainees

Speaker: ALL

17:30 End of first Day

Tuesday, 24 October

08:45 → 17:50 Day Two

08:45 Coffee

09:00 Entering the Grid

Speaker: Vasilis Gkamas (Computer Technology Institute)

live broadcast rtsp://vod.grnet.gr/grnet/grid/uoa_d2s1_grids.rm

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11:00 Coffee

11:30 Introduction to Grid Application Development

Speaker: Vangelis Floros (NCSR-Demokritos)

live broadcast rtsp://vod.grnet.gr/grnet/grid/uoa_d2s2a_grids.rm

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12:30 Command Line Grid Programming

Speaker: Vangelis Floros (NCSR-Demokritos)

live broadcast rtsp://vod.grnet.gr/grnet/grid/uoa_d2s2b_grids.rm

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13:00 gLite Basic APIs

Speaker: Christos Filippidis (NCSR-Demokritos)

live broadcast rtsp://vod.grnet.gr/grnet/grid/uoa_d2s2c_grids.rm

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13:30 Lunch

14:30 Introduction to MPI

Speaker: Vangelis Koukis (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems)

live broadcast rtsp://vod.grnet.gr/grnet/grid/uoa_d2s2d_grids.rm

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15:30 Grid Administration

Speaker: Fotis Georgatos (GRNET)

live broadcast rtsp://vod.grnet.gr/grnet/grid/uoa_d2s3_grids.rm

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16:30 Discussion

Discussion of various subjects proposed by the trainees

Speaker: ALL

17:30 End of Tutorial