Advanced Issues in Grid Technologies, UOA, Greece

Europe/Zurich
Department of Informatics, University of Athens

Department of Informatics, University of Athens

Nikos Voutsinas
Description
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 Wednesday 25rd and Thursday 26th 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:
Wednesday and Thursday, 25-26/10/2006
"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

  • Wednesday, 25 October
    • 08:45 17:50
      Day One NOC Teleconference Room

      NOC Teleconference Room

      • 08:45
        Coffee 15m
      • 09:00
        Welcome Note 10m
        Speaker: Aristidis Sotiropoulos (GRNET)
      • 09:10
        Introduction to the Grid 1h 50m
        Speaker: Athanasia Assiki (Computing Systems Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens)
        transparencies
      • 11:00
        Coffee 30m
      • 11:30
        Laboratory 2h
        Speaker: Fotis Georgatos (GRNET)
        transparencies
      • 13:30
        Lunch 1h
      • 14:30
        Grids: LCG/EGEE, SEE & HellasGrid 1h
        Speaker: Fotis Georgatos (GRNET)
        transparencies
      • 15:30
        Grids & E-Science 1h
        Speaker: Fotis Georgatos (GRNET)
        transparencies
      • 16:30
        Discussion 1h
        Discussion of various subjects proposed by the trainees
        Speaker: ALL
      • 17:30
        End of first Day 20m
  • Thursday, 26 October
    • 08:45 17:50
      Day Two NOC Teleconference Room

      NOC Teleconference Room

      • 08:45
        Coffee 15m NOC Teleconference Room

        NOC Teleconference Room

      • 09:00
        Entering the Grid 2h
        Speaker: Vasilis Gkamas (Computer Technology Institute)
        transparencies
      • 11:00
        Coffee 30m NOC Teleconference Room

        NOC Teleconference Room

      • 11:30
        Introduction to Grid Application Development 1h
        Speaker: Vangelis Floros (NCSR-Demokritos)
      • 12:30
        Command Line Grid Programming 30m
        Speaker: Vangelis Floros (NCSR-Demokritos)
      • 13:00
        gLite Basic APIs 30m
        Speaker: Christos Filippidis (NCSR-Demokritos)
        more information
      • 13:30
        Lunch 1h NOC Teleconference Room

        NOC Teleconference Room

      • 14:30
        Introduction to MPI 1h
        Speaker: Vangelis Koukis (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems)
        transparencies
      • 15:30
        Grid Administration 1h
        Speaker: Fotis Georgatos (GRNET)
        transparencies
      • 16:30
        Discussion 1h
        Discussion of various subjects proposed by the trainees
        Speaker: ALL
      • 17:30
        End of Tutorial 20m