:: Contact email
issgc07@lists.nesc.ac.uk

 
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:: About the School
The School will be held at the Gripsholmsviken Hotell & Konferens of Mariefred (Gripsholmsviken), Sweden, near Stockholm, from 8th to 20th July 2007.

This is a rare opportunity to hear about the latest achievements from Europe, North America and Asia, as well as to gain experience of a variety of Grid systems.

The School will boost students’ capabilities for research and innovation thanks to lectures, discussions, laboratory sessions, tutorials and group work. These activities will be delivered by leading authorities in the fields of advanced grid technology, applications of e-Science and distributed systems research.


:: Scope
Grid Computing is an important new approach to distributed computing. Thanks to the combination of regular structures and dynamic algorithms, Grid Computing can deliver computational as well as large, sustained data-rich and knowledge-intensive resources across heterogeneous contributing sites. Grid Computing therefore enables rapid advances in many disciplines.

The School will provide an in-depth introduction to Grid technologies that underpin e-Infrastructure and Cyberinfrastructure. It will present a conceptual framework to enhance each student’s ability to work in this rapidly advancing field.
Reports from world leaders in deploying and exploiting Grids will complement lectures from research leaders shaping future e-Infrastructure. Hands-on laboratory exercises will give participants experience with widely used Grid middleware.
Graduates of the School will:

  • be familiar with the fundamental components of Grid environments, such as authentication, authorisation, resource discovery, and resource access
  • be able to use Grid environments for basic and advanced job submission and distributed data management
  • be conversant with Grid achievements worldwide
  • be alert to emerging Grid applications
  • appreciate the potential of e-Infrastructure and be aware of new research opportunities

The programme includes the use of at least six grid and web service technologies. This allows students to make comparisons and see different approaches to common challenges in distributed computing.

However, it means that the school doesn't set out to generate experts in a specific grid technology. Similarly, the school concentrates on the architectural approach of these systems and does not have opportunity to discuss underpinning technologies, such as digital networks, nor to examine other approaches to distributed systems.



:: A Day at the School
The School will consist of lectures in the morning and practical exercises in the afternoon. Lectures will tackle the principles, technologies, experiences and exploitations of Grids. They will also review the research perspectives and report recent significant successes.

Equipment will be available at the School site for the practical exercises.

A social programme will support the curriculum so as to help students to form lasting friendships and enhance collaborative research.


 
Pictures from previous Summer Schools
2003/2004, 2005 and 2006
 
The most intensive and integrated tutorial summer school I have attended. Keep it going! Thanks for the great effort you have put into the school.
  - Previous Summer School Student


:: Target Audience
We invite applications from enthusiastic and ambitious researchers who have recently started or are about to start working on Grid projects. Students may come from any country.

They may be planning to pioneer or enable new forms of e-Infrastructure, to engage in fundamental distributed systems research or to develop new methods in any discipline that depends on the emerging capabilities of e-Infrastructure.

We expect participants from computer science, computational science and any application discipline. The School will assume that students have diverse backgrounds and build on that diversity. However, in order to participate fully in the practical exercises you should be a confident programmer who will have fulfilled certain prerequisites.

:: Contacts
For further information and enquiries please email issgc07@lists.nesc.ac.uk


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