ISSGC'07 Summer School has been a complete success, thank you to all the people who made it possible, the presenters, and all the students who attended.
You can find a temporary report on the Summer School here.
You can see some photos hosted on flickr, make sure you add a issgc07 tag to your photos!
You can also see photos on our ISSGC07 gallery.
Completed registrations 78.
We received 101 completed applications.
40 other people started to fill in the applications
form but did not complete it.
We have now sent out invitations to attend the Summer School
to 64 applicants.
"It has become a yearly reference point for Grid computing where the very
best Grid developers and scientists come and review the state of the art
and teach an impressive audience of very smart students. I am happy
that Microsoft has agreed to be main sponsor of this conference again
this year and I am sure that the company with my colleagues will be
very well represented."
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.
I highly recommend the Summer School to everybody who is working or
starts to work in the area of Grid Computing. The talks are outstanding
and the organisation and technical infrastructure supports the students
perfectly.
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.
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