Inspired by ongoing success of International Summer School for Grid Computing (ISSGC), the Winter School provides the best of both worlds: proven curriculum and tutelage from the famous International Summer School and the flexibility of studying in online medium. Comparable in commitment and scope with the Summer School, the International Winter School in Grid Computing provides a unique online educational opportunity. Rigorous both in admission requirements and expected work commitment, IWSGC retains the majority of learner benefits from ISSGC while offering a high degree of flexibility.
The School will boost students' capabilities for research and innovation through the recordings of Summer School lectures, high-profile keynote speakers invited especially for the occasion, forum and chat discussions and tutorials. These activities will be delivered by leading authorities in the fields of advanced grid technology, applications of e-Science and distributed systems research.
The School will be held fully online from Wednesday 6th February 2008 to Wednesday 12th March 2008. Pre-course exercises will open from Friday, 14th December 2007 until Wednesday, 16th January 2008.
:: 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 three 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
Participants need to devote 20 hours per week over the duration of the event. The recommended scheduling is 4 hours a day from Monday to Friday. If they miss a part of the course, participants can make up during week-ends (until Monday 9:00 GMT).
IWSGC'08 consists of 5 live online events and synchronous work in between. In order to successfully complete the course, participants are obliged to attend at least 3 live events in their full duration.
Tutoring is provided during week-days, i.e. Monday to Friday. In order to get the most benefit from the course, participants are strongly recommended to devote the majority of their time during this period.
Total participant workload: 80 hours (4 hours per work day during four weeks) time dedicated to preparatory exercises (highly depending on participant background).
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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