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Status of Edu&Training

(on half of Nabil Adennadher, HEPIA/EIG Geneva)

Heinz Stockinger

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Vital-IT GroupLausanne, Switzerland

Heinz.Stockinger@isb-sib.ch

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Main activity in 2009

• Swiss Grid School in Geneva

• http://sgs2009.eig.ch• 7/8 May 2009

• Co-located with Grid and Pervasive Computing Conference

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SGS: the facts

• 20 participants

• About half from outside Switzerland

• Theory and practical exercises concerning:

• Grid architecture in general

• Security

• Information services

• Resource management and job submission

• Data management

• Software:

• ARC, gLite, Condor, BOINC, XtremWeb-CH

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SGS: the perception

9 out of 20 students responded to a questionnaire

• 88% found the event was useful (12% moder. useful)

• Quality of event: 100% good

• Most of the lectures were perceived good quality

Thanks to SMSCG project and members to support the school with person power, hard and software!

An AAA/SWITCH funded project

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Next steps

• Organise SGS again next year

• Need to make strong publicity for that

• Consider to offer a common Grid computing course/programme for different universities

• In memoriam MJ

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xs9OQHpwDE&hl=de