Status of Edu&Training (on half of Nabil Adennadher, HEPIA/EIG Geneva)
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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
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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