Do-Son ACGRID School Presentation

The objectives of the school are manifold:

• The training of Vietnamese and Asian students and staff members to the use of grid technology to develop scientific applications with a particular focus on life sciences and particle physics.
• The training of Vietnamese and Asian system administrators to the installation and maintenance of EGEE grid services
• The setting up of a number of grid services on machines to launch the kick-off of several nodes of the newly launched national Vietnamese Grid initiative.
• The training of Vietnamese and Asian students to the use of simulation and data analysis tools to be deployed in a grid environment

Goals of the school

• During the preparation of the school, it will allow to identify teams of researchers in developing Asian countries which could benefit from the grid to break their isolation and achieve an easier integration in the international research community
• As hands-on during the school require the installation of a local grid in Hanoï, this opportunity will be taken to train local system administrators to install and operate grid services.
• The trainees will receive an education at the highest international level on grid research and technology and learn how to use tools deployed on grids for simulation and data analysis.
• The trainees will leave the school with almost ready to use “gridified” applications which they will be able to deploy either on the local grid in Vietnam or on the grid infrastructure already deployed in Europe and in several Asian countries.

Location of the school

Programme of the school

The provisional programme of the school is the following:

• October 29 – November 2: tutorial for system administrators during the installation of the local grid at IoIT
• November 5 – 10: tutorial for grid users
• November 12 -15: simulation and analysis tools particularly relevant for high energy physics and life sciences
• November 16: International symposium on Grid computing and applications

Participation

• System administrators are encouraged to apply to the tutorial on the installation and maintenance of grid nodes that will take place October 29th to November 2nd 2007, the week before the school starts.
• Scientists and students with interest to use the services offered by grids and the analysis tools deployed on grids are encouraged to attend the school from Nov 5th to Nov 16th.

Trainees will be registered through the school web site.

Sponsors

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Advanced Computing and GRID Technologies for Research (ACGRID)

An Asian school in Hanoi

• Date: November 5- November 16
• Duration: 2 weeks + one week for the preparation of the GRID node in IoIT (VAST)
• Venue: IoIT VAST Hanoi (Vietnam)

• • • Public or �volunteer� computing (BOINC)

• • • Data Analysis and the �Root� system

Advanced Computing and GRID Technologies for Research (AC&GRID)

• Title: Advanced Computing and GRID technologies for Research (AC&GRID)

• Presentation at the Seoul STIC-ASIA Meeting

• [[http://www.ict-asia-france.org/meetings/seoul2006/perret-gallix_school.pdf]{ Presentation at the Seoul STIC-ASIA Meeting]]

• [[http://www.ict-asia-france.org/meetings/seoul2006/perret-gallix_school.pdf/download]{ Presentation at the Seoul STIC-ASIA Meeting]]

• School-2.pdf

• School-2.pdf: Initial Project document

• School-2.pdf: Initial Project document

“The Towers of Hanoi”

• Title: Advanced Computing and the GRID for Research (AC&GRID)
• Date: Fall 2007
• Duration: 1-2 week(s)
• Venue: Hanoi (Vietnam)

Summary

This school is organized by the French CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), the Vietnamese CNST (Centre National des Sciences et des Technologies), VAST, … and other participating country organizations.

It is held under the sponsorship of the French Embassies in Asia (? ), the “Réseau STIC-ASIE”(?): a French cooperation program developing ICT cooperation in Asia supported by the Ministry of Foreign affairs, CNRS/DREI-DSI(?), INRIA (?),….

Basic research relies nowadays on the most advanced technologies and the actual contribution to the progress of science is strongly linked to the technological expertise of the scientific staff. Technological training and teaching of practical skills is therefore mandatory in the researchers’ curriculum.

The school addresses one of the most important technologies needed to undertake any modern research activities, namely: Advanced Computing Technologies and the GRID for Scientific Research. HEP (High Energy Physics) that is both a strong consumer and developer of computing technologies (WEB, GRID, Symbolic languages, data analysis,...) together with ICT will join to provide a broad and high quality teaching programme.

Basic research has become international. Most of the major programs whether in a competitive or a cooperative manner are developed in this global framework. The school is therefore open to student and researchers from any participating Asian countries. The lectures will be given by French and Asian computing science experts deeply involved in basic research. As the school will gather researchers from various fields and various skills, it will give a unique opportunity to initiate and foster collaborations with or between Asian countries on the current and coming major global research projects in: nuclear, high-energy physics and astrophysics, genomics and medical sciences, material sciences and nanotechnologies, earth sciences, climate evolution and disaster prediction, …

As a follow-up, fellowships may be awarded by the participating countries to students joining international collaborations.

This school invites other computing related organizations and companies to sponsor this event. An exhibition can also be organized offering a unique showroom for the products, technologies or achievements of the participants and sponsors.

Programme

1. Fist Day will be the inaugural day: This kick-off start day will include: keynote talks, national policy and project talks, company talks, VIP meetings, Cocktail
2. An product showroom can be organized to allow leading computing related companies in Vietnam, France and other Asian countries to show and demonstrate their products. They will also sponsor the school.
3. Scientific Program (Talks will be given by HEP computing and/or ITC experts)
   1. Distributed Computing
      • GRID technology * Concept * Middleware Tools * Demos and exercises
      • Public or “volunteer” computing (BOINC)
   2. Parallel computing
      • Hardware and Systems
      • MPI programming
   3. Data Analysis methods and tools
      • Artificial Intelligence tools and methods
        • Neural nets
        • Genetic, evolution Algorithms
      • Pattern recognitions, Minimization and fits
      • Data Analysis and the “Root” system
      • Multivariate Analysis
   4. Experimental Simulation and high precision computing
      • Geant 4
   5. Symbolic Computing
      • Maple, Form
   6. Embedded and real-time Computing
      • Robotics
      • Data Acquisition

Participating Countries

• domestic student and researchers attending the school.
• domestic experts and professors teaching at the school.
• the basic school organization

Contacts:

IN2P3 /CNRS Asian Pacific cooperation Denis Perret-Gallix e-mail: Denis.Perret-Gallix@in2p3.fr

DSI/CNRS ? e-mail : ?

CNRS– International Relations Division Minh-Ha Pham-Delegue e-mail: minh-ha.pham-delegue@cnrs-dir.fr

Project presentation

-- DenisPerretGallix - 19 Oct 2006