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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
The Do Son - ACGRID school project aims at developing collaborations between research groups in Europe and Asia using grids as the environment to share resources, tools and expertise in all fields of science with a particular focus on life sciences and particle physics.
As a first step, the project focuses on the organization of a grid school in Hanoï (Vietnam) in November 2007. For 2 weeks, students and researchers from Asia will receive education on grid research and technology as well as training to the use of an existing international grid infrastructure and to the development and porting of their own scientific applications. In addition data analysis and simulation tools using the grids will be presented helping student to get more rapidly involved in frontier research activities.
In doing so, the school will address several objectives:
- 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.
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Programme of the school
As stated above, the goal of the school is to enable a number of Vietnamese and Asian groups to deploy scientific applications on the grid. The research communities primarily targeted are High Energy Physics and Biomedical sciences, but the programme is also relevant for other research areas such as computational chemistry, disaster prediction, etc.
The programme should allow time for a full tutorial on the EGEE grid and the presentation of simulation and analysis tools which take fully advantage of the grid, for instance Geant4 in physics or Taverna in bioinformatics. Another major goal is to allow time for the groups coming with a well-identified application to proceed with its “gridification” during the school in interaction with the grid experts so that they can go back to their institute with an almost finalized application. A special day will be dedicated to a symposium where particularly distinguished speakers will be invited.
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
Participation is welcome from all Asian countries. The expected attendees are the following groups of people:
- 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
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following sponsors
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STIC Asie Presentation in Seoul 2006
Advanced Computing and GRID Technologies for Research (ACGRID)
An Asian school in Hanoi
- Title: Advanced Computing and GRID technologies for Research (AC&GRID)
- 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)
Summary
This school is organized by the French CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), the VAST (Vietnan Academy of Science and Technology), 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
The final programme will be set up by the International organizing committee yet to be formed. Here follows some suggestions:
- 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
- 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.
- Scientific Program (Talks will be given by HEP computing and/or ITC experts)
- Distributed Computing
- GRID technology
- Concept
- Middleware Tools
- Demos and exercises
- Public or �volunteer� computing (BOINC)
- Parallel computing
- Hardware and Systems
- MPI programming
- 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
- Experimental Simulation and high precision computing
- Symbolic Computing
- Embedded and real-time Computing
- Robotics
- Data Acquisition
Participating Countries
Opened to Asian Countries, this school relies on the strong and sustained contribution of the participating countries government, funding agencies and foundations for supporting:
- domestic student and researchers attending the school.
- domestic experts and professors teaching at the school.
- the basic school organization
Contacts with those countries are in progress, feel free to contact us for more information.
Contacts:
IN2P3 /CNRS Asian Pacific cooperation
Denis Perret-Gallix
e-mail: Denis.Perret-Gallix@in2p3.fr
IN2P3 /CNRS
Francois le Diberder, Deputy Director
e-mail : diberder@admin.in2p3.fr
DSI/CNRS
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e-mail : ?
CNRS� International Relations Division
Minh-Ha Pham-Delegue
e-mail: minh-ha.pham-delegue@cnrs-dir.fr
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