Do-Son ACGRID School Presentation

School name	Do Son ACGRID school
Dates	November 5-16 (preparatory week: Oct 29 – Nov 2)
Location	Institute of Information Technology – Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology – Hanoï
	http://www.ioit.ac.vn
Number of students	40, 60% Vietnamese and 40% from other Asian countries
Web site	Registration
School chairs	Vu Duc Thi, IoIT VAST, vdthi@ioit.ac.vn
	Denis Perret-Gallix, CNRS-IN2P3, Denis.Perret-Gallix@in2p3.fr
School language	English
Contacts	Ngo Tran Anh, IoIT, trananh@iop.vast.ac.vn
	Vincent Breton, CNRS-IN2P3, Breton@clermont.in2p3.fr
	Bernard Mely, CNRS office in Hanoï, bylem22@gmail.com

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.

Location of the school

The school will take place in the premises of the Institute of Information Technology of the Vietnamese Academy of Sciences and Technology in Hanoï. IoIT is a leading partner of the VNGrid initiative and is one of the nodes of the TEIN2 network connecting Vietnam to Europe at 55MBPs. .

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