ACGRID School Presentation

School name	ACGRID school
Dates
Location
Number of students	~40
Web site	Registration
School chairs
	Denis Perret-Gallix, CNRS-IN2P3, Denis.Perret-Gallix@in2p3.fr
School language	English
Director
	Vincent Breton, CNRS-IN2P3, Breton@clermont.in2p3.fr

The objectives of the school are manifold:

• The training of 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 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 Asian country Grid initiative.
• The training of students to the use of simulation and data analysis tools to be deployed in a grid environment

Goals of the school

The 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.

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 nodes, 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 or on the grid infrastructure already deployed in Europe and in several Asian countries.

Programme of the school

As stated above, the goal of the school is to enable a number of 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.

School Format

a School session is a one week long training:

• 1 day to finish the installation with the local system managers of the GRID tools. (most of the installation will have been done remotely with the help of the local system managers)
• 3+1/2 days Student training
• 1/2 Symposium

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.
• 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.

Trainees will be registered through the school web site.

Sponsors

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following sponsors:

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-- DenisPerretGallix - 24 Feb 2009