Asia 3 2011 - Joint CHAIN/EPIKH School for Grid Site Administrators

CHAIN (Co-ordination and Harmonisation of Advanced e-INfrastructures: http://www.chain-project.eu/) and EPIKH (Exchange Programme to advance e-Infrastructure Know-How: http://www.epikh.eu/) announce the Grid School for Grid Site Administrators to be held in Beijing, China.

Requisites

• Participants should have very good Linux knowledge and must know Bash shell and Perl programming. No prior gLite knowledge is required, although it is very welcome.


• During the remote installation, at least one system administrator should be available at the home institution to aid in the site setup process.


• The following hardware is needed at the home institutions for and adequate functional Grid site (highly recommended):


• 1 machine for the user interface (UI);


• 1 machine for the storage element (SE);


• 1 machine for the computing element (CE);


• 20 cores (at least) as worker nodes (WN).


• Machines should be scratchable.


• Smaller configurations are possible. For example, one machine for an UI may allow you to connect to a Grid without having a local site.

Deadline for registration
8 May 2010.

Registration fees
Registration for this event is free of charge.

Invitation Letter
If you need an invitation letter, please contact danfeng.zhu@jsi.buaa.edu.cn. Such a letter is generally requested to get a visa.

Visas
Please check with the appropriate consulate/embassy whether or not a visa is necessary to get in the country of the event.