16-26 May 2011
Beijing (China)
Europe/Rome timezone
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 Application Porting to be held in Beijing, China.
The Grid School aims at increasing the number of scientific/industrial applications running on the EUChinaGRID infrastructure. The School also aims at bringing new research groups to use the EUChinaGRID resources as well as to diversity the application domains and scientific communities.
Important deadlines:
Application submission: April, 30, 2011;
Notification of acceptance: May, 7, 2011;
Registration (only for accepted candidates): Between May, 8 and 15, 2011.
The school is mostly intended, but not restricted, EPIKH members.
To fulfill the goal of this Grid School, the program, based both on lectures and hands-on practices, will cover in-depth the main topics of Grid technology as well as the gLite middleware technicalities.
Good previous knowledge about Linux, for Linux applications, or Windows, for Windows applications, is mandatory, and knowledge about the gLite middleware is highly desirable. Candidates are strongly encouraged to take a look on the training materials available at: https://grid.ct.infn.it/twiki/bin/view/GILDA/UserTutorials in order to gain confidence.
To maximize the didactic impact and effectiveness, the number of applications to be ported will be limited to 8-10.
All application candidatures must be submitted to the Selection Board of the School by a team of at most two persons before the 30th of April 2011. Each application team should fill the questionnaire available on the web at the URL http://applications.epikh.eu/survey describing the application they want to port on the e-Infrastructure. The Selection Board will rank both applications and persons. At most one application per team will be selected.
Accepted candidates will be notified by the 7th of May 2011 and invited to fill the registration form to participate in the school. The form will be made available in this web page.
Accepted candidates have to commit to their participation in the whole event, includind the final EPIKH Workshop foreseen to be held on the 27th of May 2011.
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.
The Grid School aims at increasing the number of scientific/industrial applications running on the EUChinaGRID infrastructure. The School also aims at bringing new research groups to use the EUChinaGRID resources as well as to diversity the application domains and scientific communities.
Important deadlines:
The school is mostly intended, but not restricted, EPIKH members.
To fulfill the goal of this Grid School, the program, based both on lectures and hands-on practices, will cover in-depth the main topics of Grid technology as well as the gLite middleware technicalities.
Good previous knowledge about Linux, for Linux applications, or Windows, for Windows applications, is mandatory, and knowledge about the gLite middleware is highly desirable. Candidates are strongly encouraged to take a look on the training materials available at: https://grid.ct.infn.it/twiki/bin/view/GILDA/UserTutorials in order to gain confidence.
To maximize the didactic impact and effectiveness, the number of applications to be ported will be limited to 8-10.
All application candidatures must be submitted to the Selection Board of the School by a team of at most two persons before the 30th of April 2011. Each application team should fill the questionnaire available on the web at the URL http://applications.epikh.eu/survey describing the application they want to port on the e-Infrastructure. The Selection Board will rank both applications and persons. At most one application per team will be selected.
Accepted candidates will be notified by the 7th of May 2011 and invited to fill the registration form to participate in the school. The form will be made available in this web page.
Accepted candidates have to commit to their participation in the whole event, includind the final EPIKH Workshop foreseen to be held on the 27th of May 2011.
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.
| Dates: | from 16 May 2011 03:00 to 26 May 2011 12:00 |
| Timezone: | Europe/Rome |
| Location: | Beijing (China)New Main Building, Beihang University. No.37 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100191, ChinaRoom: G411 |
| Material: | Brochure |
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