Training activities
Giuseppe Andronico
INFN Sezione di Catania
EELA/EUMEDGRID/EUChinaGRIDtraining activities
• Training indicates here knowledge dissemination activities.
• Based on GILDA t-Infrastructure• 2 main formats:
– User: knowledge of the middleware services and how to interact with them ( submitting jobs, retrieving outputs, managing data,…);
– Administrator: how to install, configure and manage grid sites and services;
EELA/EUMEDGRID/EUChinaGRIDtraining activities
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EELA/EUMEDGRID/EUChinaGRIDtraining activities
• Promoting Local Training Teams– Build a core of knowledgeable people in the countries
participating to these projects.– Start training in local languages enlarging the
dissemination effect to other communities • e.g.: gLite 3 User’s Guide fully translated in Spanish by
EELA!– Local Training Teams already active in:
• Brazil, Chile, Italy, Mexico, and Venezuela (EELA)• China, Greece, and Italy (EUChinaGRID)• Greece, Italy, and Turkey (EUMEDGRID)
• Next step: further customization to fulfill local needs.
EELA/EUMEDGRID/EUChinaGRIDtraining activities
• Training material repositories created for all Projects:– EELA:
• http://documents.eu-eela.org/?c=Training+Material&as=0&ln=en (per-event basis)
– EUChinaGRID:• http://documents.euchinagrid.org/?c=Training+Materials&as=
0&ln=en (per-topic basis)
– EUMEDGRID:• http://documents.eumedgrid.org/?c=Training+Materials&as=
0&ln=en (per-topic basis)
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EGEE Phase I
Forthcoming Tutorials• EELA:
– Madrid (Spain), October, 16-20, 2006 (users and sysadmins)
• EUChinaGRID: – Beijing (China), November, 20-24, 2006 (users)
• EUMEDGRID: – Tunis (Tunisia), November, 27 - December, 1, 2006
(users and sysadmins)– Marrakech (Morocco), December, 5-7 (sysadmins)
EELA/EUMEDGRID/EUChinaGRIDtraining activities
Grid Schools for application porting• 2 weeks of full immersion• 3-4 representatives per application per tutor (big
tutors/trainees ratio!)• 5-6 applications, both from within and outside
the project • Time schedule of already confirmed events:
– EELA: Itacuruçá (Brazil), December, 4-15, 2006, http://www.eu-eela.org/egris1
– EUMEDGRID: Cairo (Egypt), April 2007– EELA: Merida (Venezuela), July/August 2007
EELA/EUMEDGRID/EUChinaGRIDtraining activities