Enabling, facilitating and delivering quality training in the UK and Internationally

The challenge of grid training and education

David Fergusson, Deputy Director Training Outreach & Education

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Distribution and size of community

More than 90 partners 32 countries12 federations

Major and national Grid projects in Europe, USA, Asia

+ 27 countries through related projects:

BalticGridSEE-GRIDEUMedGridEUChinaGridEELA

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Distribution of EGEE training effort

6

1

1

~ 1 FTE per partner in NA3 (22 active partners)

~ 0.3 FTE per partner within EGEE (given 70 partners in all). training required and delivered everywhere

1

Management, Support

eLearning, Web Services

WSRF, Biomed

Earth Sciences

Data

t-Infrastructure

Portals

Application integration

Multimedia (SMIL)

Industry, SME

Operations

User Support (GGUS)

Portals

Earth Sciences

Middleware

Operations

Induction

Web Services

1

5

4

3

Single partner

Federation

CE

SEE

RUSSIA

NORTHERN

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Countries which hosted EGEE courses

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Virtuous CycleAll Activities work in concert to drive the Virtuous Cycle

Field-tested and refined during EGEE

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Headline figures

2927 attendees at courses (1860)

250 training events (52)

9322 participant days (4820)

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Quality Assurance in EGEE

1. Feedback forms at events• Paper based• Online forms do not get filled in• Educational goals explicit for trainees to check against

2. Requirements gathering at conferences, user forum etc.

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Overall Feedback by course type

1.00

2.00

3.00

4.00

5.00

6.00

14/1

/04

6/5/

04

29/6

/04

8/9/

04

21/9

/04

15/1

0/04

13/1

1/04

7/12

/04

20/1

2/04

20/1

/05

10/3

/05

24/3

/05

15/4

/05

9/5/

05

13/6

/05

5/7/

05

24/8

/05

26.9

.05

16.1

0.05

14.1

1.05

8.12

.05

2/2/

06

27/2

/06

14/3

/06

28/3

/06

27/4

/06

Induction Advanced Application-Developers

Training: Quantity & Quality

Trainers review grades and revise course material and training plans

Participants grade course from 1 to 6. Each point = average of overall score for a course

n=68 of 174 possible courses

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EGEE Created ICEAGEMission

Stimulate and support advances in grid education throughout Europe

GoalsAchieve rapid growth in effective advanced grid education

Enabling society to make best use of e-InfrastructureMake best use of worldwide capacity for advanced grid educationDeliver a stimulating programme of educational events

Including international summer schoolsBroaden engagement in an advanced grid education

both geographically and across disciplines

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Summer Schools

Supported approx 5 Summer Schools per yearISSGC 04, 05

GridKa 04, 05

CERN School of Computing 04, 05

Budapest Regional Summer School 04, 05

PPARC Summer School 04, 05

Prepared ISSGC 06 then handed baton to ICEAGE

Highest profile international training and education events in grid computing.

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Issues

ScaleSupport geographically diverse groups

Many different knowledge domains

Breadth of knowledge required

QualityMaintain and encourage a ‘quality culture’

Rate of changeNew middleware features

New Virtual Organisations

Changing needs of domains

New projects

Changes in national grid provision

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Mission & GoalsMission

Stimulate and support advances in grid education throughout Europe

GoalsAchieve rapid growth in effective advanced grid education

Enabling society to make best use of e-InfrastructureMake best use of worldwide capacity for advanced grid educationDeliver a stimulating programme of educational events

Including international summer schoolsBroaden engagement in an advanced grid education

both geographically and across disciplines

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Activities

ForumEdinburghInternational panel of experts to develop curricula, policies & strategies

Support, Outreach, Induction & Training servicesEdinburghAttracting & Training the TrainersPersuading Universities to adopt Grid Computing CurriculaE-Learning, repository & course scheduling & announcement

Summer SchoolsKTH

T-InfrastructureCatania

Coordination & ManagementEdinburgh

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T-Infrastructure uses

GILDA/GENIUS has been central in installing new middleware versions, making these available and sharing experience

GILDA/GENIUS extensively used in induction and advanced training courses and summer schools

UEDIN cluster also used for early gLite installation in conjunction with GILDA to gather experience and developing new application developer courses.

Cluster and virtual machines at FZK used to support application developer and installation courses for gLite

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Summary

ICEAGE is a UK-led European ProjectValue €1.2 million, Duration 2 yearsStart March 2006, 6 Partners

MissionTo stimulate Grid Education in UniversitiesGlobal collaborationAll Disciplines

MethodsForums, Workshops and LobbyingSummer SchoolsShared educational materials & supportShared t-Infrastructure

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