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Africa 2 2010 - Joint EPIKH/SAGrid/EGEE-III/ Grid Application Development School
15-26 March 2010 University of Johannesburg
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The EPIKH (Exchange Programme to advance e-Infrastructure Know-How) project in collaboration with GILDA (Grid INFN Laboratory for Dissemination Activities) and the SAGrid (South African national Grid) project are pleased to announce the Africa2 2010 School for Grid Appication Porting. The school is jointly hosted by the Universities of Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand, and will run from March 15 to March 26.

Grid Computing is an important paradigm for e-Science enabling rapid advances in many disciplines. Its combination of services and dynamic algorithms is delivering large and sustained data, knowledge, and computing intensive resources across heterogeneous sites spanning the whole world. This school aims at increasing the number of applications running on the SAGrid e-Infrastructure, as well as bringing new research groups to use the SAGrid service so as to increase the number and diversity of application domains and scientific communities.
While the course is aimed at porting new applications to run natively on the SAGrid infrastructure, beginners who would like to have a "first contact" with the grid are also invited. The training programme will include lectures on the principles, technology, experience and exploitation of the Grid paradigm, as well as practical hands-on tutorial sessions, and dedicated application development sessions. We expect participants from all fields of science and research, including Computer Science and informatics, physics, astronomy, engineering, geomatics and earth observation, human languages, chemistry, and humanities. The School will assume that students have diverse backgrounds and will build on existing experience with shell programming, operating systems (Linux-flavours and Windows XP) and computer languages (python, C++, perl, Java).
The curriculum, based both on lectures and hands-on practicals, will cover in-depth the main topics of Grid technology as well as the gLite middleware technicalities. Good previous knowledge on Linux, for Linux applications, and on Windows, for Windows applications, is assumed.
All application candidatures must be submitted to the Selection Board of the School by a team of at most two persons. To maximize the impact and effectiveness of the School, the number of applications to be ported will be limited to 8-10.

Dates: from 15 March 2010 09:00 to 26 March 2010 18:00
Location: University of Johannesburg
Con Cowan Building, Bunting Road Campus, Johannesburg
Room: D-Lab
Chairs: Dr. Becker, B.
Dr. Ardizzone, V.
Material: Auckland Park Kingsway Road map.
Bunting Road map
Location KMZ
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Additional info: 
The school will be held at Con-Cowan We also provide Directions from The University of the Witwatersrand 
Videoconference over EVO : http://evo.caltech.edu/evoGate/koala.jnlp?meeting=eaeDetvaviaIatasIa
(password : sagrid)
The EPIKH workshop (26 March) will be held at the University of Johannesburg Council Chambers, with remote participation over EVO. Videoconference over EVO :  http://evo.caltech.edu/evoNext/koala.jnlp?meeting=M9MIMi2e2lD9Dt9M9BDD99 (password : sagrid)
School now running on APB campus, Bunting Road, Johannesburg.
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