MAiN
 
:: Curriculum:

First Week
Second Week

Sunday, July 9, 2006
     
  -- Welcome --
  15:00 Registration.
   
  16:00 - 18:30 Basic Java, Unix & XML tutorials.
( Steven Newhouse, David Fergusson, Richard Hopkins )
 
- Java Refresher   [ ppt | pdf ]
- Java Tutorial   [ view ]
- Introduction to XML   [ ppt | pdf ]
- Very Quick & Basic Unix   [ ppt ]
 
   
  19:30 Welcome Gala.
Monday, July 10, 2006
     
  -- Orientation, Motivation and Principles --
 
 
  7:30 Breakfast.
     
  9:00 - 10:30 Session 1 :: Welcome, Introduction & General Principles.
( Malcolm Atkinson, Almerico Murli, Diego Romano)
 
     
  10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break.
     
  11:00 - 12:30 Session 2 :: Principles of Distributed and Grid Systems.
( Malcolm Atkinson )
 
     
  12:30 - 14:30 Lunch.
     
  14:30 - 15:30 Session 3 :: Security 1: Introduction.
( John Watt )
 
     
  15:30 - 16:00 Session 3 :: Introduction to practical facilities & certificates.
( Diego Romano )
 
     
  16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break.
     
  16:30 - 17:00 Session 3 :: Introduction to practical facilities & certificates.
( Diego Romano )
 
     
  17:00 - 18:00 Session 4 :: Geodise: Taking the Grid to the Engineer.
( Graeme Pound )
 
     
  18:00 - 18:30 Break.
     
  18:30 - 19:00 Discussion.
   
  19:30 Dinner.
   
  21:30 Private Study.
   
   
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
     
  -- Foundations of distributed computing --
 
 
  7:30 Breakfast.
     
  8:45 - 9:00 Context and linking. [pdf]
     
  9:00 - 10:30 Session 5 :: Principles & Architectures of Distributed computation.
( Steven Newhouse )
 
     
  10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break.
     
  11:00 - 12:30 Session 6 :: Distributed Computation - Example Systems.
( Stephen McGough )
 
     
  12:30 - 14:30 Lunch.
     
  14:30 - 16:00 Session 7 :: Basic Practical: An Introduction to OMII GridSAM.
( Steven Newhouse, Stephen McGough and Vesselin Novov )
 
     
  16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break.
     
  16:30 - 18:00 Session 8 :: Advanced OMII GridSAM Practical.
( Steven Newhouse, Stephen McGough and Vesselin Novov )
 
     
  18:00 - 18:30 Break.
     
  18:30 - 18:45 Discussion.
     
  18:45 - 19:00 Session 8.5 :: OGF and Standardisation Work.
( Malcolm Atkinson and Steve Newhouse )
 
     
  19:30 Dinner.
   
  21:30 Private Study.
   
   
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
     
  -- Foundations of distributed data management --
 
 
  7:30 Breakfast.
     
  8:45 - 9:00 Context and linking. [pdf]
     
  9:00 - 10:30 Session 9 :: Principles & Architecture of Distributed Data Management.
( Malcolm Atkinson, Miron Livny and Stephen Davey )
 
     
  10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break.
     
  11:00 - 12:30 Session 10 :: Security 2: Principles and Practice.
( John Watt )
 
     
  12:30 - 14:00 Lunch.
     
  14:00 - 15:00 Session 11 :: Example Application of Grid for Industrial Semiconductor Manufacturing.
( Brooklin Gore )
 
     
  15:00 - 19:30 Visiting the Island/Beach Party (Sponsored by GGF).
     
  19:30 Dinner.
   
  21:30 Private Study.
   
   
Thursday, July 13, 2006
     
  -- Exploiting high throughput techniques --
 
 
  7:30 Breakfast.
     
  8:45 - 9:00 Context and linking. [pdf]
     
  9:00 - 10:30 Session 12 :: Principles and Architectures of High Throughput Computing.
( Miron Livny and Alain Roy )
 
     
  10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break.
     
  11:00 - 12:30 Session 13 :: Condor as an example of High Throughput Computing.
( Miron Livny and Alain Roy )
 
     
  12:30 - 14:30 Lunch.
     
  14:30 - 16:00 Session 14 :: Condor practical.
( Miron Livny and Alain Roy )
 
     
  16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break.
     
  16:30 - 17:00 Session 14 :: Condor practical.
( Miron Livny and Alain Roy )
 
     
  17:00 - 18:00 Session 15 :: Grids as a Software Engineering Test infrastructure.
( Miron Livny, Steven Newhouse and Alberto Di Meglio )
 
     
  18:00 - 18:30 Break.
     
  18:30 - 19:00 Discussion.
     
  19:30 Dinner.
   
  21:30 Private Study.
   
   
Friday, July 14, 2006
     
  -- Architecture and integration of Grid middleware --
 
 
  7:30 Breakfast.
     
  8:45 - 9:00 Context and linking.
     
  9:00 - 10:30 Session 16 :: Principles & Arcitectures for Grid Middleware.
( Lisa Childers, Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Charles Bacon )
 
     
  10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break.
     
  11:00 - 12:30 Session 17 :: GT4 an integrated infrastructure: Practical challenges and solutions.
( Lisa Childers, Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Charles Bacon )
 
     
  12:30 - 14:30 Lunch.
     
  14:30 - 16:00 Session 18 :: GT4 tutorial & practical.
( Lisa Childers, Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Charles Bacon )
 
     
  16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break.
     
  16:30 - 17:30 Session 18 :: GT4 tutorial & practical.
( Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Charles Bacon, Lisa Childers )
 
     
  17:30 - 18:30 Session 19 :: Vision of Grid Middleware.
( Ian Foster by video link )
 
     
  18:30 - 19:00 Discussion.
     
  19:30 Dinner.
   
  21:30 Private Study.
   
   
Saturday, July 15, 2006
     
  -- Production grids for large-scale persistent e-Infrastructure --
 
 
  7:30 Breakfast.
     
  8:45 - 9:00 Context and linking.
     
  9:00 - 10:30 Session 20 :: EGEE as an Example of a Global Production Grid.
( Erwin Laure )
 
     
  10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break.
     
  11:00 - 12:30 Session 21 :: Open Science Grid.
( Miron Livny and Alain Roy )
 
     
  12:30 - 14:30 Lunch.
     
  14:30 - 16:00 Session 22 :: NAREGI grids.
( Satoshi Matsuoka )
 
     
  16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break.
     
  16:30 - 18:00 Session 23 :: Panel on Grid Engineering challenges.
( Roberto Barbera, Erwin Laure, Satoshi Matsuoka, Miron Livny & Steve Newhouse )

 
     
  19:30 Dinner.
   
Sunday, July 16, 2006
     
  all day Boat Trip around the Island
   
Monday, July 17, 2006
     
  -- Advancing computational models, security and data management for Grids --
 
 
  7:30 Breakfast.
     
  8:45 - 9:00 Context and linking.
     
  9:00 - 10:30 Session 24 :: Advanced Execution Architectures & their applications.
( Satoshi Matsuoka )
 
     
  10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break.
     
  11:00 - 12:30 Session 25 :: Distributed Data Management: Systems and Examples.
( Malcolm Atkinson )
 
     
  12:30 - 14:30 Lunch.
     
  14:30 - 16:00 Session 26 :: Principles and Architectures for Structured Data Integration: OGSA-DAI as an example.
( Malcolm Atkinson, Amy Krause, Tom Sugden )
 
 
     
  16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break.
     
  16:30 - 18:00 Session 27 :: OGSA-DAI tutorial and practical.
( Amy Krause and Tom Sugden )
 
     
  18:00 - 18:30 Break.
     
  18:30 - 19:00 Discussion. 
     
  19:30 Dinner.
   
  21:30 Private Study.
   
   
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
     
  -- Requirement & emerging Higher-level e-Science systemsGrid --
 
 
  7:30 Breakfast.
     
  8:45 - 9:00 Context and linking.
     
  9:00 - 10:30 Session 28 :: Principles and Models for high-level workflows.
( Stuart Owen and Amarnath Gupta )
 
     
  10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break.
     
  11:00 - 12:30 Session 29 :: Integrated support for data integration and science portals.
( Amarnath Gupta )
 
     
  12:30 - 14:30 Lunch.
     
  14:30 - 16:00 Session 30 :: The EGEE Middleware: gLite Tutorial.
( Roberto Barbera, Tony Calanducci and Diego Scardaci )
 
     
  16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break.
     
  16:30 - 18:00 Session 31 :: The EGEE middleware: gLite exercises and hands-on.
( Roberto Barbera, Tony Calanducci and Diego Scardaci )
 
     
  18:00 - 19:00 Session 31.5 :: Experience with the Deployment of Biomedical Applications on the Grid.
( Vincent Jacques Breton )
 
     
  19:30 Dinner.
   
  21:30 Private Study.
   
   
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
     
  -- Advancing Execution Models --
 
 
  7:30 Breakfast.
     
  8:45 - 9:00 Context and linking.
     
  9:00 - 10:30 Session 32 :: Principles & Foundations of Ontologies & Semantic grids.
( Oscar Corcho )
 
     
  10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break.
     
  11:00 - 12:30 Session 33 :: Practical experience of Ontologies & Semantic grids.
( Pinar Alper and Oscar Corcho )
 
     
  12:30 - 13:00 Session 33.5 :: Intro to integrating practical.
( David Fergusson )
 
     
  13:00 - 14:30 Lunch.
     
  14:30 - 19:30 Visiting the Spa Gardens.
     
  19:30 Dinner.
   
  21:30 Private Study.
   
   
Thursday, July 20, 2006
     
  -- Consolidation and in-depth practical experience of grids and their application --
 
 
  7:30 Breakfast.
     
  8:45 - 9:00 Context and linking.
     
  9:00 - 10:30 Session 34 :: Integrating practical.
( Practical Sub Committee
     
     
  10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break.
     
  11:00 - 12:30 Session 35 :: Integrating practical continues.
( Practical Sub Committee
     
  12:30 - 14:30 Lunch.
     
  14:30 - 16:00 Session 36 :: Integrating practical continues.
( Practical Sub Committee
     
  16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break.
     
  16:30 - 18:00 Session 37 :: Integrating practical continues.
( Practical Sub Committee
     
  18:00 - 19:00 Session 37.5 :: GridCC: Real-time instrumentations grids.
( Gaetano Maron
     
  19:30 Gala Dinner.
   
   
Friday, July 21, 2006
     
  -- Future Grids & Research --
 
 
  7:30 Breakfast.
     
  8:45 - 9:00 Context and linking.
     
  9:00 - 10:30 Session 38 :: Vision of Future Grids & Research challenges.
     
  10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break.
     
  11:00 - 12:30 Session 39 :: Summary, Certificates & Farewell.
     
     
Students' posters will be on display at the school from Monday 10th until Wednesday 12th July.