EVENT: Africa 5 2011 Joint CHAIN/EUMEDGRID-Support/EPIKH School for Application Porting

CHAIN (Co-ordination and Harmonisation of Advanced e-INfrastructures ), EUMEDGRID-Support (Sustainability of e-Infrastructures across the Mediterranean) and EPIKH (Exchange Programme to advance e-Infrastructure Know-How) announce the Grid School for Application Porting to be held in Tunis, Tunisia.

The Grid School aims at increasing the number of scientific/industrial applications running on the CHAIN/EUMEDGRID-Support production infrastructure. The School also aims at bringing new research groups to use the CHAIN/EUMEDGRID-Support resources as well as to diversity the application domains and scientific communities.

Important deadlines:

• Application submission: December, 19, 2010;
• Notification of acceptance: December, 26, 2010;
• Registration (only for accepted candidates): Between December, 27, 2010 and January, 10, 2011.

The school is mostly intended, but not restricted, for CHAIN, EUMEDGRID-Support and 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.

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