[Condor-users] Florida International Grid School (FIGS'08) -- Apply by Dec 10 !

[Alain Roy <roy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Florida International Grid School (FIGS'08)  --  Apply by Dec 10 !

JOIN US for an exciting 3-day course in large-scale and high- 
performance grid computing to take place January 23-25, 2008, at  
Florida International University, Miami, FL.

This intensive course introduces the techniques of grid and  
distributed computing for science and engineering fields, with hands- 
on training in the use of large-scale grid computing resources. The  
course introduces skills that will be needed by researchers in the  
natural and applied sciences, engineering, and computer science to  
conduct and support large-scale computation and data analysis in  
emerging grid and distributed computing environments. The workshop  
will focus on enabling the use of Open Science Grid (OSG) and  
TeraGrid cyberinfrastructure to perform large-scale computations and  
data-intensive processing in various research fields. Participants  
will learn how to use grids of thousands of processors and will be  
able to continue to use these resources for their research after the  
course.

The workshop will cover:

* Overview of distributed computing concepts and tools
* Wide-area high speed optical networking
* Concepts, tools, and techniques of grid computing
* Discovering and using grid resources
* Grid scheduling and distributed data management
* Web service and grid service concepts
* Techniques for workflow and collaboration

Undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, educators and  
professionals in engineering, computer science, or any scientific,  
data-or computing-intensive discipline may apply. Applicants should  
have at least intermediate programming skills (one to two semesters  
experience in C/C++, Java, Perl, and/or Python) and hands-on  
experience with UNIX / Linux in a networked environment.

*Important Dates:*

Application Deadline: Dec 10.
Notification of Acceptance will be sent by Dec 20.
Registration Deadline: Jan 10.

Application form can be found at: www.ci.uchicago.edu/figs08

For information on FIGS'08 please visit www.opensciencegrid.org/ 
workshop or
send a message to figs08@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx