[AstroNet] SA Grid School, 23-25 July, Wits University

[Claire Lee]

The SA GRID School
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The South African Grid School is a 3-day course on large-scale and 
high-performance computing. It will take place on July 23-25th 2008 at 
the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

We invite you to learn more about grid and high throughput computing and 
its implications in various research areas through this intensive Open 
Science Grid (OSG) course that introduces the techniques of grid and 
distributed computing for science and engineering with hands-on training 
in the use of largescale grid computing resources. 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 
completion.

The workshop will cover:
   * Overview of distributed computing concepts and tools
   * Concepts, tools, and techniques of grid computing
   * Building a grid
   * Discovering and using grid resources
   * Grid scheduling and distributed data management
   * Web service and grid service concepts
   * Techniques for workflow and collaboration
   * Grid computing in a South African context
   * Various high-performance computing related topics

There is very significant support for student attendance.

Please consult the page
    http://neo.phys.wits.ac.za/gridschool/GridSchoolSA/Home.php
for further details.

Please bring this communique to the attention of anyone you think may be 
interested.


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