NCSA staff participate in grid computing workshop

released June 29, 2005

NCSA's Patrick Duda and David Gehrig are playing key roles in delivery of a summer grid computing workshop being held July 11-15 at the Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy at the University of Texas at Brownsville.

The intensive one-week program in grid computing gives students a basic foundation in distributed computing, valuable hands-on training in computing techniques, and essential skills that will be needed by students in the natural and applied sciences, engineering, and computer science to conduct and support scientific analysis. The workshop is sponsored by the University of Texas at Brownsville, Texas Southmost College, the Grid Physics Network (GriPhyN), the International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory (iVDGL), and the Grid Research Integration Deployment and Support Center (GRIDS).

NCSA's Duda was responsible for the installation and configuration of the multiple-server grid computing environment to be used during the workshop, and Gehrig will present lectures and lab exercises on topics ranging from grid security to data management.

Their activities were accomplished under NSF's GRIDS Center program, whose mission, in part, is to provide education and training to the science communities on the application and use of grid technologies.

For more information on the workshop, go to http://cgwa.phys.utb.edu/Events/Summer2005/summergridws2005.php.

 

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