[communities] GGF Proposal Submission

[dfmac at nesc.ac.uk]

proposers_name: David Fergusson 
 
affiliation: NeSC, UK 

email: dfmac at nesc.ac.uk 

proposed_title: EGEE training 

session_type: tutorial 

proposed_duration: 3hrs 

target_audience: Educators, Managers, technical experts and users. Those interested in grid training and education 

num_attendees: 30 - 40 

abstract: EGEE now provides the largest production grid infrastructure in the world. The aim of this tutorial is to provide an introduction to engaging with the EGEE infrastructure and developing applications which can be run on it. Presentations will be given outlining the scope and structure of the EGEE project, its grid operations procedures and middleware, processes for engaging with EGEE as a site or application provider. 

synopsis: The session goal is to provide middleware and applications developers with the information required to begin to engage with the EGEE infrastructure. This will involve an introduction to the EGEE project, it’s goals, procedures and accomplishments; procedures for engaging with its operations team as a site; an overview of the architecture of its middleware; specific information relating to particular components of the middleware; how to engage with the applications development activity of EGEE and how to develop applications to run on the infrastructure.

About EGEE
The EGEE project brings together experts from over 27 countries with the common aim of building on recent advances in Grid technology and developing a service Grid infrastructure which is available to scientists 24 hours-a-day. 
The project aims to provide researchers in academia and industry with access to major computing resources, independent of their geographic location. The EGEE project will also focus on attracting a wide range of new users to the Grid. 
The project will primarily concentrate on three core areas: 
•	The first area is to build a consistent, robust and secure Grid network that will attract additional computing resources.
•	The second area is to continuously improve and maintain the middleware in order to deliver a reliable service to users.
•	The third area is to attract new users from industry as well as science and ensure they receive the high standard of training and support they need.
The EGEE Grid will be built on the EU Research Network GÉANT and exploit Grid expertise generated by many EU, national and international Grid projects to date. 
Funded by the European Commission, the EGEE project community has been divided into 12 partner federations, consisting of over 70 contractors and over 30 non-contributing participants covering a wide-range of both scientific and industrial applications. 
The work being carried out in the project is organised into 11 activities. Two pilot application domains have been selected to guide the implementation and certify the performance and functionality of the evolving infrastructure. One is the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid supporting physics experiments and the other is Biomedical Grids, where several communities are facing equally daunting challenges to cope with the flood of bioinformatics and healthcare data. 
With funding of over 30 million Euro from the European Commission, the project is one of the largest of its kind. EGEE is a two-year project conceived as part of a four-year programme, where the results of the first two years will provide the basis for assessing subsequent objectives and funding needs.
 
Agenda:
Introduction to the EGEE project and infrastructure (45 mins)
	Project goals, priorities and management
	The operations activity
EGEE middleware, architecture and components (45mins)
	Architecture
	User Interface and Workload Management
		Information Supermarket
	Compute Elements
		Worker nodes and queues
	Storage Elements
		Replica management
		Metadata catalogues
	Information System
Application development for the EGEE middleware (45 mins) 
	
 

tech_requirements: None 

prereq_participants: None 

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