Open Science Grid Summer Grid Workshop Overview & Curriculum Michael Wilde

Argonne National Laboratory University of Chicago

Mission

     Educate future work force for e-science.

Introduce skills for emerging cyberinfrastructure Motivate young undergraduate students Promote interdisciplinary collaboration Focus on assisting minority students and MSIs 2

Students

  2004:    36 students from 19 universities, 4 MSIs 4 international students (Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Russia) 12 members of minority groups, 10 women 2005:  42 students from 23 universities; 4 MSIs   6 international students (Argentina, Brazil, India) 16 members of minority groups; 10 women.

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Collaborators

      University of Texas at Brownsville  PI: Soma Mukherjee (UTB Physics, CGWA) GriPhyN - Grid Physics Network iVDGL - International Virtual Data Grid Lab Louisiana State University NCSA (via NMI Grids Center) Open Science Grid 4

Curriculum - 2005

         Intro to distributed computing and the Grid Grid security and basic Grid access Grid resource and job management Grid data management Building, monitoring and maintaining a Grid Grid application frameworks Virtual data concepts Grid workflows and resource selection Web services and the resource framework 5

Future Directions

    Add a modular intro to prerequisite distributed computing and systems skills Provide graduated exercises that start simpler but provide more headroom to explore Provide a larger-scale distributed laboratory and use it for all labs (with local backup for network outages!) Provide live-science data (with hands-on instruments) and use it for all labs 6

Acknowledgements

The Summer Grid Workshops 2004 and 2005 were supported by:  The National Science Foundation    The University of Texas, Brownsville Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, UTB Louisiana State University Center for Computation and Technology    NMI Grids Center iVDGL NASA 7