Open Science Grid Summer Grid Workshop Overview & Curriculum

1. Open Science GridSummer Grid WorkshopOverview & Curriculum Michael Wilde Argonne National Laboratory University of Chicago

2. 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

3. 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) • 16members of minority groups; 10 women.

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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 UniversityCenter for Computation and Technology • NMI Grids Center • iVDGL • NASA