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Heinz Stockinger Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Vital-IT Group Lausanne, Switzerland Heinz.Stockinger@isb-sib.ch. Status of Edu&Training (on half of Nabil Adennadher, HEPIA/EIG Geneva). Main activity in 2009. Swiss Grid School in Geneva http://sgs2009.eig.ch 7/8 May 2009
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Heinz Stockinger Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Vital-IT Group Lausanne, Switzerland Heinz.Stockinger@isb-sib.ch Status of Edu&Training(on half of Nabil Adennadher, HEPIA/EIG Geneva)
Main activity in 2009 • Swiss Grid School in Geneva • http://sgs2009.eig.ch • 7/8 May 2009 • Co-located with Grid and Pervasive Computing Conference
SGS: the facts • 20 participants • About half from outside Switzerland • Theory and practical exercises concerning: • Grid architecture in general • Security • Information services • Resource management and job submission • Data management • Software: • ARC, gLite, Condor, BOINC, XtremWeb-CH
SGS: the perception • 9 out of 20 students responded to a questionnaire • 88% found the event was useful (12% moder. useful) • Quality of event: 100% good • Most of the lectures were perceived good quality • Thanks to SMSCG project and members to support the school with person power, hard and software! An AAA/SWITCH funded project
Next steps • Organise SGS again next year • Need to make strong publicity for that • Consider to offer a common Grid computing course/programme for different universities • In memoriam MJ • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xs9OQHpwDE&hl=de