[Halld-offline] Fwd: ANNOUNCING THE 2013 OPEN SCIENCE GRID USER SCHOOL

[Igor Senderovich]

Dear Colleagues,

Here are my thoughts about the OSG Summer School. I attended it in 2011 
and thought it a very well organized, pedagogical well developed 
program. Certainly for someone with little to no experience in parallel 
computing on a cluster it gives nice, ground-up education with hands-on 
experience all the way up to grid production.

It may be less useful for someone already running on clusters and 
cautiously submitting to grids who is just looking for some tips to 
streamline the experience. Also, what shouldn't be expected from that 
program (at least based on my 2011 experience) is any discussion about 
administering OSG's software stack for participating in this grid.

The followup XSEDE (formerly TeraGrid) conference that they sponsor for 
the summer school participants may be good for those curious about 
what's out there for High Performance Computing and interested in 
knowing about the major dedicated centers in the U.S., new technologies 
and applications for tightly-coupled parallel computing.

I hope this helps,
-Igor


On 3/6/2013 9:56 PM, Richard Jones wrote:
> Hello colleagues,
>
> Would this be something we should advertise to the whole 
> collaboration?  Igor went to this summer school a couple of years 
> back, and they paid for his travel plus his local expenses.  The 
> emphasis was on hands-on work with setting up grid jobs, how to manage 
> workflows on the grid, different ways to manage big data, etc.  Maybe 
> we could get a recommendation from Igor as to what kind of person 
> would best benefit from going.
>
> https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Education/OSGUserSchool2013
>
> -Richard J.
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	ANNOUNCING THE 2013 OPEN SCIENCE GRID USER SCHOOL!
> Date: 	Wed, 6 Mar 2013 20:30:03 +0000
> From: 	Grid Operations Center <goc at opensciencegrid.org> 
> <mailto:goc at opensciencegrid.org>
> To: 	<goc at opensciencegrid.org> <mailto:goc at opensciencegrid.org>
>
>
>
> If you could access thousands, maybe millions, of hours of computing, how
> would it transform your research?  What discoveries would you make?
>
> We are looking for qualified students to attend the 2013 Open Science Grid
> (OSG) User School, where they will learn how to use high-throughput
> computing to harness vast amounts of computing power for research.
>
> Using lectures, discussions, roleplays, and lots of hands-on work with OSG
> experts in high-throughput computing, students will learn how HTC systems
> work, how to run and manage many jobs and huge datasets to implement a full
> scientific computing workflow, and where to turn for help and more info.
>
> Worried about costs?  Successful applicants will get financial support to
> attend the OSG School (June 24-27) at the beautiful University of Wisconsin
> in Madison.  Plus, some students will receive financial support to attend
> XSEDE13 (July 22-25) in San Diego, California.
>
> Ideal candidates are science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
> (STEM) graduate students whose research demands large-scale computing.
> Also, advanced undergraduates are encouraged to apply.  Others may apply
> too; funding is tight this year, but we consider all great candidates!
>
> IMPORTANT DATES
>
>    Application Period: March 4-29
>    OSG User School: June 24-27
>    XSEDE13 Conference: July 22-25
>
> MORE INFORMATION AND APPLICATIONS
>
>    Web:https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Education/OSGUserSchool2013
>    Email:osg-school-2013-info at opensciencegrid.org  <mailto:osg-school-2013-info at opensciencegrid.org>
>
> Please forward this announcement to help us reach potential students.  And
> consider posting our flyer where appropriate:
>
> https://www.opensciencegrid.org/twiki/pub/Education/OSGUserSchool2013/2013-osg-user-school-flyer.pdf
>
> Please submit problems, requests, and questions at:
> https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc
>
> Thank You,
> OSG Grid Operations Center (GOC)
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