The challenge of grid training and education

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The challenge of grid training and education
David Fergusson, Deputy Director Training
Outreach Education
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Distribution and size of community

• More than 90 partners
• 32 countries
• 12 federations
• ? Major and national Grid projects in Europe,
  USA, Asia
• 27 countries through related projects
• BalticGrid
• SEE-GRID
• EUMedGrid
• EUChinaGrid
• EELA

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Distribution of EGEE training effort
1 FTE per partner in NA3 (22 active partners)
0.3 FTE per partner within EGEE (given 70
partners in all). training required and
delivered everywhere
Management, Support eLearning, Web Services
WSRF, Biomed Earth Sciences Data
Middleware Operations
NORTHERN
4
1
6
RUSSIA
CE
Portals Earth Sciences
5
Industry, SME Operations User Support (GGUS)
1
SEE
3
Multimedia (SMIL)
t-Infrastructure Portals Application integration
Federation
1
Single partner
Induction Web Services
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Countries which hosted EGEE courses
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Virtuous Cycle

• All Activities work in concert to drive the
  Virtuous Cycle
• Field-tested and refined during EGEE

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Headline figures

• 2927 attendees at courses (1860)
• 250 training events (52)
• 9322 participant days (4820)

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Course types per quarter
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Quality Assurance in EGEE

• Feedback forms at events
• Paper based
• Online forms do not get filled in
• Educational goals explicit for trainees to check
  against
• Requirements gathering at conferences, user forum
  etc.

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Training Quantity Quality
Participants grade course from 1 to 6. Each point
average of overall score for a course
Trainers review grades and revise course material
and training plans
n68 of 174 possible courses
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EGEE Created ICEAGE

• Mission
• Stimulate and support advances in grid education
  throughout Europe
• Goals
• Achieve rapid growth in effective advanced grid
  education
• Enabling society to make best use of
  e-Infrastructure
• Make best use of worldwide capacity for advanced
  grid education
• Deliver a stimulating programme of educational
  events
• Including international summer schools
• Broaden engagement in an advanced grid education
• both geographically and across disciplines

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Summer Schools

• Supported approx 5 Summer Schools per year
• ISSGC 04, 05
• GridKa 04, 05
• CERN School of Computing 04, 05
• Budapest Regional Summer School 04, 05
• PPARC Summer School 04, 05
• Prepared ISSGC 06 then handed baton to ICEAGE
• Highest profile international training and
  education events in grid computing.

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Issues

• Scale
• Support geographically diverse groups
• Many different knowledge domains
• Breadth of knowledge required
• Quality
• Maintain and encourage a quality culture
• Rate of change
• New middleware features
• New Virtual Organisations
• Changing needs of domains
• New projects
• Changes in national grid provision

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Mission Goals

• Mission
• Stimulate and support advances in grid education
  throughout Europe
• Goals
• Achieve rapid growth in effective advanced grid
  education
• Enabling society to make best use of
  e-Infrastructure
• Make best use of worldwide capacity for advanced
  grid education
• Deliver a stimulating programme of educational
  events
• Including international summer schools
• Broaden engagement in an advanced grid education
• both geographically and across disciplines

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Activities

• Forum
• Edinburgh
• International panel of experts to develop
  curricula, policies strategies
• Support, Outreach, Induction Training services
• Edinburgh
• Attracting Training the Trainers
• Persuading Universities to adopt Grid Computing
  Curricula
• E-Learning, repository course scheduling
  announcement
• Summer Schools
• KTH
• T-Infrastructure
• Catania
• Coordination Management
• Edinburgh

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T-Infrastructure uses

• GILDA/GENIUS has been central in installing new
  middleware versions, making these available and
  sharing experience
• GILDA/GENIUS extensively used in induction and
  advanced training courses and summer schools
• UEDIN cluster also used for early gLite
  installation in conjunction with GILDA to gather
  experience and developing new application
  developer courses.
• Cluster and virtual machines at FZK used to
  support application developer and installation
  courses for gLite

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The GILDA t-Infrastructure(https//gilda.ct.infn.
it)
Catania Leader Roberto Barbera Leading t-Infra-
structure activity
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GILDA summary numbers

• 15 sites in 3 continents
• gt 2600 certificates issued, gt15 renewed at
  least once
• gt 75 tutorials and demos performed in 15 months
• gt 50 jobs/day on the average
• Job success rate above 80
• gt 1,000,000 hits (gt 47,000 visits) on (of) the
  web site from 10s of different countries
• gt 0.6 TB of videos and UIs
• downloaded from the web site

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Summary

• ICEAGE is a UK-led European Project
• Value 1.2 million, Duration 2 years
• Start March 2006, 6 Partners
• Mission
• To stimulate Grid Education in Universities
• Global collaboration
• All Disciplines
• Methods
• Forums, Workshops and Lobbying
• Summer Schools
• Shared educational materials support
• Shared t-Infrastructure
• Please join us

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Questions Comments please
Photographer Kathy Humphry