1. Enabling, facilitating and delivering quality training in the UK and Internationally The challenge of grid training and education David Fergusson, Deputy Director Training Outreach & Education

2. Challenges in grid education and training 209/11/06 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

3. Challenges in grid education and training 309/11/06 Distribution of EGEE training effort 6 1 1 ~ 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 1 Management, Support eLearning, Web Services WSRF, Biomed Earth Sciences Data t-Infrastructure Portals Application integration Multimedia (SMIL) Industry, SME Operations User Support (GGUS) Portals Earth Sciences Middleware Operations Induction Web Services 1 5 4 3 Single partner Federation CE SEE RUSSIA NORTHERN

4. Challenges in grid education and training 409/11/06 Countries which hosted EGEE courses

5. Challenges in grid education and training 509/11/06 Virtuous Cycle All Activities work in concert to drive the Virtuous Cycle Field-tested and refined during EGEE

6. Challenges in grid education and training 609/11/06 Headline figures 2927 attendees at courses (1860) 250 training events (52) 9322 participant days (4820)

7. Challenges in grid education and training 709/11/06 Course types per quarter

8. Challenges in grid education and training 809/11/06 Quality Assurance in EGEE 1.Feedback forms at events Paper based Online forms do not get filled in Educational goals explicit for trainees to check against 2.Requirements gathering at conferences, user forum etc.

9. Challenges in grid education and training 909/11/06 Training: Quantity & Quality Trainers review grades and revise course material and training plans Participants grade course from 1 to 6. Each point = average of overall score for a course n=68 of 174 possible courses

10. Challenges in grid education and training 1009/11/06 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

11. Challenges in grid education and training 1109/11/06 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.

12. Challenges in grid education and training 1209/11/06 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

13. Challenges in grid education and training 1309/11/06 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

14. Challenges in grid education and training 1409/11/06 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

15. Challenges in grid education and training 1509/11/06 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

16. Challenges in grid education and training 1609/11/06 The GILDA t-Infrastructure (https://gilda.ct.infn.it) Catania Leader: Roberto Barbera Leading: t-Infra- structure activity

17. Challenges in grid education and training 1709/11/06 GILDA summary numbers 15 sites in 3 continents > 2600 certificates issued, >15% renewed at least once > 75 tutorials and demos performed in 15 months > 50 jobs/day on the average Job success rate above 80% > 1,000,000 hits (> 47,000 visits) on (of) the web site from 10’s of different countries > 0.6 TB of videos and UI’s downloaded from the web site

18. Challenges in grid education and training 1809/11/06 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

19. Challenges in grid education and training 1909/11/06 Questions & Comments please Photographer: Kathy Humphry