1. 1 Teaching SURAgrid “All Hands” Meeting, Washington DC September 26 – 28, 2007 Mahantesh Halappanavar, Mike Sachon, Dr. Ravi Mukkamala, Dr. Duc Nguyen

2. 2 Courses (Graduate): CS775/875: Distributed Computing –Spring 2007 –Ravi Mukkamala –Professor, Department of Computer Science CEE795: Cluster Parallel Computing –Summer 2007 –Duc Nguyen –Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

3. 3 Details: Graduate courses with ~15 students Guest lecture, usually about 2 hours. Followed by a homework (CS775) –Familiarize with grid computing concepts –Hands-on approach –Experiment with Globus services & commands Acknowledgements: –Jim Jokl, Steve Losen, Steve Johnson, Brain Brooks, Nicole Geiger, Kate Barzee, Linda Akli and Mary Fran Yafchak

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5. 5 Conclusions: Laboratory for testing the concepts Potential to attract students for Master’s Projects For SURAgrid –Protecting Generic User Accounts –Cleanup … (CRLs?/home drives/…) –Centralized account creation (Still painful ) –Short term funding/internships for grad/under-grad students?

6. 6 THANK YOU !!!