1. Training activities Giuseppe Andronico INFN Sezione di Catania

2. EELA/EUMEDGRID/EUChinaGRID training activities Training indicates here knowledge dissemination activities. Based on GILDA t-Infrastructure 2 main formats: –User: knowledge of the middleware services and how to interact with them ( submitting jobs, retrieving outputs, managing data,…); –Administrator: how to install, configure and manage grid sites and services;

3. EELA/EUMEDGRID/EUChinaGRID training activities GILDA WiKi for exercises in users tutorials GILDA Virtual Services for site managers tutorials

4. EELA/EUMEDGRID/EUChinaGRID training activities Promoting Local Training Teams –Build a core of knowledgeable people in the countries participating to these projects. –Start training in local languages enlarging the dissemination effect to other communities e.g.: gLite 3 User’s Guide fully translated in Spanish by EELA! –Local Training Teams already active in: Brazil, Chile, Italy, Mexico, and Venezuela (EELA) China, Greece, and Italy (EUChinaGRID) Greece, Italy, and Turkey (EUMEDGRID) Next step: further customization to fulfill local needs.

5. EELA/EUMEDGRID/EUChinaGRID training activities Training material repositories created for all Projects: –EELA: http://documents.eu- eela.org/?c=Training+Material&as=0&ln=en (per-event basis)http://documents.eu- eela.org/?c=Training+Material&as=0&ln=en –EUChinaGRID: http://documents.euchinagrid.org/?c=Training+Materials&as= 0&ln=en (per-topic basis)http://documents.euchinagrid.org/?c=Training+Materials&as= 0&ln=en –EUMEDGRID: http://documents.eumedgrid.org/?c=Training+Materials&as=0 &ln=en (per-topic basis)http://documents.eumedgrid.org/?c=Training+Materials&as=0 &ln=en

6. EELA/EUMEDGRID/EUChinaGRID training activities - Results About 1200 participants x days delivered in total so far! ~18% of what the whole EGEE has done in its first phase!

7. EELA/EUMEDGRID/EUChinaGRID training activities - Results EGEE Phase I

8. Forthcoming Tutorials EELA: –Madrid (Spain), October, 16-20, 2006 (users and sysadmins) EUChinaGRID: –Beijing (China), November, 20-24, 2006 (users) EUMEDGRID: –Tunis (Tunisia), November, 27 - December, 1, 2006 (users and sysadmins) –Marrakech (Morocco), December, 5-7 (sysadmins) EELA/EUMEDGRID/EUChinaGRID training activities

9. Grid Schools for application porting 2 weeks of full immersion 3-4 representatives per application per tutor (big tutors/trainees ratio!) 5-6 applications, both from within and outside the project Time schedule of already confirmed events: –EELA: Itacuruçá (Brazil), December, 4-15, 2006, http://www.eu-eela.org/egris1 http://www.eu-eela.org/egris1 –EUMEDGRID: Cairo (Egypt), April 2007 –EELA: Merida (Venezuela), July/August 2007 EELA/EUMEDGRID/EUChinaGRID training activities