Michael Wilde Argonne National Laboratory University of Chicago Open Science Grid Summer Grid Workshop Overview & Curriculum

2 Mission l Educate future work force for e-science. l Introduce skills for emerging cyberinfrastructure l Motivate young undergraduate students l Promote interdisciplinary collaboration l Focus on assisting minority students and MSIs

3 Students l 2004: u 36 students from 19 universities, 4 MSIs u 4 international students (Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Russia) u 12 members of minority groups, 10 women l 2005: u 42 students from 23 universities; 4 MSIs u 6 international students (Argentina, Brazil, India) u 16 members of minority groups; 10 women.

4 Collaborators l University of Texas at Brownsville u PI: Soma Mukherjee (UTB Physics, CGWA) l GriPhyN - Grid Physics Network l iVDGL - International Virtual Data Grid Lab l Louisiana State University l NCSA (via NMI Grids Center) l Open Science Grid

5 Curriculum l Intro to distributed computing and the Grid l Grid security and basic Grid access l Grid resource and job management l Grid data management l Building, monitoring and maintaining a Grid l Grid application frameworks l Virtual data concepts l Grid workflows and resource selection l Web services and the resource framework

6 Future Directions l Add a modular intro to prerequisite distributed computing and systems skills l Provide graduated exercises that start simpler but provide more headroom to explore l Provide a larger-scale distributed laboratory and use it for all labs (with local backup for network outages!) l Provide live-science data (with hands-on instruments) and use it for all labs

7 Acknowledgements The Summer Grid Workshops 2004 and 2005 were supported by: l The National Science Foundation l The University of Texas, Brownsville l Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, UTB l Louisiana State University Center for Computation and Technology l NMI Grids Center l iVDGL l NASA