Version 2, as of 24 January 2002
Grid Computing Track (GC)
Track description: a 200-5001words text describing the objective of the thread, listing briefly the breakdown into lecture series, as well as exercises as appropriate		“Grid” computing has emerged as an important new field, distinguished from conventional distributed computing by its focus on large-scale resource sharing and innovative applications. In this track, we provide an in-depth introduction to Grid technologies and applications. We review the “Grid problem,” which we define as flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions, and resources—what we refer to as virtual organizations. In such settings, we encounter unique authentication, authorization, resource access, resource discovery, and other challenges. It is this class of problem that is addressed by Grid technologies. We present an extensible and open Grid architecture, in which protocols, services, application programming interfaces, and software development kits are categorized according to their roles in enabling resource sharing. We review major Grid projects worldwide and describe how they are contributing to the realization of this architecture. Then, we describe specific Grid technologies in considerable detail, focusing in particular on the Globus Toolkit and on Data Grid technologies being developed by the EU Data Grid, GriPhyN, and PPDG projects in Europe and the U.S. The hands-on exercises will give participants practical experience of the Globus toolkit for basic Grid activities.
Track coordinators		Ian Foster, Fabrizio Gagliardi, Bob Jones
Series Ref	Title of the Lecture Series	Description of the Lecture Series: a ~50-100 word text describing the series of lecture	Lecturer (s) name, affilaition	Lecturer (s) data: email, tel number	Lecturer (s) Biography: a 100-200 word text	L / E	Total # of hours	Lecture Description
								Lecture / Exercise reference	Lecture description (a title or a short text as appropriate)
GC	Grid Technologies and Applications	See above (track description)	Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory,[C] ; Carl Kesselman, Univ. S. California, [C]	foster@mcs.anl.gov, U.S.A. 630 252 4619 (fax 5986) ; carl@isi.edu USA (310) 822-1511 Ext. 338	Dr. Ian Foster is Senior Scientist and Associate Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, and Senior Fellow in the Argonne/U.Chicago Computation Institute. He currently co-leads the Globus project with Dr. Carl Kesselman of USC/ISI as well as a number of other major Grid initiatives, including the DOE-funded Earth System Grid and the NSF-funded GriPhyN and GRIDS Center projects. He co-edited the book ``The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure." http://www.isi.edu/~carl/	Lectures	8	GC.1/L	Introduction to Grids
								GC.2/L	Overview of the Globus toolkit
								GC.3/L	Globus components
								GC.4/L	Globus components
								GC.5/L	Globus components
								GC.6/L	Globus components
								GC.7L	Other issues and future
								GC.8/L	Wrap-up & Feedback session
						Exercises	8	GC1/E	basic job submission and monitoring getting to know the globus toolkit, simple job submission and monitoring, use of GSI
								GC2/E	basic job submission
								GC3/E	advanced jobs exploring the MDS info. service for SEs and Ces submitting more complicating jobs making use of the replica catalog,and MPI/MPICH-G, etc
								GC4/E	advanced jobs
								GC5/E	project work - students work in groups on a mini-project using the Globus toolkit and related software to solve a physics related problem. The students should build on the knowledge gained in the lectures and previous exercises to develop an application capable of solving a given physics problem
								GC6/E	project work
								GC7/E	project work
								GC8/E	project work