Track 

Jesus Marco,  Heinz Stockinger

The Grid Track covers several aspects of Grid computing and provides the ability to get hand-on experience with modern Grid tools. A major part will be dedicated to Grid software that has been produced within the the EU  DataGrid project (EDG). A special high light is the presence one of the people who created the Grid concept.  EDG has as its aim to develop a large-scale research testbed for Grid computing. The project is in its final phase and a testbed spanning some ten major sites all over Europe has been up and running continuously since the beginning of 2002. Three application domains are using this testbed to explore the potential that Grid computing has for their production environments: Particle physics, Earth observation and Biomedics.  The tutorials will present the EDG software architecture and discuss the interplay of basic grid software (Globus, Condor), higher level EDG middleware, and application software on the EDG testbed. Emphasis will be put on specific middleware issues in job submission and data management as well as on EDG's security architecture. In several exercises students will learn how to use Grid tools for their distributed data or computing intensive applications. In addition, two optional hours of exercises will be proposed to students, focusing on network performance aspects of the Grid.
This forms the bulk of the Grid track. This is complemented by two Looking ahead lecturers, on the evolution, prospects and future of the Grid give by Carl Kesselman.

EDG Team

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Exercises

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