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From Training to Technology Transfer: ���experiences from an EU perspective ���

in the Asia and Pacific region ���and opportunities/challenges ���

presented by Cloud Computing David Fergusson

The problem We can build technologies and infrastructures. However without USERS this means nothing.

Only when these tools are used (in this case to create new science) do they have any meaning.

To do this we have to go out to the communities, they will not come to us.

Training & Education Spectrum

Training Targeted Immediate goals Specific skills Building a workforce���

Education Pervasive Long term and sustained Generic conceptual models Developing a culture���

Both are needed

Society

Graduates

Education Innovation

Invests

Prepares Create

Enriches

Organisation

Skilled Workers

Training Services & Applications

Invests

Prepares Develop

Strengthens

Changing Culture

EGEE and ICEAGE��� to EGI

Building a sustainable international distributed infrastructure

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Geographical spread of events

http://bit.ly/EGEEtrainingmap

185 events in EGEE-III

80 separate locations

worldwide

2312 participants

Training designated as a NGI task

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Average course length 2.5 days

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EGEE-­‐III  Year  1  -­‐  average  evalua&on  score  5.1  (out  of  6,  n=65)        

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Dura&on  of  training  events  (n=101)  

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Breakdown by event type

Advanced  3%  

Applica8on  developer  

14%  Applica8ons  

6%  

Induc8on  64%  

System  Administrator  

8%  

Train  the  Trainer  3%  

Workshop  (retreat)  2%  

Digital Library

Audio and video in Library

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Development of EGEE trainers •  Training the trainers

–  Provide partner autonomy

–  Experts ensure quality of message

•  Trainer Accreditation –  Accreditation process:

  Peer approval   Details of training experience

–  Currently 104 trainers

Location of accredited trainers

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Taiwan – 8 Australia – 1

Japan - 1

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Policy activity – OGF, e-IRG

International Summer School for Grid Computing

Biomed Grid Summer School

Objective

To set up an e-Learning version of the International Summer School in Grid Computing

Winter school Course design – technology week

Training Infrastructure Digital

Library

Content

COURSE

Winter School IWSGC site

Virtual Learning Environment

Live Talks

Keynotes

Tutor chat

Exercises

Tutor 17

Recorded presentations

Training documents

Research papers

Student mailing List

Discussion Forum

Keynotes To provide high points for the school (idea taken from

ISSGC)

3 Keynote talks Ian Foster

Miron Livny Malcolm Atkinson Live broadcasts

Provided opportunity for students to chat with some of the prominent grid experts

Adobe Connect

Applicant demographics • 38 applicants from 16

countries

Participant Feedback 93% completed questionnaire

75% structure “good” 90% course “correct length

80% interested in individual technology week

Statistics

600 messages on forum 200 emails sent via VLE

Average student working time 20 hours per week Average user sessions per day:43

Average user sessions per day on weekdays:54 Average user sessions per day on weekends:16

Head in the clouds? Dynamic (service) provisioning

How is it applicable to the NGS/Edinburgh? Training

Rapidly deploy services for teaching Isolate training from production

Other Specialised research environments

Rapid deployment Identify use cases and gather requirements

Eucalyptus “Elastic Utility Computing Architecture Linking Your Programs

To Useful Systems” Open source and Commercial

Amazon Web Services API compatible EC2, storage - S3, Elastic Block Store (EBS) ‏

Easy to install Xen and KVM hypervisors

Commercial version supports others (inc. VMWare) ‏

Prototype service

Eucalyptus 1.6.2 (current 2.0) Migration in next few months

Call for users for prototype > 20 groups expressed interest > 25 registered users on system

Increasing constantly

May be reaching the limits of current support

Research domains

Social science Population simulations (York, St Andrews)

Cloud interface development Advanced teaching

Edinburgh (MSc) Canfield (MSc) Bioscience

Next gen sequencing, micro array Taxonomic analysis

Geospatial analysis Civil Engineering (flood risk management)

MyGrid on the cloud