[Forwarded on behalf of organizers. You may need to be US-based to participate. They are specifically interested in contacting life sciences researchers.]
Hello! We invite you and your colleagues to apply now for the 2011 OSG Summer School where you can learn to harness the power of distributed computing while spending a week at the beautiful University of Wisconsin-Madison. During the school, you will learn to use high-throughput computing (HTC) systems--at your own campus or using the national Open Science Grid (OSG)--to run large-scale computing applications that are at the heart of today’s cutting-edge science. Through lectures, discussions, and lots of hands-on activities with experienced OSG staff, you will learn how HTC systems work, how to run and manage lots of jobs and huge datasets to implement a scientific computing workflow, and where to turn for more information and help. The school is ideal for graduate students in computer science or other sciences where large-scale computing is a vital part of the research process, but any qualified and interested applicant will be considered. In the past, we've had students from diverse backgrounds including genetics, geographic information systems, and physics. Successful applicants will have all travel and school expenses paid for by the OSG. Furthermore, as part of a collaboration with TeraGrid, students will go to the annual TeraGrid Conference (TG11, July 18–21, 2011 in Salt Lake City, Utah) with all travel and conference expenses paid. Important dates: Applications Open: Now Applications Close: Friday, April 1, 2011 School Session: June 26-30, 2011 For more information, please visit <http://www.opensciencegrid.org/GridSchool> or email us at <gridschool-2011-i...@opensciencegrid.org>. We hope to hear from you soon. Sincerely, Tim Cartwright and Alain Roy 2011 OSG Summer School Organizers
