GGF Grid School

Fourth GGF International Summer School on Grid Computing

Students are invited to apply now

The school will take place from the 9th to the 21st of July 2006 in Italy, on the beautiful Island of Ischia in the Bay of Naples. Students from all over the world are invited to apply for the well established school, now in its fourth year. See http://www.dma.unina.it/~murli/ISSGC06/

World experts and enthusiastic students will be brought together during the school. It will examine the conceptual and practical underpinnings of today's grids. Experts will discuss the challenges of building and sustaining CyberInfrastructure and report its rapid influence on the way we research, design and make decisions.

Enthusiastic and ambitious researchers who have recently started (or are about to start) working on Grid projects are invited to apply. They may be planning to pioneer or enable new forms of e-Infrastructure, to engage in fundamental distributed systems research or to develop new methods in any discipline that depends on the emerging capabilities of e-Infrastructure.

In all previous years the school has been oversubscribed. Selection for the 2006 school is therefore competitive based on the information supplied on the application form and by an applicant's referee. We expect to accept between 60 and 70 students. We will be looking for students with commitment and enthusiasm for Grid research and development, as well as competence and experience in some aspects of software development, distributed systems, computational systems, data systems and Grid applications. We expect participants from computer science, computational science and any application discipline. We also welcome as participants educators who are planning to teach Grid computing. The Summer School will be conducted in English, so fluency in English is important.

The School is being prepared by the EGEE project and will be part of the ICEAGE Project. Support has been pledged by GGF, EGEE Project, ICEAGE project, FIRB Grid.it Project, SPACI Consortium Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR-CNR) and the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN).

Website: http://www.dma.unina.it/~murli/ISSGC06/

The strict deadline for applications is 1 May 2006

For further information and enquiries please email: issgc06@nesc.ac.uk