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 problemWe 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

TrainingTargetedImmediate goalsSpecific skillsBuilding a workforce

EducationPervasiveLong term and sustainedGeneric conceptual modelsDeveloping a culture

Both are needed

Society

Graduates

EducationInnovation

Invests

PreparesCreate

Enriches

Organisation

Skilled Workers

TrainingServices & Applications

Invests

PreparesDevelop

Strengthens

Changing Culture

EGEE and ICEAGE

to EGIBuilding 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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Breakdown by event type

Advanced3%

Application developer

14%Applications

6%

Induction64%

System Administrator

8%

Train the Trainer3%

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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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

InfrastructureDigital

Library

Content

COURSE

Winter SchoolIWSGC

site

Virtual Learning

Environment

Live Talks

Keynotes

Tutor chat

Exercises

Tuto

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Recorded presentations

Training documents

Research papers

Student

mailing List

Discussion

Forum

KeynotesTo 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

Users

76%

App Developers

24%

Participant Feedback93% 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