Announcement of the "8th International GridKa School - Grid and Cloud Computing"

at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, September 6th to 10th, 2010

GridKa School is arranged by the Steinbuch Centre for Computing of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in close cooperation with the European Grid Initiative (EGI), the National Grid Initiative Germany (NGI-DE), the European Middleware Initiative (EMI), the HGF Alliance "Physics at the Terascale" and the German Grid Initiative (D-Grid). Topics of the school are taken from the scopes of these and beyond.

About half of the school consist of hands-on tutorials and workshops, giving participants the possibility to gain actual expertise on different kinds of middleware, applications and techniques. Because these tutorials are offered in parallel tracks, GridKa School practicals cover topics well suited for beginners, experienced users and grid administrators. The high grade talks and presentations give an up-to-date overview on important and interesting grid and cloud computing subjects. The program is completed by a 'get together' event (incl. a guided tour of the German WLCG Tier-1 center 'GridKa'), a school dinner and a grid security workshop; the later is targeted at administrators.

Applicants from all scientific and industry disciplines are welcome to register online at www.kit.edu/gridka-school; the preliminary schedule is available online. Before July 31st, registrants can take advantage of an early bird discount. The organizing team reserves the right to limit the number of participants if necessary.

For the GridKa School organizing team,

Angela Poschlad and Christopher Jung