Dear GARUDA Partner/Users,

We are pleased to announce the GARUDA Boot Camp to be held at Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Kolkata. The scheduled dates are 15th & 16th of Dec 2011.

The workshop agenda includes presentations and hands-on sessions. The focus of workshop is on GARUDA Architecture, Tools, Security, and Application enablement on Grid. This Boot Camp is specifically targeted for Application Developers and Grid users both beginners and advanced users.

There is no registration fee to attend the event. Tentative agenda will be soon announced on Garuda India web site. http://www.garudaindia.in/

This letter is announced in advance to help you block your dates amidst your pressing schedules and make necessary travel arrangements for the workshop. If you have any query or are in need of additional information, please feel to contact us.

Since we have limited seats, an early confirmation will help us to confirm your registration. Please register for this event by email to (divyam@cdac.in) and with a cc to me (subrarac@cdac.in). Please note that no accommodation and transport facility will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you in VECC Kolkata (http://www.vecc.gov.in/)

With best regards,

Dr Subrata Chattopadhyay
Associate Director
Operation Grid Garuda Infrastructure
C-DAC, Knowledge Park
Bangalore

Day 1, 15th December REGISTRATION: 10:30 – 11:00 hrs (first floor, main building) Time Topic Speaker (Henry & Prachi) 11:00 - 11.10 Welcome address Participants introduction/Organizer’s opening remarks   11:10 - 11:20 Tea break 11:20 - 11:45 Grid Computing Concepts   11:45 - 12.15 Introduction to Garuda – Overview   12:15 - 13:15 Garuda Components   13.15 - 14.15 Lunch Break (VECC Guest House) 14.15 - 15.30 Garuda Components continuation • Middleware • Gridway scheduler • Data Management - SRM - GridFTP tool   15.30 - 16:15 Garuda Security – IGCA, MyProxy, VoMS   16:15 - 16:25 Tea break 16:25 - 17:00 Garuda Security – IGCA, MyProxy, VoMS (continued)   17:00 - 17:30 Interactions & Discussions   Day 2, 16th December Time Topic Speaker (Henry & Prachi) 09.30 - 10.30 Garuda Tools – Portal, SLCS, Utility services, Grid Support   10.30 - 11.30 Applications in GARUDA   11:30 - 11:40 Tea break   11.40 - 13.30 Hands-on • IGCA Registration • IGCA Usage queries • Garuda Registration (VOMS registration) • GARUDA Accessing Methods   13:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break (VECC Guest House) 14:30 - 15:30 Hands-on : Command Line Access tools • Globus & Gridway Commands • Writing Gridway Job script • Gridway job submission   15:30 - 16.00 Hands-on : Grid Portal   16:00 - 16:30 Interactions, Feedback & Closing Remarks   16:30 - 16:45 Tea break