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The Data Intensive Cyber Environments (DICE) group and CC-IN2P3, the Computing Center of the National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (Centre de Calcul de l’Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules) in France, have announced a workshop on iRODS, the Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System.

The four-day workshop will be held February 2-5, 2009 at CC-IN2P3 in Lyons, France. Online registration is free and open through the January 10, 2009 deadline. This is a pre-registration form, and due to limited space, accepted registrations will be confirmed by e-mail. Early registration is suggested.

The workshop will open with presentations from users on applications of iRODS technology. Those interested in presenting should contact Jean-Yves Nief.

The workshop will also include a tutorial on an Introduction to the iRODS Data Grid System, and a tutorial on Rules and Micro-services. These two key features of iRODS let users translate their high-level management policies into powerful Rules that automate data management operations.  The rules control the execution of  the lower-level Micro-services at the distributed servers where data are stored.