The port city of Santander is on the north coast of Spain. Image courtesy of Maria Victoria Gomez Fernandez

Registration is now open for Grids and e-Science 2007, a course organized by the Spanish National Research Council and held from 24-28 September at Instituto de Física de Cantabria in Santander, Spain.

The course program gives an overview of the current status of grid infrastructure and covers morning presentations and afternoon practical sessions.

Monday and Tuesday’s programs deal with the use and deployment of e-infrastructures based on gLite and will cover an Enabling Grids for E-sciencE tutorial as well as developments related to Globus Toolkit 4. There will be speakers from IFCA, Rediris, Barcelona Supercomputer Center and University Complutense of Madrid.

Wednesday will cover middleware with a focus on the problems of resource allocation, monitoring and general broking and scheduling on the grid. University of Barcelona developers will talk about resource brokering, and the University Complutense of Madrid will present a practical session using the Gridway scheduler.

Thursday is devoted to MPI and will cover MPI implementation at the level of the int.eu.grid infrastructure, and its extension to EGEE.

Friday is devoted to scientific applications and includes speakers from several areas, including fusion, high energy physics, medical imaging and environment science.

This is the fourth year that the course will be delivered, and its third time at IFCA. The course is co-financed by CSIC.