Varenna School on Grid and Cloud Computing – Concepts and Practical Applications

All the information relative to the school can be found on the School site (http://en.sif.it/activities/fermi_school). 

The School will deal with the following topics

Topics:

• WLCG Grid past, present and future • Clouds in the Biosciences
• Scientific clouds
• Global networking
• Grid and Cloud architecture
• Cloud middleware
• Big Data: challenges and perspectives • Data preser vation
• Grid and Cloud Monitoring

Lecturers and Seminar will be given by major worldwide experts in Grid and Cloud computing:

A. Barczyk – California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (USA)
I. Bird – IT Department, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)
V. J. Breton – LPC, Campus des Cezeaux, Aubière (France)
D. Duellmann – IT Department, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)
I. LeGrand – PH Department, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (USA)
M. Livny – Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (USA)
S. Maffioletti – GC3: Grid Computing Competence Center, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
G. Maron – INFN-CNAF, Bologna (Italy)
H. Newman – California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (USA)
J. Shiers – IT Department, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)