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2008

Tutorial on "GRID Computing"

  

September 17th 2008, from 09:30 to 16:20

 

Registration closing date: 9 September 2008

 

Number of participants: 34!!!!

 

The Institute for Biomedical Technologies (ITB) and the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) in Bari, in collaboration with EMBnet have organized a tutorial on the use of GRID computing for life science applications.

The tutorial  included presentations, hands-on and demos. The demos have been run for the whole conference time under the supervision of  tutorial teachers and available to all conference participants.

  

The tutorial programme includes an introductory lecture and presentations on:

  • authenticated Grid access with robot certificates
  • the Grid Problem Solving Environment for Bioinformatics: the LIBI experience
  • Managing Biological Databases in Grid: the GRelC Experience
  • the LIBI federated database and the DDQB application
  • the GENIUS Grid Portal, an INFN portal to access the EGEE grid infrastructure (application examples)
  • the AntiHunter application
  • the Job Submission Tool (JST)
  • CSTminer and Gene Analogue Finder applications 
  • microarray clusters validation with resampling techniques

The tutorial programme schedule is available HERE

  

Speakers

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Josè R. Valverde CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Giuseppe La Rocca INFN, Catania, Italy
Maria Mirto Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy & Consorzio SPACI
Salvatore Vadacca  Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change, Italy
Gaetano Scioscia IBM Italy S.p.A- Innovation Center, Bar
Graziano Pappadà Exhicon s.r.l., Bari, Italy
Francesco Falciano CINECA, Casalecchio di reno (BO), Italy
Giacinto Donvito INFN; Bari, Italy
Giulia De Sario ITB, Bari, Italy
Angelica Tulipano ITB, Bari, Italy

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

Venue

The tutorial took place at the Park Hotel San Michele in Martina Franca (TA) on September 17, 2008, in parallel with the EMBnet Annual General Meeting (AGM),  and has been hold by a panel of National and International experts in the field.

  

Registration fee

Registration is mandatory. The cost is € 45 and includes:

- Access to the tutorial
- Tutorial documentation
- Certificate of attendance
- Coffee breaks
- Light lunch

  

Organizing committee:

Giorgio Maggi    INFN; Bari, Italy  
Giacinto Donvito   INFN; Bari, Italy
Guido Cuscela   INFN; Bari, Italy
Giuseppe La Rocca   INFN, Catania, Italy
Andreas Gisel   ITB, Bari, Italy
Domenica D'Elia   ITB, Bari, Italy

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

Sponsors

The EMBnet Conference Tutorial on "GRID Computing" has been kindly supported by:

      logo INFN   logo garr     logo SPACI         logo cineca

   logo CNR ITB
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche , Bari, Italy
     
         

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