1. From Training to Technology Transfer:
experiences from an EU perspective
in the Asia and Pacific region
and opportunities/challenges
presented by Cloud Computing
David Fergusson

2. The problem
We can build technologies and infrastructures.
However without USERS this means nothing.
Only when these tools are used (in this case to
create new science) do they have any meaning.
To do this we have to go out to the communities,
they will not come to us.

3. Training & Education Spectrum
Training
Targeted
Immediate goals
Specific skills
Building a workforce
Education
Pervasive
Long term and sustained
Generic conceptual models
Developing a culture
Both are needed
Society
Graduates
EducationInnovation
Invests
PreparesCreate
Enriches
Organisation
Skilled Workers
TrainingServices & Applications
Invests
PreparesDevelop
Strengthens
Changing Culture

4. EGEE and ICEAGE
to EGI
Building a sustainable international distributed
infrastructure

5. 5
Geographical spread of events
http://bit.ly/EGEEtrainingmap
185 events
in EGEE-III
80 separate
locations
worldwide
2312
participants
Training designated as a NGI task

6. 6
UPDATE Training event data in EGEE-III
<- Event duration
Average course
length 2.5 days
0.0
1.0
2.0
3.0
4.0
5.0
6.0
EvaluationScore(outof6.0)
Date of Event
EGEE-III Year 1 - average evaluation score 5.1 (out of
6, n=65)
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
1 2 3 4 5 6 or more
No.ofEvents
Event Duration (Days)
Duration of training events (n=101)

7. 7
Breakdown by event type
Advanced
3%
Application
developer
14%
Applications
6%
Induction
64%
System
Administrator
8%
Train the Trainer
3%
Workshop (retreat)
2%

8. Digital Library

9. Audio and video in Library

10. 10
Development of EGEE trainers
• Training the trainers
– Provide partner autonomy
– Experts ensure quality of message
• Trainer Accreditation
– Accreditation process:
 Peer approval
 Details of training experience
– Currently 104 trainers

11. Location of accredited trainers
11
6
2
717
1
3
8
7
16
5
3
1
2
15
2
5
2
1
4
7
1
Taiwan – 8
Australia – 1
Japan - 1
5
3
+2
+3 +2
+5
+16

12. Policy activity – OGF, e-IRG

13. International Summer School for Grid
Computing

14. Biomed Grid Summer School

16. Objective
To set up an e-Learning version of the
International Summer School in Grid
Computing

17. Winter school Course design – technology
week
Training
Infrastructure
Digital
Library
Content
COURSE
Winter School IWSGC
site
Virtual Learning
Environment
Live Talks
Keynotes
Tutor chat
Exercises
Tuto
r 17
Recorded presentations
Training documents
Research papers
Student
mailing List
Discussion
Forum

18. Keynotes
To provide high points for the school (idea taken
from ISSGC)
3 Keynote talks
Ian Foster
Miron Livny
Malcolm Atkinson
Live broadcasts
Provided opportunity for students to chat with some
of the prominent grid experts
Adobe Connect

21. demographics
•38 applicants from
16 countries
Users
76%
App Developers
24%

22. Participant Feedback
93% completed questionnaire
75% structure “good”
90% course “correct length
80% interested in individual technology week
Statistics
600 messages on forum
200 emails sent via VLE
Average student working time 20 hours per week
Average user sessions per day:43
Average user sessions per day on weekdays:54
Average user sessions per day on weekends:16

23. Head in the clouds?
Dynamic (service) provisioning
How is it applicable to the NGS/Edinburgh?
Training
Rapidly deploy services for teaching
Isolate training from production
Other
Specialised research environments
Rapid deployment
Identify use cases and gather requirements

24. Eucalyptus
“Elastic Utility Computing Architecture Linking Your
Programs To Useful Systems”
Open source and Commercial
Amazon Web Services API compatible
EC2, storage - S3, Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Easy to install
Xen and KVM hypervisors
Commercial version supports others (inc. VMWare)

25. Prototype service
Eucalyptus 1.6.2 (current 2.0)
Migration in next few months
Call for users for prototype
> 20 groups expressed interest
> 25 registered users on system
Increasing constantly
May be reaching the limits of current support

26. Research domains
Social science
Population simulations (York, St Andrews)
Cloud interface development
Advanced teaching
Edinburgh (MSc)
Canfield (MSc)
Bioscience
Next gen sequencing, micro array
Taxonomic analysis
Geospatial analysis
Civil Engineering (flood risk management)
MyGrid on the cloud