Dear colleagues, we are happy to announce the 13th International GridKa
School. We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this invitation.
------------- 13th International GridKa School -------------
The 13th International GridKa School 2015 on Big Data, Virtualization
and Modern Programming
September 7-11, 2015
Karlsruhe, Germany
http://gridka-school.scc.kit.edu/
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=== Overview ===
The international GridKa School is one of the leading summer schools
for advanced computing techniques. The school's aims is to bring
participants in contact with experts from science and technology leaders
in on-hand tutorials and talks sharing their vast experiences and
knowledge. The target audience are different groups like grid and cloud
beginners, advanced users as well as administrators, graduate and PhD
students. Organized by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT),
GridKa School is hosted by Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC).
Aiming to bring beginners and experienced data analysts and admins
together, GridKa has special fees for students and members of academia.
For registration details see
https://indico.scc.kit.edu/indico/event/89/registration/
== Topics ==
This year GridKa School covers a broad range of topics. With
virtualization becoming more and more in many aspects of the information
technologies, one range of subjects are lightweight containers as well
as virtualization of networks, file systems or whole data center
infrastructures [ELK, Cloud HPC, IPv6, LXC/Docker, Puppet,
SDN/OpenDaylight, SDDC]. For an efficient use of resources another focus
is on efficient programming techniques and parallel programming on
modern CPUs and GPUs [Concurrent C++, CUDA, FastFlow, Programming
Templates, AngularJS]. On large scale data analysis, GridKa School
offers this year contributions on various database architectures,
analysis frameworks and analysis tools [CEPH, MongoDB, (no)SQL DBs,
Python/Pandas, R, Spark/Hadoop]. To teach not only theoretical but also
practical experiences, experienced professionals cover topics in plenary
talks as well as in on-hands tutorials.
You can find a detailed agenda at
https://indico.scc.kit.edu/indico/event/89/timetable/#20150907
== Location ==
GridKa School is located this year at KIT Campus South in the heart of
Karlsruhe City near to the Karlsruhe palace. Karlsruhe in the German
federal state of Baden-Württemberg lies in the Rhine plain with its
various historic cities, wine-growing districs and nature parks as the
Black Forest. Karlsruhe can easily be reached by car and train in about
1h from Frankfurt, 3h from Paris, 4.5h from Geneva or Lyon. We have
reserved hotel rooms with school conditions for participants. Please
note, that the rooms offer is limited in time as well as number.
You can find details on how to reach GridKa School and accommodation at
https://indico.scc.kit.edu/indico/event/89/page/5
== Important Dates ==
* early bird registration fees until July 15th
* school start: September 7th - end: September 11th
=== Preliminary Program ===
A detailed preliminary agenda can be found at
https://indico.scc.kit.edu/indico/event/89/timetable/?mml=0#all.detailed
Keynotes will be held by
* Damien LeCarpentier [EUDAT, Research Data Alliance]
* David Kelsey [STFC Particle Physics Department]
* Peter Wittenburg [Research Data Alliance]
=== Questions & Answers ===
If you have any question or suggestion, please feel free to ask us
directly at
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Best regards,
Thomas Hartmann for the GridKa School team
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