UltraLight Summer Workshop Tutorial
This summer, UltraLight will train aspiring undergraduate and graduate
computer and discipline science students in state of the art network and
distributed system science and technologies using the UltraLight interactive
toolkit at the FIU University Park Campus in the Center for High Energy
Physics Research Education and Outreach Physics Learning Center. The
one-week workshop tutorial will be followed by immersive collaborative
research projects based on the toolkit and provide rigorous testing of
UltraLight tools by these first adopters. At the present time, planning is
underway for the summer workshop. The workshop takes place from June
8th to June 10th 2005.
Topics will include network engineering, network research and monitoring,
and applications underlying the UltraLight project. Speakers and tutorial
leaders will be composed of PIs and Senior Researchers as well as several
invited guests. Support for 15 students is included in the project with
additional self-supported participants welcome as well.
Research projects will follow the workshop to further immerse students in
the UltraLight experience and involve them in collaborative projects
utilizing the UltraLight toolkit. Students will be collaborators in the
project and will work as part of the research community. The goal is to
emulate the professional researcher role, providing deep insights into the
nature of network research and its key role and impact on leading-edge
international projects in the physics and astronomy communities. Projects
will be organized and assignments will be detailed during the workshop.
Research projects will begin upon the students’ return to their home
institution. Groups will maintain communication and will collaborate through
regular VRVS conferencing. At the end of
the summer, results will be presented to the collaboration and archived.
About UltraLight
UltraLight is a collaboration of experimental physicists and network engineers whose purpose is to provide the network advances required to enable petabyte-scale analysis of globally distributed data. Current Grid-based infrastructures provide massive computing and storage resources, but are currently limited by their treatment of the network as an external, passive, and largely unmanaged resource.
UltraLight goals include the development and deployment of prototype global services to broaden existing Grid computing systems by promoting the network as an actively managed component, the integration and testing of UltraLight in Grid-based physics production and analysis systems in ATLAS and CMS, and the engineering and operation of a trans- and intercontinental optical network testbed, including high-speed data caches and computing clusters, with U.S. nodes in California, Illinois, Florida, Michigan and Massachusetts, and overseas nodes in Europe, Asia and South America.
More information:
Contact Laird Kramer for more details regarding the workshop