{"id":1216,"date":"2010-03-26T13:11:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T11:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldblogs.uct.ac.za\/blog\/big-bytes\/2010\/03\/26\/epikh-africa-2-grid-school"},"modified":"2022-09-26T19:50:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T17:50:38","slug":"epikh-africa-2-grid-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2010\/03\/26\/epikh-africa-2-grid-school\/","title":{"rendered":"EPIKH Africa 2 Grid school"},"content":{"rendered":"ICTS staff members Timothy and Andrew assisted at a two week site admin and application porting school held at the University of Johannesburg.\u00a0 The first week focused on lectures and hands-on practicals and covered in-depth the main topics of Grid technology as well as the gLite middleware.\u00a0 The second week was spent working with researchers porting software to the Grid format.\r\n\r\nApplications addressed in this course included HLT, <a href=\"http:\/\/grass.osgeo.org\/\">Grass<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ks.uiuc.edu\/Research\/namd\/\">NAMD<\/a>, WCD and AutoDock\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/25731_374596825926_162132040926_4063669_3970684_n.jpg\" alt=\"Africa2\" border=\"0\" \/>\r\n\r\nApplication porting session\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/25731_374468170926_162132040926_4061338_1584512_n.jpg\" alt=\"EVO\" border=\"0\" \/>\r\n\r\nAlbert van Eck joins us for lunch via video conference.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/3503-Untitled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Africa2 report back\" border=\"0\" \/>\r\n\r\nStavros, Valeria, Tim, Andrew\r\n\r\nThe course was the second to be supported in Africa by the European Community framework project EPIKH; 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