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Consider this post a plug for the upcoming June 2008 SGE User and SGE Admin workshops that are being held in the Boston, MA USA area.

More details here:
http://blog.bioteam.net/2008/03/22/sge-training/

Hi folks. It's done. I've made a personal and financial commitment to organize a regularly occurring series of Grid Engine Training Workshops starting initially in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area. This is a darwinian test to see if my thoughts about the size and needs of the Grid Engine community are true. With existing SGE training opportunities only scheduled 1-2 times per year it is still an open guess as to the size of the potential audience for these sorts of events.

Course details and updates will always be here:
http://blog.bioteam.net/category/training/

Download the brochure here:

Obviously my employer has a bit of a commercial/profit motive here but I've been the one pushing to make this happen. Consider this a bit of market research to see if BioTeam should invest in growing the number of staff capable of providing SGE related training, professional services and support to the community at large.

I welcome your comments and feedback and would appreciate any assistance in spreading the word about these events.

Thanks! -- Chris.

Head on over to Dan'T's site to see the info on his upcoming October 30, 2007 SGE training class ...

http://blogs.sun.com/templedf/entry/advanced_sun_grid_engine_configuration

Thanks to Mike Cariaso for the tip ...

Daniel Templeton recently taught a 2-day course entitled "Advanced Sun Grid Engine Configuration and Administration" via Georgetown University's Advanced Research Computing group. For more information on the training sessions offered, visit http://www.gridswatch.com and and follow the Training link.

The slides that Dan used for the course can be found online here:
Advanced+Sun+Grid+Engine+Configuration+and+Administration

... the presentation is incredibly informative for those interested in SGE Administration. Nice work Dan!

Jess Cantana posted about a 2-day training class being offered in the Washington DC area from June 4-5, 2007. The cost is $1400 USD.

This is the "good" type of training where every attendee will have a personal cluster to experiment with and upon. The class is also being taught by an (unnamed) Grid Engine developer.

Topics covered:

* Sharetree policy
* Functional ticket policy
* Urgency policies
* Parallel Environments
* Queue threshholds and subordinates
* Transfer queues
* Epilog/prolog scripts

Full information on the course is available here:
http://www.gridswatch.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1030&Itemid=25

Just a quick post to thank the folks who attended the 1-day grid engine training seminar we did in Cambridge, MA on June 2nd 2006.

Despite the short notice, we got 5 people (and 5x SGE 6.0u8 clusters!) together in a conference room at the Hotel@MIT for a day long SGE session concentrating on usage, workflows and application integration issues. A few pictures from the recent session and the one we did in Boston back in October 2005 are attached.

Time for a brief commercial announcement. This is part of an ongoing personal experiment to see if there actually is demand for user and usage-centric Grid Engine training.

A 1-day seminar on "Grid Engine 6 Intro & Usage" will be offered on June 2, 2006 in the Boston area.

Intended Audience:

Anyone interested in a user-centric view of distributed computing with Grid Engine. Note: this is not an advanced operator/admin course.

Our goal is to help users, application integrators and developers understand Grid Engine features and capabilities in a way that allows them to become more productive at home. New SGE cluster operators or administrators also may benefit from the user and usage-centric perspective.

The seminar will be taught with a life science informatics focus, using bioinformatics workflows and applications as examples. As Grid Engine usage and configuration patterns can differ significantly between disciplines and industries, interested non-life-science attendees should contact us in advance to determine if this seminar will be a good fit.

The full announcement is at http://bioteam.net/dag/gridengine-training/