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The link to the materials is here:
http://blog.bioteam.net/2009/09/28/sge-training-slides/

Comments & feedback welcome, my company is still (of course) offering customized SGE training aimed at both users or administrators in timeslots ranging from 2-hours to 2-days depending on need and interest. Look for more training announcements in early 2010.

The 2009 Sun HPC Workshop started today with some tutorial sessions. Dan T and I are running a Grid Engine Administration workshop right next door to the Lustre folks.

Note: photo taken from prepwork for a prior training session, classes will not take place in a times square high-rise hotel room!

Two events to announce:

• LSF Migration Workshop: March 17 2009, Santa Clara, CA
• Grid Engine Administration Workshop: March 18, 2009, Santa Clara, CA

The nice folks at UnivaUD (operators of the community grid.org site as well) have invited me to present a 1-Day Grid Engine Admin workshop scheduled for March 18th in Santa Clara, CA. This is happening on the day after Univa holds a LSF to SGE Migration workshop.

More details are available here via downloadble PDFs for each session:

• http://gridengine.info/files/LSF-SGE-Migration_Workshop_March17.pdf
• http://gridengine.info/files/SGE_Admin_Course_Q109.pdf

I intend to deliver a shorter version of my standard 2-day Admin workshop. The plan is to fire up cluster systems within the Amazon EC2 cloud so each attendee has root and full administrative control over their classroom setup. I may decide to build the systems off of the open source UnivaUD Unicluster product since it conveniently installs everything I care about including a functional SGE ARCo setup.

Drop me a line if you plan on attending or if you have any questions, I can be reached at 'chris@bioteam.net' (my corporate hat) or 'dag@sonsorol.org' (non-corporate ID that I use on public sites and the SGE forums...)

ARC at Georgetown University in Washington, DC has announced an upcoming training class entitled "Intermediate Sun Grid Engine Configuration and Administration".

Dates:

21-23 October 2008

Location:

Georgetown University
Harris Building Room 4200
3300 Whitehaven St, NW
Washington, DC 20007

Full announcement & class overview here:
Training Announcement

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.