Training

From Cidays

[edit] Internet2

Internet2 Hands-on Workshops provide an opportunity to build, debug, and experiment with advanced technologies under the guidance of experts with extensive theoretical and operational experience. These workshops offer knowledge and resources that are unique to the Internet2 community, and provide this expertise to members at a fraction of the cost of comparable commercial training. Workshop instructors include both Internet2 staff and experts from Internet2 member institutions. Some of Internet2's workshop offerings include:

• Internet2 Commons Site Coordinator Training -- H.323 videoconferencing workshops help Internet2 members test and evaluate collaboration tools hosted at the Commons, and prepare individuals to manage Commons services at their institutions.

• Internet2/EDUCAUSE CAMP workshops – These middleware workshops focus on identity and access management and offer education and guidance to higher education CIOs and IT managers, project managers, middleware architects, and administrative staff involved in a technical, management, or stakeholder position.

• Network Performance workshops -- Students in this workshop place measurement beacons on their campuses and learn to use related tests and tools, thus reducing the time required to identify, locate and resolve many of the most common network performance issues.

• Network Dynamic Services (DCS) workshops -- The workshop provides an overview of GMPLS architecture, RSVP and OSPF protocols, control plane design concepts, and specifics of dynamic circuit services network engineering as it relates to campus, regional, and national network facilities in the R&E community.

• IPv6 workshops -- Students design and set up a functioning IPv6 network, connect to the global IPv6 network via Internet2, configure external and internal routing, and use IPv6 transition tools to gateway between the workshop IPv6 network and the global IPv4 Internet.

• Multicast workshops -- Students design and configure a set of interconnected multicast networks. The workshop is divided into four teams; each team configures three types of routers in its own network, and interconnects its network with the other teams' networks.

• SIP.edu workshops -- SIP.edu workshops offer the background needed to deploy an experimental campus SIP system that provides voice connectivity to SIP.edu (over 250,000 users so far) and a platform for enabling exploration of advanced networked communications (e.g., video, presence) among Internet2 members.

• Performing Arts and Master Class Production -- These workshops offer instruction in connecting with remote sites over Internet2, setting up incoming and outgoing audio, creating a multi-camera shoot, placing lights and projectors, and operating codecs.

• Digital Video Transport System (DVTS) -- DVTS workshops provide hands-on experience setting up and using this simple and inexpensive method of transmitting high-quality video over the Internet.

[edit] Open Science Grid

The OSG Education and Training program provides training for student users, researchers and educators of the OSG and site administrators at sites around the U.S. and abroad. At the core of the student education program are the Grid Schools, organized by OSG and its partners. These grid schools give advanced undergraduate and graduate students a basic foundation in distributed computing and provide valuable hands-on training in distributed and grid computing techniques.

Look at a sample syllabus from the Great Plains Grid School 2007.

OSG also offers training at its annual all-hands meetings.