University Grid Curriculum

Introduction

This document aims to define a standard curriculum of recommended modules to form a course in Grid Computing. It is based partly on a similar attempt by the ICEAGE forum and also on the topics currently being taught by the participants in the OGF ET-Frameworks session.

The following keywords serve to provide an outline of the course structure:

• Introduction
• Motivation (why)
• History
• Definition (what)
• Examples, case studies (where & who)
• Individual technical topics (how)

Possible Individual Technical Topics

• Grid security
• Resource allocation and management - includes job submission, monitoring
• Information services
• Data management
• Service oriented architecture
• Programming paradigms - parameter sweeps, parallel jobs, mpi, workflow, etc. etc. APIs?)
• Grid-relevant part of programming languages (e.g. Java, JDL, APIs?)
• Grid installation, setup and test
• Web services
• Grid standards and OGF activities
• Grid services

The above could be ordered into the following modules

Core Modules

• Introduction
• Motivation
• History
• Definition
• Examples, case studies, applications, etc.
• Security

Elective Modules

• Information services
• Resource allocation and management
• Data management
• Programming paradigms
• Grid-relevant part of programming languages
• Service oriented architecture
• Web services
• Grid services
• Standards
• Grid installation