Teusday - Were YOU paying attention?

So Tuesday was the day we went to the beach for fireworks, but before that, we had lectures and lessons. We learned about GridSAM, and many of the other technologies coming from OMII, in the UK. I really like this tech, and am interested to deploy it on a test grid, so I can learn for myself.

Some of the highlights I took away for myself include (as I understand them):
Common-VFS hooks, so for the user it's seamless, and
Workflow support, and
Common support for all the major middlewares and submission engines.

I don't want to detract from GridSAM, it's just that by this point in the school, we were all a little overwhelmed in what we were learning.

So, look, everyone just wants to see pictures, these are the pictures! "The Bastille Day fireworks show", as I understand it, although I'm sure someone will correct me. These are what I think were fairly representative of the ones I took, but others took some much better shots, so you'll just have to check with them and around to see what there was. I'll also mention that this show was one of the shorter I've seen in a while.

Sunday outing - Cole's perspective

Well, today I finally passed 3GB of data collected with my camera. Yeah, at this point it's going to be difficult shy of hosting it on my own to get everyone a copy. Stay tuned, if I upload everything, and for those who want their own snapshot, bring me a laptop or a USB Drive of over 8 GB by the end of the show. Also, to all other participants, I'm collecting photos!

Saturday at the base camp

Ok, so Saturday was a split day, where we went to lecture/practical in the AM, and we went to Nice in the evening. Let's start with the lecture/practical now, and I'll do the trip to Nice after a break. And yeah, I started with a pic of me, it's my blog post ;)

From my point of view, as a grid virgin, I thought that the presentation that Michael gave really coalesced everything into understanding, so I give kudos to him. Though it could be that I've just been listening to it for a week so it finally kicked in...

So anyways, Saturday was about ARC, which was previously NordicGrid, IIRC, and this was mostly a catch-up to the ones who are familiar with what has been happening with ARC, and how they are trying to get to a 1.0 release. This is an incomplete toolkit, but from what I've seen, of the middlewares, it seems to be the closest to my way of thinking of the EC toolkits. (I'm still partial to Condor for some reason, but I digress by mentioning Condor here)

And of course, after the lecture, nearly everyone was ready to goto Nice. - So let's talk about Nice. What's to say? We all went in different directions. The guys in my group went to the beach, the girls that I talked to went shopping. Later we all met at the restaurant for dinner. Now we have pics.

Haha, now you've got three men at the beach, so I'm not doing anymore beach pics here. C'mon, this is a family affair, no? Anyways, the beach was fun, dinner was better, and I'll be uploading those with the actual picture archives we're assembling later. Cheers.

Photos from Lunch

Just some pics from lunch, a lot of small thumbnails. Wanted to share our afternoon.