13th International GridKa School on Big Data, Virtualization and Modern Programming
3 June 2015
13th International GridKa School
September 7-11, 2015 Karlsruhe, Germany
The international GridKa School is one of the leading summer schools for advanced computing techniques. The school’s aims is to bring participants in contact with experts from science and technology leaders in on-hand tutorials and talks sharing their vast experiences and knowledge. The targetvaudience are different groups like grid and cloud beginners, advanced users as well as administrators, graduate and PhD students. Organized by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), GridKa School is hosted by Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC).
This year GridKa School covers a broad range of topics. With virtualization becoming more and more in many aspects of the information technologies, one range of subjects are lightweight containers as well as virtualization of networks, file systems or whole data center infrastructures [ELK, Cloud HPC, IPv6, LXC/Docker, Puppet, SDN/OpenDaylight, SDDC]. For an efficient use of resources another focus is on efficient programming techniques and parallel programming on modern CPUs and GPUs [Concurrent C++, CUDA, FastFlow, Programming Templates, AngularJS]. On large scale data analysis, GridKa School offers this year contributions on various database architectures, analysis frameworks and analysis tools [CEPH, MongoDB, (no)SQL DBs, Python/Pandas, R, Spark/Hadoop]. To teach not only theoretical but also practical experiences, experienced professionals cover topics in plenary talks as well as in on-hands tutorials.
Aiming to bring beginners and experienced data analysts and admins together, GridKa has special fees for students and members of academia.