Distributed computing education, part 2: International summer schools

The International Summer Schools in Grid Computing (ISSGC) series, started in the year 2003, bring together leading experts and practitioners in the Grid computing field with selected international students for two weeks of intensive study. ISSGC, by imparting valuable skills and knowledge in grid computing, prepares students to share their newly acquired expertise and to promote e-infrastructure technologies in their home communities. Students come from all over the world, but their geographical distribution shows a bias toward Europe, where all of the summer schools to date have been held. Under the learning goals for ISSGC 07, when students have completed the summer school course, they will be familiar with Grid environments' fundamental components, be able to use Grid environments for basic and advanced job submission and distributed data management, be conversant with Grid achievements worldwide, and be aware of new research opportunities.