The School will provide an in-depth introduction to Grid technologies that underpin e-Infrastructure and Cyberinfrastructure. It will present a conceptual framework to enhance each student's ability to work in this rapidly advancing field. Reports from world leaders in deploying and exploiting Grids will complement lectures from research leaders shaping future e-Infrastructure. Hands-on laboratory exercises will give participants experience with widely used Grid middleware. Graduates of the School will be familiar with the fundamental components of Grid environments, such as authentication, authorization, resource discovery, and resource access; be able to use Grid environments for basic and advanced job submission, and distributed data management; be conversant with Grid achievements worldwide; be alert to emerging Grid applications; appreciate the potential of e-Infrastructure and be aware of new research opportunities.

Applications are invited from enthusiastic and ambitious researchers who have recently started (or are about to start) working on Grid projects. Students may come from any country. They may be planning to pioneer or enable new forms of e-Infrastructure, to engage in fundamental distributed systems research or to develop new methods in any discipline that depends on the emerging capabilities of e-Infrastructure. Participants from computer science, computational science and any application discipline are welcome. The School will assume that students have diverse backgrounds and build on that diversity.

To support the hands-on laboratory sessions, a testbed will be established that will host widely used middleware produced by projects in the USA, Europe and Asia providing an emulated experience of major international Grids. Exercises and team work will encourage students to learn by using this testbed.