The aim of the school is to help develop the skills of those involved in providing computational support for research in a wide range of disciplines.
In particular the school will focus on the use of, provision of interfaces to and the development of services based on employing the composition or aggregation of computational or data services. For instance the school will show how to compose a variety of services into bioinformatics work flows which can be used to support biomedical research processes, how to use and develop lab or department scale clusters of computers to run simulations, how to work with the National Grid Service to compose protein simulation models for running on UK or international super computers, developing a portal to support legacy appications.
The school aims to provide the students with a familiarity with and the tools to use the facilities available in the UK and internationally to transform current research practices in the light of the developing services being made available in a highly networked world.
