EGEE celebrated its first successful year at the 3rd Project Conference in Athens 18-22 April 2005. The main focus of the conference was to plan for the second year of the project in the light of feedback from the European Union (EU) review which the project passed with flying colours in February. The Project Director, Fabrizio Gagliardi, thanked all those working in the project for their hard work and dedication, saying: “It is important to keep the momentum going and ensure this week is utilised to consolidate our plans for the next year of the project.” Key issues discussed during the conference included the certification and deployment of gLite as well as the migration of the many applications already deployed on the infrastructure.
The conference was superbly organised by GRNET and many of the over 400 delegates spontaneously expressed their great satisfaction for the venue, the logistics, the social events and the network support. Senior Greek and EU authorities participated and the event received wide coverage by local and national media.
Terena has issued a press release about the conference which you can find at http://public.eu-egee.org/pr/.
The 4th and final EGEE conference for phase 1 of the project, will take place in Pisa in Italy, 24-28 October 2005.

The Middleware Re-Engineering Activity (JRA1), in collaboration with the Security Activity (JRA3), released gLite v1.0 early April . This first release of the new and highly awaited EGEE grid middleware includes the following high-level elements: Data Management, Computing Element, Storage Element, Catalog and Information & Monitoring.The new Grid middleware stack is now undergoing intense testing by SA1 on the certification testbeds and on the Pre-Production Service. SA1 is focusing its testing on deployability (including ease of installation and configuration). Meanwhile, NA4 (HEP, biomedical and generic applications) is joining forces in testing gLite from an application point-of-view (including security and realistic stress tests).

FORTHCOMING TRAINING EVENTS
(All events can be accessed through http://www.egee.nesc.ac.uk/

PPARC Summer School 9 - 13 May, Edinburgh, UK
Emerging technologies for production grids - NGS and EGEE: 27 May,
Edinburgh, UK
gLite for Application Development: 30 - 31 May Edinburgh, UK
Induction to Grid and the NGS: 13 - 14 June, Edinburgh, UK
Training the Trainers - gLite on GENIUS and GILDA: 13 - 15 June, Catania, Italy
gLite Admin and Installation: 27 - 29 June, Edinburgh, UK

SUMMER SCHOOLS
- 3rd International Summer School on Grid Computing 10 - 22nd July, Vivo Equense, Italy http://www.dma.unina.it/~murli/GridSummerSchool2005/))
The school will consist of lectures by experts in various aspects of grid middleware and grid applications and laboratory sessions in which the students will carry out practical exercises.
Admissions
A total of 80 students will be admitted to the school. Admission will be based on applications from the students in which they state their reason for wanting to learn about grids and with what grid project they are associated or expect to be associated. The applications will be supported by one reference letter from the applicant's supervisor.

- Regional EGEE Summer School Budapest 11-16th July, Budapest, Hungary http://www.egee.hu/grid05/
Scientists from biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, geosciences etc., have already realised that they need efficient ways to collaborate with their colleagues all over the world to achieve new results by sharing the available computational resources, databases and scientific instruments. Frontiers of science can be expanded nowadays only by using enormous amount of computing power and data storage. The EGEE infrastructure enables scientist to join virtual organisations, to share their resources and to create and to use applications in the infrastructure.
The Regional EGEE Grid Summer School aims at introducing Grid technology to potential users and at studying and practising application developments on the EGEE infrastructure.

The Regional school is open to anyone interested in the use of EGEE for one's e-Science research. Particularly, researchers and students from the Central European and South European regions are expected but anyone interested is warmly welcome

TRAINING MATERIAL
A great deal of training material can be found in the NA3 Training Material Archive at: http://www.egee.nesc.ac.uk/trgmat/index.html
Current course material is available in:
EGEE Induction
Globus Toolkit
LCG2 APIs
LCG2 Installation and Administration
UML for developing web services
Web Services
(The first gLite material will be added in the coming months.)

TRAINING SURVEY
Please remember to fill in the training survey form (recently emailed to you) on which you can record your expected training needs and also report your experiences with training. If you want to record training requirements you can also fill in the online form at: http://www.egee.nesc.ac.uk/suggreq/trainingform.html
Please take some time to look at it so that we can respond to your needs.

TIPS AND TRICKS
LCG-2 Beginner Level Tips
When submitting a job you can save the job identifier to a file and use this file when checking the job's status and retrieving output.
In the below example the job identifier is stored in the file myJobIdFile:
grid:~> edg-job-submit -o myJobIdFile hostname.jdl ...

The edg_jobId has been saved in the following file:
/home/gcw/myJobIdFile
grid:~> edg-job-status -i myJobIdFile

BOOKKEEPING INFORMATION:
Status info for the Job :
https://grid.ct.infn.it:/Ce1_B7SaSa6hJvnVrIt0vg
grid:~> edg-job-get-output -i myJobIdFile --dir