The fourth "OGSI and Microsoft .NET" course, provided as part of a collaboration
between NeSC, EPCC and Microsoft Research Ltd, was held on February 2425th at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh. Fourteen delegates attended the
course from a range oforganisations across the UK involved or interested in eScience, Microsoft and the Grid. These organisations included Forest Research,
Kings College, London, Liverpool John Moores University and the Universities of
Portsmouth and Edinburgh.
The goals of the course were to provide attendees with information on both the
Open Grid Services Infrastructure and Microsoft .NET and to demonstrate the
applicability of Microsoft .NET to the development and hosting of Grid services.
An implementation of OGSI on .NET - MS.NETGrid-OGSI 1.2 - was used as a
focus for course practicals.
The attendees viewed the course very positively and worth their while attending,
stating that it provided a clear introduction to both OGSI and Microsoft .NET. Grid
service development practicals – providing hands-on use of Microsoft .NET tools
and MS.NETGrid-OGSI – were viewed as particularly useful and interesting.