In accordance with the working plan of the EGEE III project, ICI Bucharest, organized the training event “Grid Days” in Campulung Muscel in Arges County, on December 14-15, 2009. The event was also supported by the Western University of Timisoara (WUT) and the University of Bucharest (UB) - members of the RoGrid JRU involved in the EGEE III project. 

The event agenda included an opening session, with an overview of the ICT Research in European context, presented by Prof. Doina Banciu. It was followed by a section illustrating the national results in Grid development with an overview of the RoGrid Consortium contribution to this field, also provided by Prof. Doina Banciu, and a presentation of Grid activities at the Western University of Timisoara (WUT) from 2002 to 2009, presented by Drd. Silviu Panica, Grid administrator at the Deptartment of Mathematics and Computer Science of said University.
Participation in the FP7 funded projects of the Romanian Grid community was the main topic of the third session, which included the presentation of the EGEE III and SEE-GRID-SCI projects given by their local coordinators Prof. Doina Banciu and Dr. Gabriel Neagu, respectively.
The final session was devoted to technical aspects regarding Grid infrastructure administration and usage. First, an introductory talk about Grid Computing was given by Dr. Gabriel Neagu. Then Stefan Preda – representing the Grid infrastructure administration team from ICI Bucharest - presented the gLite architecture and gLite cluster installation and configuration procedure. The final presentation was given by Drd. Silviu Panica, focusing mainly on accessing virtual resources and job execution procedure on the gLite platform.
 
The event was attended by about 30 people, including Prof. Mihai Talmaciu  Dean of the Mathematics and Informatics Faculty of the University of Bacau, Assist. Prof. Emil Burtescu and Assist. Prof. Florin Smaranda from the University of Pitesti, young researchers from ICI Bucharest and the University of Pitesti, students from the Department of Mathematics and Informatics at the University of Bucharest.