Registration:

There is no charge for attending this Workshop, but intending participants are asked to register here.

Outline:

OMII-Europe was established to re-engineer a small number of key components from the dominant grid platforms in use across Europe, namely gLite, UNICORE and Globus. These components have been produced to open-standards in order to provide users with a level of useful interoperation across multiple platforms.

Over the last few months OMII-Europe has been working closely with the WISDOM project to implement a viable architecture for interoperability. The WISDOM project was established to demonstrate the relevance and impact of the grid approach to address drug discovery for neglected and emergent diseases such as malaria and avian flu. The process of conducting /In Silico/ docking requires that scientists are able to bridge the gap between massively parallel HPC systems and embarrassingly parallel cluster grids.

This OMII-Europe workshop will provide interested participants with an overview of the research goals being addressed at a level that will be of interest beyond Bio-Informatics. It will also present an in-depth look at the OMII-Europe components themselves and their role in the proposed interoperability architecture. The workshop will also explain how users will be able to obtain the components and access the related support documentation, services and classroom-based and web-based training.

The workshop will cover:

an overview of WISDOM and OMII-Europe
an explanation of why heterogeneous grids require bridges
an overview of the OMII-Europe conceptual architecture for interoperability
an overview of the WISDOM scenario for bridging grids
an introduction to the OMII-Europe portal framework
an explanation of the OMII-Europe grid components
an overview of the OMII-Europe support and training resources

The workshop is addressed at e-Scientists, developers and infrastructure managers and participants will also have an opportunity to influence future development work in OMII-Europe as wider interoperability issues are considered

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