25–29 Sept 2006
CICG
Europe/Zurich timezone

Session

Poster session

26 Sept 2006, 14:00
CICG

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Conveners

Poster session

  • Massimo Lamanna (CERN)

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  1. Dr Ivan Porro (Department of Communication, Computer and System Sciences (DIST), University of Genoa)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    In the context of bioinformatics laboratory research, measurements from experiments can range dramatically in their accuracy and reproducibility, forcing researchers to design experiments with more biological replicates. However, statistical processing systems can overcome this problem by widening the amount of data they are able to consider, but cost remains a strong limit on the...
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  2. Mr Indrajit Indrajit Sahoo (B.Tech,SASTRA Deemed University,India)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    A computational grid is a hardware and software infrastructure capable of providing dependable, consistent, pervasive, and inexpensive access to high- end computational resource. There are many ways to access the resources of a computational grid, each with unique security requirements and implications for both the resource user and the resource provider. Current Grid security...
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  3. Dr Andrea Ferraro (INFN CNAF)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    An integrated framework, based on EGEE tools, providing respectively a credential authority (VOMS), a policy-based authorization system (G-PBox) and an accounting system (DGAS). This framework enables VO/experiment to build groups of users, assign roles and associate policies and quotas to each group and role in a dynamic way, implementing an automatic way to enforce agreements with...
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  4. Dr Felix Heine (Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, University of Paderborn, Germany)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    Grid technologies have reached a high level of development, but adopters underline core shortcomings related to security, trustiness, and dependability of the Grid for commercial applications and services. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) should be used to define the quality of service for a job execution. However, providers are still cautious on adoption as agreeing on SLAs including...
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  5. Mr Péter Dóbé (BME)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    In BME we have assembled a site consisting of a Grid Gate (GG), a Storage Element (SE) and over thirty Working Nodes (WN). The GG and SE as well as many of the WNs are HP ProLiant G2 servers with two Intel Xeon 3.00GHz processors and 2GB RAM. In most cases it is very difficult to maintain and administer such sites. Expanding these with new nodes is a time-consuming task that...
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  6. Dr Thomas Clark (Complete Cardiology Services Ltd)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    Cardiology Services involve multiple Specialist Medical Disciplines and a wide variety of related procedures. Some Services must be provided locally, e.g., invasive, while others can be provided remotely, e.g., most non-invasive can be provided in part remotely. All such Services are key elements in medical diagnoses and procedures associated with the Heart and Cardiovascular System....
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  7. Martin Petrek (CESNET)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    This contribution describes accomplishments achieved by the computational chemistry community utilizing computational resources and corresponding applications within a grid environment of the Virtual Organization for Central Europe (VOCE). VOCE infrastructure, part of the EGEE II Grid, currently consists of computational resources and storage capacities provided by the Central...
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  8. Federica Fanzago (INFN-PD)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    During september 2007 the LHC accelerator will start its activity. CMS, one of the four LHC experiment, will produce a large amount of data that should be stored and analyzed. The CMS computing model is based on the grid paradigm: data are spread and accessed on a number of geographically distributed computing centers. Until real data are not available, the CMS community...
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  9. Dr Antonio Messina (ICTP Trieste)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    ELFI is a filesystem interface to the LFC catalog and LCG/EGEE SE (both classic and SRM v2). With ELFI, you can see the entries in the LFC catalog as files in a locally-mounted filesystem, and directly operate on the replica contents: read/write operations on the local filesystem are acted as read/write operations on a remote SE via the GSI-RFIO protocol. All operations on the...
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  10. Mr Shih-Chun Chiu (ASGC, Taiwan)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    The main goal of the project is to extend gLite to Microsoft Compute Cluster Server (CCS) platform, with the first phase to make CCS as the work node of gLite infrastructure.. Heterogeneity is the beauty of Grid, but still a milestone to reach. To integrate the large population of Windows-based resources into the Grid world through Grid services is also essential to acquire...
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  11. Mr Vladimir Voznesensky (Nuclear Fusion Inst., RRC "Kurchatov Inst.")
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    There are three main nuclear fusion applications to run on Russian Data Intensive Grid infrastructure at this moment and in the nearest future: 1. Plasma devices (stellarator) numerical optimisation; 2. ITER facility engeenering computations: propagation of waves in different plasmas; 3. Simulation and data processing for finding reduced models suitable for plasma real-time...
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  12. Dr Harald Kornmayer (FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM KARLSRUHE (FZK))
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    The simplification of the access to powerful Grid infrastructures with the help of an integrated Grid workbench tool is the goal of the g- Eclipse project. The project started on July 1, 2006 and is partially funded by the European Commission. The integrated Grid environment will address all needs of possible Grid activities and Grid actors. The current lack of an uniform Grid...
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  13. Mr Maurizio Melato (NICE srl)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    EGEE Activity Meetings
    Poster
    GENIUS is a powerful Grid Portal jointly developed by INFN and NICE srl within the INFN Grid Project . It provides to end users secure, uniform, pervasive and ubiquitous access to distributed, high-end computational resources, services and applications through a standard Web browser or through a flexible Web Services interface. EnginFrame and GENIUS greatly simplify the use...
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  14. Mr Lee Mathew (University of Greenwich)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    With Grid technologies and software agents becoming increasingly relevant in the sphere of distributed systems, it is suggested by many that these two technologies, far from being contradictory, serve an important complementary function. Grid technologies focus on a robust and extensible infrastructure. Agent systems concentrate on autonomous and flexible behaviours. Both would...
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  15. Dr Bosa Karoly Jozsef (JKU/RISC)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    JKU/RISC currently develops in cooperation with Upper Austrian Research (UAR) the SEE-GRID software system. SEE-GRID is based on the SEE++ software for the biomechanical 3D simulation of the human eye and its muscles. SEE++ simulates the common eye muscle surgery techniques in a graphic interactive way that is familiar to an experienced surgeon. SEE++ is world-wide the most advanced...
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  16. Dr Marios Dikaiakos (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Cyprus)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    Intensive Care Units (ICUs) at hospitals utilize cutting edge technology in order to acquire the physiological state of inpatients at an extremely high fidelity. Such measurements can then be utilized for i) education, ii) early diagnosis and iii) for defining early warning systems that identify when a human life is jeopardy. A problem with the current setting is that individual...
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  17. Dr Javier López (Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    the eIMRT project is currently carried out by diverse institutions in Galicia (Spain) and the USA. The eIMRT project will make available a set of algorithms to optimize and validate radiotherapy treatments to the radiotherapists, both CRT- and IMRT-based, hiding the complexity of the computer infrastructure needed to solve the problem using GRID technologies. The new platform is...
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  18. Grehant Xavier (CERN openlab / HP)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    The variety of EGEE applications come up with many different requirements. For example, biomedical and generic virtual organizations (VOs) run jobs for five minutes, whereas high energy physics (HEP) jobs can run for days. Some mechanisms have been investigated to make this cohabitation satisfactory in leveraging theories from economics. Additionally, thanks to virtualization, it is...
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  19. Dr Andrea Manara (ITU-BR)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Poster
  20. Pablo Saiz (CERN)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    Errors are always frustrating. They are even more frustrating when their cause is not clear. And the GRID is not an exception. For example, submitting a job to the GRID and getting back an error is frustrating. Not knowing if the error was due to something you did, some middleware glitch or a site problem makes it even worse. Our goal was to tackle this problem. In order to do...
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  21. Dr Donatella Lucchesi (Departement of Physics, University and INFN of Padova, Italy)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    The CDF Collaboration is moving beyond the used dedicated resources and starts exploiting Grid resources due to the large increases in computing requirements. CDF has been running a set of CDF Analysis Farm (CAFs), which are submission portals to dedicated pools, and LcgCAF is basically a reimplementation of the CAF model in order to access Grid resources by using the...
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  22. Mr Fotis Georgatos (GRNET), Mr Giannis Kouretis (NTUA)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    The project’s goal is to introduce an easy and versatile way to provide and use Grid resources, acting both as a Worker Node and User Interface, without the need of any operating system installation or middleware configuration on users' machines. At the same time it provides an excellent training tool for new Grid users and novices that want to experiment, without...
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  23. Dr Nafisa Nazipova (Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology RAS (IMPB RAS))
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    Mathematical modeling of a living cell is a great challenge for modern science. The creation of integrated model of eukaryotic cell is the aim of the Mathematical Cell (MathCell) project (http://www.mathcell.ru) realized at the Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology RAS during the EGEE Project. It includes 3D interactive living cell model, encyclopedia on mathematical modeling...
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  24. Mr Yassene Mohammed (MediGRID)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    MediGRID - Medical Grid Computing Sax U1, Viezens F1, Mohammed Y1, Lingner Th2, Morgenstern B2, Vossberg M3, Krefting, D3, Rienhoff O1 1Department of Medical Informatics, University of Göttingen, Germany 2Department of Bioinformatics, University of Göttingen, Germany 3Department of Medical Informatics, Charité, Humboldt University Berlin,...
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  25. Dr Alessandro Costantini (University of Perugia)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    The increasing availability of computer power on distributed platforms makes it easier to perform molecular based simulations of complex systems in order to reproduce their macroscopic properties. In this report we outline the work carried out in our laboratory by performing a molecular dynamics simulation of the Propane bulk system in liquid and gas phase. The calculations were...
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  26. Mr Kyriacos Neocleous (University of Cyprus)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    Detecting and managing failures in an automated way is an important step toward the goal of a dependable grid. Currently, this is an extremely complex task that relies on over-provisioning of resources, ad-hoc monitoring and user intervention. We present the FailRank architecture, a simple yet powerful framework for integrating and ranking information sources that characterize...
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  27. Mr Omair Shafiq (DERI Innsbruck)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    Over the last few years, Grid Computing has adapted to Web Services standards with the emergence of Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF). This alignment with Web Services standards has made the Grid standards more scalable by enabling Grid resources interoperable over the Web. The next step for Grid is Semantic Grid in which knowledge about resources is exposed and handled...
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  28. Dr Vincenzo Ciaschini (INFN CNAF)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    Current developments in the world of HEP-based grid computing have put an accent on the need to differentiate user jobs on the basis of group/role membership, creating in effect several classes of service, each with its own specific configuration, and the need to have a fair-share mechanism in place to permit a full and fair use of available resources. This poster shows a...
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  29. Dr Algimantas Juozapavicius (associate professor)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    The presentation (poster) aims to introduce Special Interest Group (SIG) concept, being developed as an application in BalticGrid project (www.balticgrid.org). SIG is going to be implemented as a public service based on grid technology. The main task of SIG is to enable group-to-group communication of scientists and researchers, having similar or related R&D interests (to create...
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  30. Nuno Santos (CERN)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    We present the AMGA Metadata Catalogue, which was developed as part of the EGEE (Enabling Grids for EsciencE) project's gLite Grid middleware. AMGA provides access to metadata for files stored on the Grid, as well as a simplified general access to relational data stored in database systems. Design and implementation of AMGA was done in close collaboration with the very diverse...
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  31. Mr Ioan Toma (DERI Innsbruck)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    The Grid has emerged as a technology aiming at enabling resource sharing and coordinated problem solving in dynamic multi-institutional virtual organizations [6], [8]. Grids are used to join various geographically distributed computational and data resources, and deliver these resources to heterogeneous user communities. While the initial research on Grid computing was focused mainly...
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  32. Mr Jakub MOSCICKI (CERN)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    Currently the largest Grids lack an appropriate level of the Quality of Service (QoS) in two ways: due to size and complexity the Grid is not enough reliable and a simple, batch-oriented processing model is suboptimal for a number of applications. User-level scheduling is a light software technique that enables new capabilities to be added and QoS characteristics and...
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  33. Mrs Jaroslava Schovancova (CESNET), Dr Jiri Chudoba (Institute of Physics and CESNET)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    Auger collaboration (www.auger.org) builds a huge detector for a measurement of ultra high energy cosmic rays. EGEE grid tools are evaluated if they are suitable for a data distribution and a running of Monte Carlo simulations. We prepared infrastructure for the new VO and we added first computing resources. A status of a simple user friendly framework for CORSIKA simulation jobs...
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  34. Jaroslava Schovancova (CESNET), Dr Jiri Chudoba (Institute of Physics and CESNET)
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    EGEE Activity Meetings
    Poster
    We monitor resources for VO VOCE by bunches of very short jobs sent to all computing elements supporting VOCE available in the time of test. Some sites reserve special nodes or queues for standard Site Functional Tests, in our approach we get the same response as a normal user without privileges. We obtain not only binary result passed/failed, but a percentage of jobs finished...
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  35. Prof. Nabil Abdennadher (University of Applied Sciences Geneva. (HES-SO))
    26/09/2006, 14:00
    Users & Applications
    Poster
    XtremWeb-CH (www.xtremwebch.net) is an applied research project carried out at the University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland. XtremWeb-CH aims at building an effective Peer-To-Peer Large Scale Distributed System for high performance needs. A typical XtremWeb-CH platform is composed of one coordinator and several workers (remote resources). The coordinator is a three-tier...
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