Conveners
Poster session
- Massimo Lamanna (CERN)
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Dr
Andrea Manara
(ITU-BR)
26/09/2006, 14:00
Poster
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
