To produce scientific results, scientists run analyses that involve the execution of multiple binaries, execution of the same binary on many data sets, or both. Efficient orchestration of these "workflows" on the grid has become critical for users in several disciplines. This session will provide an overview of current use of workflow managers on the grid and touch on technical issues that facilitate or impede their use on the EGEE infrastructure.
This session sets the scene for entire business track, kicking off with presentations from the EGEE upper management and the EC and concluding with contributions from upper-tier organisations highlighting challenges and opportunities for grid adoption by businesses.
Continuing after the networking coffee break will divulge into a session showcases examples of joint collaboration work between EGEE and enterprise, and success stories of gLite adoption, EGEE's next-generation Grid middleware, highlighting achievements, future challenges and new opportunities for the broader adoption of gLite.
During this session we’ll show the activities regarding IPv6 compliance of Grid middleware (during the collaboration between EGEE, EUCHINAGRID and ETICS and also in other projects worldwide) and we’ll discuss about the opportunity that IPv6 can offer to Grid.
The target audience is developers, network administrators and system administrators.
Workshop+panel discussion targeting NGI managers, related projects, Mediterranean and African partners eInfrastructures, and especially the Grid approach can be regarded (see for example the recommendations from the 2005 OECD Global Science Forum) as a strong catalyst for scientific and technological development in emerging countries. As a matter of fact, granting access to large resources with comparatively small investments in infrastructure is possible and Grids may effectively contribute to bridge digital divide and fight the drain brain in developing countries. Initiatives in line with this vision have been already established in several world regions. The workshop aims at discussing status and future strategies with special reference to Africa and the Middle East, including the extension of this approach to Sub-Saharan Africa. Open issues and specific problems of the region will be analyzed as well.
The session will be structured as a workshop targeted to molecular scientists and devoted to the analysis of how the COMPCHEM VO is progressing in the assemblage of grid empowered molecular simulators. Items discussed will be:
• The creation of a test bed for performing efficiently computational campaigns in the field of collision and photochemical dynamics..
• The design of computational algorithms efficiently exploiting the grid for quantum, semiclassical, classical and mixed quantum-classical approaches to molecular sciences
• The definition of workflow environments, shared data formats and ontologies for semantic web computational chemistry applications on the grid.
The EGEE Operational Security Coordination Team is offering technical training to help the site administrators to improve the security of their Grid services and of their site.
In this session SA3 will discuss lessons learned up to now and agree on the changes until the end of the project. In addition we will collect first thoughts about work beyond EGEE-II.
It is a closed session.
This session sets the scene for entire business track, kicking off with presentations from the EGEE upper management and the EC and concluding with contributions from upper-tier organisations highlighting challenges and opportunities for grid adoption by businesses.
Continuing after the networking coffee break will divulge into a session showcases examples of joint collaboration work between EGEE and enterprise, and success stories of gLite adoption, EGEE's next-generation Grid middleware, highlighting achievements, future challenges and new opportunities for the broader adoption of gLite.
The demo and poster session provides an interactive way to learn more about successful applications running on the EGEE grid and recent developments. The selected material will give a stimulating view about interesting applications developed by different group relying on the EGEE grid for their scientific activity and promising solutions from
(new) partners (including contribution from the commercial world) to improve and extend the usage of grid technologies.
Workshop+panel discussion targeting NGI managers, related projects, Mediterranean and African partners eInfrastructures, and especially the Grid approach can be regarded (see for example the recommendations from the 2005 OECD Global Science Forum) as a strong catalyst for scientific and technological development in emerging countries. As a matter of fact, granting access to large resources with comparatively small investments in infrastructure is possible and Grids may effectively contribute to bridge digital divide and fight the drain brain in developing countries. Initiatives in line with this vision have been already established in several world regions. The workshop aims at discussing status and future strategies with special reference to Africa and the Middle East, including the extension of this approach to Sub-Saharan Africa. Open issues and specific problems of the region will be analyzed as well.
The session will be structured as a workshop targeted to molecular scientists and devoted to the analysis of how the COMPCHEM VO is progressing in the assemblage of grid empowered molecular simulators. Items discussed will be:
• The creation of a test bed for performing efficiently computational campaigns in the field of collision and photochemical dynamics..
• The design of computational algorithms efficiently exploiting the grid for quantum, semiclassical, classical and mixed quantum-classical approaches to molecular sciences
• The definition of workflow environments, shared data formats and ontologies for semantic web computational chemistry applications on the grid.
Site security is important to us all but how can it be made easier to implement?
This training session will outline the approaches to Integrated Site Security (ISS) and the general recommendations that have been identified following practical implementation at two European Grid sites. The emphasis is on practical advice on how to link technical, administrative and training issues to improve overall site security independent of site size, VO type or your role within the site. The session is not solely focused on technical issues so users and managers / administrators will be able to take away some advice for their sites.
This closed session is the place of the first Technical Network Liaison Committee (TNLC) of EGEE-II. It is dedicated to the relations between EGEE and the network providers. As such, it gathers a limited number of people from SA2 (the networking activity of EGEE) and from the NRENs.
If you think you are interested in attending this meeting, please ask the convener about the opportunity of your participation.
In this session SA3 will start with a report on the experience with the current release process from building with ETICS over the certification process to the management of repositories.
After short introduction describing the current situation, proposals for a formalization of the following aspects will be made.
Developer centric builds and dependency management
The role of source RPMs
Signing RPMs? When and how?
The certification process with a special emphasis on the formalization of external patch certification, experimental services and early involvement of VOs.
The last 20 minutes will be dedicated to the status of ports of gLite to other platforms.
Members of SA3 are the main target audience, SA1 and end users would be useful in the discussion on early user exposure. Some developers from JRA1 are highly welcome to describe their experience with build tools and process.
Standardization efforts will eventually provide transparent access to multiple grid service implementations. Necessarily, the standardization is a slow process that requires consensus from developers of the various service implementations. Users, however, cannot wait for the consensus to appear before running their applications. Consequently, they seek various mechanisms to shield them from service API changes and to allow them to use the maximum number of resources. This session will review some of the mechanisms that are currently used, how those are accommodated on the EGEE infrastructure, and the status of some proposed standards. These mechanisms include web portals (GridSphere, P-GRADE, GENIUS), standards based services (GridWay, Taverna, MOTEUR), and high-level APIs (GANGA, SAGA).
This session offers an inside look at the growing interest in Grid in the pharmaceutical industry and the healthcare sector, showcasing the successful deployment of EGEE's programme for Biomedicine and Bio-informatics. Presentations evaluate the benefits of Grid for pharmaceutical firms & biotechs, as well as hospitals as natural candidates for Grid adoption with reference to drug discovery, medical imaging, data management and workflows.
This session offers an invaluable glimpse into Grid adoption in the field of design and engineering for the aerospace and automotive industries, in addition to Automotive and Aerospace sectors, as well as for industrial l product development & micro-processing. The session features some of the main outcomes of the EC-funded SIMDAT project with presentations by industry leaders.
This workshop will bring together representatives of the involved parties to assess the status of NGIs (National Grid Initiatives) and the progress towards the establishment of the EGI (European Grid Initiative) organization. Moreover, the initial set of use cases will be presented and input and comments will be solicited
The Middleware Security Group, is the meeting place for security architects and security knowledgeable persons from EGEE, OSG, OMII-Europe and other grid projects. Goal with this meeting is to give an update, and discuss current and future global security architecture work.
Chair: Christoph Witzig (EGEE) and Bob Cowles (OSG)
The EGEE Operational Security Coordination Team (OSCT) provides pan-regional coordination and support to respond to security threats faced by the Grid infrastructure. The primary OSCT activity is in helping Grid sites manage security risks, from prevention to containment and recovery from possible security incidents.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
This is a YAIM open house session. It will start with a 10 minutes report on the experience with the first months of using structured, component based YAIM.
After a brief discussion, especially with site administrators an introduction on how to write and modify YAIM modules will be given.
The intended audience, apart from SA3, are JRA1 developers and SA1 site administrators.
There will be room to discuss the interoperability between YAIM and quattor and how this can be improved
The Grid Observatory proposed as part of the EGEE-III program of work touches several points that directly impact users of the grid. The Grid Observatory cluster aims to provide traces of important tasks on the grid (jobs, data transfers, service discovery, etc.) via a database to computer science researchers as well as the project itself. This work will necessarily integrate information from a large number of sources, including potentially application-level monitoring. Analysis of this information will hopefully lead to more accurate error reporting and better fault-tolerance of the system as a whole.
This session looks at Grid adoption across diverse sectors, exploring its potential in the Energy sector and opening doors to more pervasive adoption. This session also offers insight into the Digital Media industry, where Grid is an essential resource to deliver more sophisticated animation, special effects and heightened realism, as well as Grid potential in Gaming.
This session looks at Grid adoption across diverse sectors, exploring its potential in the Energy sector and opening doors to more pervasive adoption. This session also offers insight into the Digital Media industry, where Grid is an essential resource to deliver more sophisticated animation, special effects and heightened realism, as well as Grid potential in Gaming.
This workshop will bring together representatives of the involved parties to assess the status of NGIs (National Grid Initiatives) and the progress towards the establishment of the EGI (European Grid Initiative) organization. Moreover, the initial set of use cases will be presented and input and comments will be solicited
This Quality Workshop is co-organised by EGEE and ETICS (www.eu-etics.org). The 2 sessions workshop, covers the topic of "software quality assurance for the grid".
The workshop is organised as an interactive event, where participants will be asked to share their thoughts on the topic of QA in the context of Grids. To stimulate the discussions a number of interesting talks will be given. The workshop will end with a panel discussion, including all speakers.
The Middleware Security Group, is the meeting place for security architects and security knowledgeable persons from EGEE, OSG, OMII-Europe and other grid projects. Goal with this meeting is to give an update, and discuss current and future global security architecture work.
Chair: Christoph Witzig (EGEE) and Bob Cowles (OSG)
The EGEE Operational Security Coordination Team (OSCT) provides pan-regional coordination and support to respond to security threats faced by the Grid infrastructure. The primary OSCT activity is in helping Grid sites manage security risks, from prevention to containment and recovery from possible security incidents.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
In this session we discuss the current state of the interoperability between gLite and the ARC and UNICORE middleware stacks.
The intended audience are the SA3 partners involved in this activity, but end users with an interest in using future interoperated infrastructures are highly welcome.
The session will start with two short status reports of each 15 minutes and a short description of the roadmaps for each of the middleware stacks.
This will be followed by a discussion on the steps to be taken until the end of the project. The last 20 minutes should be dedicated to a discussion on potential work in this area in EGEE-III
This session revolves around top-level challenges and technical barriers to adoption, offering insight into how these have been tackled across different sectors. Presentations evaluate a range of technical barriers and propose possible solutions to foster further industrial by diverse industry groups.
Stick around after a short break as we will conclude the Business Track with an Interactive Panel discussion which will focus on opportunities for Grid adoption, top-level challenges, with expert panellists providing recommendations on next steps and feedback on best solutions to barriers.
The demo and poster session provides an interactive way to learn more about successful applications running on the EGEE grid and recent developments. The selected material will give a stimulating view about interesting applications developed by different group relying on the EGEE grid for their scientific activity and promising solutions from
(new) partners (including contribution from the commercial world) to improve and extend the usage of grid technologies.
This workshop will bring together representatives of the involved parties to assess the status of NGIs (National Grid Initiatives) and the progress towards the establishment of the EGI (European Grid Initiative) organization. Moreover, the initial set of use cases will be presented and input and comments will be solicited
This Quality Workshop is co-organised by EGEE and ETICS (www.eu-etics.org). The 2 sessions workshop, covers the topic of "software quality assurance for the grid".
The workshop is organised as an interactive event, where participants will be asked to share their thoughts on the topic of QA in the context of Grids. To stimulate the discussions a number of interesting talks will be given. The workshop will end with a panel discussion, including all speakers.
The Middleware Security Group, is the meeting place for security architects and security knowledgeable persons from EGEE, OSG, OMII-Europe and other grid projects. Goal with this meeting is to give an update, and discuss current and future global security architecture work.
Chair: Christoph Witzig (EGEE) and Bob Cowles (OSG)
The EGEE Operational Security Coordination Team (OSCT) provides pan-regional coordination and support to respond to security threats faced by the Grid infrastructure. The primary OSCT activity is in helping Grid sites manage security risks, from prevention to containment and recovery from possible security incidents.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Meeting of the representatives of the CE Federation partners
FR Federation Meeting - SA1-FR face-to-face meeting
(Note that this session is in French)
This session revolves around top-level challenges and technical barriers to adoption, offering insight into how these have been tackled across different sectors. Presentations evaluate a range of technical barriers and propose possible solutions to foster further industrial by diverse industry groups.
Stick around after a short break as we will conclude the Business Track with an Interactive Panel discussion which will focus on opportunities for Grid adoption, top-level challenges, with expert panellists providing recommendations on next steps and feedback on best solutions to barriers.
Data management services provided by EGEE have improved drastically over the lifetime of the project. At the user level, though, these can be quite complex. Moreover, the core EGEE services only deal with file-based data management and access, leaving many data resources inaccessible via grid services. This session will discuss the current state of the art of the core EGEE service, but also, what services or techniques are possible to access other non-file-based data such as databases.
Purpose : Meeting of COD-on-Duty teams operating the daily monitoring of the EGEE/LCG grid, where feedback is collected and enhancements widespread in the plenary session, whereas improvements in procedures and tools are discussed in dedicated thematic working groups in a parallel session. Attendance: COD teams from 10 federations. Permanent guests: TCG sites representatives and developpers from GGUS, GOCDB3 and ENOC.
DINNER on Thursday 4 October booked for 20h00 "Dunapatri Matroz Kocsma", 1011 Budapest, Halaz Utca 1
MEETING POINT 19h45 At the exit of "Batthyany tér" Metro station (Metro line 2, one stop from Moszkva tér), under the 2 flags.
This is a closed session for GSVG members only. We will review progress over the past year and consider what we should do to improve our work and be more efficient
This session is the presentation of academic Booth #10 titled P-GRADE Portal Alliance.
Attendees can get the latest updates on P-GRADE and the developer alliance. The Alliance recently decided to go open source with P-GRADE. Details will be given during the session.
The first talk will introduce the capabilities of P-GRADE Portal, the user support groups that exist around it and a few applications that were gridified by the tool. Members of the Developer Alliance will present their P-GRADE related results in the second part of the session. The session will close with discussion related to the open P-GRADE project.
P-GRADE Portal provides a service rich, graphical application developer environment for EGEE and Globus grid users. P-GRADE Portal enables the development, execution and monitoring of data-driven computational grid workflows and workflow based parameter studies. Services and interfaces of P-GRADE act as extensions of the gLite and Globus middleware and are used by various user communities of national and international VOs.
This is a meeting of the pre-production service site administrators to discuss current issues and future planning within the EGEE pre-production service.
The detailed agenda for this meeting will be inserted closer to the meeting.
This session is to show what the network and the networking people can offer to grid applications and grid users. We will present a broad range of different services from Operations to Monitoring to Quality of Service
Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A) has been proposed as a new cluster in EGEE-III. A&A applications are excellent test-beds for Grid and can take great advantage from being run in Grid. EGEE 07 is a good occasion for the A&A cluster members to debate about the status of the porting of A&A applications in Grid and future perspectives of the A&A cluster in EGEE.
Purpose : Meeting of COD-on-Duty teams operating the daily monitoring of the EGEE/LCG grid, where feedback is collected and enhancements widespread in the plenary session, whereas improvements in procedures and tools are discussed in dedicated thematic working groups in a parallel session. Attendance: COD teams from 10 federations. Permanent guests: TCG sites representatives and developpers from GGUS, GOCDB3 and ENOC.
DINNER on Thursday 4 October booked for 20h00 "Dunapatri Matroz Kocsma", 1011 Budapest, Halaz Utca 1
MEETING POINT 19h45 At the exit of "Batthyany tér" Metro station (Metro line 2, one stop from Moszkva tér), under the 2 flags.
This session focuses on the collaboration among EGEE and other projects. The main target audience consists of members of projects who are collaborating or plan to collaborate with EGEE.
The session opens with focused presentations on the following EGEE activities:
- grid operations (SA1)
- middleware re-engineering (JRA1)
- application identification and support (NA4)
- training, dissemination and outreach (NA2, NA3)
- policy and international collaboration (NA5)
The topics covered by the presentations include how to use, exploit and extend EGEE results, avenues of interaction with EGEE activities, both in getting the latest information from these activities and providing feedback to these activities, working groups or ongoing work that are open for other projects' participation and contribution, etc.
In addition, a summary of the FP7 strategy of several projects and plans to collaborate with EGEE is also presented. Finally, a panel discussion will allow the audience to interact with activity leaders and other session presenters.
Session dedicated to partner's questions on the financial matters related to FP6/FP7.
This session will focus on the interactions of the Grid Observatory with other EGEE activities. Some relevant services and integrators will be outlined, and the expected contributions of the Grid Observatory to operations will be discussed.
This session will outline the last developments from some of the medical imaging applications that are producing on the EGEE infrastructure today. A discussion on the current challenges and the exploitation of the infrastructure by these applications, especially considering the move towards EGEE III, will conclude the session.
This is a meeting of the pre-production service site administrators to discuss current issues and future planning within the EGEE pre-production service.
The detailed agenda for this meeting will be inserted closer to the meeting.
This is a closed meeting to discuss the INFN, GRNET and EGEE participation at SC'07.
This session will present the current status and future plans of activities in two EGEE-II security groups, namely the Grid Security Vulnerability Group (GSVG) and the Joint Security Policy Group (JSPG). The two talks will be aimed at all Grid participants, i.e. Site managers, Grid operations staff, VO managers and users. Members of EGEE-II SA1 and NA4 are encouraged to attend and members of other Grid projects are also very welcome. We are not only seeking to inform but to gather valuable feedback on our future directions."
The proposed session is aimed to be a short Workshop. The most relevant achievements and success stories gathered during the first 21 months of the EELA Project will be presented. Four short presentations will be given in the time slot: 1) Project overview; 2) Grid infrastructure; (3) e-Science applications and 4) dissemination and training activities.
The expected target audience is mostly formed by researchers, students and/or stakeholders that are interested in one of the following topics: Grid Projects in Europe and the rest of the World; e-Science Applications; Grid Infrastructures Deployment and Operation.
This session will cover various aspects of progress in monitoring and visualization of monitoring data.
The goal of the first part of the session is to demonstrate the effective integration of grid and site fabric monitoring systems (using Nagios as an example) as a tool for site administrators for improving overall grid site reliability. The work described takes place as part of the WLCG Grid Services Monitoring Working Group. (more)
Practical experience of deployment at a site will be described together with perspectives on grid monitoring as used by OSG.
The target audience is grid site administrators/managers and those planning for grid service deployments.
The final session topic describes a new type of very efficient top-level visualization of complex grid monitoring data, called GridMaps.
There will be posters displays of this work in the Exhibition Area.
A by invitation only internal meeting for EGEE-II's Programme for Industry, this session will provide an opportunity for EGEE-II's industrial bodies to meet together and discuss the next steps and exploitation strategies from information received and discussions from the entire Business Track. It will also serve as the platform to understand progress made and results from the Industry Task Force, introduce the new members of the Industry Forum Steering Committee and its 3 focus groups: SMEs, Standards and Support and Commercial Adoption of gLite as well as define future activities.
This is a closed meeting to discuss the INFN, GRNET and EGEE participation at SC'07.
The EGEE Security Coordination Group (SCG) - closed group meeting www.eu-egee.org/security/scg
The Security Coordination Group (SCG) is responsible for ensuring overall EGEE security coordination. This includes architecture, deployment, standardisation and cross-project concertation. The goal is to ensure the relationship between the various security-related work items inside the project do not adversely overlap (leading to duplication of effort) or leave gaps that could be exploited. In addition, the SCG is to coordinate a new security auditing activity.
This activity will monitor both operations and middleware for security issues and report periodically on status and progress of the issues identified. The security audit will leverage the work of the Grid vulnerability issues group.
The SCG meeting at EGEE07 is a closed meeting, only for the members of the SCG. Goal with meeting: to get an update on current activities, issues and plans.
This session will discuss the leading applications and results achieved in the framework of the Bioinformatics Grid Application for life science (BioinfoGRID) European project. The project exploits the potential of the Grid infrastructure created by the EGEE European project. An important result accomplished within the BioinfoGRID project is the screening, by docking simulation, of a large set of compounds against the Avian Flu Neuraminidase of H5N1 influenza A virus and Malaria. A system capable of performing complex simulations for System Biology applications in GRID will also be discussed, and several other Bioinformatics programs based on the EGEE Grid Infrastructure will be presented.
This session covers several different topics of interest to SA1 activity members. In particular there is an extended session on improving site security using the results of the ISSeG project, and a session devoted to coordinating topics important to the applications community.
This session will discuss the relationship between OMII-Europe and EGEE; in particular how interoperable grid components from OMII-Europe can be included in future offerings of gLite. This will, in particular, enhance the functionality available to existing gLite users.
The EGEE Operational Security Coordination Team is offering technical training to help the site administrators to improve the security of their Grid services and of their site.
There are numerous areas of science, industry and commerce that require broad international cooperation for their success. A number of problems may be addressed by using sophisticated equipment and top-level expertise, which is often locally unavailable. Therefore, the development and dissemination of techniques and technologies that allow virtualized, remote and shared access to industrial or scientific instruments is essential for the progress of society. The possibility of using scientific or industrial equipment independent of their physical location helps in the equality of opportunity for and unification of communities and subsequently opens new opportunities for industry, science and business. Furthermore, it has a very important political and strategic impact, as we head towards a more unified Europe.
Distributed computational environments like Grids play significant role in process of instrument virtualization and integration with computational resources in order to facilitate results processing and analyzing. That is why discussion concerning general framework and architecture of systems which allow expedite developing of new virtual laboratories is so desirable today. Remote instrumentation systems are often and often perceived as something more than managers of computational resources. They are responsible for aggregation of measurement instruments and pervasive large-scale data acquisition. Moreover they provide advanced workflows and tools for collaboration work. From this point of view the functionality of a grid architecture allows managing, maintaining and exploiting heterogeneous instrumentation and acquisition devices in a unified way, also by providing standardized interfaces and common work environments to their users. This is achieved through the properties of isolation from the physical location and from the peculiarities of the instrumentation, granted by standard middleware, together with secure and flexible mechanisms to seek, access, and aggregate distributed resources.
This full-day concertation workshop will build on the success of the 1st regional Grid projects concentration workshop moderated by SEE-GRID-2 and held during EGEE06 conference in Geneva. The workshop will gather Grid experts from a number of specialized fields. The layout will include dedicated sessions on operations, applications, training and finally sustainability, followed by corresponding panels on these topics. All regional projects have already agreed on participation and endorse this workshop.
The inteugrid session targets users interested in advanced applications, such as MPI or interactive applications.
We will describe the interoperability between EGEE and inteugrid infrastructures. For this purpose we have documented the procedure to interoperate with EGEE from inteugrid. We will have in this respect some practical demonstrations of applications job submission.
This session will discuss the leading applications and results achieved in the framework of the Bioinformatics Grid Application for life science (BioinfoGRID) European project. The project exploits the potential of the Grid infrastructure created by the EGEE European project. An important result accomplished within the BioinfoGRID project is the screening, by docking simulation, of a large set of compounds against the Avian Flu Neuraminidase of H5N1 influenza A virus and Malaria. A system capable of performing complex simulations for System Biology applications in GRID will also be discussed, and several other Bioinformatics programs based on the EGEE Grid Infrastructure will be presented.
This session demonstrates and trains on the current results of the DILIGENT project (http://www.diligentproject.org). It is organized in two slots.
The first slot (14:00-15:30), titled 'the gCube framework', introduces the gCube middleware for resource sharing (http://www.gcube-system.org). This middleware manages to share computing, content and service resources by exploiting gLite and GT4 . The architecture, the technical solutions, and how services and resources are transparently consumable by WSRF services are illustrated.
This slot is intended for a technical audience.
The second slot (16.00-17.30), titled 'infrastructure and applications', presents and discusses the implementation and the exploitation of the DILIGENT infrastructure to address the needs of heterogeneous user communities. In particular, an overview of the existing DILIGENT infrastructure and two concrete application scenarios are presented.
A place for discussion of similar experiences concludes the slot.
This slot is intended for a general audience.
This session covers several different topics of interest to SA1 activity members. In particular there is an extended session on improving site security using the results of the ISSeG project, and a session devoted to coordinating topics important to the applications community.
The session is planned to be a workshop providing 4-5 presentations about the early results
of the KnowARC project. Talks about the web service based core components, ARC-gLite
interoperations, run-time environemnts will be given on this session. We would also like to devote
special attention to standards’ implementations, and the project’s role about OGF participation.
In general we would like to show the first year results to the interested grid community.
The target audience is mainly grid developers and also grid users.
This full-day concertation workshop will build on the success of the 1st regional Grid projects concentration workshop moderated by SEE-GRID-2 and held during EGEE06 conference in Geneva. The workshop will gather Grid experts from a number of specialized fields. The layout will include dedicated sessions on operations, applications, training and finally sustainability, followed by corresponding panels on these topics. All regional projects have already agreed on participation and endorse this workshop.
The inteugrid session targets users interested in advanced applications, such as MPI or interactive applications.
We will describe the interoperability between EGEE and inteugrid infrastructures. For this purpose we have documented the procedure to interoperate with EGEE from inteugrid. We will have in this respect some practical demonstrations of applications job submission.
The ACGT project is developing an advanced GRID architecture allowing the analysis and comparison of both clinical and genetic results within large scale databases in order to perform a fast diagnosis and to define accurate therapeutic countermeasures to fight cancer. During this session, the ACGT project would like to disseminate about their vision, the future of the project and to show first results.
This session demonstrates and trains on the current results of the DILIGENT project (http://www.diligentproject.org). It is organized in two slots.
The first slot (14:00-15:30), titled 'the gCube framework', introduces the gCube middleware for resource sharing (http://www.gcube-system.org). This middleware manages to share computing, content and service resources by exploiting gLite and GT4 . The architecture, the technical solutions, and how services and resources are transparently consumable by WSRF services are illustrated.
This slot is intended for a technical audience.
The second slot (16.00-17.30), titled 'infrastructure and applications', presents and discusses the implementation and the exploitation of the DILIGENT infrastructure to address the needs of heterogeneous user communities. In particular, an overview of the existing DILIGENT infrastructure and two concrete application scenarios are presented.
A place for discussion of similar experiences concludes the slot.
This slot is intended for a general audience.
A face-to-face meeting of the NA4 Steering Committee to discuss current issues, planning for discipline specific meetings, and how to manage the transition to the EGEE-III management structure.
This session covers several different topics of interest to SA1 activity members. In particular there is an extended session on improving site security using the results of the ISSeG project, and a session devoted to coordinating topics important to the applications community.
JRA1 security internal discussion session on future work on authorization in gLite.
The session is planned to be a workshop providing 4-5 presentations about the early results
of the KnowARC project. Talks about the web service based core components, ARC-gLite
interoperations, run-time environemnts will be given on this session. We would also like to devote
special attention to standards’ implementations, and the project’s role about OGF participation.
In general we would like to show the first year results to the interested grid community.
The target audience is mainly grid developers and also grid users.
The expectation is that each partner (or federation, if they wish) will give
a presentation, maximum of 10 minutes - 10 slides (or 15 minutes max 15 slides for Federations) on their work in NA3 and relate that to resources.
Presentations will be followed by discussion. Proposed topics:
This full-day concertation workshop will build on the success of the 1st regional Grid projects concentration workshop moderated by SEE-GRID-2 and held during EGEE06 conference in Geneva. The workshop will gather Grid experts from a number of specialized fields. The layout will include dedicated sessions on operations, applications, training and finally sustainability, followed by corresponding panels on these topics. All regional projects have already agreed on participation and endorse this workshop.
The EGEE PORTAL working group aims to propose "best-practice" rules for the access of portals to the grid. By
access to the grid, we mean that the portal should be able to store data and run job on the grid by delegation
of real users, or by itself with its own credentials. To do so, a portal responsible should be able to get a server
certificate for his portal from the EUGridPMA CAs, and then to be able to register this portal certificate to a VO
allowed on the grid. Once the portal have been accepted into the concerned VO, it should be able to store and
access data inside the VO area, and also to run job on site accepting this VO. The usage of these grid
resources by the portal can be done by delegation of a grid- and VO-registered user, or as a resource provider
for an user not registered in the grid.
These sessions will focus on service issues raised by the site managers, in particular on how to improve the management of grid services. Specific issues and problems will be discussed with the middleware developers.
Workshop targeted to Grid experts, managers, operators and MW developers. There are several implementations of Grid software and many regional Grids in Europe and Asia .
The workshop aims at stimulating the discussion on interoperability among different Grids in Europe and Asia, presenting the state of the art and discussing possible approaches and common strategies for the future.
The problem of the establishment and international recognition of national CAs will be discussed as well.
A specific presentation on what EGEE III is willing to do in the field is also foreseen.
The aim of the workshop is to give an opportunity to all stakeholders to review the status of various International initiatives addressing the development and deployment of Grid applications for medical research and healthcare. More particularly, participants will be able to compare their respective approaches for addressing challenges such as the medical data integration and use in Grids.
Thus, a panel of relevant experts will be invited to give a short presentation of their work, related to 3 major topics of interest:
- Biomedical data acquisition, integration (from clinical records, to medical imaging, to genomics) and related security/privacy issues,
- End-user applications (from simple Client Applications to critical Decision Support Systems and Clinical Workflow applications) and their integration in Grids,
- Grid middleware biomed-related functionality, Requirements Elicitation for feedback to EGEE.
The workshop participants will then be invited for a 1 hour brainstorming session, which will attempt identifying possible collaborations, technology re-use, new standards, (clinical)data sharing possibilities cross-projects for the sake of clinical research, and convergence within the community towards European standards for healthgrids
These sessions will focus on service issues raised by the site managers, in particular on how to improve the management of grid services. Specific issues and problems will be discussed with the middleware developers.
Workshop targeted to Grid experts, managers, operators and MW developers. There are several implementations of Grid software and many regional Grids in Europe and Asia .
The workshop aims at stimulating the discussion on interoperability among different Grids in Europe and Asia, presenting the state of the art and discussing possible approaches and common strategies for the future.
The problem of the establishment and international recognition of national CAs will be discussed as well.
A specific presentation on what EGEE III is willing to do in the field is also foreseen.
The aim of the workshop is to give an opportunity to all stakeholders to review the status of various International initiatives addressing the development and deployment of Grid applications for medical research and healthcare. More particularly, participants will be able to compare their respective approaches for addressing challenges such as the medical data integration and use in Grids.
Thus, a panel of relevant experts will be invited to give a short presentation of their work, related to 3 major topics of interest:
- Biomedical data acquisition, integration (from clinical records, to medical imaging, to genomics) and related security/privacy issues,
- End-user applications (from simple Client Applications to critical Decision Support Systems and Clinical Workflow applications) and their integration in Grids,
- Grid middleware biomed-related functionality, Requirements Elicitation for feedback to EGEE.
The workshop participants will then be invited for a 1 hour brainstorming session, which will attempt identifying possible collaborations, technology re-use, new standards, (clinical)data sharing possibilities cross-projects for the sake of clinical research, and convergence within the community towards European standards for healthgrids