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Description
EGEE'07 Conference
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Plenary Koppenhaga
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Budapest HungaryConvener: Imre Szeberenyi (BME)-
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Welcome from the local organiers - Károly Molnár, Rector of BME
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Istvan Hiller, Minister of Education and Culture
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Norbert Kroo, Vice-President of the Hungarian Academy of Science
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Akos Detreköi, President of NCCIT
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Coffee break
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Plenary Koppenhaga
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Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryConvener: Erwin Laure (CERN)-
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Gold sponsor - Oracle: Peter Fuzes, Oracle Hungary Managing DirectorTitle: Grid Adoption and Research The Grid has proven itself as a viable solution for the Industry and Oracle Grid technology has been widely adopted by a large number of customers both in commercial and scientific cutting-edge environments. Research in Grid and related technologies however continues to be crucial to the evolution of large distributed infrastructures, data-driven information systems and services. The talk will give an overview of directions and latest developments of Oracle Grid technology, outlining key R&D projects Oracle is leading in this domain and describing a few examples in Hungary, EGEE’07 hosting country.
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Towards Multi-Petascale Grids in the 2010sWhile there is general consensus that computing platforms underlying the grid infrastructures will continue to evolve, variance in the speed of technology acceleration in HPC is causing many of the assumptions made in the early days of grid to no longer hold. Such divergence
in the metrics, as well as wider proliferation of related technologies such as Web2.0, will be changing the optimal design of the overall grid infrastructure towards more centralization. Based on our recent
experiences with our TSUBAME supercomputer, which is currently Asia-Pac's fastest machine according to the Top500, and its next petascale generation design thereof, we will discuss the future design of multi-petascale grids with such machines being constituent massive resource
nodes instead of vast distribution.Speaker: Prof. Satoshi Matsuoka (Tokyo Institute of Technology - The NAREGI Project, National Institute of Informatics) - 9
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Application Track (Workflow) Koppenhaga
Koppenhaga
Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryTo 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.
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The Taverna Workflow Workbench and Tool Suite.The OMII-UK myGrid project (http://www.mygrid.org.uk) has developed the popular Taverna workflow workbench, used for a wide range of data-centric Life Science problems and increasing within other domains such as astronomy and music. Taverna was designed to suit the work-a-day bioinformatician in a normal (not especially well-resourced) research laboratory, in order to ease and automate the routine burden of plumbing together the myriad of data resources and analytical tools publicly available and privately developed. It has been widely adopted by over 200 projects and labs, with many thousands of everyday users, and stands at nearly 40,000 downloads (1,500 per month). The Taverna Workflow Workbench is an open-source workflow tool which provides a data-centric workflow language (Scufl) and graphical interface to: facilitate the building of workflows over distributed services hosted on remote and local machines; run these workflows on their own data; and visualise the results. Workflows can be enacted as part of the workbench or from third party applications. The enactor and the workbench have been designed with a range of extensibility points to make them open. A suite of plug-ins and components provide: service ingest and management; the cataloguing and discovery of services and workflows using semantic descriptions; and the recording of the provenance of the data outcomes and the execution log of the workflow runs. Recent work has focused on better support for third party applications, including a Web browser workflow client that enables Taverna workflows to be launched from a web browser, and the publishing of workflows as Google gadgets. Complementing Taverna, and capitalising on the increasing numbers of workflows and users, the myExperiment initiative (http://myexperiment.org) is creating a social networking environment and workflow bazaar for workflow workers. This recognizes that workflows are scientific assets in their own right, to be exchanged, traded and reused. The talk will introduce the Taverna Workbench and its associated suite of components, its current status and plans, some success stories and some possible exploitation plans and points of collaboration for EGEE. In particular, the Taverna enactor is currently undergoing a major revision that will retain all the functionality of the current Taverna, but with better scalability, data streaming, data management, grid services integration and security management.Speaker: Dr Carole Goble (University of Manchester)
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Workflow Tools on the EGEE Grid infrastructure. Overview and Perspective.Workflows have become a daily tool for applications on the Grid. In essence every non trivial application requires the composition and orchestration of data and functionality to produce useful scientific results. This talk will give an overview of the tools and technologies that currently utilize the EGEE Grid and gLite, in order to define, run and monitor workflows. The talk will outline the current status, potential problems, missing functionality and the road ahead, setting the landscape for the discussion that will follow.Speaker: Evangelos Floros (Unknown)
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DiscussionThe preceding session talks are expected to bring forward important issues and topics for analysis and discussion. Research teams that currently develop workflow tools for Grids and application teams that use them will have an opportunity for an open discussion regarding the current status but also with an eye to future advanced issues like knowledge-based workflow execution and cross-team collaborative workflow technologies.
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Business Track: Introduction to EGEE and Business Plenary Maastricht
Maastricht
Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryThis 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.
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EGEE's vision and roadmap for commercial uptake of GridsEGEE (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE) is Europe's flagship Grid infrastructure project now in its second 2-year phase. The EGEE Grid now combines the processing power of more than 30.000 CPUs, a storage capacity of about 5 million GB on a global network established by GEANT and its extensions connecting more than 200 sites in 48 countries. This Grid is already providing an essential daily service to more than 100 applications in such areas as astrophysics, medical imaging, bioinformatics, climate studies, oil and gas exploration, pharmaceutical research, and financial forecasting. It's now the world's largest general-purpose scientific computing Grid, and is getting bigger every month. Envisaged as an infrastructure for the support of scientific research, EGEE has attracted interest from numerous business sectors that see it as either a service that can be used as a virtual computer centre, as a means of selling their services and products to the diverse communities it supports, or as an example of how to build partner grids with their supply chains. This talk will give an overview of the range of businesses with which it is working, explain the mechanisms it places to allow commercial organisations to get involved and suggest some directions in which it could develop on a time-scale of 2 to 5 years.Speaker: Bob Jones (CERN - EGEE Project Director)
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NESSI is about transforming the EU economy through Service Oriented business modelsBusinesses concentrate on activities where they can gain a competitive advantage. The main focus of NESSI is that of service. All definitions of service are based on the same principle: a service consumer does not own the service and therefore does not need to be concerned with all the aspects generally associated with ownership such as infrastructure, technology, integration and maintenance. What count are the business needs that are waiting to be met by the appropriate service. Technology must be an enabler of service rather than an inhibitor. Enlargement of the European Union and the changing nature of trade with the rest of the world puts a strong emphasis on a multicultural approach to business. Furthermore, the tangible and intangible assets resulting from EU-funded R&D projects must reach the industry and be used by them. NESSI can connect eInfrastructures with industrial users. Companies can contribute to the sustainability of eInfrastructures in different ways and use them in order to improve performance, to gain efficiency, effectiveness and competitive advantage. eInfrastructures could be part of the ecosystem that NESSI is determined to create. The resulting self-sustained network could operate in a cost-effective way producing even profit and following a kaizen approach without the umbrella of the European Commission.Speaker: Csilla Zsigri (Atos Origin)
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EUChinaGRID/EGEE/ETICS: Grids and IPv6 Strasbourg
Strasbourg
Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryDuring 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.
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EUMEDGRID: Grids and their role in sustaining development Brussels
Brussels
Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryWorkshop+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.
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Can Grid Technology reverse brain drain to brain gain in Africa? (NO SHOW)Speaker: Mokhtar Sellami (LRI-ANNABA)
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GEMS: Grid Empowered Molecular Simulators and CompChem Tools REGE I
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Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryThe 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
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Operational Security Coordination Team Training Rege II
Rege II
Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryThe 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.
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Discussion / QuestionsSpeaker: Mr Romain Wartel (CERN)
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ROC Managers Meeting Roma
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Cleaning up the LCGAdmin role for dteamThe people who will retain the LCGAdmin role are: CERN * Maarten Litmaath * Andreas Unterkirche Italy * Mirco Ciriello * Simone Dalla Fina * alessandro paolini
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Abbreviations for Site-Names in GridViewExamples of the GridView graphs with long and short site names are in the attached material. The conversion table is here: http://gridview.cern.ch/GV/ More: http://gvdev.cern.ch/GVVAI/ now you are in the uncharted territory, this is (one of) the development displays used by gridview development. So what you see there is not yet in production, but will be soon. Click on “Job Status”. In the left pane you’ll see two radio buttons “Use Site Abbreviation” and “Use Full Site Names”. So far only the “Use Site Abbreviation” works (remember that’s a development portal), but you get the idea, roll down a bit to see the effect in the graph. Same as above: both are available, everyone can pick and choose to his liking.Speaker: Antonio Retico
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Status of new features in CIC Portal
- YAIM Configuration Tool:
Update from Gilles: The tool is fully integrated to the CIC portal since the release of version 4.5, i.e. on August, 22nd.- The Yaim Tool database back-end is integrated to the CICDB schema, thus ensuring data coherency about all officially registered VOs.
- Managers of such VOs don't need to go to the tool to update their data: all that is needed is taken from the VO ID card. These 2 points solve the main issue of having 2 entry points to update this info.
- As a page of the RC section in the portal: https://cic.gridops.org/index.php?section=rc&page=yaim
- As a page of the VO section in the portal: https://cic.gridops.org/index.php?section=vo&page=yaim
- As a standalone version: https://cic.gridops.org/yaimtool/yaimtool.py
Failover procedures have not been established yet. For that, we need to check python configuration on the replica instance of the portal at CNAF, test the application there, and validate the process in the same way we did with SAM Admin's Page. - Tool for announcing scheduled downtimes Update from Osman: The schedule downtime process is composed of 6 steps:
- Step 1 : Integration of BDII data in the CIC db: This part determines the impacted VO by a downtime 100% done
- Step 2 : Notification from GOC portal to the CIC portal 90% done
- Step 3 : The implementation of a Supervisor componant was implemented: this allows the management of the whole process
- Step 4 : The downtime broadcasting by email - 90% done
- Step 5 : The downtime broadcasting by RSS Feed is OK - 100% done
- Step 6 : The subscription form has not implemented yet but we are working on it: this form will enable to any user to be notified by email or RSS Feed according to his need.
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Viewing contact details in Operations Tools
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WLCG / EGI issuesFurther information:
- EGI workshop agenda (part of EGEE'07): http://www.eu-egi.org/workshop/oct07/
- WLCG Service Reliability workshop: http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=20080
Speaker: jamie shiers
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SA3 Internal Face-to-Face Meeting (Closed) Nizza
Nizza
Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryIn 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.
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Business Track: Working with EGEE and gLite - Success stories Maastricht
Maastricht
Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryThis 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.
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EGEE & Platform Technical Collaboration: Milestones & ChallengesYearlong working relations between EGEE consortium members and Platform Computing lead to systematic collaboration since 2005, officially manifested as an EGEE Business Associate at EGEE’06. EGEE as the worldwide leading research Grid and Platform Computing as the leading provider of commercial Grid software underwent intensive joint investigations in order to achieve best possible performance for HEP and other communities job profiles and requirements. This presentation will highlight the joint success story from the original aim to “learn, how to better exploit LSF”, to the most recent developments and future plans.Speaker: Bernhard Schott (Platform)
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Best practices in Grid infrastructure testing - Bringing industry-class reliability and quality of serviceAs Grid installations worldwide enter production phase, they become an attractive target for industry looking to either replicate the technology internally, or outsource their processing and data operations externally. Reliability in Grids is not a trivial issue. On one hand we face a degree of uncertainty due to distribution, while on the other, applications and users require certain quality of service. GridwiseTech works with customers building scalable infrastructure internally or using external Grid resources. Our recent research concerns state-of-the-art practices in testing scalable and distributed resource management infrastructures.Speaker: Pawel Plaszczak (GridwiseTech)
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Avanade Grid achievements and EGEE collaboration benefitsAvanade solution offering includes a proprietary Grid environment, based on .NET but supporting other platforms. From the project launch, three years ago, we built various projects on the platform, including mission critical computations and heavy load financial computations. On this speech, Avanade will present a short overview of his achievements on the Grid space, business requirements to further evolve of the platform, and our vision about benefits and opportunity to leverage gLite standards in future releases and actively collaborate with EGEE.Speaker: Raffaele Sgherri (Avanade)
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Industrial Applications of GridsFor Philips Research an IT infrastructure geared towards the needs of researchers is an indispensable element. In recent years Philips Research has undergone a number of major changes. As a result of the focus shift at Philips, Philips Research has also changed its programme considerably. The adoption of the open innovation concept has resulted in an open organisation that enjoys strategic cooperation with companies, universities and other institutes. Facilities are shared with partners in order to improve cost-effectiveness and efficiency. The Research ICT Department has modified its strategy so as to facilitate Research’s new wishes. An example of this is the expected increase in High Performance Computing in application areas such as medical imaging, bio-informatics and simulation of physical devices. This presentation deals with the above-mentioned changes, the way we are responding to them and the need for intensive support.Speaker: Ronald Van Driel (Philips Research)
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Changing intentions - Opportunities for gLite in finance and related industriesgLite has been exceedingly successful as an enabling infrastructure, and has been a massive success in bringing together scientific and technical communities to provide the compute to address previously incomputable problems. Not so in the finance industry. In its current form gLite would be a business disabler!! There are other middleware tools that solve the finance communities compute problems much better. Things have moved on, gLite had a purpose on first inception – to harness as much compute as possible - and there are moves afoot in the open source community to evolve the technology to address other, more sophisticated needs such as utility and interactive computing. Excelian is well placed as a provider of Grid consultancy services for the Finance community and through its relationship to the EGEE to identify and help exploit opportunities as the research and business worlds converge. Because of the strong third party presence in the finance industry, such opportunities are far and few between, but they are there, especially as we expand sideways into related verticals such as the smaller hedge funds and energy companies. This talk will give an overview of the barriers to adoption in the finance industry and highlight some of the opportunities offered in this and related industries as the ideas around Grid mature.Speaker: Adam Vile (Excelian)
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Demo session Exhibition Area
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Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryThe 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
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EUMEDGRID: Grids and their role in sustaining development Brussels
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Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryWorkshop+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.
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Panel discussion
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GEMS: Grid Empowered Molecular Simulators and CompChem Tools REGE I
REGE I
Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryThe 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..
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ISSeG/EGEE SA1: Site Security Training Rege II
Rege II
Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungarySite 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. -
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Use of benchmarking tool for SpecInt2000
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Extract from the minutes of the WLCG MB, 5 June (https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/pub/LCG/MbMeetingsMinutes/LCG_Management_Board_2007_06_05.htm):
Decision of the WLCG Management Board: The MB agreed that, until the HEPiX benchmarks are defined, the proposal distributed by L.Robertson is accepted.
This proposal is contained in the note distributed to the MB "Proposal for an interim CPU capacity metric for WLCG"*. This uses the methodology of GridKA (i.e. run one copy of the SPEC CPU2000 code per core), uses the compiler flags as specified by the Architects Forum (-O2 -pthread -fPIC), with a scaling factor of 1.5 (reflecting the lower level of compiler optimization compared with the current GridKA benchmark test).
A HOWTO section with benchmark script and configuration files is available on the HEPiX pages: see http://hepix.caspur.it/processors/ .
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Problems with the process for the update of root certificates?The update of root certificates still is an issue in EGEE. The CERN (EGEE) repository http://grid-deployment.web.cern.ch/grid-deployment/lcg2CAlist.html isn't updated quick enough after announcement of the new certs on https://dist.eugridpma.info/distribution/igtf/ Then problems arise when the SAM tests check for the new certs before the official EGEE broadcast, and before the official EGEE repository is updated. IMHO a better work flow is needed here. The wiki pages explaining the process are here: http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gocwiki/Procedure_for_new_CA_releaseSpeakers: DECH ROC, Sven Hermann
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Incentives/penalties for sites under the SLDWhy will sites stick to the SLD? Considering that the SLD will be aiming to set a minimum "standard" for sites, what incentive is there for sites to do better? One suggestion is to set up a "league table" showing the relative 'goodness' of sites. Any other suggestions?
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ROC Manager access to SA1 PPT sheets of their federation partnersAt least to a summary page every 3 monthsSpeaker: SouthWest ROC
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Issues raised by ROC DECH: Request for comments from other ROCs1) gLite deployment has to be better agreed with VO requirements before being certified (see e.g. "prd-/pool-account" discussions after rollout to production, VOs still put high pressure on sites because there's still no common, agreed solution; instead VOs and the gLite development team should communicate directly). 2) the gLite community is not organised transparently enough, e.g. there aren't links to corresponding site administration/MW configuration wikis (GOC Wiki etc.) or further practical information about usage of gLite from the official gLite web page. This concern has also been expressed by users and admins at GridKa School 2007.
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Technical Network Liaison Committee - Closed Strasbourg
Strasbourg
Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryThis 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.
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The gLite Release Process and Porting Nizza
Nizza
Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryIn 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.
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The release process, gLite 3.1 status, moving towards SL4
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WELCOME DRINK
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Technical Plenary Koppenhaga
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Europe Congress Center
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EGEE Grid Operations – 3 years of progressThe EGEE grid infrastructure has grown over the 42 months of EGEE and EGEE-II from around 40 sites to over 250. It is now in daily use on a significant scale with continuous workloads of over 100,000 jobs per day, and is acting as the primary source of computing and storage for several application communities. Although this growth has been impressive, with the LHC coming on-line less than a year from now the scale of resources and workload is still expected to increase dramatically. This talk will summarise the progress that has been made in building this production infrastructure, and discuss the major challenges still to be faced both in the near future and in the longer term.Speaker: Dr Ian Bird (CERN)
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A Grand Challenge for the Information AgeThe information Age has created a paradigm shift for research, education, commerce, and modern life. Current estimates are that in 2006, 161 exabytes (10^18 bytes) of digital data were created, and by 2010, the torrent of digital data generated will reach a zettabyte (10^21 bytes). Critical to the success of efforts in the Information Age is the ability to use, access, manage, and preserve digital data, and a reliance on the assumption that our most valuable digital data will be there when we need it. Data is the foundation of the Information Age, and preserving digital data for the foreseeable future is an emerging Grand Challenge.
Best practices in digital data reliability involve the replication of valuable data collections. From the first, grid technologies have been a natural fit for the challenge of preserving multiple copies of digital data collections, and today, data grids provide a rich platform for data stewardship, management, and preservation services.
The San Diego Supercomputer Center is a pioneering U.S. Center leading the development and provision of data grid technologies and cyberinfrastructure for managing, storing, preserving, and using digital data. Leveraging collaborations in the U.S. with the National Science Foundation, the Library of Congress, and the National Archives and Records Administration, SDSC is providing innovative leadership in the area of data Cyberinfrastructure and data preservation. In this talk, SDSC Director Fran Berman describes SDSC’s approach to digital preservation, and discusses the next generation of opportunities and challenges for the data that drives the Information Age.Speaker: Dr Francine Berman (San Diego Supercomputer Center)
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Application Track (Uniform Grid Access) Koppenhaga
Koppenhaga
Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryStandardization 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).
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Business Track: Grid and Healthcare Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryThis 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.
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Implementation of an industrial-strength pharmaceutical workflow into a Grid environmentThe goal of the SIMDAT Pharma application activity is to demonstrate the usefulness of Grid technology in the area of life sciences. We implement an industrial strength pharmaceutical workflow across a Grid test-bed comprised of both academic and industrial partners. Naturally, these different types of partners are operating their Grid node with different security and quality of services policies and obviously have different commercial interests. The existing Grid prototype employs all infrastructure elements required to establish trusted relationships between academic and industrial partners. The infrastructure allows an academic service provider to accept outsourcing of high value applications or databases from a research group in order to give controlled and managed access to this application for other partners, both academic and industrial. The underlying model guarantees the preservation of intellectual property rights among the partners. In the presentation we will concentrate on the Grid-specific developments of the current Pharma prototype and discuss the impact of Grid technology in the life science sector.Speaker: Falk Zimmermann (NEC Labs Europe)
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The Health-e-Child ProjectHealth-e-Child (pronounced healthy child) is an attempt to respond to the increasingly pressing demand to fully integrate and exploit heterogeneous biomedical information for improved clinical practice, medical research, and personalized healthcare. As an integrated project of the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission, the project brings together three major paediatric centres with several European companies, university groups and research centres specialized in information-based medical technology.Speaker: Mr David Manset (Maat Gknowledge)
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The WISDOM ProjectSpeaker: Yannick Legre (CNRS)
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Business Track: Grid for Design, Engineering and Product Development Brussels
Brussels
Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryThis 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.
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A Grid-based Collaborative Environment for new Space Systems designNowadays, space activities are characterised by increased constraints in terms of cost and schedule combined often with a higher and higher technical and programmatic complexity. To answer this challenge, the European Space Agency has set up the Concurrent Design Facility starting in 1998. This has widely demonstrated the advantages of applying the Concurrent Engineering approach to the assessment and conceptual design of future space missions and has raised an enormous interest among the European partners (academia, scientific communities, industry, other agencies) in the space sector. At the same time, starting from mid 90’s, a remarkable increase in computing power has been achieved by designing and prototyping technologies, most notably the Grid, to support distributing tasks and data on distributed computing centres linked with high-speed networks. Grid technology can, therefore, provide the means for secure connectivity of design environments as well as integrate multiple heterogeneous systems into a powerful virtual “single” system. Within this framework, the European Space Agency, at beginning of 2006, awarded a project called Grid-based Distributed Concurrent Design (GDCD) to study how to allow geographically distributed facilities to interact each other in real-time over wide area networks adopting the Grid technology for the purpose of space projects, to make the structure deployment reliable, cheap and compatible with Concurrent Facilities.Speaker: Stefano Beco (ElsagDatamat)
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Inter-Enterprise CAE Design with Secure Controlled Sharing of Data and Analysis ServicesThe use of CAE analysis within the design process is common place in the Aerospace industry but is very focused on using a limited set of capabilities within the boundaries of the enterprise. To enable wider access to physical modelling and to enable the aerospace industry to take advantage of more cost effective provisioning models there is a requirement to enable the exploitation of CAE analysis services that are supplied beyond the enterprise boundaries. This introduces challenges in terms of managing Intellectual Property especially as this is encapsulated in the process in which the analysis codes are applied hence a focus on workflows, data and associated embedded knowledge. This talk will focus on what has been achieved within the Aerospace activity of SIMDAT and present some of the issues addressed with the Aerospace sector.Speaker: Michael Turner (BAE Systems)
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SIMDAT Grid-based Solutions for the Virtual Product Design Process in the Automotive Industry and Lessons Learned.The growing competition in the automotive industry requires continuous reduction of development and innovation cycles. On the other hand the demands on quality, safety and comfort are increasing. During the past years, advances in the area of CAD (Computer Aided Design), CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) and CAT (Computer Aided Testing) technologies and processes have contributed significantly to the ability of the automotive industry to keep up with these requirements. Today, the data resulting from the CAD-, CAE-, and CAT-processes are stored in separate databases without common interfaces. In addition, the development teams often work at distributed locations. It is due to the ongoing transition from many small manufacturers to a few large conglomerates. This transition requires the integration of previously separate teams into single virtual development teams. They need to work on common car platforms to reduce development costs. SIMDAT aims at to provide solutions for these problems. The presentation will give an overview of industrial use cases SIMDAT project deals with in the automotive area and of solutions intended to ease the collaboration between engineering organizations and departments based on Grid Technologies employed and extended in the SIMDAT project.Speaker: Walter Wirch (MSC Software)
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Budapest HungaryThe 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.
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After a brief discussion, especially with site administrators an introduction on how to write and modify YAIM modules will be given.
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Budapest HungaryThis 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.
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Opportunities for Technology Transfer in Grid ComputingThe rapid development of virtualisation and distributed computing technologies, including grids, means that the paradigm shift towards utility computing could happen sooner rather than later. Scientific Grids such as WLCG could contribute to this process. gLite middleware is a good example: developed to work with geographically distributed heterogeneous resources which often belong to different owners it fits perfectly with the requirements of future inter-enterprise Grids. The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) supports several Grid commercialisation projects that showcase market opportunities for Grid technologies.Speaker: Alex Efimov (STFC)
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Interactive Media & e-Infrastructures: building a successful futureNetwork evolution, parallel computing, emerging technologies and distributed computational power are keys to understand the future of interactive media applications. While physical formats will fade away and network will stand stronger, online services will need innovative technology and business models to replace existing mechanisms. Study in those fields and active projects’ research work are tremendous opportunities for Europe to get ready for next years’ competition.Speaker: Alexis Arragon (Darkworks S.A.)
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Applying Grid Technology on Business Support Systems - A paradigm in the Telecom sectorSpeaker: Serafim Kotrotsos (Exis-IT)
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Roma
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Budapest HungaryThis 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.
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An update on HP's Tycoon at CERN: integration with EGEETycoon is a market-based system for trade of resources. Our idea is to integrate it with EGEE, obtaining a dynamic Grid ready to share resources with others (Universities, research centres, etc.). Tycoon will run as a new service, deploying and destroying virtual machines (Worker Nodes and Computing Elements) on demand. Tycoon will give to EGEE a dynamic, flexible, secure and transparent platform/service to trade resources more efficiently. It could attract small and medium VOs to the EGEE project, they could take advantage of the Grid resources and obtain extra computing power while EGEE could obtain credits/money for its service. One of our problems will be to keep intact the security of the whole system (EGEE platform). Tycoon will deploy Worker Nodes and Computing Elements on-the-fly, reconfiguring the Grid adding nodes on demand using virtual machines. This dynamic part of the Grid must not be a security leak nor modify security constraints.Speaker: Jose Dana Perez (CERN)
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The COMETA consortium and its activities for Grid adoption by Industry in the context of the PI2S2 ProjectThe presentation will outline the activities of the Consorzio COMETA to foster the adoption of grid technologies by Industry. Special care will be devoted to the porting of the gLite middleware to Windows platforms carried out in collaboration with Microsoft."Speaker: Prof. Roberto Barbera (INFN Sez. di Catania, via S. Sofia, 64)
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NESSI-Grid Vision and Strategic Research AgendaThe Networked European Software and Services Initiative (NESSI) aims to create a strategic research agenda for European research in services and their foundations. NESSI-Grid forms part of that activity by defining a vision and strategic research agenda (SRA) for grid infrastructures used in business environments and in particular in NESSI scenarios. A first version of both, vision and SRA, focusing on more short-term challenges is presented. It addresses all stakeholders in this field, in particular researchers, industry and policy makers, to get a precise understanding about envisioned scenarios, state-of-the-art, challenges, business impact and actual roadmaps and recommendations for realizing the vision. The SRA is open for contribution.Speaker: Daniel Fey (Nokia Siemens)
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Budapest HungaryThis 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
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Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryThis 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".
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Introduction to ITIL - Best Practices for IT Service ManagementITIL has become the de facto standard for IT Service Management. The ITIL Framework defines Roles, Processes, Key Performance Indicators and outlines Critical Success Factors. These definitions helps every kind of IT organisation WHAT has to be implemented for IT service management in order to achieve better customer orientation, customer satisfaction and measurable service quality. In this talk one will be informed about the basics of the IT Infrastructure Library - which is since Version 3 now called - ITIL, Best Practices for IT Service Management.Speaker: Achim Grindler (FZK)
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The ITIL pilot project and further investigations at FZKTo implement IT service management processes and the therefore necessary organisational structures, is a bigger project that has to be carefully evaluated. This talk will present the essential steps during the ITIL pilot project in the FZK. The main attention lies here on the service support processes, which are assisting directly the IT personnel in the process of IT service production and provisioning to the customers.Speaker: Achim Grindler (FZK)
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EGEE ITIL Group first works - ITIL evaluation for ENOCThe presentation will describe a first study conduced within the EGEE ITIL group to evaluate the way to reach consistency between the work of the ENOC and the ITIL way of work. ENOC is the EGEE Network Operation Center, part of EGEE SA2 (Network activity). The presentation will raise which issues for the ENOC to reach ITIL?Speaker: Geneviève Romier (UREC/CNRS)
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Budapest HungaryThe 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.
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The SAML-XACML protocol in EGEE & OSG Authorization and resource enforcement toolsThis presentation will explain and discuss the work done to get the SAML-XACML protocol usable in OSG and EGEE authorization and resource enforcement tools for better inter-operation between our commonly used tools. It will explain the big picture on which problems we'd like to solve and how the existing tools will be used on a site architecturally. The involved tools are the commonly used grid tools like the gatekeeper, gridftpd, glexec, gjaf, dCache when deployed with lcas & lcmaps and/or prima/gplazma & gums on both EGEE and OSG sites.
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Budapest HungaryThe 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.
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Budapest HungaryIn 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.
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Budapest HungaryThis 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.
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NICE EnginFrame and A-WARE - An easy Way to Access GRID ResourcesWhile Grids can dramatically innovative business models and marketplaces, for end-users the term "Grid" is frequently associated with highly complex infrastructures dissimilar to the everyday tools and technologies they are used to. The A-WARE project tackles this problem and develops a stable, supported, commercially exploitable, high quality technology able to give easy access to Grid resources. A-WARE technology will merge two complementary experiences, capable of easing the complexity of Grid technology and complex job management. A-WARE will enhance mature European Grid middleware technologies – through workflows – and a deliver improvements of accessibility, visibility - through Web 2.0 technology. The A-WARE project is based on the EnginFrame Grid portal framework developed by NICE and adopted by a number of important companies worldwide. The EnginFrame Grid portal, delivers user-friendly, highly customisable access to Grid-enabled applications and infrastructures. It completes the Grid solution by increasing usability and user-friendliness, without sacrificing flexibility and control for the most advanced computing scenarios, like Oil & Gas, Automotive, Aerospace, HEP, Electronics, Telecommunications etc. EnginFrame is also the core technology of the GENIUS portal adopted by EGEE.Speaker: Giuseppe Ugolotti (NICE)
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gLite industry adoption barriersIndustrial adoption of any Grid middleware depends on its ability to satisfy the needs of many different communities, starting from technology providers through developers to the end users. For this reason the EGEE Industry Forum Steering Committee is starting a special focus group on gLite adoption. This group will focus on analysis of the technical barriers to gLite adoption in industry and provide maximum feedback to developers in order to make the gLite middleware fit industrial needs. This presentation is in part an invitation to start a discussion on these topics and lists a set of potential issues taken from previous discussions and presentations.Speaker: Robert Harakaly (Industry Forum Steering Committee)
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Grids in Industry: Lost in Transition?The journey from proof-of-concepts and operational Grid research infrastructures to credible Enterprise technologies has significant technical, economical and cultural challenges. For the last 10 years IT Innovation has been working with industry and commerce to address these challenges from the early days of meta-computing experiments to the Grid and now Service-Oriented Infrastructures. This presentation revisits the evolving vision and proposition presented by the Grid research community to industry over the last decade. The barriers for adoption of successful operational research Grids in commercial context are presented and success stories that show how these barriers can be overcome.Speaker: Mike Boniface (IT Innovation)
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Distributed Computing with MATLAB in GridsMATLAB is a popular programming environment with over 1,000,000 users worldwide, primarily scientists and engineers engaged in technical computing. In 2004, The MathWorks introduced a product for distributed and parallel computing that enables MATLAB users to take advantage of high-performance environments to solve computationally or data intensive problems. Engineers and scientists can now develop parallel applications independently of the resources that are available for execution; they can prototype applications on their desktops and then scale to a computer cluster without any code changes. This presentation will discuss the additional technical and licensing challenges that are being resolved so that scientist can take advantage of the grid for their collaborative research activities.Speaker: Silvina Grad-Freilich (Mathworks)
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Budapest HungaryThis 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".
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Budapest HungaryThe 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.
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Budapest HungaryThe 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.
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Budapest HungaryThis 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.
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Sensible Cities: Digitally Augmented Urban EnvironmentsThe real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed - alongside the tools we use to design them and impact on their physical structure.
Studying these changes from a critical point of view and anticipating them is the goal of the MIT SENSEable City Laboratory.
At the Conference I will discuss the lab’s long-term Wiki City project, which is based on last year’s Real Time Rome project. Here, the lab used analysis of aggregate cell phone traffic to generate traffic maps. With cell-phone locations mapped anonymously at regular intervals, Roman city planners could see the pulse of the city in real time.
Wiki City builds upon this idea, envisioning an interactive, digitally augmented city that would also integrate location-based services, WiFi-based wikis and environmental sensor input. This with the ultimate aim of leading to an overall increased efficiency and sustainability in making use of the city environment.Speaker: Dr Francesco Calabrese (University of Naples / Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - 154
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Budapest HungaryData 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.
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Budapest HungaryPurpose : 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
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Budapest HungaryThis 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
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Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryThis 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.- 165
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Budapest HungaryPurpose : 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.
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Budapest HungaryThis 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:
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- 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.
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Budapest HungaryThis 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."
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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.
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Budapest HungaryA 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.
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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.
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The gLite middlewareThe gLite 3 middleware has been in production for about one year and a half. Since its first release many improvements have been made in terms of performance and usability. Concurrently the gLite software process has been improved and the benefits of the single component release process are realised. gLite is now undergoing a multi-stage restructuring process with the aim to make it more maintainable, manageable and portable. Older legacy components will only be maintained until their successors are considered ready. The development effort will be focused on components that have a strategy to interoperate with other Grid infrastructures and to adhere to international standards.Speaker: Claudio Grandi (INFN & CERN)
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The National Grid Initiative D-GridIn 2005, the German D-Grid Initiative started with 7 projects in the areas grid infrastructure, astronomy, climate research, high energy physics, engineering, medical research, and humanities. Recently, 12 additional 'community grid' projects kicked off.
In this presentation, we will present an overview on D-Grid and summarize our experience in creating the grid infrastructure and the grid application communities, and the challenges we are facing. We will conclude with a set of lessons learned and recommendations.Speaker: Dr Wolfgang Gentzsch (D-Grid, Duke, e-IRG, e-School, Father&Husband, GFSG, PCAST, and RENCI)
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BioinfoGRID: Bioinformatics Grid Application for life science Nizza
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Budapest HungaryThis 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.
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Budapest HungaryThere 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.- 230
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Budapest HungaryThis 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.
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Nizza
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Budapest HungaryThis 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.
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Budapest HungaryThis 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.
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Process Management in gCube: Supporting Distributed Grid Applications by Service CompositionThis talk presents gCube's approach to define, run, and optimize complex process-based applications n the Grid. Following the idea of programming-in-the-large, gCube first supports a powerful graphical user interface for the composition of both Grid services and jobs into processes. Second, gCube provides a fully distributed approach to process (workflow) management that avoids any single point of failure and allows to dynamically adjust to changing environments. Third, it includes support for structural process modifications to maximise parallelism during process optimization.Speaker: Evangelos Floros (Unknown)
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Identity management issues in the gCube frameworkIn Virtual Research Environments, the management of service identities must face with issues related to the dynamic services deployment in the infrastructure. This talk briefly presents how these issues have been solved in the gCube framework.Speaker: Paolo Roccetti (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica)
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Budapest HungaryThis 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.
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ISSeG: Site Security TrainingSite 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.Speaker: David Jackson (Unknown)
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Budapest HungaryThe 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
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Budapest HungaryThis 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.
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Budapest HungaryThe 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.
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Budapest HungaryThis 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.
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The DILIGENT infrastructure: running gCube and gLiteThis talk gives on overview of the DILIGENT infrastructure highlighting its different constituents. It is explained how gCube and gLite are made available to enable the creation of Virtual Research Environments. In particular it is explained the importance of the DILIGENT Hosting Node (DHN) to host the gCube services and how the gLite services are associated with the EGEE PPS infrastructure. This talk also presents the status of the DILIGENT infrastructure currently deployed for the different DILIGENT applications.Speaker: Pedro Andrade (CERN)
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ImpECt - Implementation of Environmental ConventionsThe goal of the ImpECt scenario is to improve accessibility, interoperability and usability of environmental data, models, tools, algorithms and instruments integrating the distributed data sources with specialized data handling services. In particular, the DILIGENT infrastructure is used as a means for supporting the preparation of projects and periodical reports on specific environmental topics of concern. This experience is reported.Speaker: Andrea Manzi (CNR - ISTI)
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SAPIR - Search In Audio Visual ContentSAPIR is an EU project aimed to extend the power of web searches beyond centralized text and metadata searches to include distributed audio-visual content. By exploiting the DILIGENT infrastructure, a large collection of images, counting 100 millions of objects, is under processing with the aim to generate the bigger data set of image features than at any time before. The result of this data challenge is presented.Speaker: Dr Matteo Mordacchini (CNR - ISTI)
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Budapest HungaryA 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.
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Budapest HungaryThis 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.
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Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryThe 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
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Presentations will be followed by discussion. Proposed topics:- status of deliverables and milestones, lessons learned, actions or ideas generated.
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Budapest HungaryThis 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.
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Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryThe 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
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Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryThese 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.
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Strasbourg
Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryWorkshop 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.
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Nizza
Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryThe 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- 325
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Strasbourg
Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryWorkshop 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.- 333
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Panel sessionThe topics addressed will be: - Are the Grid middlewares converging or diverging? - Are standards really used (and useful)? - Web services: do they have a role in the interoperability arena? - A Grid of Grids: just like Internet?Speakers: Erwin Laure, Marco Verlato, Morris Riedel, Subrata Chattopadhyay
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Nizza
Europe Congress Center
Budapest HungaryThe 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- 335
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Round tableThe round table will focus on 3 major topics (10' each) and then if extra time, questions from the audience will be taken by the panelists. Topic1: Identifying ways forward in Europe for the convergence toward a community healthgrid platform and infrastructure Topic2: Security and privacy in healthgrids, Common practices in European projects. Emergence of a healthgrid European regulation Topic3: Medical data integration and exploitation in grids. European Technologies and their Integration in the gLite Grid Middleware
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GRNETReview of GRNET's SA3 activity
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