Workshop on Campus Grids and Scientific Applications

Session

Day 1 - Thursday

Thursday

31 Jan 2008, 09:00

Aula, University Campus Vienna

0. Opening

Günter Haring (University of Vienna)

31/01/2008, 09:00

1. Democratization of Computing Through Campus Grids

Miron Livny (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

31/01/2008, 09:15

In recent years, a growing number of universities have deployed advanced distributed computing technologies to build powerful computing facilities on their campus. These Campus Grids offer students and faculty from a broad range of disciplines easy access to local compute and storage resources. The Grid Laboratory of Wisconsin (GLOW) is an example of such a grid. GLOW is a NSF funded,...

2. Linking Chemical Space to Biological Space – Challenges for High-Throughput Computing

Gerhard Ecker (University of Vienna)

31/01/2008, 09:55

The discovery and development of new, safe drugs is very costly and the rate of failure of drug candidates in late phase clinical studies is high. Establishing new in silico techniques which improve the predictability of bioavailability and safety as early as possible in the drug discovery and development process is thus of major importance to overcome this problem and to improve research and...

3. Algorithmic Challenges in the CPAMMS Project

Wilfried Gansterer (University of Vienna)

31/01/2008, 11:00

The CPAMMS project ("Computing Paradigms and Algorithms for Molecular Modelling and Simulation: Applications in Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Pharmacy”) is an interdisciplinary research initiative involving participants from Quantum Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pharmacy which focuses on the development of innovative methods and technologies for selected computational molecular modeling...

4. Use of Scientific Software in Distributed Environments - A Practical Experience with VGE and EGEE

Matthias Ruckenbauer (University of Vienna)

31/01/2008, 11:40

The ab-initio program-suite COLUMBUS was installed within the COMPCHEM-VO in the EGEE Grid and deployed as a VGE (Vienna Grid Environment) web-service at local sites within the University of Vienna. Additionally the Molecular Dynamics package NEWTON-X was deployed as VGE web-service. These two systems, the VGE and the EGEE, persue different philosophies, representic a bottom-up vs. a...

5. UNICORE – A European Grid Technology

Achim Streit (FZJ)

31/01/2008, 13:45

The development of UNICORE started back in 1997 with two projects funded by the German ministry of education and research (BMBF). UNICORE is a vertically integrated Grid middleware, which provides a seamless, secure, and intuitive access to distributed resources and data and provides components on all levels of a Grid architecture from an easy-to-use graphical client down to the interfaces to...

13. Integrating Authentication and Authorization Infrastructures with Grids

Chad La Joie (Switch)

31/01/2008, 14:25

The visions of grid computing as well as the vision of national authentication and authorization infrastructures (AAI) have both become reality in the past few years. Whereas Grid security is based on X.509 certificates, AAIs are typically based on federating campus identity management systems. We review the current state of interoperability between Grids and AAI with a focus on Shibboleth,...

7. EGEE: Providing a Production Grid Infrastructure for Collaborative Science

Erwin Laure (EGEE/CERN)

31/01/2008, 15:30

EGEE (Enabling Grids for eScience) operates a large scale production Grid infrastructure federating over 250 sites from 45 countries world-wide providing over 45000 CPUs and about 15 PB of disk storage to a wide variety of scientific applications. In this talk we review the challenges and successes of EGEE in building, operating, and evolving the Grid infrastructure and highlight a few...

9. Life Sciences Applications on a Computing Grid Infrastructure

Lydia Maigne (Unknown)

31/01/2008, 16:10

Grids open exciting perspectives to address many of the challenges faced by biomedical research in terms of large scale computing and data management. The e-science group at LPC Clermont-Ferrand (http://clrwww.in2p3.fr/PCSV) focuses on deploying applications and developing services relevant to life sciences and healthcare in grid environments. The group is actively involved in the deployment...

10. Integrated Biomedical Grid Infrastructure

Siegfried Benkner (University of Vienna)

31/01/2008, 16:50

The European @neurIST project aims to create an integrated biomedical Grid infrastructure for the management of all processes linked to research, diagnosis and treatment development for complex, multi-factorial diseases. The project bases its developments on a service-oriented Grid architecture encompassing data repositories, information systems, simulation, modeling and computational analysis...