Isabelle Magnin
(INSERM Lyon)
3/1/06, 10:35 AM
Nick Brook
(CERN and Bristol University)
3/1/06, 11:20 AM
Roberto Barbera
(University of Catania and INFN)
3/1/06, 12:05 PM
Dr
Harald Kornmayer
(FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM KARLSRUHE (FZK))
3/1/06, 2:00 PM
Astroparticle physics - Fusion - High-Energy physics
Oral contribution
Application context and scientific goals
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The field of gamma-ray observations in the energy range between 10 GeV
and 10 TeV developed fast over the last decade.
From the first observation of TeV gamma rays from the Crab nebula using the
atmospheric Cerenkov imaging technique in 1989 [1] to the
discovery of new gamma ray sources with the new...
Dr
Christophe Blanchet
(CNRS IBCP), Mr
Vincent Lefort
(CNRS IBCP)
3/1/06, 2:00 PM
One of current major challenges in the bioinformatics field is to derive valuable information from the complete
genome sequencing projects, which provide the bioinformatics community with a large number of unknown
sequences. The first prerequisite step in this process is to access up-to-date sequence and 3D-structure
databanks (EMBL, GenBank, SWISS-PROT, Protein Data Bank...) maintained...
Dr
Davide Bernardini
(CNR-ISTI)
3/1/06, 2:15 PM
Earth Observation - Archaelogy - Digital Library
Oral contribution
The demand for Digital Libraries has recently grown considerably, DLs are perceived
as a necessary instrument to support communication and collaboration among the
members of communities of interest; many application domains require DL services,
e.g. e-Health, e-Learning, e- Government, and many of the organizations that demand
a DL are small, distributed, and dynamic, because they use...
Dr
Christophe Blanchet
(CNRS IBCP), Mr
Rémi Mollon
(CNRS IBCP)
3/1/06, 2:15 PM
Introduction
Biomedical applications are pilot ones in the EGEE project [1][2] and have their own virtual organization: the
“biomed” VO. Indeed, they have common security requirements such as electronic certificate system,
authentication, secured transfer; but they have also specific ones such as fine grain access to data, encrypted
storage of data and anonymity. Certificate system...
Dr
Giuseppe Andronico
(INFN SEZIONE DI CATANIA)
3/1/06, 2:15 PM
Computational Chemistry - Lattice QCD - Finance
Oral contribution
This is the first use of the GRID structure to an
expensive QCD lattice calculation performed under the VO theophys.
It concerns the study on the lattice of the SU(3) Yang-Mills
topological charge distribution, which is one of the most important non
pertubative features of the theory. The first moment of the
distribution is the topological susceptibility, which enters
in the...
Dr
Luciano Milanesi
(National Research Council - Institute of Biomedical Technologies)
3/1/06, 2:30 PM
Project descriptions
The European Commission promotes the Bioinformatics Grid Application for life
science (BIOINFOGRID) project. The BIOINFOGRID project web site will be available at
http://www.itb.cnr.it/bioinfogrid.
The project aims to connect many European computer centres in order to carry out
Bioinformatics research and to develop new applications in the sector using a...
Mr
Eric Yen
(Academia SINICA Grid Computing Centre, Taiwan)
3/1/06, 2:30 PM
Earth Observation - Archaelogy - Digital Library
Oral contribution
Digital archives/libraries are widely recognized as a crucial component of the
global information infrastructure for the new century. Research and development
projects in many parts of the world are concerned about using advanced information
technologies for managing and manipulating digital information, ranging from data
storage, preservation, indexing, searching, presentation, and...
Prof.
Aneta Karaivanova
(IPP-BAS)
3/1/06, 2:30 PM
Computational Chemistry - Lattice QCD - Finance
Oral contribution
Authors: E. Atanassov, T. Gurov, A. Karaivanova and M. Nedjalkov
Department of Parallel Algorithms
Institute for Parallel Processing - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
E-mails:{emanouil, gurov, anet, mixi}@parallel.bas.bg
Abstract body:
SALUTE (Stochastic ALgorithms for Ultra-fast Transport in sEmiconductors) is an MPI
Grid application developed for solving...
Dr
Claudio Vuerli
(INAF-SI)
3/1/06, 2:30 PM
Astroparticle physics - Fusion - High-Energy physics
Oral contribution
1. Application context and scientific goals
An accurate measure of the whole sky emission in the frequencies of the microwave
spectrum and in particular of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies can
have crucial implications for the whole Astrophysical community as it permits to
determine a number of fundamental quantities that characterize our Universe, its
origin and...
Ms
Nadezhda Fialko
(research fellow)
3/1/06, 3:00 PM
Recently, at the interface of physics, chemistry and biology, a new and rapidly
developing research trend has emerged concerned with charge transfer in
biomacromolecules. Of special interest to researchers is the electron and hole
transfer along a chain of base pairs, since the migration of radicals over a DNA
molecule plays a crucial role in the processes of mutagenesis and...
Dr
Francisco Castejon
(CIEMAT)
3/1/06, 3:00 PM
Astroparticle physics - Fusion - High-Energy physics
Oral contribution
The future Magnetic confinement Fusion energy research will be mainly based upon large international
facilities with the participation of a lot of scientist belonging to different institutes. For instance, the large
device ITER (International Tokamak Experimental Reactor) that will be built in Cadarache (France) is
participated by six partners: Europe, Japan, USA, Russia, China, and...
Dr
Patricia Mendez Lorenzo
(CERN IT/PSS)
3/1/06, 3:00 PM
The EGEE infrastructure is a key part of the computing environment for the
simulation, processing and analysis of the data of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
experiments (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb). The example of the LHC experiments
illustrates well the motivation behind Grid technology. The LHC accelerator will
start operation in 2007, and the total data volume per experiment is...
Dr
Stefano Cozzini
(CNR-INFM Democritos and ICTP)
3/1/06, 3:00 PM
Computational Chemistry - Lattice QCD - Finance
Oral contribution
The EGRID project aims at implementing a national Italian facility for processing
economic and financial data using computational grid technology. As such, it acts
as the underlying fabric on top of which partner projects, more strictly focused on
research in itself, develop end-user applications.
The first version of the EGRID infrastructure has been in operation since October
2004....
Mr
Jean Salzemann
(IN2P3/CNRS)
3/1/06, 3:15 PM
One of the main challenges in molecular biology is the management of data and
databases. A large fraction of the biological data produced is publicly available on
web sites or by ftp protocols. These public databases are internationally known and
play a key role in the majority of public and private research. But their
exponential
growth raises an usage problem. Indeed, scientists need...
Dr
Andrea Manara
(ITU BR)
3/1/06, 3:15 PM
Earth Observation - Archaelogy - Digital Library
Oral contribution
The Radiocommunication Bureau of the ITU (ITU-BR) manages the preparations for the
ITU Regional Radio Conference RRC06 to establish a new frequency plan for the
introduction of digital broadcasting (band III and IV/V) in Europe, Africa, Arab
States and former-USSR States. During the 5 weeks of the RRC06 Conference (15 May
to
16 June 2006) delegations from 119 Member States will...
Prof.
Pier Giovanni Pelfer
(Dept. Physics, University of Florence and INFN, Italy)
3/1/06, 3:30 PM
Earth Observation - Archaelogy - Digital Library
Oral contribution
Modern archaeology, between the historical, anthropological and social sciences, is
the more suitable and mature for the application of the Grid technologies. In fact,
archaeology is a multidisciplinary historical science, using data and methods from
many of the natural and social sciences. Archaeological research do and has done
large use of computers and digital technologies for...
Mr
Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain))
3/1/06, 3:30 PM
Astroparticle physics - Fusion - High-Energy physics
Oral contribution
Plasma heating in magnetic confinement fusion devices can be performed by launching a
microwave beam with frequency in the range of the cyclotron frequency of either ions
or electrons, or close to one of their harmonics. The Electron Cyclotron Resonance
Heating (ECRH) is characterized by the small size of the wavelength that allows one
to study the wave properties using the geometrical...
Osvaldo Gervasi
(Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia)
3/1/06, 3:30 PM
Computational Chemistry - Lattice QCD - Finance
Oral contribution
The understanding of the behavior of molecular systems is important for the
progress of life sciences and industrial applications. In both cases is increasingly
necessary to perform a study of the relevant molecular systems by using simulations
and computational procedures which heavily demand computational resources. In
some of these studies it is mandatory to put together the resource...
Antonio Lagana`
(1Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia)
3/1/06, 3:45 PM
Computational Chemistry - Lattice QCD - Finance
Oral contribution
We have implemented on the production grid of EGEE GEMS.0, a demo version
of our Molecular processes simulator that deals with gas phase atom diatom
bimolecular
reactions. GEMS.0 takes the parameters of the potential from a data bank
and carries out the dynamical calculations by running quasiclassical trajectories
[1].
A generalization of GEMS.0 to include the calculation of ab initio...
Dr
Mariusz Sterzel
(Academic Computer Centre "Cyfronet")
3/1/06, 4:30 PM
Computational Chemistry - Lattice QCD - Finance
Oral contribution
The EGEE Grid Project enables access to huge computing and storage resources. Taking
this oportunity we have tried to identyfie chemical problems that could be computed
in this environment. Some of the results considered within this work are presented
with description focused on requirements for the computational enviroment as well as
techniques of Grid-enabling computations based on...
Mr
Vladimir Voznesensky
(Nuclear Fusion Inst., RRC "Kurchatov Inst.")
3/1/06, 4:30 PM
Astroparticle physics - Fusion - High-Energy physics
Oral contribution
Computational optimisations can be found in a wide area of natural, engineering and
economical sciences. They may be carried out by different methods, that include
classical gradient-based, genetic algorithms, etc.
Stellarator facilities optimisation may be noted as an example of such task.
Stellarators are the toroidal devices for magnetic confinement of plasma. In ...
Dr
Ying-Ta Wu
(Academia Sinica Genomic Research Center)
3/1/06, 4:30 PM
The potential for re-emergence of influenza pandemics has been a great threat since
the report of that the avian influenza A virus (H5N1) having acquired the ability to
be transmitted to humans. An increase of transmission incidents suggests the risk of
human-to-human transmission, and the report of development of drug resistance
variants is another potential concern. At present, there are...
Monique Petitdidier
(IPSL)
3/1/06, 4:30 PM
Earth Observation - Archaelogy - Digital Library
Oral contribution
ESRIN : L. Fusco, J. Linford, C. Retscher
IPSL : C. Boonne, S. Godin-Beekmann, M. Petitdidier, D. Weissenbach
KNMI: W. Som de Cerff
SCAI-FHG: J. Kraus, H. Schwichtenberg
UTV : F. Del Frate, M. Iapaolo
Satellite data processing presents a challenge for any computer resources due to
the large volume of data and number of files. The vast amount of data sets and
databases are all...
Mr
Nicolas Jacq
(CNRS/IN2P3)
3/1/06, 4:45 PM
Advance in combinatorial chemistry has paved the way for synthesizing large numbers
of diverse chemical compounds. Thus there are millions of chemical compounds
available in the laboratories, but it is nearly impossible and very expensive to
screen such a high number of compounds in the experimental laboratories by high
throughput screening (HTS). Besides the high costs, the hit rate...
Dr
Viet Tran
(Institute of Informatics, Slovakia)
3/1/06, 4:45 PM
Earth Observation - Archaelogy - Digital Library
Oral contribution
The flood application has been successfully demonstrated at EGEE second review in
December and we would demonstrate it at EGEE User forum for Grid application
developers and Grid users.
Flood application consists of several numerical models of meteorology, hydrology
and hydraulics. A portal is developed for comfortable use of flood application. The
portal has four main modules:
• ...
Mrs
Livia Torterolo
(Bio-Lab, DIST, University of Genoa)
3/1/06, 5:00 PM
A voxel based statistical analysis of perfusional medical images may provide
powerful support to the early diagnosis for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). A Statistical
Parametric Mapping algorithm (SPM), based on the comparison of the candidate with
normal cases, has been validated by the neurological research community to quantify
ipometabolic patterns in brain PET/SPECT studies. Since...
Dr
Alberto Ribon
(CERN)
3/1/06, 5:00 PM
Astroparticle physics - Fusion - High-Energy physics
Oral contribution
Geant4 is a general purpose toolkit for simulating the tracking
and interaction of particles through matter. It is currently used
in production in several particle physics experiments (BaBar, HARP,
ATLAS, CMS, LHCb), and it has also applications in other areas,
as space science, medical applications, and radiation studies.
The complexity of the Geant4 code requires careful testing...
Geneviève Moguilny
(Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)
3/1/06, 5:00 PM
Earth Observation - Archaelogy - Digital Library
Oral contribution
This abstract describes the "Solid Earth Physics" applications of the ESR(Earth
Science Research) VO. These applications, developed or ported by the "Institut de
Physique du Globe de Paris" (IPGP) address mainly seismology, data processing as
well as simulation.
Solid Earth Physics deployed successfully two applications on EGEE.
The first one allows the rapid determination of...
Prof.
Hugues BENOIT-CATTIN
(CREATIS - UMR CNRS 5515 - U630 Inserm)
3/1/06, 5:15 PM
In this paper, we present a web protal that enables simulation of MRI images on the
grid. Such simulations are done using the SIMRI MRI simulator that is implemented on
the grid using MPI. MRI simulations are useful for better understanding the MRI
physics, for studying MRI sequences (parameterisation), and validating image
processing algorithms. The web portal client/server...
Dr
Ignacio Blanquer
(Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
3/1/06, 5:30 PM
The liver is the largest organ of the abdomen and there are a large number of lesions
affecting it. Both benign and malignant tumours arise within it. The liver is also
the target organ for most solid tumours metastasis. Angiogenesis is quite an
important marker of tumour aggressiveness and response to therapy. The blood supply
to the liver is derived jointly from the hepatic arteries and...
Mr
Gael Youinou
(Unknown)
3/1/06, 5:30 PM
Earth Observation - Archaelogy - Digital Library
Oral contribution
Worldwide population faces difficult challenges for the coming years to produce
enough energy to sustain global growth and predict main evolutions of the Earth such
as earthquakes. Seismic data processing and reservoir simulation are key
technologies to help researchers in geosciences to tackle these challenges.
Modern seismic data processing and geophysical simulations require...
Dr
Simone Campana
(CERN/IT/PSS)
3/1/06, 5:30 PM
Astroparticle physics - Fusion - High-Energy physics
Oral contribution
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN will start data acquisition in 2007. The ATLAS (A
Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) experiment is preparing for the data handling and analysis
via a series of Data Challenges and production exercises to validate its computing
model and to provide useful samples of data for detector and physics studies. The
last Data Challenge, begun in June 2004 and ended in early...
Prof.
Victor Lakhno
(IMPB RAS, Russia)
3/1/06, 5:45 PM
As recently as a few years ago a possibility of constructing a mathematical model of
a life seemed absolutely fantastic. However, at the beginning of 21-th century
several research teams announced creation of a minimum model of life. To be more
specific, not life in general, but an elementary brick of life, that is a living
cell. The most well-known of them are: USA Virtual Cell...
Dr
Joachim Biercamp
(DKRZ)
3/1/06, 5:45 PM
Earth Observation - Archaelogy - Digital Library
Oral contribution
Human made climate change and its impact on the natural and socio-economic
environment is one of todays most challenging problems of mankind. To understand and
project processes, changes and impacts of the natural and socio-economic system a
growing community of researchers from various disciplines investigates and analyses
the earthsystem by means of computer simulation and analysis...
Federica Fanzago
(INFN-PADOVA)
3/1/06, 6:00 PM
Astroparticle physics - Fusion - High-Energy physics
Oral contribution
The CMS experiment will produce a large amount of data (few PBytes each year) that
will be distributed and stored in many computing centres spread in the countries
participating to the CMS collaboration and made available for analysis to world-wide
distributed physicists.
CMS will use a distributed architecture based on grid infrastructure to analyze data
stored at remote sites, to assure...
106.
An efficient method for fine-grained access authorization in distributed (Grid) storage systems
Andreas Peters
(CERN)
3/1/06, 6:30 PM
The ARDA group has developed an efficient method for fine-grained access
authorization in distributed (Grid) storage systems. Client applications
obtain "access tokens" from an organization's file catalogue upon execution of a
file name resolution request. Whenever a client application tries to access the
requested files, the token is transparently passed to the target storage ...
Dr
Algimantas Juozapavicius
(associate professor)
3/1/06, 6:30 PM
Introduction
The Baltic Grid project, a FP6 program, involving 10 leading institutions in six
countries, started in November 2005. Its aims to i) develop and integrate the
research and education computing and communication infrastructure in the Baltic
States into the emerging European Grid infrastructure, ii) bring the knowledge in
Grid technologies and use of Grids in the Baltic...
Dr
Antonio Calanducci
(INFN Sez. Catania - Italy), Dr
Giuseppe La Rocca
(INFN Sez. Catania - Italy)
3/1/06, 6:30 PM
Created with the goal of providing an infrastructure for training and dissemination,
GILDA revealed itself also as a cute entry point for those communities, often without
any experience of distributed computing, desired to test whether or not their
applications would receive an added value from the grid. The wide range of
applications supported, shows also as a single testbed can serve...
Prof.
Peter Kacsuk
(MTA SZTAKI)
3/1/06, 6:30 PM
The P-GRADE portal plays more and more important role in the EGEE community. After
its successful demos in the previous EGEE conferences (Athens and Pisa) the
representatives of several EGEE VOs have approached us with the request to support
their users by the P-GRADE portal that is already the official portal of two EGEE
VOs: VOCE (Virtual Organization Central Europe) and HunGrid...
Mr
Dashamir Hoxha
(Institute of Informatics and Applied Informatics (INIMA), Tirana, Albania)
3/1/06, 6:30 PM
This is a web application that serves as a front-end to the database
that keeps information about the grid sites (clusters), their admins,
email and phone contacts, other contact people, site nodes and
resources, downtimes etc. These sites are organized by country and
countries are organized by regions. The admins of each site can also
update the information about the site.
Dr
Elena Tikhonenko
(Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR))
3/1/06, 6:30 PM
In the beginning of 2005 the formal procedures and the proper administrative
structures for creation and registration of the internal RDIG-EGEE virtual
organizations were established in the Russian Data Intensive Grid (RDIG)
consortium.
The Service Center of Registration of the Virtual Organizations is accessible
through the URL: http://rdig-registrar.sinp.msu.ru/newVO.html . All...
Dr
Ladislav Hluchy
(Institute of Informatics, Slovakia)
3/1/06, 6:30 PM
We present an IST project of the 6th Framework Programme, aimed to create a
distributed framework for multi-risk assessment of natural disasters that will
integrate various models for simulation of forest fire behavior and effects, flood
modeling and forecasting, landslides and soil erosion simulations. Also, a
distributed repository with earth observation data, combined with field...
Mr
Alexey Poyda
(Moscow State University), Mr
Dmitry Mishin
(Institute of Physics of the Earth Russian Acad. Sci.), Dr
Mikhail Zhizhin
(Geophysical Center Russian Acad. Sci.)
3/1/06, 6:30 PM
We will demonstrate an environmental data mining project Environmental Scenario
Search Engine (ESSE) including a secure web application portal for interactive
searching for events over a grid of environmental data access and mining web services
hosted by OGSA-DAI containers. The web services are grid proxies for the database
clusters with terabytes of high-resolution meteorological and...
Marcin Plociennik
(PSNC),
Pawel Wolniewicz
(PSNC)
3/1/06, 6:30 PM
Demo description:
Demo will show following features and functionality:
- graphical user environment for job submission, monitoring and other grid
operations
- running applications from different disciplines and communities
- running within MD platform batch and MPI applications
- running sequential and interactive applications
Two applications had been selected to present...
Mr
Gergely Sipos
(MTA SZTAKI)
3/1/06, 6:30 PM
1. Composing and executing data-intensive workflows on the EGEE infrastructure
Grid computing is naturally very well suited for handling data-intensive
applications involving the analysis of huge amounts of data. In many scientific
areas the need for composing complex applications on grids from basic processing
components has emerged. The classical task-based job description approach...
Nuno Filipe De Sousa Santos
(Universidade de Coimbra)
3/1/06, 6:30 PM
1. Introduction
Metadata Services play a vital role on Data Grids, primarily as a means of
describing and discovering data stored on files but also as a simplified database
service. They must, therefore, be accessible to the entire Grid, comprising several
thousands of users spread across hundreds of Grid sites geographically distributed.
This means they must scale with the number...
Domenico Vicinanza
(Univ. of Salerno + INFN Catania)
3/1/06, 6:30 PM
Data audification is the representation of data by sound signals; it can be considered as the acoustic
counterpart of data graphic visualization, a mathematical mapping of information from data sets to sounds.
Data audification is currently used in several fields, for different purposes: science and engineering, education
and training, in most of the cases to provide a quick and effective...
Dr
Johan Montagnat
(CNRS)
3/1/06, 6:30 PM
** Clinical data management versus computerized medical analysis
The medical community is routinely using clinical images and
associated medical data for diagnosis, intervention planning and
therapy follow-up. Medical imagers are producing an increasing number
of digital images for which computerized archiving, processing and
analysis are needed.
DICOM (Digital Image and...
Mr
Jawher Kerrou
(University of Neuchatel)
3/1/06, 6:30 PM
Worldwide, seawater intrusion and salinisation of coastal aquifers and soils is a
major threat for food production. While the physico-chemical processes triggering the
transport and accumulation of salts in these regions are relatively well known and
well described by a set of partial differential equations, often it is extremely
difficult to model accurately these phenomena because of the...
Roberto Barbera
(INFN Catania)
3/1/06, 6:30 PM
In the Grid dissemination activity, teaching of Grid elements installation covers a
very important role. While in tutorials for users availability of accounts and
certificates is enough, in those ones for administrators a certain number of free
machines is needed, and the requirements for a Grid-middleware compliant operating
system also occurs.
The VirtualGILDA infrastructure for...
Dr
Giuliano Taffoni
(INAF - SI)
3/2/06, 2:00 PM
1. The technique addressed in connection with concrete use cases
In a GRID environment the main components that manages the jobs life are the Grid Resource Framework
Layer, the Grid Information System Framework and the Grid Information Data Model. Since the job life is
strongly coupled with its computational environment then the Grid middleware must be aware of the specific
computing...
Prof.
Ludek Matyska
(CESNET, z.s.p.o.)
3/2/06, 2:00 PM
Logging and Bookkeeping (LB) service is responsible for keeping track of jobs
within a complex Grid environment. Without such a service, users are
unable to find out what happened with their lost jobs and Grid administrators
are not able to improve the infrastructure. The LB service developed
within the EGEE project provides a distributed scalable solution able to
deal with hundreds...
Cecile Germain-Renaud
(LRI and LAL)
3/2/06, 2:00 PM
Special type of jobs (MPI, SDJ, interactive jobs, ...) and information systems
Oral contribution
1.Introduction
In the 70s, the transition from batch systems to interactive computing has been the
enabling tool for the widespread diffusion of advances in IC technology. Grids are
facing the same challenge. The exponential coefficients in network performance
enable the virtualization and pooling of processors and storage; large-
scale user involvement might require seamless...
Dr
roberto santinelli
(CERN/IT/PSS)
3/2/06, 2:10 PM
The LHC experiments are currently preparing for data acquisition in 2007 and because
of the large amount of required computing and storage resources, they decided to
embrace the grid paradigm. The LHC Computing Project (LCG) provides and operates a
computing infrastructure suitable for data handling, Monte Carlo production and
analysis.
While LCG offers a set of high level services,...
Mr
Thomas Doherty
(University of Glasgow)
3/2/06, 2:20 PM
Introduction
AMI (ATLAS Metadata Interface) is a developing application, which stores and allows
access to dataset metadata for the ATLAS experiment. It is a response to the large
number of database-backed applications needed by an LHC experiment called ATLAS, all
with similar interface requirements. It fulfills the need of many applications by
offering a generic web service and servlet...
Dr
Stefano Cozzini
(CNR-INFM Democritos and ICTP)
3/2/06, 2:30 PM
Special type of jobs (MPI, SDJ, interactive jobs, ...) and information systems
Oral contribution
Computing grids are quite attractive for large scale financial applications: this
is especially evident in the segment of dynamic financial services, where
applications must complete complex tasks within strict deadlines. The traditional
response has been to over-provision for making sure there is plenty of ’headroom’
in resource availability, thereby maintaining large computational...
Francesco Giacomini
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))
3/2/06, 2:30 PM
The Workload Management System (WMS) is a collection of components
providing a service responsible for the distribution and management of
tasks across resources available on a Grid, in such a way that
applications are conveniently, efficiently and effectively executed.
The main purpose of the WMS as a whole is then to accept a request of
execution of a job from a client, find...
Dr
Birger Koblitz
(CERN-IT)
3/2/06, 2:40 PM
We present the ARDA Metadata Grid Application (AMGA) which is part of
the gLite middleware. AMGA provides a lightweight service to manage, store
and retrieve simple relational data on the grid, termed metadata.
In this presentation we will first give an overview of AMGA's design,
functionality, implementation and security features. AMGA was designed
in close collaborations with the...
Giuseppe Codispoti
(Universita di Bologna)
3/2/06, 3:00 PM
BOSS (Batch Object Submission System) has been developed in the context of the CMS
experiment to provide logging and bookkeeping and real-time monitoring of jobs
submitted to a local farm or a grid system. The information is persistently stored in
a relational database (right now MySQL or SQLite) for further processing. In this way
the information that was available in the log file in a...
Luke Dickens
(Imperial College)
3/2/06, 3:00 PM
Special type of jobs (MPI, SDJ, interactive jobs, ...) and information systems
Oral contribution
1 GRIDCC Applications and Requirements
The GRIDCC project [1], sponsored by the European Union under contract number
511381, and launched in September 2004, endeavors to integrate scientific and
general-purpose instruments within the Grid. The motivation is to exploit the Grid
opportunities for secure, collaborative work of distributed teams and to utilize
the Grid’s massive...
Alberto Falzone
(NICE srl),
Andrea Rodolico
(NICE srl)
3/2/06, 3:05 PM
EnginFrame is a Web-based innovative technology, by the Italian company Nice S.r.l.,
that enables access and exploitation of Grid-enabled applications and infrastructures.
It allows organizations to provide application oriented computing and data services
to both users (via Web browsers) and in-house or ISV applications (via SOAP/WSDL
based Web services), hiding all the complexity of the...
Mr
Jakub MOSCICKI
(CERN)
3/2/06, 3:30 PM
Special type of jobs (MPI, SDJ, interactive jobs, ...) and information systems
Oral contribution
The major GRID infastructures are designed mainly for batch-oriented
computing with coarse-grained jobs and relatively high job turnaround
time. However many practical applications in natural and physical
sciences may be easily parallelized and run as a set of smaller tasks
which require little or no synchronization and which may be scheduled in
a more efficient way. The Distributed...
Mr
Sergio Andreozzi
(INFN-CNAF)
3/2/06, 3:35 PM
Grid computing is concerned with the virtualization, integration and
management of services and resources in a distributed, heterogeneous
environment that supports collections of users and resources across
traditional administrative and organizational domains.
One aspect of particular importance is Grid monitoring, that is the
activity of measuring significant Grid resource-related...
Mr
Rafael Garcia Leiva
(Adago Ingenieria)
3/2/06, 4:30 PM
Special type of jobs (MPI, SDJ, interactive jobs, ...) and information systems
Oral contribution
With the fast growth of the video games and entertainment industry - thanks to the
appearance of new games, new technologies and innovative hardware devices - the
capacity to react becomes critical for competing in the market of services and
entertainment. Therefore it is necessary to be able to count on advanced middleware
solutions and technological platforms that allow a fast unfolding...
Ladislav Hluchy
(Institute of Informatics, Slovakia)
3/2/06, 4:30 PM
We present an IST project of the 6th Framework Programme, aimed towards intelligent
grid middleware and workflow construction. The project's acronym K-Wf Grid stands
for “Knowledge-based Workflow System for Grid Applications”. The project itself
employs ontologies, artificial reasoning, Petri nets and modern service-oriented
architectures in order to simplify the use of grid...
Mr
Gergely Sipos
(MTA SZTAKI)
3/2/06, 4:35 PM
Grid environments require special grid-enabled applications capable of utilising
the underlying middleware services and infrastructures. Most Grid projects so far
have either developed new applications from scratch, or significantly re-engineered
existing ones in order to be run on their platforms. This practice is appropriate
only in the context where the applications are mainly aimed...
Dr
Steve Fisher
(RAL)
3/2/06, 5:00 PM
Special type of jobs (MPI, SDJ, interactive jobs, ...) and information systems
Oral contribution
The Relational Grid Monitoring Architecture (R-GMA) provides a uniform method to
access and publish both information and monitoring data. It has been designed to be
easy for individuals to publish and retrieve data. It provides information about the
grid, mainly for the middleware packages, and information about grid applications for
users. From a user's perspective, an R-GMA...
Dr
Jean-Pierre Prost
(IBM Montpellier)
3/2/06, 5:30 PM
"Workload virtualization is made of several disciplines: job/workflow scheduling,
workload management, and provisioning. Much work has been spent so far on these
various components in isolation. A better synergistic integration of these
components allowing their interoperability towards an optimized resource allocation
in order to satisfy user specified service level objectives is...
Dr
Soha Maad
(Trinity College Dublin)
3/2/06, 5:30 PM
This paper discusses the concept of universal accessibility [1, 2] to the grid within
the context of selected application domains involving social interaction such as
e-hospital, collaborative engineering, enterprise, e-government, and the media. Based
on this discussion the paper proposes a metagrid infrastructure [3] as an approach to
provide universal accessibility to the...
Mr
Dmitry Mishin
(Institute of Physics of the Earth Russian Acad. Sci.), Dr
Mikhail Zhizhin
(Geophysical Center Russian Acad. Sci.)
3/2/06, 5:40 PM
SPIDR (Space Physics Interactive Data Resource) is a de facto standard data source on
solar-terrestrial physics, functioning within the framework of the ICSU World Data
Centers. It is a distributed database and application server network, built to
select, visualize and model historical space weather data distributed across the
Internet. SPIDR can work as a fully-functional web-application...
Mr
Lukasz Skital
(ACC Cyfronet AGH / University of Science and Technology)
3/2/06, 5:45 PM
Introduction
Contemporary grid environment achieved high level of maturity. With still
increasing number of various available resources, their optimal exploitation
becomes a significant problem. One of solutions to the problem are Virtual
Organizations (VO), which groups users and resources to solve a particular
problem or a set of problems. Each problem has its own specific...
Dr
Tony Calanducci
(INFN Catania)
3/2/06, 6:00 PM
Nowadays huge amounts of information are searched and used by people from all over
the world, but it is not always easy to find out what one is looking for. Search
engines helps a lot, but they do not provide a standard and uniform way to make
queries.
The challenge of gLibrary is to design and develop a robust system to handle
Multimedia Contents in a easy, fast and secure way...
3/2/06, 6:20 PM
Discussion on application data management
Harald Kornmayer
(Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe)
3/3/06, 9:00 AM
Prof.
Dieter Kranzlmueller
(Linz University and CERN)
3/3/06, 12:00 PM
Europe has invested heavily in developing Grid technology and
infrastructures during the past years, with some impressive results. The EU
EGEE Project (www.eu-egee.org), which provides a coordinating framework for
national, regional and thematic Grids, has proved a vital catalyst and
incubator for the success of establishing a working, large-scale,
multi-science production Grid...
Dr
Toan Nguyen
(INRIA)
VO management - Portals
Oral contribution
VEGA
Virtual Environments for Grid Applications
Toan Nguyen, Lizhe Wang
INRIA Rhône-Alpes
Toan.Nguyen@inrialpes.fr
+33 476 61 52 40
The widespread dissemination of grid technology during the last decade has opened
new expectations from both the technological and the applications perspectives. The
well-known “technology push” and “application pull” paradigm reflects precisely the...
