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Application for Health, from Biomedical Data Acquisition to its Integration and use in Grids.
In highlight of the newly published SHARE Roadmap, the aim of this 3rd edition of our 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 health care. More particularly, participants will be able to compare their respective approaches for addressing healthgrid challenges, and to initiate new collaborations and convergence in the community.
Thus, a panel of experts will be invited to give a short presentation of their work, related to 3 major topics of interest, ranging from biomedical data acquisition/integration, to end-user applications gridification, to grid middleware related requirements.
The second part of the workshop will aim to engage discussions around emerging topics in the community, and in particular will attempt to address the milestones defined in the SHARE roadmap. For this purpose, a set of panelists will express their opinions, and ultimately addressing additional questions/topics raised in the audience.
The proposed topics are:
- Identifying ways forward in Europe for the convergence toward a community healthgrid platform and infrastructure,
- Security and privacy in healthgrids, Common practices in European projects. Emergence of an healthgrid European regulation.
- Medical data integration and exploitation in grids. European Technologies and their Integration in the Grid.
This session is aimed at all users and managers of EGEE resources.
Members of collaborating grid projects are also encouraged to attend. We
will describe the work of the Joint Security Policy Group (JSPG) and the
Grid Security Vulnerability Group (GSVG). JSPG defines security policies
for EGEE, WLCG and several other Grids aimed at establishing trust
between the various parties. GSVG handles security middleware
vulnerabilities and works with others to resolve these thereby providing
increased security and sustainability of the deployed infrastructure.
This session focuses on trends in distributed computing as we move towards new frontiers.
EGEE will outline its business programme, showcase current achievements and chart the course to face the new challenges ahead.
This opening session to the Business Track provides an analyst perspective around the market place for Grids, Cloud Computing and future computing platforms, including analysis of key commercial pressures and their likely impact.
The programme is complimented by an example of knowledge exchange between industry and research with a case study on a grid-enabled distributed signal search system. Imense, a UK-based SME, presents a use case illustrating how grid access can level the playing field for new companies wishing to demonstrate internet scale technology.
Meeting of COD-on-Duty teams who operate the daily monitoring of the EGEE/LCG grid, where latest enhancements in procedures and tools are widespread in plenary sessions. Other improvements in procedures and tools are discussed and planned in dedicated thematic working groups.
During this meeting , feedback from the operator teams for further work enhancement will be gathered. Also, practical training could be scheduled according to the expressed needs.
Permanent guests: TCG sites representatives, developpers from monitoring tools as well as GGUS, GOCDB3 and ENOC.
Agenda and further information is available at http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=40252
The EGI Design Study (EGI_DS) project is preparing the Blueprint for the future European Grid Initiative Organization (EGI.org). The EU e- Infrastructure projects have provided input to this Blueprint and for example within EGEE-III the transition to the future EGI model (EGI.org + NGIs) is part of the project plans.
In this session the Blueprint and especially the transition to the EGI model will be presented in detail. The grid community will be given an opportunity to learn and comment about the EGI Blueprint.
The session is in the form of a workshop where input from all participants will be encouraged. It includes presentations from EGEE-III and DEISA and a panel with representation from selected e-Infrastructure projects. The objective of the session is primarily to harmonize the effort within EU e-Infrastructure projects with the findings of the EGI Design Study and the policies endorsed by the National Grid Initiatives towards a sustainable European grid infrastructure.
Application for Health, from Biomedical Data Acquisition to its Integration and use in Grids.
In highlight of the newly published SHARE Roadmap, the aim of this 3rd edition of our 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 health care. More particularly, participants will be able to compare their respective approaches for addressing healthgrid challenges, and to initiate new collaborations and convergence in the community.
Thus, a panel of experts will be invited to give a short presentation of their work, related to 3 major topics of interest, ranging from biomedical data acquisition/integration, to end-user applications gridification, to grid middleware related requirements.
The second part of the workshop will aim to engage discussions around emerging topics in the community, and in particular will attempt to address the milestones defined in the SHARE roadmap. For this purpose, a set of panelists will express their opinions, and ultimately addressing additional questions/topics raised in the audience.
The proposed topics are:
- Identifying ways forward in Europe for the convergence toward a community healthgrid platform and infrastructure.
- Security and privacy in healthgrids, Common practices in European projects. Emergence of an healthgrid European regulation.
- Medical data integration and exploitation in grids. European Technologies and their Integration in the Grid.
This session is all about the sea-change surrounding cloud computing, investigating the benefits and challenges related to this emerging technology. Talks look at how cloud fits into the big picture and what cloud and grids can teach each other. One of the talks centres on EGEE’s investigation into clouds and grids with a comparison between lowest common denominator components and higher-level services.
Following this theme, we will see how by being able to dynamically scale computation and storage power and paying only for what it used will change the marketplace as we know it. IGT, who will be holding the World Summit of Cloud Computing in Dec, offers an inside look at scientific and technical computing, into a business-innovating technology that is driving increased commercial adoption.
A new EGEE Business Associate and STFC spin-out, Constellation Technologies, provides a cloud computing service to businesses using EGEE’s gLite. The talk will show how its SuperCloud infrastructure allows users to access different re source providers to offer higher-level services, as well as a global marketplace for various service providers, such as media, finance, and engineering.
Training opportunities will also be presented for any company that wishes to get a hands-on experience using this technology.
Discussions do not stop here as the next session continues with the future direction of virtualization, including clouds.
Meeting of COD-on-Duty teams who operate the daily monitoring of the EGEE/LCG grid, where latest enhancements in procedures and tools are widespread in plenary sessions. Other improvements in procedures and tools are discussed and planned in dedicated thematic working groups.
During this meeting , feedback from the operator teams for further work enhancement will be gathered. Also, practical training could be scheduled according to the expressed needs.
Permanent guests: TCG sites representatives, developpers from monitoring tools as well as GGUS, GOCDB3 and ENOC.
Agenda and further information is available at http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=40252
The EGI Design Study (EGI_DS) project is preparing the Blueprint for the future European Grid Initiative Organization (EGI.org). The EU e- Infrastructure projects have provided input to this Blueprint and for example within EGEE-III the transition to the future EGI model (EGI.org + NGIs) is part of the project plans.
In this session the Blueprint and especially the transition to the EGI model will be presented in detail. The grid community will be given an opportunity to learn and comment about the EGI Blueprint.
The session is in the form of a workshop where input from all participants will be encouraged. It includes presentations from EGEE-III and DEISA and a panel with representation from selected e-Infrastructure projects. The objective of the session is primarily to harmonize the effort within EU e-Infrastructure projects with the findings of the EGI Design Study and the policies endorsed by the National Grid Initiatives towards a sustainable European grid infrastructure.
The GOCDB Advisory Group meet to discuss recent progress, bugs and requests for development of the GOCDB. It will also discuss release schedules including GOCDB4.
This session explores the benefits to be gained from the shift from high-cost mainframes to low-cost virtualisation from both a developer's and use case perspective.
EGEE Business Associate, Avanade, offers insight into the company’s Virtualised Grid Technology, which adopts Virtualisation as a means to provide more configurable, dynamic, secure and cost-effective Grid Computing solutions.
The new FP7 project, RESERVIOR, will showcase current commercial efforts in the Cloud world, the benefits that Cloud Computing can offer today and look down the road to see what will really be required from Cloud as the ICT world moves to Web 2.0 and beyond. This includes the vision and objectives of the project, which aims to create the infrastructure for the next generation cloud.
The COMETA Consortium shows the Grid services developed to ease the adoption of the Grid paradigm by industry. A sample of industrial applications currently supported on the Sicilian e-Infrastructure managed by COMETA will also be presented. The talk demonstrates, through real use cases, how gLite can be extended to satisfy the stringent requirements that come from the commercial sector.
Outsourcing applications continues with HIP-TEK highlighting tools for Server Based Computing used with Xen virtual machine managers for Virtual Desktop Infrastructures showcasing as well a major "Green" effect.
Current focus of computational chemistry far exceeded traditional interest of studying properties of small molecules. These days numerous applications of computational chemistry methods are applied to study properties of new materials and help in their design. These studies would not be possible without Grid computational platform. The availability of chemical software on the Grid made it very attractive for the community members. However, most of them is accustomed to GUIs and found the grid interface difficult to use. Therefore the aim of this session is to fill the gap between users needs concerning grid interface and current status of tools and services easing execution of numerical experiments and their planning.
The EGI Policy Board (PB) meeting is a closed event for the National Grid Initiative (NGI) representatives. The meeting is chaired by EGI Policy Board Chairman Gaspar Barreira (LIP).
The EGI Policy Board consists of representatives from the National Grid Initiatives and observers from other infrastructure projects, such as DEISA, EGEE, GÉANT and PRACE. The PB is a formal forum for the NGIs to provide guidance to the EGI Design Study. This Board and the involvement of the NGIs are essential for the project, since the EGI organization, must be established and governed by the NGIs.
Traditionally, applications run on large-scale grid infrastructures like EGEE have been loosely coupled, i.e. single jobs or sets of jobs with no need to communicate. This model is sometimes referred to as "capacity" or "high-throughput" computing. In contrast, high-performance computing (HPC) applications typically involve much communication between sub-tasks, and benefit greatly from specialised low-latency interconnects. In this session we will focus on bridging the gap between these two models.
An internal meeting of the Operations Automation Group with the EGEE SA1 Activity.
Review of Minutes
Report from COD meetings + GOCDB advisory meeting - issues for OAT...
Security for Sites - with Security team
MSA1.3 - Metrics
SLA Portal - what's different from MSA1.3 ?
This session aims to outline the current plans for future provision of user training provided within the EGEE project, thereby providing a platform for discussion concerning the future of Grid training beyond EGEE-III.
The main purpose of this session is to check the status of the astrophysical cluster with particular emphasis on: a) level of interactivity within the cluster; b) status of the application porting activity; c) issues met during the application gridification process; d) tools and services used during the gridification process; e) requested tools and services still missing. One or two presentations could be accomodated reporting the progress for the most advanced and mature gridification activities. The main purpose of the session however is to stimulate an open discussion on the above listed topics. To make the discussion as productive as possible people of other disciplinary clusters and of some EGEE-III activity teams (especially people operating in NA3 and NA4) might be invited to attend the AA session.
The session is dedicated to general issues relevant to the activities of the Life Sciences cluster.
The forthcoming Biomed Grid Summer school to take place in Varenna in May 2009 will be presented and discussed as well as the results of a survey distributed through the french research communities in life sciences and medical research.
The meeting will also be the opportunity to further discuss how to foster grid adoption by ESFRI infrastructures in the biomedical area and more specifically to establish a discussion with the EGI User Support Task Force
Modelling and Simulation is an area with much potential for distributed computing, bringing benefits across a range of commercial sectors. The session aims to show how grids are being used to enhance in real-time simulations from both European and international perspectives.
CGGVeritas showcases their solution to execute Geocluster on a grid environment. Geocluster is CGGVeritas' software platform for seismic data processing and imaging providing geophysicists with easy access to the latest seismic processing technology and a powerful parallel-processing environment designed to handle large data volumes.
The session describes the capabilities of the PBS Gridworks suite of tools and how it can be used in a production environment. Integration with vertical applications and interfaces to external services will also be discussed. A transportation supply-chain exploiting Grid services to optimize both the delivery and cost of each customer order is also described. This talk aims to illustrate a secure environment for the transportation supply chain by identifying its security issues and presenting security components that help to solve these issues.
EU-IndiaGrid showcase a grid-enabled tool, BEmuse (Bias-Exchange Metadynamics Submission Environment), and explain how it is ready to tackle key challenges in drug design, highlighting the benefits of this tool for companies involved in computational Biology.
Also, a talk from HP introduces a transportation supply-chain that exploits Grid services for optimizing both the delivery and cost of each customer order. The proposed case study focuses on an auction-based model to select transporters for given transportation tasks in a generic supply chain.
Meeting of COD-on-Duty teams who operate the daily monitoring of the EGEE/LCG grid, where latest enhancements in procedures and tools are widespread in plenary sessions. Other improvements in procedures and tools are discussed and planned in dedicated thematic working groups.
During this meeting , feedback from the operator teams for further work enhancement will be gathered. Also, practical training could be scheduled according to the expressed needs.
Permanent guests: TCG sites representatives, developpers from monitoring tools as well as GGUS, GOCDB3 and ENOC.
Agenda and further information is available at http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=40252
During this session the HEP cluster would like to invite representative of all scientific clusters of EGEE to share experiences and establish future and active collaborations. The session will share with the rest of the cluster representatives the experiences gained at CERN towards the gridification of both HEP and non_HEP applications using tools developed by HEP. The combination of all these tools has enabled the creation of a framework general enough for any kind of application. A general panel discussion is also foreseen in this session to share experiences and to collect requirements from all the EGEE clusters
This meeting addresses software developers, site administrators and security personnel. It aims to give security
recommendations and present good security practices to the audience, including software development, deployment
and operations with a specific emphasis on grid middleware. It also presents security policies and procedures all
grid participants are bound to. In addition, it fosters the exchange between developers and site administrators.
Closed session to track progress in the SA1 activity with ROC managers
and task responsibles
The Bioinformatics domain studies genes, proteins, and all components of living organisms. These include enabling system biology on grid, oncology study at the molecular level, genome wide association studies of human complex diseases, binding of protein and DNA in the cell nucleus, complete genome comparison, as well as portals or web services that enable grid access for users in areas such as protein sequence or genome level analysis. Several bioinformatics applications are now established as regular users of the grid infrastructure, and we are collaborating with related projects to port a broad spectrum of applications to the EGEE grid. The main goal is to build a bioinformatics community of scientists using the grid and to provide them with common biological databases and tools on the EGEE platform
This session focuses on key issues bound up with the future development and deployment of grids, with particular reference to new business models, best practices, and interoperability to ensure standardization and a level-playing field for all companies.
The GridEcon project designs the technology needed to create an efficient European grid market for trading computing resources. It will also provide the foundation for a series of value-added services that ensure quality for future Grid users over time. The talk demonstrates the advantages of the GridEcon marketplace, including benefits for SMEs, the backbone of the EU economy.
The iSURF Project focuses on ISU services that facilitate real-time information sharing and collaboration between enterprises by providing semantic support for electronic business document interoperability. Specifications are being developed through the OASIS Semantic Support for Electronic Business Document Interoperability (SET) TC with the aim of standardizing the semantic descriptions.
Business Grid promises the wide adoption of economic valuable Grid services, but business components involve more stringent requirements in terms of security, confidentiality, trust, guarantees etc. In this talk, the S-Sicilia project, a 2-year collaboration between Oracle and the COMETA consortium, presents aims for a Grid-based business infrastructure to provide business services with guaranteed QoS for SME companies.
Platform offers how innovative and intelligent use of current Grid technology enables datacenters to optimize their energy consumption by slightly modified scheduling policies. By scheduling workload respective to the application's energy-profile, spatial and temporal heat distribution is controlled. Without reducing the capabilities of the datacenter, this results in direct cost reductions as well as minimization of power related operational risk. A practical implementation plan and ROI calculation is presented.
The session is jointly coordinated by the BELIEF-II and the EELA2 Projects.
The workshop has been designed with the double aim of (i) gathering together the stakeholders and the users of the projects funded by the recent e-Infrastructures FP7 calls and (ii) discuss common policies and sustainability models to bring world-wide research communities to the existing e-Infrastructures and support them in order to foster scientific collaboration. Formal agreements such as Memoranda of Understanding among the projects will also be discussed and explored.
Invited Projects: BalticGrid-II, D4Science, DORII, EDGeS, EGEE-III, e-NMR, EUAsiaGrid, EUChinaGRID, EUFORIA, EU-IndiaGrid, EUMEDGRID, EURO-VO, EVALSO, GENESI-DR, GLOBAL, METAFOR, neuGRID, SEE-GRID-SCI, DEISA2, DRIVER2, 6CHOICE, 6DEPLOY, Health-e-Child
Programme:
• Sustainability models - Roberto Barbera, EELA2 - INFN Catania, Italy
• e-Infrastructures Policies - Stephen Benians, BELIEF-II - Metaware, Italy
• Interactive open discussion
• Wrap up
Rapporteur: Stephen Benians
The goal of this session is to present and discuss a use of the Grid which is fully individual user oriented; namely data analysis, where non scheduled analysis from many users (with different levels of Grid knowledge) are foreseen. This has common points with many other applications and the scope of the presentations will be to show the procedures followed in HEP for the 4 LHC experiments; each with different computing models, different Grid implementations and different analysis procedures. The procedures followed by these demanding applications will highlight the most important aspects of the analysis, which are applicable to any other Grid community
This session will report on the current work and the future plan of the SA2 related to the IPv6 compliance of gLite in collaboration with JRA1 and ETICS. Results of IPv6 compliance studies of specific packages and libraries will be also reported. A discussion between the main actors in IPv6 process (JRA1, SA3, ETICS, SA2) will conclude the session.
This meeting addresses software developers, site administrators and security personnel. It aims to give security
recommendations and present good security practices to the audience, including software development, deployment
and operations with a specific emphasis on grid middleware. It also presents security policies and procedures all
grid participants are bound to. In addition, it fosters the exchange between developers and site administrators.
Closed session to track progress in the SA1 activity with ROC managers
and task responsibles
Interactive round-table discussion will allow session chairs to give a short overview of each session and hold a question and answer session leading to a summary on the opportunities for Grid adoption, top-level challenges, recommendations on next steps and feedback on best solutions to barriers. This session also encompasses an opportunity to present and discuss the industrial aspects of the EGI blueprint in order to provide feedback and discuss how the points raised and general ideas and issues can be fed into the overall blueprint.
First we will have a wide overview of the network activity within EGEE-III - SA2 – which encompasses a broad area of interesting subjects around networks and Grid.
Then this session will focus on two key areas of work currently being carried out by the SA2 activity:
Advances around network trouble tickets exchange and standardisation will be presented. This is a key topic for the EGEE project using more than forty network providers and needing to exchange with them.
Next, advanced network services being studied within EGEE-III will be detailed. Particularly their monitoring and some automation mechanisms that could be of real interest for the EGEE project.
This meeting addresses site security contacts, site administrators and software developers. It aims to present
the main operational security activities, including the objectives and priorities for EGEE-III.
In this session we will present and discuss how HEP has managed and executed the (by far) largest stress test of any Grid infrastructure(s) to a production level using the largest user community in EGEE: HEP. This has been a very successful exercise and the lessons learned are a very good guide for those communities in EGEE (and beyond - collaborating Grids) needing to stress the Grid infrastructure to a production level. We will share the experiences and procedures of the 4 LHC experiments and also we will provide a general description of the protocols defined in operations, DB and services management, middleware creation and support, to ensure a successful CCRC exercise.
Since CCRC'08 formally ended [post-mortem workshop], many changes have taken place and the experiments have continued their activities at a significant scale. In addition, CERN has now announced the startup schedule for the LHC machine. Finally, planning for data taking and production in 2009 needs to start. All of these issues will be discussed, leading to a roadmap for the short to medium term.
The session will therefore be divided into three topics:
A summary report will be produced and attached to this page.
A monitoring system enables grid site administrators to track usage of site resources and receive alarms in case of failure of services. As such it is essential for achieving better availability and reliability of large scale grid infrastructure.
A site-level grid services monitoring prototype based on the Nagios fabric monitoring system was developed within the EGEE-II project. Development of the system is continued within the Operations Automation Team in the EGEE-III project. The prototype enables sites to receive instant notification in case of host and service failures, and provides them with results from global monitoring systems such as SAM and the ENOC DownCollector.
Main aim of this session is to give overview of the Nagios based site-level monitoring prototype and demonstrate installation on a live grid site. The first part consists of presentations describing general Nagios monitoring framework and specific components of developed site-level monitoring prototype. In the second part practical installation of site-level monitoring prototype will be demonstrated.
A lot of effort is spent today in projects that develop and maintain e-Infrastructures by federating resources created by to serve specific scientific communities. These e-Infrastructures are usually sustained by leading organizations operating in the same specific scientific domain. These define the policies on the data, select and implement the functionality serving the community needs, guarantee the quality of the service and its overall sustainability. Over the time, these e-Infrastructures become the reference points for what is produced or exploited by the community. Despite the progresses that this federation model offers with respect to ad-hoc solutions, there is growing evidence that the requirements raised by many global research challenges are not always satisfied within the boundaries of a single e-Infrastructure, regardless of how wide in geographical scale and large in aggregate capacity this may prove to be. Rather, the expectation is that in order to face these challenges scientists need to span across multiple infrastructures as they involve resources from different institutions, disciplines, and countries.
This session aims at discussing whether the current e-Infrastructures model can be enhanced towards a more ambitious model based on a network of independent e-Infrastructures, that although independent, over time are be able to co-evolve and collaborate like the components of an eco-system.
The session will be opened by the presentation of two scientific scenarios that will exemplify how much advanced research endeavors need sharing of knowledge and research products generated in different domains. Then, the session will continue with a number of presentations dedicated to describe how current e-Infrastructures contribute today to address the needs experimented in scientific scenarios similar to the presented ones. Finally, the session will be closed by a panel that will focus on discussing whether and under which conditions an "e-Infrastructure ecosystem" can be constructed and to what extent it represents the appropriate solution for enabling the construction of better environments for supporting scientific processes.
This 2nd session from the EGEE User Training and Induction activity presents some of the tools currently available to assist EGEE trainers and new users, and how they may evolve to meet the scalability needs in the future.
Joint SA1/SA3/JRA1 session examining the current gLite release and rollout process. Possible topics include release delivery (packaging, source, repositories, documentation...), the PPS service and middleware validation, rollout strategies and monitoring, mutliplatform support.
This meeting addresses site security contacts, site administrators and software developers. It aims to present
the main operational security activities, including the objectives and priorities for EGEE III.
The goal of this session is to present and discuss the monitoring infrastructure applied to HEP applications. One of the tasks included in the NA4-HEP cluster concerns the expansion of Dashboard monitoring to other communities., This session will however concentrate on all the monitoring tools used in HEP, and how they have assisted the experiments and the Grid team during the CCRC`08 exercise.
A monitoring system enables grid site administrators to track usage of site resources and receive alarms in case of failure of services. As such it is essential for achieving better availability and reliability of large scale grid infrastructure.
A site-level grid services monitoring prototype based on the Nagios fabric monitoring system was developed within the EGEE-II project. Development of the system is continued within the Operations Automation Team in the EGEE-III project. The prototype enables sites to receive instant notification in case of host and service failures, and provides them with results from global monitoring systems such as SAM and the ENOC DownCollector.
Main aim of this session is to give overview of the Nagios based site-level monitoring prototype and demonstrate installation on a live grid site. The first part consists of presentations describing general Nagios monitoring framework and specific components of developed site-level monitoring prototype. In the second part practical installation of site-level monitoring prototype will be demonstrated.
A lot of effort is spent today in projects that develop and maintain e-Infrastructures by federating resources created by to serve specific scientific communities. These e-Infrastructures are usually sustained by leading organizations operating in the same specific scientific domain. These define the policies on the data, select and implement the functionality serving the community needs, guarantee the quality of the service and its overall sustainability. Over the time, these e-Infrastructures become the reference points for what is produced or exploited by the community. Despite the progresses that this federation model offers with respect to ad-hoc solutions, there is growing evidence that the requirements raised by many global research challenges are not always satisfied within the boundaries of a single e-Infrastructure, regardless of how wide in geographical scale and large in aggregate capacity this may prove to be. Rather, the expectation is that in order to face these challenges scientists need to span across multiple infrastructures as they involve resources from different institutions, disciplines, and countries.
This session aims at discussing whether the current e-Infrastructures model can be enhanced towards a more ambitious model based on a network of independent e-Infrastructures, that although independent, over time are be able to co-evolve and collaborate like the components of an eco-system.
The session will be opened by the presentation of two scientific scenarios that will exemplify how much advanced research endeavors need sharing of knowledge and research products generated in different domains. Then, the session will continue with a number of presentations dedicated to describe how current e-Infrastructures contribute today to address the needs experimented in scientific scenarios similar to the presented ones. Finally, the session will be closed by a panel that will focus on discussing whether and under which conditions an "e-Infrastructure ecosystem" can be constructed and to what extent it represents the appropriate solution for enabling the construction of better environments for supporting scientific processes.
In this session, we will first present a network troubleshooting tools in order to facilitate and speed up network problem solving for EGEE clients ; A presentation of DANTE on "GEANT and the grid" will precede the Technical Network Liaison Committee meeting. the TNLC discussion will focus on ticket trouble standardization, assessment of the impact on the grid of a trouble ticket, SLA, AMPS, monitoring tools and also on what the network providers expect from the Grid.
This session is dedicated to forthcoming developments in the gLite distribution, including new services and interoperability issues.
It will be a panel discussion with partner & Work Package reports; and a workshop where we present the results and status update of EUAsiaGrid project after 6 months from its start. Launched in April 2008, EUAsiaGrid (http://www.euasiagrid.org/) is acting as a coordination action, aiming to define and implement a policy to promote EGEE middleware across Asia-Pacific countries and improve regional and cross-project collaborations.
Spreading dissemination, providing training, supporting scientific applications and monitoring the results are the missions of EUAsiaGrid project. We target people from different WP in EGEE, and in particular from NA4 to share our experience of dissemination and training in Asia. Furthermore we intend to attract people interested in extending their scientific activities in the Asia-Pacific region.
The session will also be an occasion to address any issue about cooperation with EGEE and the other Grid related projects in the region
This session focuses on the gLite build and test programme, looking at the current status, opportunities and plans for improvement, and multiplatform support. The session is shared with the ETICS project which provides a framework for much of the above.
http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=40639
Password available for CB members and Observers on request by sending an email to the Project Office.
All site managers, users and regional delegates interested in the evolution of the PPS for EGEEIII are welcome to attend the PPS all-sites meeting.
Three are the general objectives of this meeting:
The process discussed in this session is one of the core processes in grids. The principal goal of the process is to make a VO know resources (including quality of service) that are foreseen to be allocated for usage and make a resource planning on sites possible. The possible results of this process could be in form of an agreement (SLD) between a site and a VO that should be easy to set-up and traceable.
The session itself will start with an overview of the current EGEE process and focus on requirements to the process both from VOs and from sites. Additionally, specific solution from one of ROC will be presented. The discussion that is planned at the end of the session should give an initial input for Resource Allocation Group to propose improvements towards a scalable process of resources allocation for grid infrastructure in the future that would be applicable both to VOs and to sites of different characteristics. All people that would like to influence the future solution on this field, especially site managers, VO managers and NGI representatives are welcomed.
The session is an exchange between EGEE and network providers (GEANT, NRENs); the topics that will be discussed focus on ticket trouble standardization, assessment of the impact on the grid of a trouble ticket, SLA, AMPS, Monitoring tools and also on what the network providers expect from the Grid
Science is the main goal of the EGEE Grid Project, and goals are to run scientific applications on the grid to overtake the current hardware limitations. But before running the scientific applications at a large scale, the first challenge is to port them to the grid, and provide simple access to these grid-enabled applications. At this step, users are looking for standards; standards for the interaction with the grid itself, but also for running complex applications involving for example large bulk jobs or chained-jobs into workflows. Consequently, users seek various mechanisms to shield them from service API or CLI changes and to allow them to use the maximum number of resources. In this way, users are looking for high level interface such as portals to interact to the Grid, but although standard application programming interface (APIs) or Web Services at the programatic level.
Many communities habitually work through web portals or have other mechanisms for easy access to computing or data resources. And portals will certainly be the best way to provide an easier grid-access to the larger par of the scientific communities. There are several different portal implementations available and working with gLite. The same people will want to deploy also customized portals and it is important that the various EGEE policies are respected when deploying such services. In this way, the EGEE PORTAL working group, for example, aims to propose "best-practice" rules for the access of portals to the grid. That means for example that the portal should be able to store data and run job on the grid by delegation of real users, or with its own credentials as a service virtual user.
Building scientific applications on the grid are most ot time implying complex workflow of different services and software. These workflows permit the integration and the re-use of different existing or new scientific codes and services, to provide new results. But there are complex to built on the grid and to interface with the different components and services. For this way of accessing the grid, developpers are also looking for standard APIs in a tightly-coupled application, or Web services in a weakly-coupled or distributed application.
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.
The session will be divided in two parts. The first one, presentation panel, includes presentations from all the 4 mentioned projects collaborating with EGEE-III. All of them are based on gLite as the core middleware and providing added value in terms of additional software components and procedures of user and application support. The main subjects of the presentations are following:
- How to support users and applications
- How the projects and its application are using gLite middleware
- What kind of functionality are missing, what kind of changes are required (feedback to gLite).
The presentation panel will give an input of all the mentioned issues.
The second part of the session, discussion panel, is aiming to exchange knowledge and probably find additional and better ways of supporting applications. Another aim is to give a feedback to EGEE developers for those features which are of key importance for specific scientific communities supported by BalticGrid-II, DORII, Euforia or g-Eclipse.
It will be a panel discussion with partner & Work Package reports; and a workshop where we present the results and status update of EUAsiaGrid project after 6 months from its start. Launched in April 2008, EUAsiaGrid (http://www.euasiagrid.org/) is acting as a coordination action, aiming to define and implement a policy to promote EGEE middleware across Asia-Pacific countries and improve regional and cross-project collaborations.
Spreading dissemination, providing training, supporting scientific applications and monitoring the results are the missions of EUAsiaGrid project. We target people from different WP in EGEE, and in particular from NA4 to share our experience of dissemination and training in Asia. Furthermore we intend to attract people interested in extending their scientific activities in the Asia-Pacific region.
The session will also be an occasion to address any issue about cooperation with EGEE and the other Grid related projects in the region
This is the main session for the EGEE operations
activity. The different SA1 areas will present their progress and
discuss future plans. This include Operations Service Level Agreements,
the Pre-Production service, Operations Tools, Interoperations with other
grid Infrastructures, system management tools, etc.
The Grid Observatory cluster collects, publishes and analyses data on the behaviour of the EGEE grid. These data are of immediate interest for researchers in both the grid and machine learning areas. The session will present the first version of the Grid Observatory portal, and stimulate discussion on the required extensions and improvements. The goal of the Grid Observatory is to develop a scientific view of the dynamics of grid behaviour and usage. Recent results on the characterization of the grid load and reliability will be presented.
Finally, the Grid Observatory aims at being part of the cross-fertilization between the EGEE project and computer science research, for which the presentation of the Grid Workload Archive project will be an opportunity.
The Grid Observatory portal will open autumn 2008 at:
www.grid-observatory.org .
For further information on the Grid Observatory, or to participate, contact contact@grid-observatory.org.
This session will summarize the current activity in the medical imaging and the drug discovery application sectors inside EGEE-III. Infrastructure usage and services used will be discussed.
This session is focused on discussions about scheduling issues and strategies, pilot job frameworks and high-level workload management systems.
The User Support Advisory Group meets monthly (by telephone) to examine and consolidate requirements from all relevant parties related to the future of Global Grid User Support (GGUS).
The EGEE'08 conference is an opportunity for a face2face interaction between GGUS developers', Operations Coordination Centre (OCC), NA4, VOs, ROCs and Sites' experts.
The GGUS Assessment milestone,
The after-math of GGUS 7.0 Release, especially direct routing of ALARM and special TEAM tickets to Sites,
The next steps of the GGUS Plan in EGEE III (new functionality enhancement or new development?),
will be discussed.
Detailed agenda in :
http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=41255
This is the main session for the EGEE operations
activity. The different SA1 areas will present their progress and
discuss future plans. This include Operations Service Level Agreements,
the Pre-Production service, Operations Tools, Interoperations with other
grid Infrastructures, system management tools, etc.
This session is devoted to the Earth Science community on EGEEIII in order to harmonize the efforts of all application partners, especially those in climate and seismology, in the framework of the ES cluster. Other ES applications and issues will be briefly presented .
Three main research lines are being developed by fusion cluster. The first one is a continuation of the first phase and consists of porting fusion applications to the grid, while the second and the third ones, devoted to grid-based data management and to complex workflows establishment, are new lines. A discussion will be established to fix the priorities of application porting, to define the suitable scheme for data mining and to define complex workflows.
Several applications have been previously ported and are now in production phase, showing the grid computing capacity as a tool for solving fusion theory problems. Fusion data management and mining is presently based on local databases, despite of the fact that many devices are exploited on collaborative basis and many results are obtained using multimachine data. Grid-based data management appears as a promising research line for fusion data exploitation, but no experience exists on this field for the moment. A specific goal must be established as a proof of concept that can show that the grid can be indeed useful for this activity. Finally, the complexity of fusion problems requires the interaction between applications, and the output of some calculations can be the input of a given application. Complex workflows must be established between grid applications and the techniques to be used must be discussed.
The applications that are running in the grid have produced relevant scientific results that have been published in specialised journals and have shown to the fusion community that grid techniques are indeed useful for solving plasma research problems. The more applications successfully ported the more impact on the community, so the list of applications to be ported must be increased. Especially important is to enhance the relations with EUFORIA project. An important line of the latter is establishing complex workflows among grid and HPC applications. Data management is a potential field where grid technologies can show their capabilities in sharing data among research groups and in establishing multimachine results.
We will have three presentations and discussion sessions on the three main research lines described above. Especially important is to define the specific pilot task on data management to be developed by grid techniques. An instance is to use data from two or three devices to establish a multimachine scaling law. Finally, a discussion will be established on the appropriated applications to be linked by workflows, considering their scientific relevance.
In this session we will try to understand how new mechanisms for resource providing and the current Grid infrastructure can coexist and profit from each other.
Sometimes the easiest way to write about your science is to get someone else to do it for you. Journalists work within the media every day and have numerous option for stories to report on from politics, sport, entertainment and more . How does science compete in this arena? What are the priorities of the journalists and editors making decisions about the newsworthiness of a particular story? How do you make your science attractive to the reporter and the public?
This session will feature a journalist from The Economist newspaper with experience in putting science in the spotlight along with members of the EGEE collaboration who have worked with the media to promote their science. They will discuss how science gets into the public arena through the media and how they see the process.
To help the user community take advantage of the benefits of grid computing, EGEE provides a range of support services to its users: direct user support, Virtual Organization (VO) support, and application porting support. Through other activities, the project also provides beginner and expert training on various topics.
The Direct User Support Team indexes and reviews the available documentation to ensure users have the information they need to effectively use the grid. The VO support team provides administrative support, consultation, and tools to aid VO managers accomplish their goals.
A new feature of the EGEE project’s third phase is an Applications Porting Group to help users enable applications on the EGEE grid. Experts from the porting team work closely with application owners to understand their requirements and to identify suitable approaches, tools for the porting process and to set realistic and feasible porting scenarios. Personalized training events organized by the team ensure that application owners become expert on porting tools that are relevant for them and can quickly and efficiently perform the porting process with the help of the porting team.
In addition, the project maintains a list of high-level services (RESPECT program) that work well with gLite to help minimize the effort of moving to the grid.
The first part of the session members of the EGEE User Support Activities and their collaborators with give presentations about the services they provide, the experiences they gained, and about applications, communities and solutions they work with.
The second part of the session provides opportunity to discuss issues and various topics that are related to grid user support and application porting.
The session is useful for those who wish to port new applications to EGEE, wish to set up new VOs and/or would like to learn about tools, services, environments that are offered by the larger grid community for new and advanced grid users.
For more information on EGEE User Support services please visit http://technical.eu-egee.org/index.php?id=330. The webpage of the EGEE Application Porting team is available at http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu/gasuc. Here you can find further information about current applications, past success stories and how to apply.
"Build it and they shall come". Is that really the case? Researchers today have ever increasing demands on their time and dedicated research time can be reduced. How can we show the benefits of grid computing in a quick, easy and accessible way that will reach out to our target audience? This session will look at the difficulties surrounding attracting users to grid projects, grid dissemination, success stories, shared problems and what we can do to make it work.
This is the main session for the EGEE operations
activity. The different SA1 areas will present their progress and
discuss future plans. This include Operations Service Level Agreements,
the Pre-Production service, Operations Tools, Interoperations with other
grid Infrastructures, system management tools, etc.
The session aims at gathering mainly EGEE developers and integrators but also the European Grid community at large to discuss the benefits and possible issues related to the integration of the ETICS services in the European Grid Infrastructure. Currently ETICS uses Metronome for the management of build and test jobs, that are submitted to nodes maintained within the ETICS project. The ETICS 2 project is extending the job management of the ETICS services in order to use gLite submission facilities. This will allow the integration of the ETICS services in the EGEE infrastructure. The same work is being carried out using UNICORE. The integration will allow an easy deployment of the ETICS services on the EGEE infrastructure and the infrastructures using UNICORE.
After a general overview of the ETICS system and a description of existing and planned features, the rationale behind the integration of ETICS within EGEE will be discussed. A more technical description of the ETICS build and test job submission mechanism and its integration with gLite-based resources will be given. Finally some examples of usage of ETICS in EGEE and related projects will be presented and followed by a Q/A session
This meeting addresses software developers, site administrators and security personnel. In the first 90
minutes, a overview over ongoing middleware security work in EGEE-III is given for the general audience. The
presentations of the second 90 minutes are dedicated to more technical issues.
The EGEE3 VO Support Group was created in EGEE3 to serve VOs. It is intended not only to help new communities quickly get started on the grid, but also to support established communities by providing those ways of better managing their daily tasks.
This session will be dedicated to discussions with VOs, where several aspects of VO management will be discussed
A new feature of the third phase of the EGEE project is the NA4 Applications Porting Group to help users enable applications on the grid. Experts from the porting team work closely with application owners to understand their requirements and to identify suitable approaches, tools for the porting process and to set realistic and feasible porting scenarios. Intensive workshops and personalized training events organized by the team ensure that application owners become expert on porting tools that are relevant for them and can quickly and efficiently perform the porting process with the help of the porting team.
The session will include presentations from porting team members to show the latest tools, applications and techniques they have worked with. The second half of the session will feature discussions about current problems and issues related to application porting and developer support.
The session is useful for those who wish to port new applications to the EGEE grid, and/or would like to learn about environments, tools, services that are offered for end users and grid application developers by the EGEE community.
The webpage of the EGEE application porting team is available at www.lpds.sztaki.hu/gasuc. Here you can find further information about current applications, past success stories and how to apply for assistance.
This session of the EGEE'08 conference will focus on recent
developments and future plans of grid data management and
database access tools.
While looking for presentations we would like to see how
the standardization efforts are matching with the everyday
grid activities.
This is the main session for the EGEE operations
activity. The different SA1 areas will present their progress and
discuss future plans. This include Operations Service Level Agreements,
the Pre-Production service, Operations Tools, Interoperations with other
grid Infrastructures, system management tools, etc.
The session aims at gathering mainly EGEE developers and integrators but also the European Grid community at large to discuss the benefits and possible issues related to the integration of the ETICS services in the European Grid Infrastructure. Currently ETICS uses Metronome for the management of build and test jobs, that are submitted to nodes maintained within the ETICS project. The ETICS 2 project is extending the job management of the ETICS services in order to use gLite submission facilities. This will allow the integration of the ETICS services in the EGEE infrastructure. The same work is being carried out using UNICORE. The integration will allow an easy deployment of the ETICS services on the EGEE infrastructure and the infrastructures using UNICORE.
After a general overview of the ETICS system and a description of existing and planned features, the rationale behind the integration of ETICS within EGEE will be discussed. A more technical description of the ETICS build and test job submission mechanism and its integration with gLite-based resources will be given. Finally some examples of usage of ETICS in EGEE and related projects will be presented and followed by a Q/A session
This meeting addresses software developers, site administrators and security personnel. In the first 90
minutes, a overview over ongoing middleware security work in EGEE-III is given for the general audience. The
presentations of the second 90 minutes are dedicated to more technical issues.
continues after coffee