4th EGEE User Forum/OGF 25 and OGF Europe's 2nd International Event

Session

Grid Projects and Collaborations

5 Mar 2009, 16:00

Le Ciminiere, Catania, Sicily, Italy

Description

As sustainability is becoming ever-so important, the realization of infrastructures on a national/regional basis are emerging to the forefront of recent Grid projects and joint collaborations. This session, broken into two 90-minute intervals, demonstrates a variety of these projects and collaborations covering the latest developments and services using the EGEE infrastructure and other national/regional infrastructures.

A variety of regions have shown signs of growth and maturation over the past few years, namely Africa, Latin American, Sicily and South Africa. Each will be presenting how Grid technologies have been recently applied and specific results achieved either in HPC applications, integration of national infrastructures into EGEE, illustration of Service Grids vs. Opportunistic Grids or regional GILDA activities ensuring that new users can fully understand the characteristics of the Grid services offered.
The EGEE infrastructure has also opened doors to new collaborations and service offerings in specific sectors such as bioinformatics together with the LIBI project and interconnection of other Grid technologies such as BOINC Grid through the EDGeS project.

Finally, this session offers participants and inside look at new opportunities for new use cases to obtain early access to EGEE services and WLCG user communities through the EGEE-III Pre-Production Service.

97. HPC Applications on the Sicilian Grid Infrastructure

Dr Marcello Iacono-Manno (Consorzio COMETA)

05/03/2009, 16:00

Experiences from application porting and deployment

Oral

The Sicilian Grid infrastructure has been modified to support both academic and commercial HPC applications. After various HW/SW enhancements the PI2S2 infrastructure now runs many massively parallel programs covering several areas from Fluid Dynamics (Fluent, OpenFOAM) to Chemistry (GAMESS), from Astro-Physics (Flash) to Bio-Informatics (ClustalW). The present talk describes the adopted...

141. The South African National Grid Initiative

Dr Bruce Becker (UCT-CERN Research Centre)

05/03/2009, 16:20

Planned or on-going scientific work using the grid

Oral

The South African Department of Science and Technology (DST) has made cyberinfrastructure a priority for enabling a knowledge-based economy, and for fostering scientific and economic growth. A cutting-edge national research network (SANREN) and a centre for high-performance computing (CHPC) provide the raw tools for enabling the deployment of a national e-Infrastructure. The South African...

159. GILDA activities in AFRICA

Valeria Ardizzone (INFN Catania)

05/03/2009, 16:40

Planned or on-going scientific work using the grid

Oral

Science researchers, educators, and students in Africa are not able to take advantage of ithe nformation revolution because the digital divide is growing and denying poor countries access to its benefits. They are becoming increasingly marginalized as the world of education and science becomes increasingly Internet-dependent. GILDA are disseminating the Grid technology and its results to a...

178. The EUAsiaGrid Project: paving the way towards a global e-Science infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region

Mr Marco Paganoni (INFN and University of Milano-Bicocca)

05/03/2009, 17:00

Planned or on-going scientific work using the grid

Oral

The EUAsiaGrid project has been funded by the European Commission to widen the uptake of e-Research and, more specifically, the EGEE e-Infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region. The consortium provides support for infrastructure development and application porting as well as training, education and outreach. We describe the background of the project as well as its structure and workplan.