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Pisa, Italy
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EGEE 4th Conference Training day Scuela Normale
Scuela Normale
Click here for the Agenda, Registration is now closed for this event.
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EGEE Training (Click for details) 9hThe training will be held in Scuela Normale, Piazza Dei Cavalieri 7.
The agenda is available. Registration is now closed.
The Palazzo dei Congressi will be open for registration after the training has ended, refreshments will be provided.
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Welcome from Project Director 2m Room 01
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
Pisa, ItalySpeaker: Fabrizio Gagliardi (CERN) - 09:03 → 09:05
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Coffee Break - Chair Change - (Mirco Mazzucato) 30m
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Business Challenges and e-Science 20m Room 01
Room 01
Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
Pisa, ItalyDr. Simon Stow, Senior Director of Oracle EMEA, will deliver a short overview of Oracle's roadmap and strategy on Grids as well as an overview on their involvement in standards bodies and key projects. Oracle believe that, even though focus and priorities of scientific and enterprise grids differ, a convergence to the full Grid vision exist, collaboration and partnership between the industrial and scientific world is key to this end.Speaker: Simon (Oracle) Stow (ORACLE) -
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Supercomputing in the Grid 30m Room 01
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
Pisa, ItalySupercomputing and Grid computing have sometimes been considered as alternative paths to HPC. Claims have been made, that the Grid has the power of a supercomputer. While this is true for some application areas, CPU intensive applications that require high end interconnects and storage access will not run efficiently (and economically) in the current Grid.
In this talk, concepts from computer architecture will be reviewed in the context of application examples where supercomputing and the grid have common interests and work together in a complementary fashion. Current research and development areas of grid computing which leverage ideas originating in computer architecture and parallel computing will also be discussed.Speaker: Mateo Valero (UPC) - 11:50 → 12:20
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Group Photograph 30m Conference Centre Steps
Conference Centre Steps
Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
Pisa, ItalyWeather permitting, we will take a group shot of the EGEE delegation outside the conference centre on the steps to the terrace. -
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Lunch - Chair Change - (Bob Jones) 1h 10m
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Coffee Break - Chair Change - (Dieter Kranzlmueller) 30m
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Applications' Status (NA4) 30m Room 01
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
Pisa, ItalySpeaker: Vincent Jacques Breton (Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC)) - 16:30 → 16:50
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Welcome Reception at the Stazione Leopolda Stazione Leopolda
Stazione Leopolda
A short walk from the conference centre, the Stazione Leopolda is a picturesque venue for the Monday evening get-together, where the Mayor of Pisa will give a brief welcome to the EGEE delegates. Please inform the organisers if you need special assistance to get to the venue.
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OSG - Beyond the Honeymoon 20m Room 01
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
Pisa, ItalyThe Open Science Grid, an open grid infrastructure supporting US national science efforts and collaborators, began operation on July 20, 2005 and will have just completed its first 100 days of operations (the "Honeymoon"). This talk will give an overview of current status and our plans and preparations for the next increment in our evolution, Release 0.4, targeted for deployment in December 2005. Finally I'll discuss current activities and plans for interworking with our partner grids.Speaker: Dane Skow (FNAL) - 10:20 → 10:40
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Panel Plenary Session Room 01
Room 01
Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
Pisa, ItalyThis Panel discussion plenary Session is aimed at gathering views and opinions about various aspects of Grid technology and the EGEE Project and includes an interactive element. The panel consists the following people;
Chair:
Neil Geddes (CCLRC e-science centre)
Representing Applications:- DILIGENT - Donatella Castelli
- Pharmacokinetics - Ignacio Blanquet
- MAGIC - Harald Kornmeyer
Representing Infrastructure (projects and NGIs):
- SeeGrid - Nikos Vogiatzis
- DEISA - Victor Alessandrini
- OSG - Dane Skow
- EGEE - Fabrizio Gagliardi
- INFN - Mirco Mazzucato
Each member of the Panel will give a brief introduction to their particular interaction with the EGEE infrastructure, outlining the main obstacles and opportunities involved in working alongside EGEE and Grid computing in general.
Questions and comments will be taken from directly from the floor and it is also possible to submit a question via the simple webform.
Do you have an opinion on the following questions?
Applications areas:- What obstacles do you foresee in the use of the Grid, what are the main issues with the current use of the grid?
- What are the main benefits or opportunities of utilising and having the EGEE infrastructure available to use?
Infrastructures and interoperability:
- What obstacles do you foresee in the interoperability between existing projects and the EGEE infrastructure?
- What are the main benefits or opportunities that you can foresee in future collaboration with existing infrastructure?
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EGEE 5mSpeaker: Fabrizio Gagliardi (CERN)
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Discussion 40m
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Lunch 1h 30m
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Industry Plenary Session Room 01
Room 01
Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
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IBM - Perspectives on Grid and Virtualization Advances 10mThis presentation will propose a set of components and their relationships to build Grid and Virtualization solutions. We will then examine some key IBM research activities that when realized in either products or services will ease Grid deployment and increase Grid customer business benefits.Speaker: Ellen Stokes (IBM Sr. Technical Staff Member, Grid Computing TC Member, IBM Academy of Technology)
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APC - Dealing with hotspots in datacenters caused by high-density computing 10mGrid computing generally requires the deployment of high density servers or blades to deal with the high demands on processing power. Racks loaded with servers can draw up to 20kW of power which in turn generates the requirement to remove a corresponding heat load of 20kW from a single rack in order to maintain the servers at the correct and consistent operating temperatures. With most data centers designed to cool an average of no more than 2kW per rack, some innovative cooling strategies are now required. APC will describe the causes and effects of high heat loads and will give some guidance on how to effectively deal with this growing problem.Speaker: Peter Hannaford (APC Business Development Director)
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Sun Microsystems - Utility Computing: Sun Grid $1/CPU/Hour 10mSun is changing the very nature of utility computing with the new Sun Grid utility offerings, enabling you to purchase computing power as you need it, without the long-term lifecycle costs related to capital, management, depreciation, and floor space. Sun Grid radically simplifies the way you select, acquire, and use next generation IT infrastructure. With Sun Grid, we're making complex technology simple to use via a single point of contact — be it a desktop, a call center, or an enterprise. Sun Grid allows you to derive immediate productivity and economic benefits from our open, grid-based computing infrastructure. This utility model gives you more choice and control on how you purchase and leverage IT power for competitive advantage.Speaker: John Fragalla (Sun Microsystems)
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Nice and Platform 10mNICE and Platform Computing have been active with the EGEE community since the beginning of the EU DataGrid project, and shall present the key innovations in their joint offering. The talk shall highlight the new features in EnginFrame Grid Portal v4.1, which will base the next generation GENIUS portal for EGEE, an overview of LSF v6.2 and the new strategy and products for virtualisation and orchestration.Speaker: Andrea Rodolico (Platform)
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COD5 Meeting (Closed Meeting) Room 13
Room 13
Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
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Feedback since COD 4 - Metrics 1h 30m
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feedback from Russia 30mhow to handle us sites within the daily operations feedback for operations procedureSpeaker: Mr Aleksandr Kryukov (SINP)
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Feedback from Taiwan 30mWelcome to Taiwan for their first week of Operations (October 17th) backed up by the UK team. Feedback on procedure, operations and tools. Timetable for official integration within the calendar of rotationSpeaker: Mr Min Tsai
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Metrics and Procedures 30mcurrent status and developement of tools. DiscussionSpeaker: Mr Piotr NYCZYK (CERN)
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SEE ROC Meeting Room 08
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
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SEE ROC meeting 1h 30mDiscussion on operations of the SEE ROC and future plans, with some short presentations by Prnjat and Koumantaros
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External Advisory Committee (EAC) Room 16
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
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External Advisory Committee (EAC) 1h 30m
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External Projects Integration (NA2, NA3, NA4, NA5, SA1) Room 01
Room 01
Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
Pisa, ItalyThe goal of the session is to prepare the integration of recently approved european projects onto EGEE.
The integration of external projects is one of the biggest challenges facing us before the end of EGEE and into EGEE II. The goal for this open session would be the following:- Inform EGEE of new related projects and identify common areas of work
- To inform the projects of the services available (GILDA, training,...)
- To inform the projects of the people to whom they will need to speak (SA1, NA4, etc)
- To inform the projects of the information we will need from them to write MoUs
- To inform the projects of the groups to which they should commit resources (user support, OAG, VO manager, User Information Group, etc) so they know the cost from the beginning
- To give them a chance to meet each other
Convener: Fotis Karayannis (NA5)-
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Scope of the Session / Policy and International Cooperation 10mSpeaker: Fotis Karayannis (CERN)
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Industry Forum - Independant Software Vendors and Finance Room 02
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
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COD5 Meeting (Closed Meeting) Room 13
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
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Future plans 1hGiven the increased scope in the number of federations and in the mission of the CODs : Discussion for us to come up with a viable organization proposal throughout EGEE2 starting now.
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German/Swiss federation meeting Room 19
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
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SEE ROC Meeting: SEE ROC cont Room 08
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
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SEE ROC discussion 30mSEE ROC discussion
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External Projects Integration (NA2, NA3, NA4, NA5, SA1) Room 01
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
Pisa, ItalyThe goal of the session is to prepare the integration of recently approved european projects onto EGEE.
The integration of external projects is one of the biggest challenges facing us before the end of EGEE and into EGEE II. The goal for this open session would be the following:- Inform EGEE of new related projects and identify common areas of work
- To inform the projects of the services available (GILDA, training,...)
- To inform the projects of the people to whom they will need to speak (SA1, NA4, etc)
- To inform the projects of the information we will need from them to write MoUs
- To inform the projects of the groups to which they should commit resources (user support, OAG, VO manager, User Information Group, etc) so they know the cost from the beginning
- To give them a chance to meet each other
Convener: Fotis Karayannis (NA5)- 17:00
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ISSeG 10mSpeaker: Francois Fluckiger (ISSeG)
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Operational Security - OSCT (Closed Meeting) Room 07
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
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Security Service Challenges 30mThe Joint Security Policy Group (JSPG) is the body to provide policy and site requirements to the deployment and middleware engineering activities. The activities cover both the LCG and EGEE communities. Under the auspices of the JSPG, the Operational Security Coordination Team (OSCT) has planned a series of Security Service Challenges (SSC). The first SSC will measure to what extent the many sites are prepared to handle security issues implicit in the structure of the grid. The test will be executed through the regional control centers and will focus on access to and interpretation of information and efficient use of communication channels.Speaker: Mr Pål Anderssen (CERN)
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Security Service Challenge level 1 (SSC_1) 15mThe goal of the LCG/EGEE Security Service Challenge Level 1 (SSC1), is to investigate whether sufficient information is available to be able conduct an audit trace as part of an incident response, and to ensure that appropriate communications channels are available. In June 2005 the first stage of the SSC_1 has been executed. This stage targeted the 11 Regional Operation Centers (ROC) of the LCG/EGEE Grid. The presentation reviews the experience gathered and gives an overview of the next stage which will give each ROC the opportunity to challenge the sites in its own region.Speaker: Mr Pål Anderssen (CEN)
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Grid Security Monitoring 30mSpeaker: Mr Romain Wartel (CERN)
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Discussion 30mPrimary discussion areas - * incident response * security monitoring * security information * service challenges Provisional items for discussion - - how can we implement an effective grid incident response capability? + Incident Response Handbook - proposed framework but needs input. + reporting channels and tools - role of OSCT/CIC/ROC + site,regional and central support issues + Contact management - GOCDB + links with NRENS/CSIRTS and impact of 'peer-grids' e.g OSG - monitoring for open holes and/or monitoring for events/incidents? + what should/can be monitored + what mechanisms (local tools and/or central SFT) + publishing, policy and authorization - security information feed + more content is needed + maintenance - SSCs + timescale and coverage + what tools are needed + making the results useful - reporting and availability + what are SSC2 and its objectives?
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Job Statistics (JRA2, JRA1, SA1, NA4, ....) Room 12
Room 12
Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
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APEL (SA1) , Job Provenance (JRA1), DGAS (JRA1) 15mSpeakers: David Kant (SA1), Rosario Piro (JRA1), Zdenek Salvet (JRA1)
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The EGEE Banquet at the Villa San Marco
Buses have been arranged to take you to the Villa San Marco, a 20 minute drive to Soiana, where a sit down meal will be provided in this restored historical estate.
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CE ROC Meeting (Closed Meeting) Room 07
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
Pisa, ItalyConvener: Aleksander Kusznir (CE ROC)-
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Welcome 5mSpeaker: Aleksander Kusznir (Unknown)
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Overview of CE ROC 10mSpeaker: Tomasz Szepieniec
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Monitoring and Regional Tests 15mSpeaker: Pawel Wolniewicz
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Overview of CE ROC 10mSpeaker: Tomasz Szepieniec
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Monitoring and Regional Tests 15mSpeaker: Pawel Wolniewicz
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Operations report and status of pre-production and certification testbeds 20mSpeaker: Marcin Radecki
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Status of User Support 15mSpeaker: Wojtek Wislicki
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Status of VOCE 15mSpeaker: Daniel Kouril
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Middleware and Applications on IA64 in EGEE 15mSpeaker: Piotr Siwczak
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Introduction to EGEEII 15mSpeaker: Ludek Matyska
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Industry Forum Steering Committee Room 16
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
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SA1 metrics Working Group (Closed Meeting) Room 06
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
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Metrics WG meeting 1h 30mThis meeting will focus on the discussion of EGEE Grid operations metrics, to be attended by ROC managers and people already involved in metrics work.
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NA3,SA1,JRA1,JRA3 Room 01
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
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Discussion 30mInter-activity challenges and opportunities
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Administrative Federations Meeting (AFM) Room 17
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
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DEMOS: Morning Session Room 04
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
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Morning Session - Demos run in parallel (10:00-13:00) 5m
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BAR 55mThe Grid community expects the network to be always available. Scant attention has been paid to performance implications due to network failures, congestion and various other network related limitations. As Grids move from pure research initiatives to a commercially viable, production platform there is a strong need for quantitative and qualitative performance guarantees from the network. This can be achieved by network service provisioning.
This demonstration intends to preview the interfaces specified between EGEE and the networking community (GEANT2) as well as the common understanding reached between these two groups for a Network Service Provisioning model. It will also present a few use cases where such a service is useful and point out some practical aspects and limitations.
The JRA4-BAR activity has specified interfaces and is developing software to enable grid applications and middleware to seamlessly use the network services without having to tackle the network-level details. The software being developed is a middleware component, called the BAR (Bandwidth Allocation and Reservation) service, which abstracts network services by mapping application-oriented requests from Grid applications to network-oriented requests. A prototype implementation of the services, with a GUI web client for demonstration, has been developed.
Access to two sample services will be demonstrated:- Guaranteed Deadline File Transfer Service
- Virtual Leased Line Service
This service enables a grid client to ensure that data is transferred from the designated source to destination within a given deadline. This is useful for gLite Replica Management and Job Scheduling.
This service enables a grid client to book a virtual leased line between two end points with quantitative and qualitative guarantees over network characteristics. This can be useful for real time grid applications, grid control traffic, etc.
This demonstration will highlight the capabilities that the BAR service can provide to Higher Layer Middlelware components in gLite by end of EGEE1. It presents the collaborative work of JRA4 with GE'ANT2 and the JRA1 and SA2 activities of EGEE.Speaker: Kostas Kavoussanakis -
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EGEE Learning Development Phase One: Digital Library 55mCurrent EGEE training activities are predominantly delivered through scheduled events at distributed locations. Despite essential, these activities represent one feasible means for delivering training. EGEE Learning aims to pilot e-learning to support and enhance the quality of existing training activities. The first phase of the pilot involves the development of a core digital library infrastructure to underpin all subsequent EGEE Learning pilot services. It builds on an existing service-oriented repository to enable learning objects to be used in various resource discovery contexts: searching, linking and content management. Initial activities also involve curating a range of training resources including a metadata catalogue of existing presentations, reports, tutorials, bibliographic objects such as articles, books, journals and websites. Next phrase of developments include researching the use of wiki services for e-learning and collaborative annotation of metadata, and personalisation services for the digital library.Speaker: Boon Low
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GPS@ (Biomed) 55mUnderstanding biological data from complete genome sequencing projects is one of major challenges in Bioinformatics. These data are published into several international databases. Thus, bioinformaticians need, for most analyses, an efficient access to these updated biological data integrated to relevant algorithms. And the size of these data is doubling each year, and scalability problems are now appearing. Grid computing could be a viable solution to distribute and integrate these genomics data and bioinformatics algorithms. We have integrated several bioinformatics databanks and software programs into grid environment in order to study the adequacy and relevance of such gridification: GPS@ web portal, Grid Protein Sequence Analysis , aims to be such an user-friendly interface for these grid genomic resources on the EGEE grid. GPS@ is a porting experiment on the EGEE platform of the NPS@ (Network Protein Sequence Analysis) production web portal, available since 1998 and providing biologist with proteins databases and algorithms for sequence analysis.Speaker: Christophe Blanchet (IBCP)
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Pharmacokinetics (Biomed) 55mThis application aims at solving an important computational need of oncological radiology for the analysis of tumour lesions in deformable regions such as the abdomen. The evaluation of the malignity or benignity of a tumour is performed though the pathological analysis of tissues obtained in biopsies. However, biopsies are invasive, uncomfortable and produce an important degree of stress on the patients, so only suspicious cases goes through biopsy. Thus there is a need to increase the specificity and sensitivity of diagnostic procedures. An important trend is the analysis of the diffusion of contrast agents through Magnetic Resonance Imaging. The vascularity of the malignant tumours will lead to a contrast concentration evolution different from other lesions. Important research teams are modelling this behaviour for the different types of lesions, protocols and organs. The analysis lies on the acquisition of a time series of several volumetric images from the area of study. This is thus crucial that all images are correctly aligned and each pixel correspond to the same anatomical area all through the exploration. However, this cannot be guaranteed in areas such as the abdomen, were breathing and organ dynamics play an important role. There is thus a need for elastic coregistration of the images, which is a highly time-consuming task. The work developed consists on a system to perform the coregistration of time series of volumetric abdominal images in the Grid, using a simple interface that reduces the burden of the preparation of the data, selection of parameters, submission, monitoring and result retrieval. The demo will demonstrate the interface, upload a series of images from a study and launch a multi-parametric execution on the Grid. Results will be retrieved at the end of the execution. The execution to be shown would consume 60-80 CPU hours, but it can be achieved in 2 hours on the Grid, providing that enough resources are available.Speaker: Dr Ignacio Blanquer (UPV)
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CE ROC Meeting (Closed Meeting) Room 07
Room 07
Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
Pisa, ItalyConvener: Aleksander Kusznir (CE ROC)-
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Discusion about EGEEII 1h 30mThis part will be organized in form of open discussion about the issues collected below (if your think that the list should be extended let as know). Responsible partners should provide short and concrete description to each point BEFORE THE MEETING to make discussion more effective. Descriptions should be sent to: t.szepieniec at cyfronet.pl until Thursday, 20 Oct. After the meeting we will prepare the document describing the organization of work in our ROC basing on provided materials and discussion.
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SA1 metrics Working Group (Closed Meeting) Room 06
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
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Metrics WG 1h 30mThis meeting will focus on the discussion of EGEE Grid operations metrics, to be attended by ROC managers and people already involved in metrics work.
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South West Federation Meeting Room 10
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
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DEMOS: Morning Session Room 04
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
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Experience on data analysis on the EGEE Grid 1h 30mThe CMS system is being developed and integrated within the Task Force framework using the different contributions, notably for the experiment itself and by EGEE SA1 and NA4. In this demo we show concrete examples of analysis activity in the framework of CMS using the EGEE infrastructure. The examples range from job preparation (selecting data samples published by the collaboration) to job submission and result delivery. We will show also tools built on top of the EGEE infrastructure service to allow the user to follow the evolution of complex tasks (made up by large number of parallel-executing jobs), to take automatic correcting measures in case of problems (or to report to the user). The demo will be complemented to other material to give an exhaustive view of the grid-related activity in LHC.Speaker: Massimo Lamanna
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NPM 1h 30mEGEE JRA4 Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) have developed a Diagnostic Tool, designed for use by Network Operations Centres and Grid Operations Centres (including Core Infrastructure Centres). The intended use is to monitor network performance and aid in the diagnosis of network issues. This tool, accessed through a standard web browser, allows graphical and tabular display of both historical and current network measurements. Through the NPM web service framework, the interfaces of which adhere to GGF Network Monitoring Working Group (NM-WG) standards, data from heterogeneous network monitoring frameworks can be accessed. EGEE JRA4 has collaborated with the PerfSONAR project, a joint Internet2, ESnet and GEANT2 effort, to enable access to worldwide network backbone data, and in this demo we will show the Diagnostic Tool accessing both PerfSONAR backbone data and e2emonit (formerly EDG/WP7) end-to-end monitoring data. After the demo, we will be available for questions and comments and hope to gain valuable feedback from interested parties.Speaker: Kostas Kavoussanakis
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Simri@Web : An MRI simulation service on EGEE grid architecture. (Biomed) 1h 30mThis demonstration presents the web portal developed to offer through a user friendly interface a Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) simulation service on the grid based on the SIMRI simulator. SIMRI is a 3D Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) simulator based on the Bloch equations. SIMRI integrates in a unique simulator most of the existing simulation features offered in different simulators. It takes into account the main static field value and enables realistic simulations of the chemical shift artifact including off-resonance phenomena. It also simulates the artifacts linked to the static field inhomogeneity like those induced by susceptibility variation within an object. It is implemented in the C language under CECILL open source license and the MRI sequence programming is done using high level C functions with a simple programming interface. To manage large simulations, the magnetization kernel is implemented in a parallelized way that enables simulation on grid architecture.Speaker: Hugues Benoit-Cattin (CREATIS)
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SRM/DICOM and Metadata (Biomed) 1h 30mThe demonstration will show a Medical Data Manager service (MDM) for manipulating medical images and related medical data such as patient or acquisition information. The MDM exposes a DICOM interface (Digital Image and COmmunication in Medicine) on the one side and an SRM interface on the other side. It thus provides a bridge between hospital medical data stored in the standard DICOM format and grid files. It can be seen as a specialized Storage Element able to directly access medical files stored in the hospital DICOM server(s). The demonstration will show how medical images coming from an imager are registered into the system. A MDM client library that can then retreive images either from the file identifier or the associated metadata ("get file of patient X acquired at date D") will be demonstrated. Through this interface, classical grid jobs can access and process the medical data. An extra level of key-based data encryption is used to ensure that data exported outside the hospital to the grid are never stored in a readable format on disk. For the demonstration, 3 DICOM servers hosting various medical data will be set up in Orsay, Lyon, and Nice.
The MDM is the result of a successfull collaboration between:- The NA4/biomedical community (LAL, I3S, and CREATIS CNRS laboratories) providing the interface to DICOM servers and expert knowledge
- The NA4/HEP community (ARDA), providing the metadata manager.
- JRA1, providing grid data management and SRM interfaces.
- JRA3, providing the encryption procedures.
Speaker: Daniel Jouvenot (LAL)
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Lunch 1h 30m
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Collaboration Board (CB) (Closed Meeting) Room 03
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Welcome, Agenda, and AOB Requests 10m
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EGEE-II status and next steps, Anna Cook 5mEGEE II Proposal feedback and actions for the coming weeks
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Questions and Answers session 15mQuestions that have to be answered: - Is it possible to shift budget within the same category of activities (e.g. SAs (SA1-SA2), or NAs (NA2-NA5), or JRAs (JRA1-JRA4)). E.g. if I have unspent effort in NA2, it is possible to claim costs for NA4? SHould the EC be notified? - How about shifting budget between categories? Is a consortium decision sufficient or a contract amendment? (Probably the latter). - How about shifting between partners? - I have unspent NA1 budget? Would it be possible to claim administrative and financial work? How about travel?
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Appointment of a new Collaboration Board chair 15m
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DEMOS: Afternoon Session Room 04
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Afternoon Session - Demos run in parallel (14:30-18:30) 5m
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Achieved deployment of the first biomedical data challenge WISDOM 1h 25mDuring the summer of 2005, the first biomedical data challenge for drug discovery was deployed on the LCG infrastructure of the EGEE grid production service. Entitled WISDOM (Wide In Silico Docking On Malaria), the challenge saw over 46 million docked ligands during that period, the equivalent of 80 CPU years. 1000 computer were simultaneously used in 15 countries around the world. This CPU consuming application of in silico virtual screening on the grid was initiated and implemented by Fraunhofer SCAI in Germany and the PLC of Clermont-Ferrand in France. The demonstration will show the issues for a large scale deployment of a docking application on a grid infrastructure. The grid statistics of the biomedical data challenge available on the web site http://wisdom.eu-egee.fr will be discussed. Then preliminary results of the screening predicted docked complexes will be presented.Speaker: Nicolas Jacq (CNRS/IN2P3)
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GILDA Grid Applications Demo 1h 25mThe GILDA team designed and developed several applications to show up how the EGEE gLite middleware can exploit the power of the Grid. Some of the most attractive applications will be presented during the demo, focusing on the ones that allow us to demonstrate the last features available in gLite.
In particular, the following ones will be run:
gMOD (grid Movie On Demand): a new application that offers to the user a video on demand service. Trailers could be searched by querying a grid metadata service. This application makes use of the new AMGA Metadata Catalogue Service, developed by ARDA team and soon part of the gLite middleware.
hadronTherapy : hadronTherapy is a simulation program based on the CERN toolkit GEANT4, developed at INFN LNS. hadronTherapy simulates the beam line and particles revelators used in the proton-therapy facility for the cure of eye cancer at CATANA (Centro di AdroTerapia e Applicazioni Nucleari avanzate), active even at INFN-LNS.
GATE (Geant4 application for Tomographic emission) is a C++ platform based on Geant4 software. It models nuclear medicine applications, among the OpenGATE collaboration. Its functionalities combined to its ease of use make this platform also impressive for radiotherapy and brachytherapy treatment planning.
CODESA3D (COupled DEnsity-dependent variably SAturated flow and miscible transport 3D model): Application from Earth Science is a three-dimensional finite element simulator for flow and solute transport in variably saturated porous media on unstructured domains. The flow and solute transport processes are coupled through the variable density of the filtrating mixture made of water and dissolved matter (salt, pollutants).
PATSEARCH is a flexible and fast pattern matcher able to search specific combinations of oligonucletide consensi, secondary structure elements and position-weight matrices also allowing for mismatches/mispairing below a user fixed treshold. It is able to find, in a given sequence(s), kinds of loop structures that characterize tRNAs, rRNAs (hairpin loop, stem loop with bulges or internal loops) and/or any kind of pattern in DNA and protein sequences.
EGEODE: a Grid Infrastructure for Geosciences. EGEODE is an initiative to create a Virtual Organization dedicated to research in Geosciences for both industrial R&D (public and private) and Academic Labs. It was launched by CGG mid 2004 in the context of EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE), the largest worldwide grid infrastructure project to date. EGEODE stands for Expanding Geosciences On Demand. It raises already interest across Europe and Russia and will deliver a framework for collaboration Industry / Research.Speaker: Giuseppe La Rocca (GILDA) -
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GROCK (Biomed) 1h 25mGROCK harnesses the power of the grid to provide a convenient tool to conduct high-throughput screening analysis using 'docking' methods.
A 'docking' analysis is atheoretical attempt to identify possible interactions between a protein and another molecule. GROCK allows users to specify a probe molecule and select a 3D-structural database to search, preforming then a docking analysis of the probe molecule against every entry in the database and producing a list of potential interactions ranked by energy. Two example applications of GROCK are:- By specifying a drug or small compound and selecting a protein database, the user may derive potential applications and possible undesirable side effects of a probe drug.
- Using a protein as the probe molecule and matching it against a protein database may prove useful to unravel protein-protein interaction networks.
GROCK sheds much promise for the future analysis of high-throughput data as generated in current major research projects. But by virtue of its theoretical, 'in-silico' approach, and its reliance on underlying existing 'docking' mechanisms, its results should be always verified and backed-up by additional experiments just like those of any other similar tool (like Blast or FastA).Speaker: Jose Valverde (CNB) -
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ProActive/gLite bridge 1h 25mThis demo shows the ability of frameworks such as ProActive to use existing resources on the Grid. ProActive is a Java API developed by INRIA. It provides tools and functions which make the development and deployment of distributed applications easier. Now, with ProActive, one is able to run distributed programs on several grids, including the EGEE grid.
For the demonstration, graphic computation applications will be executed with ProActive, using EGEE grid computing resources thanks to gLite.Speaker: Marc Ozonne (CERN)
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Quality Assurance Group (QAG - Closed Meeting) Room 07
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
Pisa, Italy-
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Quality Assurance Group (QAG) 1h 30m
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SA1 Open Session: Operations and support Room 01
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Operations for users, VO managers, admins 1hInformation on Operations for end users, VO managers, and site administrators. - This will present the features available for users, VO managers, and site admins on the CIC portal, in a mixture of slides (overview, general explanations) and a demo (or screenshots, if a live demo is too difficult).Speaker: Rolf Rumler
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Project Management Board (PMB) (Closed Meeting) Room 03
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Project Management Board (PMB) (Closed Meeting) 1h 55m
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JRA4, SA2 (Closed Meeting) Room 07
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Actions 15m Room 13
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Two-stage service provisioning 30m Room 13
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GN2-SA3 NSAP service provisioning 30m Room 07
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AOB 10m Room 13
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DONM 5m Room 13
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DEMOS: Afternoon Session Room 04
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Pisa, Italy-
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CHARON System - A Framework for Comfortable Grid Applications & Jobs Management 2hHere we present a generic system for utilization of application programs in the EGEE Grid environment - the CHARON system. Charon was developed by computational chemistry community in the Czech republic to provide easy manageable, comfortable and modular environment to fulfill specific requirements of computational chemistry application users. It currently offers an alternative to standard LCG/EGEE environment in application-generic Virtual Organization for Central Europe (VOCE). Present-day implementation of Charon system is completely compatible with scripting roots of the EGEE Grid environment, provides comfort computational jobs management by encapsulation of available LCG/EGEE middleware enviroment, support for smooth administration of large amount of computational jobs and enables easy retracing of already finished calculations. Compared to widely-spread graphical user interfaces (i.e. portals) Charon is oriented towards users requiring simple but feature-rich and powerful command line and scripting interface that offers support for tens and hundreds of jobs withing a single research project. Taking into account the cornerstones on which the system is built up - modularity and generality - it is not targeted only for molecular modelling purposes but represents a generic application framework easily adoptable for broad set of generic application areas and their specific programs. Moreover Charon also permits to utilize resources from non-EGEE Grids as well. Therefore Charon is expected to be one of useful tools available for promoting utilization of Grid environment for general public purposes.Speaker: Petr Kulhanek (CHARON)
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Live CD grid-site installation 2hWe will show a grid-site installation (CE +SE + some WNs) over our laptops using the Live CD developed by the EGRID team. The grid site will then join our egrid testbed infrastructure. We also show a "proof of concept" implementation of the grid middleware usage via FUSE (file system in userspace) approach.Speaker: Stefano Cozzini
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NA3/NA4 (generic) P-GRADE portal 2hThe P-GRADE portal is a graphical, workflow oriented multi-VO, Multi-Grid portal. It enables a user-freindly, graphical creation and definition of complex workflows. Components of the workflows can be sequential jobs, parallel MPI jobs and legacy code services. The input and output files of the jobs can be taken and put from/on any storage element of the Grid. The portal takes care of starting the jobs and controlling the necessary file transfers without any user interventions. The user can watch on-line the workflow execution by animation at the workflow graph level and by graphical progress time diagrams. The user can allocate the whole workflow or any part to the EGEE broker or can assign resources individually to the workflow components. The portal can execute parallel branches (components) of the workflow simultaneously in different VOs or in different Grids. Fault-tolerance mechanism enables reassigning of failed jobs to other resources of the Grid. The portal works as service for SEE-GRID, HunGrid, VOCE and UK NGS. It can work as service for any VOs of EGEE. It is particularly useful for novice Grid users to train them how to create and execute Grid applications. Detailed information can be found at: http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu/pgportal/.Speaker: Norbert Podhorszki
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User activity on the EGEE Grid 2hSome of the components belonging to the ATLAS and LHCb prototypes developed within EGEE NA4 in close collection with the experiments themselves will be illustrated. We would like to show the different stages of job preparation (including debugging on local resources) and then the steps needed to run on grid resources. This part is a simplified version of the informal tutorial session EGEE NA4 has organised for the pilot users in the LHC collaborations to enable to port with minimal effort their day-by-day activity to benefit the EGEE infrastructure capacity. The task-level parallelisation of real analysis jobs using the DIANE system will be shown. The demo will be complemented to other material to give an exhaustive view of the grid-related activity in LHC.Speaker: Massimo Lamanna
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Middleware Security Group (MWSG) (Closed Meeting) Room 06
Room 06
Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
Pisa, Italy-
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Middleware Security Group (MWSG) (Closed Meeting) 2h
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SA1 Open Session: Releases, metrics, issues Room 01
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
Pisa, Italy- 16:30
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Joint PEB / PMB (Closed Meeting) Room 03
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
Pisa, ItalyThe primary subject will be to discuss feedback on the EGEE-II proposal
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Biomedical Meeting Room 06
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
Pisa, ItalyConvener: Johan Montagnat (UNICE)-
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Biomedical Meeting 2h
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Introduction and status 30m
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Technical session 1hUpdate on security and data encryption Update on medical data management Update on short deadline jobs Applications needs and priorities Production infrastructure usage Conducting large scale experiments: load balancing and robustness (feedback from DC)
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SA1 Open Session: General reports Room 01
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Status of porting of LCG-2 20mSpeakers: Stephen Childs, Stephen Childs (Unknown)
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JSPG Room 07
Room 07
Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
Pisa, ItalyA general discussion session around the following topics;
- Top-level Security and Availability Policy document.
- How to make more general to meet the needs of both EGEE and other Grid projects
- User Acceptable Use Policy
- Site and VO Registration
- Planning for emergencies
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How to make more general to meet the needs of both EGEE and other Grid projects 20m
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NA3: CE Activity Meeting Room 08
Room 08
Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
Pisa, ItalyActivity meeting for the partners of the EGEE Central European Traning
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P-GRADE Portal 15mCurrent status of P-GRADE Portal on HunGrid, SEE-GRID, NGS. Current developments in the Portal.
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P-GRADE Portal + VOCE 25mDiscussion on the P-GRADE Portal and VOCE environment: - current status, - technical questions, - organisation of the next tutoria - promotion strategy in CE and in EU during EGEE-II
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CHARON 15mIntroduction of CHARON to CE partners
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Biomedical Meeting Room 06
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Pisa, ItalyConvener: Johan Montagnat (UNICE)-
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JSPG Room 07
Room 07
Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
Pisa, ItalyA general discussion session around the following topics;
- Top-level Security and Availability Policy document.
- How to make more general to meet the needs of both EGEE and other Grid projects
- User Acceptable Use Policy
- Site and VO Registration
- Planning for emergencies
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NA5 Policy and International Cooperation Room 12
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Introduction, Agenda overview and AOB requests 10m
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NA5 Report since the Athens conference, Next Plans 30mReport of NA5 work since the Athens conference - New NA5 Management (Fotis-Joanne) - Policy related activities - International cooperation activities (Activities summarised in DNA53-4) Next plans: - Plan for the December review (Review the status/progress on the issues raised by the reviewers and prepare for the technical december review) - Policy related ones (eIRG UK and Austria presidencies) - Inernational cooperation (Report from external projects integration session, Next concertation event organised by DANTE)
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EGEE-II NA5 plans - Introduction among old and new partners 30m- Short EGEE-II NA5 introduction - Introduction among old and new partners OLD: CERN, PPARC, CNRS, FZK, INFN, GRNET, CSIC/RED.ES, DFN NEW: JKU, NIIF, VR/SNIC, SWITCH - Discussion on the NA5-related questions from the reviewers
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AOB, Open Discussion (Concertation Activities and others) 20m
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SA1 Open Session: SA1 & SA3 in EGEEII Room 01
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
Pisa, ItalyConvener: Cristina Vistoli (INFN/CNAF)- 11:30
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Lunch 1h 30m
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INFNGRID Internal Organization Room 16
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4th EGAAP Session Room 04
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Pisa, Italy- 14:30
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ArcheoGRID 15m
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Glucosyltransférase 15m
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Experience Deploying gLite on the Pre-production Service Room 03
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Discussion 40mTry to identify common patterns Pas good and bad messages to developers Identify showstoppers How can we do better?
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NA2 Dissemination and Outreach Room 10
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
Pisa, Italy- 14:30
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Lessons Learned in Phase 1 (a discussion) 30mA group discussion about the lessons learned in phase I, what worked, what didn't, what should be been done differently in phase I.
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Deployment Tools Room 03
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Experiences at sites 20mEither coordinated set of experiences or an open discussion.
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INFNGRID Internal Organization Room 16
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
Pisa, Italy - 16:30 → 18:30
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4th EGAAP Session Room 04
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Pisa, Italy- 16:30
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Closed session 20m
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NA2 Dissemination and Outreach Room 10
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Introduction to EGEE II continued 30mSpeaker: Hannelore Hammerle
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Key Events and Material for Phase II (a discussion) 30mHannelore Hammerle will lead the discussion on what specific events EGEE should be present at in Phase II (internationally and per country) as well as what kind of material should be planned for Phase II.Speaker: Hannelore Hammerle
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AOB 30mThe last part of the session will be dedicated to discussion any other business including: - Building a presentation repository - Phase I material requirements
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CE ROC Meeting (Closed Meeting) Room 07
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DILIGENT Ad-hoc meeting Room 12
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Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa
Pisa, Italy
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Application 20mSpeaker: Vincent Jacques Breton (Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC))
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