Description
International grids cross national boundaries, spanning cultures, languages and technologies to create international resources and enable global science. With hundreds of grids running worldwide, there are many lessons to be learnt from international projects and collaborations, and this session brings together representatives of grids in Europe, Latin America, South Africa and the Asia-Pacific region. Key to European science in the future will be the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures roadmap projects. This session explores integrating instrumentation with e-Infrastructures for the potential benefit of these projects, as well as presenting case studies of combining Virtual Research Environments (VREs) with grid technologies.
Dissemination activities such as publications, events, social media and community-building websites help to bring user communities together. This session gathers together best practices based on the lessons learnt during the EGEE project. Also explored are the requirements of experimental scientists to steer, control and monitor instruments and sensors remotely. A prototype system developed by DORII will be presented. The D4Science-II project provides a number of VREs to address the needs of the Fisheries and Aquaculture community. Case studies discussed include the Aquamaps VRE that generates species distribution maps, the ICIS VRE’s repository of statistical datasets and the FCPPS VRE, which provides country profile report templates.
SEE-GRID in South Eastern Europe will present improvements to the usability and services for its end users, including operational tools for monitoring, alerting, job tracking and security as well as application services such as advanced workflows, better data and file management and new applications platforms. EELA-2 in Latin America also presents its enhancements to the functionality of the gLite middleware, which has widened the number of potential applications and sped up the porting process.
The Nordic Data Grid Facility’s experiences in bringing on board a new user community, the materials science virtual organisation are also presented. The main goal of the project was to enable non-LHC scientists to run their jobs on ARC enabled resources. On a wider scale, the South African National Grid Initiative aims to deploy a production-quality regional e-Science infrastructure for all South African researchers. Benefits are already being seen in the areas of physics, geomatics and bioinformatics and, through collaboration with the HP/UNESCO project, the seeds of the first regional African grid initiative. EUAsiaGrid brings together researchers from the Asia-Pacific region, and presents its progress in building, maintaining and developing e-Infrastructure within the region, together with a roadmap towards a sustainable and persistent multinational digital platform.
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Ms Catherine Gater (EGEE), Mr Neasan O'Neill (QMUL), Mr Sy Holsinger (Trust-IT)14/04/2010, 11:00National and international activities and collaborationsOralWhen it comes to dissemination, what works and what doesn't? During EGEE-III, NA2 has coordinated a rich programme of activities through an increasingly wide range of media – press releases, booths, blogs, Twitter and websites to name just a few. This session gathers together best practices based on the lessons learnt with input from collaborating dissemination project, GridTalk. Practical...Go to contribution page
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Mr Norbert Meyer (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center)14/04/2010, 11:20End-user environments, scientific gateways and portal technologiesOralThe introduction gives the major objectives and the idea of instrument and sensor remote steering, controlling and monitoring. The second part presents the user experiences and requirements following a proposition of the general architectural framework. The way of integrating instrumention with existing e-Infrastructure is especially important for the ESFRI projects, where most are using...Go to contribution page
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Mr Pedro Andrade (CERN)14/04/2010, 11:40Experiences from application porting and deploymentOralThe management of resources related to the Fisheries and Aquaculture (FARM) domain is complex and involves different scientific activities. The people involved in the domain are distributed worldwide: scientists in the field, regional statistics departments, national governing bodies, etc. Distributed information must be produced, analyzed, processed, shared, and preserved by all multiple...Go to contribution page
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Dr Misev Anastas (Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics)14/04/2010, 12:00Software services exploiting and/or extending grid middleware (gLite, ARC, UNICORE etc)OralEnlargement of the grid user community is probably the most important challenge of the grid infrastructure development community. To attract new users, with new applications and needs, the infrastructure should be flexible enough to satisfy their needs and requirements. We present the experience of the development community from the SEE-GRID-SCI project, organized in a Joint Research Activity....Go to contribution page
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Dr Diego Scardaci (INFN Catania), Prof. Francisco Brasileiro (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil), Prof. Roberto Barbera (INFN Catania)14/04/2010, 14:00Software services exploiting and/or extending grid middleware (gLite, ARC, UNICORE etc)OralThis work aims at presenting the results obtained in the joint research activity of the EELA-2 project. In order to satisfy all heterogeneous applications requirements and to simplify the access to the Grid infrastructure, in the context of this activity, a set of special services has been developed to enhance the functionality of the gLite middleware and provide users with a richer platform....Go to contribution page
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Dr Ivan Degtyarenko (CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd.)14/04/2010, 14:20End-user environments, scientific gateways and portal technologiesOralWe present the joint NDGF and CSC (Finland) project on setting up and supporting a new Nordic Material Science Virtual Organization inside NDGF (Nordic MS VO). The activities are focused on making the flexible and Nordic MS VO users friendly grid environment available on ARC enabled resources.Go to contribution page
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Dr bruce becker (Meraka Institute)14/04/2010, 14:40National and international activities and collaborationsOralSouth Africa is has made significant investments in e-Infrastructure recently. These investments are partly in the form of centralised, centrally-funded initiatives such as the Centre for High-Performance Computing (CHPC) and South African Research Network (SANReN). However, a significant investment has also been made in parallel by universities and national laboratories of computing resources...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jan Kmunicek (CESNET, z. s. p. o., Zikova 4, 160 00 Praha 6, Czech Republic)14/04/2010, 15:00National and international activities and collaborationsOralEUAsiaGrid is the EU-funded project aiming to bring together researchers from Asia-Pacific region around the distributed infrastructure being built within in the region. The primary purpose of the project is to support researchers willing to perform scientific discovery though advanced computing. In addition, the project is expected to further facilitate the uptake of e-Infrastructure approach.Go to contribution page