Name: EGI Technical Forum 2012
Start: 2012-09-17T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2012-09-21T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Clarion Conference Centre

Monday, 17 September 2012
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Taurus
Contributions

11:00 EGI CSIRT (closed) meeting - agenda at https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1160 - Sven Gabriel (Nikhef)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Leo/Virgo

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Taurus
Contributions

14:00 EGI CSIRT (closed) meeting - agenda at https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1160 - David Kelsey (STFC) Sven Gabriel (Nikhef)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Leo/Virgo

14:00 - 15:30
Room: Aquarius

15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Taurus
Contributions

16:00 EGI CSIRT (closed) meeting - agenda at https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1160 - David Kelsey (STFC) Sven Gabriel (Nikhef)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Leo/Virgo

16:00 - 17:30
Room: Aquarius
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Zenit/Nadir
Contributions

09:00 Welcome message - Ludek Matyska (CESNET)

09:10 IBM Platform Computing - Leah Parks

09:25 EU policy developments related to e-infrastructures - Kostas Glinos

09:40 EGI on the road to Horizon 2020 - Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 SCIENCE COMPUTING REQUIREMENTS
SCIENCE COMPUTING REQUIREMENTS
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Tycho/Kepler
Contributions

11:00 Introduction to the workshop - Luis C. Busquets Pérez

11:15 DCIs and Science Requirements: summary of Iberian Research Area experience - Isabel Plasencia (CSIC)

11:30 Distributed Computing for Life-Sciences and Medical Research in the Genome-Age - Andrew Lyall (EMBL)

11:45 Cloud Services for scientific institutions - Mick Symonds (Atos)

12:00 Role of software in enabling DC Infrastructures - Oxana Smirnova (Lund University / NDGF)

12:15 Questions and discussion
Security Policy Group and Security Threat Risk Assessment public reports
Security Policy Group and Security Threat Risk Assessment public reports
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Virgo
Contributions

11:00 Security Policy Group and EGI Security Threat Risk Assessment public reports - Introduction - David Kelsey (STFC) Linda Cornwall (STFC)

11:05 EGI Security Policy Group Public report - David Kelsey (STFC)

11:45 EGI Security Threat Risk Assessment public report - Linda Cornwall (STFC)
Introduction & Hands-on Part I
Introduction & Hands-on Part I
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Zenit
Contributions

11:00 General Introduction to the Hands-On - Sven Gabriel (Nikhef)

11:20 IT forensics on the battlefield - Heiko Reese (KIT-G) Leif Nixon (LIU)

12:20 Introduction to Part I - "Klingon Attack" - Sven Gabriel (Nikhef)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Leo
Contributions

11:00 Marketing and Communications Strategies - Catherine Gater (EGI.EU) Neasan ONeill (EGI.EU)

11:10 Using EGI AppDB in dissemination - Karolis Eigelis (EGI.EU)

11:20 Scientific Publications Repository - Romier Romier (CNRS)

11:30 The EGI Campus Champions Scheme - Richard McLennan (EGI.EU)

11:40 ENVRI, communicating environmental research - Yannick Legre

11:55 Measuring Impact with e-ScienceTalk - Zara Qadir

12:05 Discussion - Catherine Gater (EGI.EU)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Nadir
Contributions

11:00 Future Proof storage with DPM - Oliver Keeble (CERN)

11:20 Dynamic federations: storage aggregation using open tools and protocols - Fabrizio Furano (CERN)

11:40 dCache: challenges and opportunities when growing into new communities - Paul Millar (DESY)

12:00 EMI and Open Standards: A Brief History of the Future - MORRIS RIEDEL (JUELICH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTRE)

12:15 EMI Security Token Service - Simplified Credential Management - Henri Mikkonen (Helsinki Institute of Physics)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Aquarius
Contributions

11:00 FermiCloud - A Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Science at Fermilab - Keith Chadwick (Fermilab)

11:30 From Bare-Metal to Cloud - Andy Edmonds (Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)) Piotr Kasprzak (Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH (GWDG))

12:00 The SARA/BigGrid HPC Cloud, From Beta to Production - Jhon Masschelein (SARA)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Taurus
Contributions

11:00 G-NEMO: a Grid empowered version of the state-of-the-art European modelling framework for oceanographic research - Alessandro Costantini (INFN)

11:22 Managing Virtual Research Environments in Hybrid Data Infrastructures - Pasquale Pagano (CNR - ISTI)

11:44 Manifesto for Secure AdHoc Data Sharing - Pawel Plaszczak (GridwiseTech)

12:06 DECIDE: An e-Infrastructure for studying neurodegenerative diseases - Fulvio Galeazzi (GARR)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SERVICES
DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SERVICES
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Tycho/Kepler
Contributions

14:00 Federated e-Infrastructures in 2020 - Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)

14:15 Cloud Computing Services for Scientific Research Organisations - Bob Jones (CERN)

14:30 An e-Science Distributed HPC Infrastructure to support Hydro-Meteorological Research - Antonella Galizia

14:45 Distributed computing and the adoption of cloud services. Working towards a connected collaboration infrastructure - Andres Steijaert

15:00 An e-infrastructure eco system for research must include glue not just the trimmings - David Wallom (OXFORD)

15:15 Questions and discussion
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Leo
Contributions

14:00 Prototyping a Competence Center for the Computational Life Science Communities - Experiences from the ScalaLife Project - Rossen Apostolov

14:20 Astro Community and DCIs: user requirements, use-cases, test-beds & VRCs - Claudio Vuerli (INAF)

14:40 Experience in community building and user championing - Stephen Brewer (EGI.EU)

15:00 Increasing the attractiveness of EGI for computational chemistry - Jelena Tamuliene (EGI.EU)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Virgo
Contributions

14:00 EGI IPv6 activities: status and planning - Mario Reale (GARR)

14:20 IPv6 Testbed for ARC-CE - Barbara Krasovec (Arnes)

14:40 The HEP transition to IPv6 - David Kelsey (STFC)

15:00 IPv6 Reality check - Francesco Prelz (INFN)

15:20 Q & A / Discussion - Mario Reale (GARR)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Nadir
Contributions

14:10 Towards Deployment of EMIR in Federated Grid Infrastructures - Laurence Field (CERN) ahmed shiraz memon (JUELICH)

14:30 Compute Client Consolidation and Harmonization in the EMI Project - Bjoern Hagemeier (JUELICH)

14:50 Messaging Service and Client Software - Lionel Cons (CERN) Massimo Paladin (CERN)

15:10 Enhancing the CREAM-CE with the High Availability Cluster - Lisa Zangrando (INFN) Paolo Andreetto (INFN)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Zenit
Contributions

14:00 Introduction to the EGI/EUDAT/PRACE workshop - Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)

14:10 GGUS/PRACE RT integration: preliminary tests and future steps - Marcello Morgotti (CINECA)

14:30 User accounting integration - John Gordon (STFC)

14:50 EUDAT operations - perspective and initial achievements - Johannes Reetz (Garching Computing Centre of the Max Planck Society / MPI for Plasma Physics)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Aquarius
Contributions

14:00 Ibercloud: orchestrating services to provide virtualized access to IberGrid - Enol Fernandez del Castillo (CSIC)

14:20 Volunteer clouds to extend the resources of EMI middleware based VOs - Peter Kacsuk (MTA SZTAKI)

14:40 A bioinformatics user point of view of cloud computing - Julian Gough (University of Bristol)

15:00 OpenNaaS, a toolkit for IP Networks as a Service - David O'Callaghan (TCD) Pau Minoves (TCD)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Taurus
Contributions

14:00 EMI Product Use Cases - Supporting Science in Distributed Systems - MORRIS RIEDEL (JUELICH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTRE)

14:22 Experiences with ELIXIR in the Czech Republic - Ludek Matyska (CESNET)

14:44 EGI delves into the sea depths: the collaboration with EMSO begins - Giuseppe La Rocca (INFN)

15:06 VERCE e-infrastructure - Horst Schwichtenberg (FRAUNHOFER)
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 INNOVATION POTENTIALS AND RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING
INNOVATION POTENTIALS AND RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Tycho/Kepler
Contributions

16:00 From GridLab to MAPPER - lessons learned over the last decade to address better challenges in distributed computing in the future - Krzysztof Kurowski (PSNC)

16:25 • A policy view on DCIs for H2020: a hybrid future - Fotis Karagiannis (Independent)

16:50 Technology” Transfer: The Missing Link in the Innovation and Sustainability Stories - Steve Robertshaw

17:15 Questions and discussion
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Leo
Contributions

16:00 Introduction and Goals - Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU)

16:10 EC Policy on Open Access and the OpenAIRE Initiative - Pasquale Pagano (CNR - ISTI)

16:40 VT Activity Report and Proposed Workplan for EGI - Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU)

17:00 Interactive Discussion
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Virgo
Contributions

16:00 perfSONAR MDM for the European grid and beyond: status and news. - Domenico Vicinanza (DANTE)

16:30 HINTS network trouble shooting - Latest news - Olivier Lenormand (CNRS)

17:00 Q & A / Discussion
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Nadir
Contributions

16:00 WNoDeS training - Elisabeth Ronchieri (INFN) Emidio Giorgio (INFN)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Zenit
Contributions

16:00 MAPPER status and data management use cases - Ilya Saverchenko (BADW)

16:20 Virtual Earthquake and seismology (VERCE): data management use case - Horst Schwichtenberg (FRAUNHOFER)

16:40 High Performance Grid Computing for Molecular and Materials Science and Technology - Alessandro Costantini (INFN) Antonio Lagana (UNIPG)

17:00 Globus Online for HTC/HPCe: use cases and security aspects - Steve Tuecke (University of Chicago / Argonne National Laboratory)

17:20 Conclusions and next steps - Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)
EGI Fed Cloud Demo
EGI Fed Cloud Demo
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Aquarius
Contributions

16:00 Demonstration of the Federated Clouds Task Force test bed and services - Matteo Turilli (Oxford e-Research Centre)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Taurus
Contributions

16:00 EGI Applications Database - Marios Chatziangelou (IASA)

16:10 EGI Training Marketplace - Claire Devereux (STFC)

16:20 EGI virtual machine image marketplace - Matteo Turilli (Oxford e-Research Centre)

16:30 ScienceSoft - Open Software for Open Science - Call For Participation to Our Community - Alberto Di Meglio (EMI) MORRIS RIEDEL (JUELICH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTRE)

16:40 Globus Tools Market - Matthias Hofmann (TU-Dortmund)

16:50 Discussion
17:30 EGI Welcome Reception and Cocktail
EGI Welcome Reception and Cocktail
17:30 - 19:00
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Zenit/Nadir
Contributions

09:00 One year of The EGI Federated Clouds Task Force - Matteo Turilli (Oxford e-Research Centre)

09:45 Cloud-based services for Science - Steve Tuecke (University of Chicago / Argonne National Laboratory)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Overview of Established Solutions
Overview of Established Solutions
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Nadir
Contributions

11:00 Experiences with integrating science gateways with identity federations - Marco Fargetta (INFN)

11:15 Generic User Management for Science Gateways via Virtual Organizations - Richard GRUNZKE Sandra Gesing (University of Tuebingen) Tobias Schlemmer (University of Tübingen)

11:30 Using online CAs and MyProxy servers for identity mapping - Marco Bencivenni (INFN)

11:45 Report on Federated Identity Management workshops - David Kelsey (STFC)

12:00 Identity Developments in the NRENs community - Licia Florio (TERENA)

12:15 Centralized user management and Single Sign On for the WeNMR gateway through the WeNMR Virtual Research Community - Marc van Dijk (WeNMR)
PAC (Project Admin Cttee)
PAC (Project Admin Cttee)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Aquarius
Part 1, YAIM and site BDII
Part 1, YAIM and site BDII
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Tycho
Contributions

11:00 EMI 2 Matterhorn - tutorial for system administrators - Emidio Giorgio (INFN) Kathryn Cassidy (TCD)

11:10 Configuring EMI services through YAIM - Cristina Aiftimiei (INFN)

12:00 EMI 2 site BDII installation and configuration - Cristina Aiftimiei (INFN)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Leo
Contributions

11:00 Introduction and Goals - Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU)

11:10 Use Cases for using integrated clouds infrastructures - Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU)

11:30 EGI FedCloud Architecture - Matteo Turilli (Oxford e-Research Centre)

11:50 The Helix-Nebula Technical Architecture - Phil Evans (Logica)

12:10 Discussion on the technical interoperability requirements
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Taurus
Contributions

11:00 Resource Centre Forum - Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)

11:05 Ongoing operational issues of BIOMED VO - Franck MICHEL (CNRS)

11:20 GPGPU status of deployment and user requirements - John Walsh (TCD)

11:50 Resource allocation policies in EGI - T. Szepieniec (CYFRONET) Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)

12:10 Resource Centre cooperation: interest groups and ideas of innovation towards Horizon 2020
Accounting
Accounting
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Zenit
Contributions

11:00 New Types of Accounting Records - John Gordon (STFC)

11:20 New features on Accounting Portal Release Electra - Alvaro Simon (FCTSG) Ivan Diaz Alvarez (FCTSG)

11:40 APEL as a Global Accounting Repository - Alison Packer (STFC)

12:00 Transporting Accounting Data using SSM - Will Rogers (STFC)

12:15 Globus Accounting using Grid-SAFE - Stephen Crouch (University of Southampton)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Kepler
Contributions

11:00 ERINA+: Welcome and Overview - nadia nardi (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica spa)

11:10 ERINA+ Methodology - Francesco Bellini (Eurokleis)

11:40 ERINA+ Tools for Data Gathering - Francesco Bellini (Eurokleis) Josef Benedikt (ZSI) antonella passani (T6 ecosystems)

12:15 Q&A / Open Discussion
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Emerging Solutions from NGIs and Communities
Emerging Solutions from NGIs and Communities
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Nadir
Contributions

14:00 Providing short-lived X.509 certificates with the GridCertLib Java library - sergio maffioletti (UZH)

14:15 EMI STS - Transforming the existing user credentials for the Grid - Henri Mikkonen (Helsinki Institute of Physics)

14:30 Authorization in Grids using an Electronic ID Card - Anton Frank (BADW-LRZ)

14:50 SOA3: an architecture for service oriented authentication, authorization and accounting in distributed environment - Ciro Formisano (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica)

15:10 Integrating non-web based services with identity federations - Jens Koehler
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Virgo
Contributions

14:00 CHAIN Interoperability Workshop - Introduction to project - Federico Ruggieri (INFN - Roma Tre) Ludek Matyska (CESNET) Roberto Barbera (University of Catania and INFN)

14:30 The Science Gateway - Roberto Barbera (University of Catania and INFN)

15:00 Science Gateway Demo and Q&A
Workshop on IGE Appliances
Workshop on IGE Appliances
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Kepler
Contributions

14:00 Workshop: IGE Appliances for Grid Administrators and Users - Ioan Lucian Muntean (UTC)
PMB
PMB
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Stella (EGI Boardroom)
Part 1, CREAM and WMS
Part 1, CREAM and WMS
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Tycho
Contributions

14:00 CREAM installation, configuration and troubleshooting - Paolo Andreetto (INFN)

15:00 EMI 1 WMS - Installation and Configuration - Emidio Giorgio (INFN)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Leo
Contributions

14:00 Introduction and Goals - Carmela Asero (EGI.EU)

14:05 Connecting commercial cloud providers with NRENs/GEANT - Neils Hersoug (DANTE)

14:25 Commercial Networking Solutions - Helix Nebula Supplier - Udo Schäfer (Alcatel-Lucent)

14:45 Network Connectivity - Scientific Clouds - Jurry de la Mar (T-Systems International GmbH)

15:05 Discussion
Future Advancements of Tools and Regionalization - Part 1
Future Advancements of Tools and Regionalization - Part 1
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Zenit
Contributions

14:00 Workshop: Future advancements of tools and regionalization - Daniele Cesini (INFN)

14:10 GSTAT status and plans - Eric Yen (ASGC)

14:30 D-MON - Ilya Saverchenko (BADW)

14:50 OSG Operational Tools - Rob Quick (Open Science Grid)

15:10 SAM status and plans - Marian Babik (CERN)
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 General Discussion
General Discussion
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Nadir
Contributions

16:00 Discussion - Gergely Sipos (EGI.EU) Peter Solagna (EGI.EU)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Virgo
Contributions

16:00 GISELA and LA experience - Luis Nunez (CLARA)

16:30 The CHAIN roadmap - Ludek Matyska (CESNET)

17:00 Final discussion and wrap-up
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Kepler
Contributions

16:00 Monitoring Virtual Machine Status with L&B - Jiri Filipovic (CESNET) Zdenek Sustr (CESNET)

16:30 VENUS-C Interoperable Toolkit v2.0 - Kanchanna Ramasamy Balraj (Junior Researcher)

17:00 Using R, self scaling Matlab clusters and Galaxy clusters on a HPC cloud infrastructure - Tom Visser (SARA)
PMB
PMB
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Stella (EGI Boardroom)
Hands-on Part II
Hands-on Part II
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Taurus
Contributions

16:00 Discussion with participants on Part I - Leif Nixon (LIU)

16:45 Introduction to Part II - "Klingons in the grid" - Heiko Reese (KIT-G) Sven Gabriel (Nikhef)
Part 3, DPM and EMIR
Part 3, DPM and EMIR
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Tycho
Contributions

16:00 DPM migration from gLite 3.2 to EMI 2 - Emidio Giorgio (INFN)

16:45 Introduction to EMIR : installation, service configuration, and demonstration of a working instance - Ivan Marton (NIIF Institute)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Leo
Contributions

16:00 Introduction and Goals - Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU)

16:05 Business models for integrated e-infrastructures with commercial clouds - Mick Symonds (Atos)

16:25 Personal data processed in cloud infrastructures: main legal aspects - Enrico Pelino (ICT Legal Consulting & EPA)

16:45 Cost of e-Infrastructures - Fotis Karagiannis (Independent)

17:05 Discussion / Workshop Wrap-up / Action Summary
Future Advancements of Tools and Regionalization - Part 2
Future Advancements of Tools and Regionalization - Part 2
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Zenit
Contributions

16:00 GOCDB, GLUE2 and Information Discovery - david meredith (STFC)

16:30 Operations Portal future plan - Cyril Lorphelin (CNRS)

16:50 GGUS status and plans - Torsten Antoni (KIT-G)

17:10 Discussion
Thursday, 20 September 2012
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Zenit/Nadir
Contributions

09:00 What virtual environment and data management for a distributed research infrastructure like ELI? - Vlastimil Ruzicka

09:45 Data Challenges in EISCAT_3D -The European 3-Dimensional Imaging Radar for Atmospheric and Geospace Research - Esa Turunen
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00

11:00 Collaboration Board
Collaboration Board
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Virgo
Workshop on advancement of Information Discovery Systems
Workshop on advancement of Information Discovery Systems
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Zenit
Contributions

11:00 Towards an integrated information system - third workshop - Balazs Konya (EMI project) Daniele Cesini (INFN) Ilya Saverchenko (BADW) Stephen Burke (EGI.EU)
LRMS and job scheduling services
LRMS and job scheduling services
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Nadir
Contributions

11:00 Testing SLURM batch system for a grid farm: functionalities, scalability, performance and how it works with Cream-CE - Giacinto Donvito (INFN)

11:30 GWpilot: a personal pilot system - Antonio J. Rubio-Montero (CIEMAT) Rafael Mayo-Garcia (CIEMAT)

12:00 GridWay interoperability through BES - Ismael Marín Carrion (Complutense University of Madrid)
Harmonising Development and Provisioning
Harmonising Development and Provisioning
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Taurus
Contributions

11:00 Science Gateway session introduction - Robert Lovas (MTA SZTAKI)

11:10 EGI's Support services for Science Gateway developers - Nuno Ferreira (EGI.EU)

11:30 WS-PGRADE/gUSE generic DCI gateway framework for EGI user communities - Zoltan Farkas (MTA SZTAKI)

11:50 How to integrate portals with EGI monitoring system - Dusan Vudragovic (Institute of Physics Belgrade)

12:10 How to integrate EGI portals with identity federations - Roberto Barbera (University of Catania and INFN)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Leo
Contributions

11:00 Sustainability of NGI Operations - Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)

11:20 NGI Sustainability Checklist - Owen Appleton (Emergence Tech Limited)

11:40 An NGI Sustainability Perspective: PL-Grid case study - T. Szepieniec (CYFRONET)

12:00 Panel Discussion
Higher Level Services
Higher Level Services
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Kepler
Contributions

11:00 Use Case: Running Monte Carlo LHCb simulations using DIRAC with EGI Federated Cloud - Victor Mendez (Port d'Informació Cientìfica, PIC)

11:20 Performance Prediction of Cloud Applications Using Dwarf Benchmarks - Juri Papay (IT Innovation Centre, University of Southampton)

11:40 D4Science Infrastructure: a novel open approach to distributed software management based on Maven - Andrea Manzi (CERN)

12:00 Remote analysis of human voice - environment for voice training and ORL medicine - Tomáš Kulhánek (CESNET)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00

14:00 Workshop
Workshop
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Virgo
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Tycho
Contributions

14:00 Genesis II – From the Global Federated File System to Running Jobs - Daniel Dougherty (University of Virginia) Karolina Sarnowska-Upton (University of Virginia)
Future of EGI Operations (OMB workshop Part I)
Future of EGI Operations (OMB workshop Part I)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Zenit
Contributions

14:00 Future of EGI Operations - workshop - Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)

14:05 Sustainability of NGI operations and assessment of EGI global operations services - Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)

14:45 Future directions of EGI operations - Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)
EMI Training - Security
EMI Training - Security
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Nadir
Contributions

14:00 EMI Security for Grids and Clouds - aims of double session - John White (University of Helsinki, Finland)

14:05 STS status - Henri Mikkonen (Helsinki Institute of Physics)

14:20 Exploring the SAML 2.0 ECP-Profile - Carolina Lindqvist (Helsinki Institute of Physics)

14:35 Common AuthN libraries - Daniel Kouril (CESNET)

14:50 Trustmanager and CANl - Joni Hahkala - Joni Hahkala (Helsinki Institute of Physics/EMI)

15:05 EMI Hydra and Cloud(s) - John White (University of Helsinki, Finland)

15:20 Argus EES - Oscar Koeroo (FOM)
Harmonising Development and Provisioning
Harmonising Development and Provisioning
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Taurus
Contributions

14:00 How to integrate portals with EGI accounting system - Ricardo Graciani Diaz (University of Barcelona)

14:20 Data handling in scientific gateways on DCIs - Mark Santcroos (Academic Medical Center Amsterdam)

14:40 A Grid execution model for the ANSYS engineering simulation software - Alessandro Costantini (INFN)

15:00 Science Gateways and Clouds - Wibke Sudholt (CloudBroker GmbH)

15:20 Science Gateway session - concluding discussion - Robert Lovas (MTA SZTAKI)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Leo
Contributions

14:00 Introduction - Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU)

14:05 Commercial applications of open source middleware: the EMI and DCore experience - Alberto Di Meglio (EMI) Robert Harakaly (EMI)

14:25 Status of the StratusLab Sustainability Efforts - Charles Loomis (CNRS/LAL)

14:45 The sustainability plan of VisIVO - UGO BECCIANI (INAF)

15:00 Common strategy for Community-Building tools - Gergely Sipos (EGI.EU)

15:10 Q&A / Discussion
EGI Fed Cloud W/S
EGI Fed Cloud W/S
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Kepler
Contributions

14:00 Cloud infrastructure for the on demand provisioning of Worker Nodes - Christos Triantafyllidis (GRNET)

14:30 Federated Clouds workshop - Matteo Turilli (Oxford e-Research Centre) Stephen Brewer (EGI.EU)
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00

16:00 Workshop
Workshop
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Virgo
Information system technical discussion
Information system technical discussion
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Kepler
Contributions

16:00 Introduction - Stephen Burke (EGI.EU)

16:05 GLUE2 XML renderings - david meredith (STFC)

16:25 Adopting the BDII as an information system for Globus services - Ilya Saverchenko (BADW)

16:40 Discussion
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Tycho
Future of EGI Operations (OMB workshop Part II)
Future of EGI Operations (OMB workshop Part II)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Zenit
Contributions

16:00 "One size does not fit all" or making the grid more versatile - Ron Trompert (SARA)

16:20 Grid Oversight in Service Level Agreement environment. - Marcin Radecki (CYFRONET)

16:40 Integrating OSG Operational Services - Rob Quick (Open Science Grid)

17:00 Status and perspectives of operations in the Asia Pacific region - Eric Yen (ASGC)

17:20 Concluding remarks
EMI Training - Security
EMI Training - Security
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Nadir
Contributions

16:00 Argus tutorial: Installation, configuration and policy writing - Valery Tschopp (SWITCH)

16:45 gLExec tutirial: Installation, configuration and policy writing - Dennis van Dok (FOM) Oscar Koeroo (FOM)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Leo
Contributions

16:00 Tutorial on NGI Service Portfolio Design - Owen Appleton (Emergence Tech Limited) Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU) T. Szepieniec (CYFRONET) Thomas Schaaf (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Taurus
Contributions

16:00 DIRAC: breaking the frontiers of the Grid - Ricardo Graciani Diaz (University of Barcelona)

16:20 Running OpenFOAM in parallel on the grid: CFD in the study of cardiovascular disease - Bogdan ENE-IORDACHE (Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research) Giuseppe La Rocca (INFN)

16:40 Deploying User Oriented Services in IBERGRID - Goncalo Borges (LIP)

17:00 Latest improvements in the GridWay metascheduler - Ismael Marín Carrión (Complutense University of Madrid)
19:00 EGI Gala dinner
EGI Gala dinner
19:00 - 22:00
Friday, 21 September 2012
09:15
09:15 - 10:30
Room: Zenit/Nadir
Contributions

09:15 Clouds, what next? - Joe Baguley

09:50 Manchester - Claire Devereux (STFC)

10:00 Awards & Prizes presentation

10:15 Closing remarks - Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00

11:00 Meeting
Meeting
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Virgo
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Leo
Contributions

11:00 GGUS Advisory Group - Introduction - Torsten Antoni (KIT-G)

11:10 Defining the GGUS Advisory Board - Torsten Antoni (KIT-G)

11:40 GGUS Report Generator - Guenter Grein (KIT-G)

12:00 Discussion
Software Vulnerability Group
Software Vulnerability Group
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Zenit
Contributions

11:00 The EGI Software Vulnerability Group (SVG) - Introduction - Elisa Heymann (UAB) Linda Cornwall (STFC)

11:05 Software Vulnerability issue handling in EGI - Linda Cornwall (STFC)

11:30 Vulnerability Assessment of Middleware packages supplied by EMI :VOMS Core - Manuel Brugnoli (UAB)

12:00 Top 10 Code flaws that cause real vulnerabilities - Elisa Heymann
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Tycho
Contributions

11:00 Regional Operator on Duty - Training - Cyril Lorphelin (CNRS) Marian Babik (CERN) Ron Trompert (SARA)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Taurus
Contributions

11:00 The SHIWA simulation platform for workflow interoperability and sharing - Tamas Kiss (University of Westminster, London, UK)

11:22 Building an European Research Community through Interoperable Workflows and Data - the ER-Flow project - Gabor Terstyansky

11:44 Multiscale Programming and Execution Tools in the MAPPER project - Katarzyna Rycerz

12:06 WS-VLAM workflow management system - Adam Belloum
Comparing the HPC, HTC & Cloud offerings
Comparing the HPC, HTC & Cloud offerings
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Aquarius
Contributions

11:00 Introduction and Key Findings - Fotis Karagiannis (Independent) Sandra Cohen (Athens University of Economics and Business)

11:30 Benchmarking Results: EGI & HPC vs. Amazon EC2 - Kashif Iqbal (ICHEC)

11:50 Reflections on the Experience and Way Forward - Matti Heikkurinen (Emergence Tech Ltd)

12:10 Q&A
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30

13:30 Meeting
Meeting
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Virgo
Security Policy Group meeting
Security Policy Group meeting
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Nadir
Contributions

13:30 EGI Security Policy Group meeting - David Kelsey (STFC)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Zenit
Contributions

13:30 EGI-CSIRT Security Training Hands-on Wrap-Up - Riccardo Brunetti (INFN) Sven Gabriel (Nikhef)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Leo
Contributions

13:30 OTAG Meeting (Closed) - Daniele Cesini (INFN)
Scientific Software in the Cloud - workshop
Scientific Software in the Cloud - workshop
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Aquarius
Contributions

13:30 WS on GlobusOnline/GridFTP integration into a Cloud-Installation - Wolfgang Hennerbichler
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Taurus
Contributions

13:30 A workflow manager for NMR: objectives, design and implementation - Rasmus Fogh (University of Cambridge)

13:52 TopHat on the Grid: an automatic workflow for sequence alignment exploiting EGI/IGI grid infrastructure - Giacinto Donvito (INFN)

14:14 Wf4Ever: Supporting Reuse and Reproducibility in Experimental Science - Susana Sánchez

14:36 Workshop discussions - Gergely Sipos (EGI.EU)
15:00 Break
Break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 Security Policy Group meeting
Security Policy Group meeting
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Nadir
Contributions

15:30 EGI SPG meeting (closed) - David Kelsey (STFC)
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Zenit

15:30 - 17:00
Room: Leo