EGI Technical Forum 2012

Europe/Prague
Clarion Conference Centre

Clarion Conference Centre

Clarion Congress Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic
Ludek Matyska (CESNET), Stephen Brewer (EGI.EU), Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)
Description

The EGI Technical Forum 2012 will take place at the Clarion Congress Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic between 17-21 September 2012. The event will be hosted by EGI.eu in partnership with CESNET, the consortium of Czech universities and the Czech Academy of Sciences that represents the country in the EGI council.

 

Reflecting a little on the considerable progress made by the collaboration so far and looking forwards to the challenges of public availability, reusability and transparency of scientific methods and data in Open Science, the core theme of this Technical Forum is to be:

 

“The development of an open and sustainable EGI ecosystem that will support Open Science in the digital European Research Area.”


Please note: the timetable represents a framework into which submitted proposals will be placed. There is room to accomodate other material if that fits in with the track descriptions.

    • Plenary Zenit/Nadir

      Zenit/Nadir

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Keynote talks

      Convener: Ludek Matyska (CESNET)
      • 4
        Welcome message
        Speaker: Ludek Matyska (CESNET)
      • 5
        IBM Platform Computing
        Speaker: Leah Parks
      • 6
        EU policy developments related to e-infrastructures
        Speaker: Kostas Glinos
      • 7
        EGI on the road to Horizon 2020
        Speaker: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)
        Slides
    • 10:30 AM
      Break
    • EC Workshop: Distributed Computing Infrastructures for e-Science: Future Perspectives: SCIENCE COMPUTING REQUIREMENTS Tycho/Kepler

      Tycho/Kepler

      Clarion Conference Centre

      • 8
        Introduction to the workshop
        Speaker: Luis C. Busquets Pérez
        Slides
      • 9
        DCIs and Science Requirements: summary of Iberian Research Area experience
        Speaker: Dr Isabel Plasencia (CSIC)
        Slides
      • 10
        Distributed Computing for Life-Sciences and Medical Research in the Genome-Age
        Speaker: Andrew Lyall (EMBL)
      • 11
        Cloud Services for scientific institutions
        Speaker: Mick Symonds (Atos)
      • 12
        Role of software in enabling DC Infrastructures
        Speaker: Oxana Smirnova (Lund University / NDGF)
      • 13
        Questions and discussion
    • EGI InSPIRE: Security Policy Group and Security Threat Risk Assessment public reports Virgo

      Virgo

      Clarion Conference Centre

      A series of closed EGI InSPIRE project meetings

      Conveners: David Kelsey (STFC), Linda Cornwall (STFC)
      • 14
        Security Policy Group and EGI Security Threat Risk Assessment public reports - Introduction Virgo

        Virgo

        Clarion Conference Centre

        Speakers: David Kelsey (STFC), Linda Cornwall (STFC)
        • a) EGI Security Policy Group Public Report
          Speaker: David Kelsey (STFC)
        • b) EGI Security Threat Risk Assessment Public report
          Speaker: Linda Cornwall (STFC)
      • 15
        EGI Security Policy Group Public report Virgo

        Virgo

        Clarion Conference Centre

        Speaker: David Kelsey (STFC)
        Slides
      • 16
        EGI Security Threat Risk Assessment public report Virgo

        Virgo

        Clarion Conference Centre

        Speaker: Linda Cornwall (STFC)
        Slides
    • EGI-CSIRT Security Training Hands-on Wrap-Up: Introduction & Hands-on Part I Zenit

      Zenit

      Clarion Conference Centre

      If you want to participate, please register at the following URL: http://go.egi.eu/security

      This is a sequence of sessions starting Tues 18th at 11:00, followed by Wed 16:00 and concluding with a double session on Fri.

      In this security hands-on, the participants will take on the role as security teams being responsible for the operational security of simulated grid sites running in a virtualized environment. The sites will face attacks very similar to those seen in real life. The team's task is to respond to these attacks and keep their services up and running as far as possible.
      The target audience is system administrators with a good knowledge of linux. Please note that the number of participants will be somehow limited by the underlying testbed used for the hands-on (18 max).
      An introduction to the the tutorial can be found here:
      https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI_CSIRT:TDG/SecTut-EGI17092012

      Conveners: Riccardo Brunetti (INFN), Dr Sven Gabriel (Nikhef)
      • 17
        General Introduction to the Hands-On
        Speaker: Dr Sven Gabriel (Nikhef)
      • 18
        IT forensics on the battlefield
        Speakers: Heiko Reese (KIT-G), Leif Nixon (LIU)
        Slides
      • 19
        Introduction to Part I - "Klingon Attack"
        Speaker: Dr Sven Gabriel (Nikhef)
    • Marketing and Communications Strategies Leo

      Leo

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Marketing and communicating your work effectively is a key aim for EC-funded projects. With Horizon 2020 coming onstream in 2014, funders are increasingly focused on getting the research they support noticed. Marketing strategies need to focus on establishing engagement with a range of audiences, including scientists, research infrastructures and policy makers. This interactive session focuses on building outreach strategies that will open up two way channels with different audiences and encourage dialogue. This is particularly important when addressing new audiences, such as new users of e-infrastructures like the ESFRI projects, in order to ensure that their requirements can be gathered and to promote new tools and services available to them.

      Convener: Catherine Gater (EGI.EU)
      • 20
        Marketing and Communications Strategies
        Speakers: Catherine Gater (EGI.EU), Neasan ONeill (EGI.EU)
        Slides
      • 21
        Using EGI AppDB in dissemination
        Speaker: Karolis Eigelis (EGI.EU)
        Slides
      • 22
        Scientific Publications Repository
        Speaker: Romier Romier (CNRS)
        Slides
      • 23
        The EGI Campus Champions Scheme
        Speaker: Richard McLennan (EGI.EU)
        Slides
      • 24
        ENVRI, communicating environmental research
        Speaker: Mr Yannick Legre
        Slides
      • 25
        Measuring Impact with e-ScienceTalk
        Speaker: Ms Zara Qadir
        Slides
      • 26
        Discussion
        Speaker: Catherine Gater (EGI.EU)
    • New middleware products Nadir

      Nadir

      Clarion Conference Centre

      New features and training for service administrators/users

      Convener: Stephen Burke (EGI.EU)
      • 27
        Future Proof storage with DPM
        Speaker: Oliver Keeble (CERN)
        Slides
      • 28
        Dynamic federations: storage aggregation using open tools and protocols
        Speaker: Fabrizio Furano (CERN)
        Slides
      • 29
        dCache: challenges and opportunities when growing into new communities
        Speaker: Paul Millar (DESY)
        Slides
      • 30
        EMI and Open Standards: A Brief History of the Future
        Speaker: Mr MORRIS RIEDEL (JUELICH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTRE)
      • 31
        EMI Security Token Service - Simplified Credential Management
        Speaker: Henri Mikkonen (Helsinki Institute of Physics)
        Slides
    • Providing cloud services Aquarius

      Aquarius

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Cloud platform operators talk about cloud service design, customer support (account management, service desk etc.) and integration into operational infrastructures

      Convener: Dr Matteo Turilli (Oxford e-Research Centre)
      • 32
        FermiCloud - A Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Science at Fermilab
        Speaker: Keith Chadwick (Fermilab)
        Paper
        Slides
      • 33
        From Bare-Metal to Cloud
        Speakers: Andy Edmonds (Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)), Piotr Kasprzak (Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH (GWDG))
        Slides
      • 34
        The SARA/BigGrid HPC Cloud, From Beta to Production
        Speaker: Mr Jhon Masschelein (SARA)
        Slides
    • Research Infrastructures Taurus

      Taurus

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Research infrastructures (RIs) play an increasingly important role in the advancement of knowledge and technology. They are a key instrument in bringing together a wide diversity of stakeholders to look for solutions to many of the problems society is facing today. RIs offer unique research services to users from different countries, attract young people to science, and help to shape scientific communities. RIs help to create a new research environment in which all researchers - whether working in the context of their home institutions or in national or multinational scientific initiatives - have shared access to unique or distributed scientific facilities (including data, instruments, computing and communications), regardless of their type and location in the world. RIs are therefore at the centre of the knowledge triangle of research, education and innovation, producing knowledge through research, diffusing it through education, and applying it through innovation.

      EGI supports the digital European Research Area and RIs with an open federation of services that provide uniform access to national computing, storage and data resources. National Grid Infrastructures (NGIs), providers of EGI services, accumulated knowledge on developing, deploying, operating and monitoring custom services for scientific purposes in Europe and beyond. This double-session includes presentations about RIs that consume services from EGI and about collaborations that are forming between the NGIs and RIs.

      Convener: Dr Gergely Sipos (EGI.EU)
      • 35
        G-NEMO: a Grid empowered version of the state-of-the-art European modelling framework for oceanographic research
        Speaker: Alessandro Costantini (INFN)
        Slides
      • 36
        Managing Virtual Research Environments in Hybrid Data Infrastructures
        Speaker: Pasquale Pagano (CNR - ISTI)
        Slides
      • 37
        Manifesto for Secure AdHoc Data Sharing
        Speaker: Pawel Plaszczak (GridwiseTech)
        Demo_AVI
        Slides
      • 38
        DECIDE: An e-Infrastructure for studying neurodegenerative diseases
        Speaker: Fulvio Galeazzi (GARR)
        Slides
    • 12:30 PM
      Lunch
    • EC Workshop: Distributed Computing Infrastructures for e-Science: Future Perspectives: DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SERVICES Tycho/Kepler

      Tycho/Kepler

      Clarion Conference Centre

      • 39
        Federated e-Infrastructures in 2020
        Speaker: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)
      • 40
        Cloud Computing Services for Scientific Research Organisations
        Speaker: Dr Bob Jones (CERN)
      • 41
        An e-Science Distributed HPC Infrastructure to support Hydro-Meteorological Research
        Speaker: Antonella Galizia
      • 42
        Distributed computing and the adoption of cloud services. Working towards a connected collaboration infrastructure
        Speaker: Andres Steijaert
      • 43
        An e-infrastructure eco system for research must include glue not just the trimmings
        Speaker: David Wallom (OXFORD)
      • 44
        Questions and discussion
    • Experience in community building Leo

      Leo

      Clarion Conference Centre

      This session focuses on experience in community building and user championing and covers VRCs, NGIs, ESFRI projects and other initiatives. Within EGI-InSPIRE, this activity primarily falls under the Community Engagement work package and in particular the tasks Community Outreach and Technical Outreach to New Communities (TONC). In addition to these activities, the function and operation of the User Community Board (UCB) will also be presented. Many of the user community representatives within the UCB are from recognised Virtual Research Communities but not all. In addition to the structure of the Forums, Technical and Community, two new entities have been created during the second year of EGI-INSPIRE - namely NGI International Liaisons (NILs) and Virtual Teams (VTs). NILs are responsible for non-operational matters and may participate in VTs to achieve short time-frame goals.

      Convener: Stephen Brewer (EGI.EU)
      • 45
        Prototyping a Competence Center for the Computational Life Science Communities - Experiences from the ScalaLife Project
        Speaker: Rossen Apostolov
      • 46
        Astro Community and DCIs: user requirements, use-cases, test-beds & VRCs
        Speaker: Claudio Vuerli (INAF)
      • 47
        Experience in community building and user championing
        Speaker: Stephen Brewer (EGI.EU)
      • 48
        Increasing the attractiveness of EGI for computational chemistry
        Speaker: Jelena Tamuliene (EGI.EU)
        Slides
    • Network Support Virgo

      Virgo

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Two sessions covering IPv6 and monitoring and troubleshooting tools. Will involve EMI/IGE/HEPIX.

      Convener: Dr Mario Reale (GARR)
      • 49
        EGI IPv6 activities: status and planning
        Speaker: Dr Mario Reale (GARR)
        Slides
      • 50
        IPv6 Testbed for ARC-CE
        Speaker: Mrs Barbara Krasovec (Arnes)
        Slides
      • 51
        The HEP transition to IPv6
        Speaker: David Kelsey (STFC)
        Slides
      • 52
        IPv6 Reality check
        Speaker: Francesco Prelz (INFN)
        Slides
      • 53
        Q & A / Discussion
        Speaker: Dr Mario Reale (GARR)
    • New middleware products Nadir

      Nadir

      Clarion Conference Centre

      New features and training for service administrators/users

      Convener: Stephen Burke (EGI.EU)
      • 54
        Towards Deployment of EMIR in Federated Grid Infrastructures
        Speakers: Laurence Field (CERN), ahmed shiraz memon (JUELICH)
        Slides
      • 55
        Compute Client Consolidation and Harmonization in the EMI Project
        Speaker: Bjoern Hagemeier (JUELICH)
        Slides
      • 56
        Messaging Service and Client Software
        Speakers: Lionel Cons (CERN), Massimo Paladin (CERN)
        Slides
      • 57
        Enhancing the CREAM-CE with the High Availability Cluster
        Speakers: Dr Lisa Zangrando (INFN), Dr Paolo Andreetto (INFN)
        Slides
    • Operations -EGI/EUDAT/PRACE workshop Zenit

      Zenit

      Clarion Conference Centre

      During the EGI-EUDAT-PRACE workshop we will

      1. present the current status and next plans for the integration of the helpdesk systems;
      2. present the current status and next steps for the integration of the EGI and PRACE accounting systems to allow the collection of accounting information from multiple infrastructures;
      3. investigate use cases for data management, transfer across different infrastructures and usage of Globus Online: we will review existing requirements and identify emerging ones.
      Convener: Dr Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)
      • 58
        Introduction to the EGI/EUDAT/PRACE workshop
        Speaker: Dr Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)
        Slides
      • 59
        GGUS/PRACE RT integration: preliminary tests and future steps
        Speaker: Marcello Morgotti (CINECA)
        Slides
      • 60
        User accounting integration
        Speaker: Dr John Gordon (STFC)
        Slides
      • 61
        EUDAT operations - perspective and initial achievements
        Speaker: Dr Johannes Reetz (Garching Computing Centre of the Max Planck Society / MPI for Plasma Physics)
        Slides
    • Providing cloud services Aquarius

      Aquarius

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Cloud platform operators talk about cloud service design, customer support (account management, service desk etc.) and integration into operational infrastructures

      Convener: Dr Matteo Turilli (Oxford e-Research Centre)
      • 62
        Ibercloud: orchestrating services to provide virtualized access to IberGrid
        Speaker: Enol Fernandez del Castillo (CSIC)
        Slides
      • 63
        Volunteer clouds to extend the resources of EMI middleware based VOs
        Speaker: Prof. Peter Kacsuk (MTA SZTAKI)
        Slides
      • 64
        A bioinformatics user point of view of cloud computing
        Speaker: Julian Gough (University of Bristol)
        Slides
      • 65
        OpenNaaS, a toolkit for IP Networks as a Service
        Speakers: David O'Callaghan (TCD), Pau Minoves (TCD)
        Slides
    • Research Infrastructures Taurus

      Taurus

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Research infrastructures (RIs) play an increasingly important role in the advancement of knowledge and technology. They are a key instrument in bringing together a wide diversity of stakeholders to look for solutions to many of the problems society is facing today. RIs offer unique research services to users from different countries, attract young people to science, and help to shape scientific communities. RIs help to create a new research environment in which all researchers - whether working in the context of their home institutions or in national or multinational scientific initiatives - have shared access to unique or distributed scientific facilities (including data, instruments, computing and communications), regardless of their type and location in the world. RIs are therefore at the centre of the knowledge triangle of research, education and innovation, producing knowledge through research, diffusing it through education, and applying it through innovation.

      EGI supports the digital European Research Area and RIs with an open federation of services that provide uniform access to national computing, storage and data resources. National Grid Infrastructures (NGIs), providers of EGI services, accumulated knowledge on developing, deploying, operating and monitoring custom services for scientific purposes in Europe and beyond. This double-session includes presentations about RIs that consume services from EGI and about collaborations that are forming between the NGIs and RIs.

      Convener: Dr Gergely Sipos (EGI.EU)
      • 66
        EMI Product Use Cases - Supporting Science in Distributed Systems
        Speaker: Mr MORRIS RIEDEL (JUELICH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTRE)
      • 67
        Experiences with ELIXIR in the Czech Republic
        Speaker: Ludek Matyska (CESNET)
        Slides
      • 68
        EGI delves into the sea depths: the collaboration with EMSO begins
        Speaker: Dr Giuseppe La Rocca (INFN)
        Slides
      • 69
        VERCE e-infrastructure
        Speaker: Horst Schwichtenberg (FRAUNHOFER)
        Slides
    • 3:30 PM
      Break
    • EC Workshop: Distributed Computing Infrastructures for e-Science: Future Perspectives: INNOVATION POTENTIALS AND RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING Tycho/Kepler

      Tycho/Kepler

      Clarion Conference Centre

      • 70
        From GridLab to MAPPER - lessons learned over the last decade to address better challenges in distributed computing in the future
        Speaker: Dr Krzysztof Kurowski (PSNC)
      • 71
        • A policy view on DCIs for H2020: a hybrid future
        Speaker: Dr Fotis Karagiannis (Independent)
      • 72
        Technology” Transfer: The Missing Link in the Innovation and Sustainability Stories
        Speaker: Steve Robertshaw
      • 73
        Questions and discussion
    • EGI Scientific Publications Repository workshop Leo

      Leo

      Clarion Conference Centre

      The Scientific Publications Repository project started in June 2012 in order to define tools, policies and processes to track the scientific outcome that was possible thanks to the use of the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI). The ultimate goal is to improve the evidence of the EGI scientific impact. This session will describe the proposed processes, policies and tools to be established. It is aimed at NGI / VO representatives and all people interested in demonstrating the scientific impact of their research or infrastructure and will give the opportunity to provide feedback to the defined plan before starting the implementation.

      Convener: Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU)
      • 74
        Introduction and Goals
        Speaker: Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU)
        Slides
      • 75
        EC Policy on Open Access and the OpenAIRE Initiative
        Speaker: Pasquale Pagano (CNR - ISTI)
        Slides
      • 76
        VT Activity Report and Proposed Workplan for EGI
        Speaker: Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU)
        Slides
      • 77
        Interactive Discussion
    • Network Support Virgo

      Virgo

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Two sessions covering IPv6 and monitoring and troubleshooting tools. Will involve EMI/IGE/HEPIX.

      Convener: Dr Mario Reale (GARR)
      • 78
        perfSONAR MDM for the European grid and beyond: status and news.
        Speaker: Domenico Vicinanza (DANTE)
        Slides
      • 79
        HINTS network trouble shooting - Latest news
        Speaker: Olivier Lenormand (CNRS)
        Slides
      • 80
        Q & A / Discussion
    • New middleware products Nadir

      Nadir

      Clarion Conference Centre

      New features and training for service administrators/users

      Convener: Elisabeth Ronchieri (INFN)
      • 81
        WNoDeS training
        Speakers: Elisabeth Ronchieri (INFN), Emidio Giorgio (INFN)
        Slides
    • Operations -EGI/EUDAT/PRACE workshop Zenit

      Zenit

      Clarion Conference Centre

      During the EGI-EUDAT-PRACE workshop we will

      1. present the current status and next plans for the integration of the helpdesk systems;
      2. present the current status and next steps for the integration of the EGI and PRACE accounting systems to allow the collection of accounting information from multiple infrastructures;
      3. investigate use cases for data management, transfer across different infrastructures and usage of Globus Online: we will review existing requirements and identify emerging ones.
      Convener: Dr Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)
      • 82
        MAPPER status and data management use cases
        Speaker: Ilya Saverchenko (BADW)
        Slides
      • 83
        Virtual Earthquake and seismology (VERCE): data management use case
        Speaker: Horst Schwichtenberg (FRAUNHOFER)
        Slides
      • 84
        High Performance Grid Computing for Molecular and Materials Science and Technology
        Speakers: Alessandro Costantini (INFN), Antonio Lagana (UNIPG)
        Slides
      • 85
        Globus Online for HTC/HPCe: use cases and security aspects
        Speaker: Mr Steve Tuecke (University of Chicago / Argonne National Laboratory)
        Slides
      • 86
        Conclusions and next steps
        Speaker: Dr Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)
    • Providing cloud services: EGI Fed Cloud Demo Aquarius

      Aquarius

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Cloud platform operators talk about cloud service design, customer support (account management, service desk etc.) and integration into operational infrastructures

      Convener: Dr Matteo Turilli (Oxford e-Research Centre)
      • 87
        Demonstration of the Federated Clouds Task Force test bed and services
        Speaker: Dr Matteo Turilli (Oxford e-Research Centre)
        Slides
    • Software services for community building and support Taurus

      Taurus

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Scientific communities require various software and support services - such as training, consultancy, software development - to engage with the technical services of the European Grid Infrastructure. These services are provided in EGI by distributed teams operated within the NGIs (National Grid Infrastructures), VRCs (Virtual Research Communities), VOs (Virtual Organisations) and national and international projects and scientific collaborations. The provisioning is facilitated by a variety of software tools. The Applications Database from Greece, the Training Marketplace from the UK, the Client Relationship Management system from Spain and Portugal and the Requirement Tracker from the Czech Republic are examples of services that scientific groups and their supporters are already benefiting from. New initiatives - such as the Globus Market from IGE or ScienceSoft from EMI - are emerging, and target certain functionalities that EGI needs to florish as a successful, innovative, distributed community.

      This session includes presentations and discussion of the current and emerging tools that EGI uses or needs for the coordination and delivery of community building and user support activities.

      Convener: Dr Gergely Sipos (EGI.EU)
      • 88
        EGI Applications Database
        Speaker: Marios Chatziangelou (IASA)
        Slides
      • 89
        EGI Training Marketplace
        Speaker: Claire Devereux (STFC)
        Slides
      • 90
        EGI virtual machine image marketplace
        Speaker: Dr Matteo Turilli (Oxford e-Research Centre)
      • 91
        ScienceSoft - Open Software for Open Science - Call For Participation to Our Community
        Speakers: Alberto Di Meglio (EMI), Mr MORRIS RIEDEL (JUELICH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTRE)
        Slides
      • 92
        Globus Tools Market
        Speaker: Mr Matthias Hofmann (TU-Dortmund)
        Slides
      • 93
        Discussion
    • 5:30 PM
      EGI Welcome Reception and Cocktail
    • Plenary Zenit/Nadir

      Zenit/Nadir

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Keynote talks

      Convener: Maurice Bouwhuis (SARA)
      • 94
        One year of The EGI Federated Clouds Task Force
        Speaker: Dr Matteo Turilli (Oxford e-Research Centre)
        Slides
      • 95
        Cloud-based services for Science
        Speaker: Mr Steve Tuecke (University of Chicago / Argonne National Laboratory)
        Slides
    • 10:30 AM
      Break
    • AAI Workshop: Overview of Established Solutions Nadir

      Nadir

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Resources of the European Grid Infrastructure provide services for research communities through various grid middleware and cloud platforms. These services use X509 certificates for user authentication and authorisation (AA) purposes. A growing number of the existing and potential new user communities of EGI consider personal certificate based access as a main barrier of the infrastructure uptake. Some of these communities – together with their supporting NGIs, NRENs and scientific projects – developed ad-hoc solutions to simplify or hide the certificate based Authentication Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI) from these users. Before such solutions could be widely adopted within EGI they need to be assessed from a number of perspectives. Georgaphical coverage, availability for any scientific discipline, scalability, robustness, integrate-ability with current and emerging EGI platforms, sustainability and simple usage are the main criteria for a AAI to be adopted within the European Grid Infrastructure.

      The workshop aims to bring together representatives from existing and potential user communities, their support teams, platform technology providers and resource providers to present and discuss state-of-the-art AAI solutions and next steps towards the wider and harmonised adoption of these within the NGIs, the providers of EGI resources. The workshop will consists of two parts:

      First part (Session 1 & 2):
      • Presentations by user community representatives, by NGIs, by Technology providers and by projects about AA solutions they developed to simplify access to grid middleware or cloud EGI platforms. (for example Identity federations; OpenID; science gateway frameworks; online certificate storages, robot certificate providers, identity mapping frameworks)
      • Presentations by representatives scientific communities about the use cases and requirements for the integration of new AA appriaches into the production infrastructure.

      Second part (Session 3):
      Open discussion of an architecture that integrates AA services from the EGI community and provides a platform for portal developers who want to create research community specific, web portal based Virtual Research Environment that provide access to resources of the EGI production infrastructure (grid/cloud services) and are integrated with the identity federation(s) used by the research community.
      A short document that outlines this platform has been prepared prior to the workshop. This document is available below (look for the link Discussion_document on the page). The document describes a possible architecture of this platform (EGI federated identity platform) and identifies existing software components from the community that could be used to implement the platform. The discussion session of the workshop is used to
      1. Refine the vision of the ‘EGI federated identity platform’, and if possible endorse it as a service that the EGI community wants to implement and provide for research collaborations.
      2. Identify software providers and service providers from the community that would participate in the implementation and provisioning of a production instance of the platform for the whole community.
      3. Identify issues or threats that would make a specific service from the platform, or the platform itself unusable or irrelevant for research communities.

      Workshop follow up:

      The platform vision document will be updated as soon as possible based on the feedback that have been received during the discussion session. If you wish to provide written feedback on the document then please email this to Gergely Sipos (gergely.sipos@egi.eu).

      If you wish to stay involved in the further development of the vision document and the platform implementation, then please email your EGI SSO account name to Gergely Sipos (you can request one at www.egi.eu/sso). You will be added to the email list that will be setup for this purpose after the Technical Forum.

      Conveners: Dr Gergely Sipos (EGI.EU), Peter Solagna (EGI.EU)
      Discussion_document
      • 96
        Experiences with integrating science gateways with identity federations
        Speaker: Marco Fargetta (INFN)
        Slides
      • 97
        Generic User Management for Science Gateways via Virtual Organizations
        Speakers: Richard GRUNZKE, Sandra Gesing (University of Tuebingen), Tobias Schlemmer (University of Tübingen)
        Slides
      • 98
        Using online CAs and MyProxy servers for identity mapping
        Speaker: Marco Bencivenni (INFN)
        Slides
      • 99
        Report on Federated Identity Management workshops
        Speaker: David Kelsey (STFC)
        Slides
      • 100
        Identity Developments in the NRENs community
        Speaker: Licia Florio (TERENA)
        Slides
      • 101
        Centralized user management and Single Sign On for the WeNMR gateway through the WeNMR Virtual Research Community
        Speaker: Mr Marc van Dijk (WeNMR)
        Slides
    • EGI InSPIRE: PAC (Project Admin Cttee) Aquarius

      Aquarius

      Clarion Conference Centre

      A series of closed EGI InSPIRE project meetings

      Conveners: Celine Bitoune (EGI.EU), Claire Devereux (STFC)
    • EMI 2 Matterhorn - tutorial for system administrators: Part 1, YAIM and site BDII Tycho

      Tycho

      Clarion Conference Centre

      This system administrator oriented tutorial is based on the second release of the EMI middleware, EMI-2 "Matterhorn", and will provide practical tutorials about the installation and configuration of the most used services. Specific examples will be provided, highlighting best practices and most common mistakes. It is mainly intended for System Administrators. See the details for further info about the topics.

      Each session will feature an hands-on part, where virtual machines will be available for those willing to practice the exercise performed by the speaker.

      Those who are not attending the conference can follow remotely through the session webcast. Guest access is enabled, but remote participants are warmly requested to insert their real name and provenance. The webcast recording is permanently available at the URL reported in the session details.

      Conveners: Emidio Giorgio (INFN), Kathryn Cassidy (TCD)
      • 102
        EMI 2 Matterhorn - tutorial for system administrators
        Speakers: Emidio Giorgio (INFN), Kathryn Cassidy (TCD)
      • 103
        Configuring EMI services through YAIM
        Speaker: Dr Cristina Aiftimiei (INFN)
        Slides
        Training material
        Webcast
      • 104
        EMI 2 site BDII installation and configuration
        Speaker: Dr Cristina Aiftimiei (INFN)
        Slides
        Training material
        Webcast
    • Helix Nebula Workshop: Technical Interoperability Leo

      Leo

      Clarion Conference Centre

      The EC-funded Helix Nebula project is a step towards a European cloud‐based scientific e‐Infrastructure composed of resources and services from commercial and publicly-owned providers. This workshop is the first of three to bring together the appropriate technology and policy representatives from both the public and commercial sectors to address the integration and interoperation of their respective infrastructures. The workshop is composed of three sessions addressing respectively 1) technical interoperability (http://go.egi.eu/hnws1-p1), 2) network connectivity (http://go.egi.eu/hnws1-p2), and 3) business models and legal aspects (http://go.egi.eu/hnws1-p3).

      The first session focuses on requirements for technical interoperability among publicly-funded e-Infrastructures and commercial cloud providers. The session kicks off with two presentations describing the technical architecture of the EGI Federated Cloud and Helix Nebula. An initial list of current and potential use cases for using integrated clouds infrastructures will be highlighted. This session is expected to provide Helix Nebula with initial list of meaningful use cases, a set of agreed technical requirements, as well as the identification of working groups that should be started in order to analyse them towards the definition of a roadmap for their implementations.

      Printable brochure: http://go.egi.eu/hnws1-brochure

      Convener: Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU)
      • 105
        Introduction and Goals
        Speaker: Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU)
        Slides
      • 106
        Use Cases for using integrated clouds infrastructures
        Speaker: Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU)
        Slides
      • 107
        EGI FedCloud Architecture
        Speaker: Dr Matteo Turilli (Oxford e-Research Centre)
        Slides
      • 108
        The Helix-Nebula Technical Architecture
        Speaker: Phil Evans (Logica)
        Paper
        Slides
      • 109
        Discussion on the technical interoperability requirements
    • Operations - Resource Centre Forum Taurus

      Taurus

      Clarion Conference Centre

      The Resource Centre Forum puts together experts and representatives from the EGI Resource Centres to discuss operational and technical issues that concern various topics such as deployment of licensed software, resource allocation to new user groups, deployment of GPGUS, deployment of batch systems such as Grid Engine, etc. During the Resource Centre Forum we will discuss the creation of a permanent group of experts to address site-specific VO operational issues. The ultimate goal of the Resource Centre Forum is to improve support to multiple disciplines, foster collaboration between Resource Centres from different NGIs and to allow sharing of expertise between them. The III Resource Centre Forum meeting is aimed at VO operations managers, to site representatives and NGI operations teams.

      Convener: Dr Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)
      • 110
        Resource Centre Forum
        Speaker: Dr Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)
      • 111
        Ongoing operational issues of BIOMED VO
        Speaker: Franck MICHEL (CNRS)
        Slides
      • 112
        GPGPU status of deployment and user requirements
        Speaker: John Walsh (TCD)
        Slides
      • 113
        Resource allocation policies in EGI
        Speakers: Mr T. Szepieniec (CYFRONET), Dr Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)
        Slides
      • 114
        Resource Centre cooperation: interest groups and ideas of innovation towards Horizon 2020
    • Operations Workshops: Accounting Zenit

      Zenit

      Clarion Conference Centre

      A series of 3 sessions dedicated to Operations and covering accounting and the advancement of tools and regionalization.

      Convener: Dr John Gordon (STFC)
      • 115
        New Types of Accounting Records
        Speaker: Dr John Gordon (STFC)
        Slides
      • 116
        New features on Accounting Portal Release Electra
        Speakers: Alvaro Simon (FCTSG), Ivan Diaz Alvarez (FCTSG)
        Slides
      • 117
        APEL as a Global Accounting Repository
        Speaker: Ms Alison Packer (STFC)
        Slides
      • 118
        Transporting Accounting Data using SSM
        Speaker: Mr Will Rogers (STFC)
        Slides
      • 119
        Globus Accounting using Grid-SAFE
        Speaker: Stephen Crouch (University of Southampton)
        Slides
    • e-Infrastructure Impact Assessment Methodologies Kepler

      Kepler

      Clarion Conference Centre

      The ERINA+ consortium will be presenting the final shape of the assessment methodology, as a comprehensive means to enable a socio-economic impact analysis of e-Infrastructures. Part of the discussion will be dedicated as well to the main operational tools which, above all, helped the Consortium in the gathering of information and, therefore, allowed the projects to enter the second phase of data analysis, coming to a first overall assessment of the e-Infrastructures domain through: The ERINA+ Project Self-Assessment Webtool, released in July 2012; and Online questionnaires for retrieving information and feedback from e-Infrastructures from two perspectives (a) e-Infrastructure Key Stakeholders of and (b) Users of the projects’ services.

      Convener: Andrea Manieri (Engineering)
      • 120
        ERINA+: Welcome and Overview
        Speaker: nadia nardi (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica spa)
        Slides
      • 121
        ERINA+ Methodology
        Speaker: Francesco Bellini (Eurokleis)
      • 122
        ERINA+ Tools for Data Gathering
        Speakers: Francesco Bellini (Eurokleis), Josef Benedikt (ZSI), Dr antonella passani (T6 ecosystems)
      • 123
        Q&A / Open Discussion
    • 12:30 PM
      Lunch
    • AAI Workshop: Emerging Solutions from NGIs and Communities Nadir

      Nadir

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Resources of the European Grid Infrastructure provide services for research communities through various grid middleware and cloud platforms. These services use X509 certificates for user authentication and authorisation (AA) purposes. A growing number of the existing and potential new user communities of EGI consider personal certificate based access as a main barrier of the infrastructure uptake. Some of these communities – together with their supporting NGIs, NRENs and scientific projects – developed ad-hoc solutions to simplify or hide the certificate based Authentication Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI) from these users. Before such solutions could be widely adopted within EGI they need to be assessed from a number of perspectives. Georgaphical coverage, availability for any scientific discipline, scalability, robustness, integrate-ability with current and emerging EGI platforms, sustainability and simple usage are the main criteria for a AAI to be adopted within the European Grid Infrastructure.

      The workshop aims to bring together representatives from existing and potential user communities, their support teams, platform technology providers and resource providers to present and discuss state-of-the-art AAI solutions and next steps towards the wider and harmonised adoption of these within the NGIs, the providers of EGI resources. The workshop will consists of two parts:

      First part (Session 1 & 2):
      • Presentations by user community representatives, by NGIs, by Technology providers and by projects about AA solutions they developed to simplify access to grid middleware or cloud EGI platforms. (for example Identity federations; OpenID; science gateway frameworks; online certificate storages, robot certificate providers, identity mapping frameworks)
      • Presentations by representatives scientific communities about the use cases and requirements for the integration of new AA appriaches into the production infrastructure.

      Second part (Session 3):
      Open discussion of an architecture that integrates AA services from the EGI community and provides a platform for portal developers who want to create research community specific, web portal based Virtual Research Environment that provide access to resources of the EGI production infrastructure (grid/cloud services) and are integrated with the identity federation(s) used by the research community.
      A short document that outlines this platform has been prepared prior to the workshop. This document is available below (look for the link Discussion_document on the page). The document describes a possible architecture of this platform (EGI federated identity platform) and identifies existing software components from the community that could be used to implement the platform. The discussion session of the workshop is used to
      1. Refine the vision of the ‘EGI federated identity platform’, and if possible endorse it as a service that the EGI community wants to implement and provide for research collaborations.
      2. Identify software providers and service providers from the community that would participate in the implementation and provisioning of a production instance of the platform for the whole community.
      3. Identify issues or threats that would make a specific service from the platform, or the platform itself unusable or irrelevant for research communities.

      Workshop follow up:

      The platform vision document will be updated as soon as possible based on the feedback that have been received during the discussion session. If you wish to provide written feedback on the document then please email this to Gergely Sipos (gergely.sipos@egi.eu).

      If you wish to stay involved in the further development of the vision document and the platform implementation, then please email your EGI SSO account name to Gergely Sipos (you can request one at www.egi.eu/sso). You will be added to the email list that will be setup for this purpose after the Technical Forum.

      Conveners: Dr Gergely Sipos (EGI.EU), Peter Solagna (EGI.EU)
      Discussion_document
      • 124
        Providing short-lived X.509 certificates with the GridCertLib Java library
        Speaker: sergio maffioletti (UZH)
        Slides
      • 125
        EMI STS - Transforming the existing user credentials for the Grid
        Speaker: Henri Mikkonen (Helsinki Institute of Physics)
        Slides
      • 126
        Authorization in Grids using an Electronic ID Card
        Speaker: Anton Frank (BADW-LRZ)
        Slides
      • 127
        SOA3: an architecture for service oriented authentication, authorization and accounting in distributed environment
        Speaker: Ciro Formisano (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica)
        Slides
      • 128
        Integrating non-web based services with identity federations
        Speaker: Jens Koehler
        Slides
    • CHAIN Interoperability Workshop Virgo

      Virgo

      Clarion Conference Centre

      The workshop aims to assess the progress made on interoperability with the demo of the Science Gateway and a feed-back from the VRCs.
      A preliminary version of the Roadmap will also be presented

      Convener: Federico Ruggieri (INFN - Roma Tre)
      • 129
        CHAIN Interoperability Workshop - Introduction to project
        Speakers: Federico Ruggieri (INFN - Roma Tre), Ludek Matyska (CESNET), Roberto Barbera (University of Catania and INFN)
        • a) The CHAIN Project
          An introduction to CHAIN and the recent achievements
          Speaker: Federico Ruggieri (INFN - Roma Tre)
      • 130
        The Science Gateway
        Speaker: Roberto Barbera (University of Catania and INFN)
      • 131
        Science Gateway Demo and Q&A
    • Cloud Management Solutions: Workshop on IGE Appliances Kepler

      Kepler

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Technology Providers' presentations - how do their offered solutions fit the Platform Operator's needs and improve their operating costs. Technical overview on components, interfaces, and supported standards (technical and process)

      Convener: Dr Ioan Lucian Muntean (UTC)
      • 132
        Workshop: IGE Appliances for Grid Administrators and Users
        Speaker: Dr Ioan Lucian Muntean (UTC)
    • EGI InSPIRE: PMB Stella (EGI Boardroom)

      Stella (EGI Boardroom)

      Clarion Conference Centre

      A series of closed EGI InSPIRE project meetings

      Convener: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)
    • EMI 2 Matterhorn - tutorial for system administrators: Part 1, CREAM and WMS Tycho

      Tycho

      Clarion Conference Centre

      This system administrator oriented tutorial is based on the second release of the EMI middleware, EMI-2 "Matterhorn", and will provide practical tutorials about the installation and configuration of the most used services. Specific examples will be provided, highlighting best practices and most common mistakes. It is mainly intended for System Administrators. See the details for further info about the topics.

      Each session will feature an hands-on part, where virtual machines will be available for those willing to practice the exercise performed by the speaker.

      Those who are not attending the conference can follow remotely through the session webcast. Guest access is enabled, but remote participants are warmly requested to insert their real name and provenance. The webcast recording is permanently available at the URL reported in the session details.

      Conveners: Emidio Giorgio (INFN), Kathryn Cassidy (TCD)
      • 133
        CREAM installation, configuration and troubleshooting
        Speaker: Paolo Andreetto (INFN)
        Slides
        Webcast
      • 134
        EMI 1 WMS - Installation and Configuration
        Speaker: Emidio Giorgio (INFN)
        Slides
        Webcast
    • Helix-Nebula Workshop: Networking Connectivity Leo

      Leo

      Clarion Conference Centre

      The second session dives into the topic of networking services covering coordination with GEANT and the NRENs to ensure network connectivity and policy compliance for the data-intensive use cases and presentations on commercial networking solutions from Helix Nebula suppliers. As the evaluation criteria and key performance metrics for the Helix Nebula cloud offering will be defined based on the specific goals of each flagship application, networking performance will also be a key aspect. It will also allow EGI to fine-tune with the agenda of GEANT/NRENs in terms of next steps for activities related to cloud services and to discuss common issues in this area (requirements/constraints).

      Convener: Carmela Asero (EGI.EU)
      • 135
        Introduction and Goals
        Speaker: Carmela Asero (EGI.EU)
        Slides
      • 136
        Connecting commercial cloud providers with NRENs/GEANT
        Speaker: Mr Neils Hersoug (DANTE)
        Slides
      • 137
        Commercial Networking Solutions - Helix Nebula Supplier
        Speaker: Udo Schäfer (Alcatel-Lucent)
        Slides
      • 138
        Network Connectivity - Scientific Clouds
        Speaker: Jurry de la Mar (T-Systems International GmbH)
        Slides
      • 139
        Discussion
    • Operations Workshops: Future Advancements of Tools and Regionalization - Part 1 Zenit

      Zenit

      Clarion Conference Centre

      A series of 3 sessions dedicated to Operations and covering accounting and the advancement of tools and regionalization.

      Convener: Daniele Cesini (INFN)
      • 140
        Workshop: Future advancements of tools and regionalization
        Speaker: Daniele Cesini (INFN)
      • 141
        GSTAT status and plans
        Speaker: Eric Yen (ASGC)
        Slides
      • 142
        D-MON
        Speaker: Ilya Saverchenko (BADW)
        Slides
      • 143
        OSG Operational Tools
        Speaker: Rob Quick (Open Science Grid)
        Slides
      • 144
        SAM status and plans
        Speaker: Marian Babik (CERN)
        Slides
    • 3:30 PM
      Break
    • AAI Workshop: General Discussion Nadir

      Nadir

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Resources of the European Grid Infrastructure provide services for research communities through various grid middleware and cloud platforms. These services use X509 certificates for user authentication and authorisation (AA) purposes. A growing number of the existing and potential new user communities of EGI consider personal certificate based access as a main barrier of the infrastructure uptake. Some of these communities – together with their supporting NGIs, NRENs and scientific projects – developed ad-hoc solutions to simplify or hide the certificate based Authentication Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI) from these users. Before such solutions could be widely adopted within EGI they need to be assessed from a number of perspectives. Georgaphical coverage, availability for any scientific discipline, scalability, robustness, integrate-ability with current and emerging EGI platforms, sustainability and simple usage are the main criteria for a AAI to be adopted within the European Grid Infrastructure.

      The workshop aims to bring together representatives from existing and potential user communities, their support teams, platform technology providers and resource providers to present and discuss state-of-the-art AAI solutions and next steps towards the wider and harmonised adoption of these within the NGIs, the providers of EGI resources. The workshop will consists of two parts:

      First part (Session 1 & 2):
      • Presentations by user community representatives, by NGIs, by Technology providers and by projects about AA solutions they developed to simplify access to grid middleware or cloud EGI platforms. (for example Identity federations; OpenID; science gateway frameworks; online certificate storages, robot certificate providers, identity mapping frameworks)
      • Presentations by representatives scientific communities about the use cases and requirements for the integration of new AA appriaches into the production infrastructure.

      Second part (Session 3):
      Open discussion of an architecture that integrates AA services from the EGI community and provides a platform for portal developers who want to create research community specific, web portal based Virtual Research Environment that provide access to resources of the EGI production infrastructure (grid/cloud services) and are integrated with the identity federation(s) used by the research community.
      A short document that outlines this platform has been prepared prior to the workshop. This document is available below (look for the link Discussion_document on the page). The document describes a possible architecture of this platform (EGI federated identity platform) and identifies existing software components from the community that could be used to implement the platform. The discussion session of the workshop is used to
      1. Refine the vision of the ‘EGI federated identity platform’, and if possible endorse it as a service that the EGI community wants to implement and provide for research collaborations.
      2. Identify software providers and service providers from the community that would participate in the implementation and provisioning of a production instance of the platform for the whole community.
      3. Identify issues or threats that would make a specific service from the platform, or the platform itself unusable or irrelevant for research communities.

      Workshop follow up:

      The platform vision document will be updated as soon as possible based on the feedback that have been received during the discussion session. If you wish to provide written feedback on the document then please email this to Gergely Sipos (gergely.sipos@egi.eu).

      If you wish to stay involved in the further development of the vision document and the platform implementation, then please email your EGI SSO account name to Gergely Sipos (you can request one at www.egi.eu/sso). You will be added to the email list that will be setup for this purpose after the Technical Forum.

      Conveners: Dr Gergely Sipos (EGI.EU), Peter Solagna (EGI.EU)
      Discussion_document
      • 145
        Discussion
        Speakers: Dr Gergely Sipos (EGI.EU), Peter Solagna (EGI.EU)
        Slides
    • CHAIN Interoperability Workshop Virgo

      Virgo

      Clarion Conference Centre

      The workshop aims to assess the progress made on interoperability with the demo of the Science Gateway and a feed-back from the VRCs.
      A preliminary version of the Roadmap will also be presented

      Convener: Federico Ruggieri (INFN - Roma Tre)
      • 146
        GISELA and LA experience - Luis Nunez (CLARA)
      • 147
        The CHAIN roadmap
        Speaker: Ludek Matyska (CESNET)
      • 148
        Final discussion and wrap-up
    • Cloud Management Solutions Kepler

      Kepler

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Technology Providers' presentations - how do their offered solutions fit the Platform Operator's needs and improve their operating costs. Technical overview on components, interfaces, and supported standards (technical and process)

      Convener: Dr Matteo Turilli (Oxford e-Research Centre)
      • 149
        Monitoring Virtual Machine Status with L&B
        Speakers: Mr Jiri Filipovic (CESNET), Zdenek Sustr (CESNET)
        Slides
      • 150
        VENUS-C Interoperable Toolkit v2.0
        Speaker: Ms Kanchanna Ramasamy Balraj (Junior Researcher)
        Slides
      • 151
        Using R, self scaling Matlab clusters and Galaxy clusters on a HPC cloud infrastructure
        Speaker: Tom Visser (SARA)
        Slides
    • EGI InSPIRE: PMB Stella (EGI Boardroom)

      Stella (EGI Boardroom)

      Clarion Conference Centre

      A series of closed EGI InSPIRE project meetings

      Convener: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)
    • EGI-CSIRT Security Training Hands-on Wrap-Up: Hands-on Part II Taurus

      Taurus

      Clarion Conference Centre

      If you want to participate, please register at the following URL: http://go.egi.eu/security

      This is a sequence of sessions starting Tues 18th at 11:00, followed by Wed 16:00 and concluding with a double session on Fri.

      In this security hands-on, the participants will take on the role as security teams being responsible for the operational security of simulated grid sites running in a virtualized environment. The sites will face attacks very similar to those seen in real life. The team's task is to respond to these attacks and keep their services up and running as far as possible.
      The target audience is system administrators with a good knowledge of linux. Please note that the number of participants will be somehow limited by the underlying testbed used for the hands-on (18 max).
      An introduction to the the tutorial can be found here:
      https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI_CSIRT:TDG/SecTut-EGI17092012

      Conveners: Leif Nixon (LIU), Dr Sven Gabriel (Nikhef)
      • 152
        Discussion with participants on Part I
        Speaker: Leif Nixon (LIU)
      • 153
        Introduction to Part II - "Klingons in the grid"
        Speakers: Heiko Reese (KIT-G), Dr Sven Gabriel (Nikhef)
    • EMI 2 Matterhorn - tutorial for system administrators: Part 3, DPM and EMIR Tycho

      Tycho

      Clarion Conference Centre

      This system administrator oriented tutorial is based on the second release of the EMI middleware, EMI-2 "Matterhorn", and will provide practical tutorials about the installation and configuration of the most used services. Specific examples will be provided, highlighting best practices and most common mistakes. It is mainly intended for System Administrators. See the details for further info about the topics.

      Each session will feature an hands-on part, where virtual machines will be available for those willing to practice the exercise performed by the speaker.

      Those who are not attending the conference can follow remotely through the session webcast. Guest access is enabled, but remote participants are warmly requested to insert their real name and provenance. The webcast recording is permanently available at the URL reported in the session details.

      Conveners: Emidio Giorgio (INFN), Kathryn Cassidy (TCD)
      • 154
        DPM migration from gLite 3.2 to EMI 2
        Speaker: Emidio Giorgio (INFN)
        Slides
        Webcast
      • 155
        Introduction to EMIR : installation, service configuration, and demonstration of a working instance
        Speaker: Ivan Marton (NIIF Institute)
        Slides
    • Helix-Nebula Workshop: Business Models and Legal Aspects Leo

      Leo

      Clarion Conference Centre

      The final session of the workshop looks at potential business for integrated e-infrastructures with commercial clouds and the legal and policy issues around scientific data in publicly-owned and private infrastructures. In addition, understanding the overall costs of e-Infrastructures and service provision is a prerequisite in planning long-term sustainability and any possible business model. A study that goes beyond a simple “cost per core hour” comparison by analysing qualitative differences in service between HTC and HPC e-Infrastructures and their closest commercial counterparts will also be presented. The expected outcome of this session includes a preliminary list of usage models for hybrid clouds and a possible identification of cost models as well as of scenarios to operate cloud services in current and changing regulatory environment. The workshop will close with an overall summary including agreements, open issues and actions.

      Convener: Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU)
      • 156
        Introduction and Goals
        Speaker: Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU)
      • 157
        Business models for integrated e-infrastructures with commercial clouds
        Speaker: Mick Symonds (Atos)
        Slides
      • 158
        Personal data processed in cloud infrastructures: main legal aspects
        Speaker: Dr Enrico Pelino (ICT Legal Consulting & EPA)
        Slides
      • 159
        Cost of e-Infrastructures
        Speaker: Dr Fotis Karagiannis (Independent)
        Slides
      • 160
        Discussion / Workshop Wrap-up / Action Summary
        Slides
    • Operations Workshops: Future Advancements of Tools and Regionalization - Part 2 Zenit

      Zenit

      Clarion Conference Centre

      A series of 3 sessions dedicated to Operations and covering accounting and the advancement of tools and regionalization.

      Convener: Daniele Cesini (INFN)
      • 161
        GOCDB, GLUE2 and Information Discovery
        Speaker: david meredith (STFC)
        Slides
      • 162
        Operations Portal future plan
        Speaker: Cyril Lorphelin (CNRS)
        Slides
      • 163
        GGUS status and plans
        Speaker: Dr Torsten Antoni (KIT-G)
        Slides
      • 164
        Discussion
    • Plenary Zenit/Nadir

      Zenit/Nadir

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Keynote talks

      Convener: Erwin Laure (KTH)
      • 165
        What virtual environment and data management for a distributed research infrastructure like ELI?
        Speaker: Vlastimil Ruzicka
        Slides
      • 166
        Data Challenges in EISCAT_3D -The European 3-Dimensional Imaging Radar for Atmospheric and Geospace Research
        Speaker: Esa Turunen
        Slides
    • 10:30 AM
      Break
    • EGI InSPIRE: Collaboration Board Virgo

      Virgo

      Clarion Conference Centre

      A series of closed EGI InSPIRE project meetings

      Convener: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)
    • Operations: Workshop on advancement of Information Discovery Systems Zenit

      Zenit

      Clarion Conference Centre

      This operations track addresses the problem of the future technical evolution of EGI operations, and on the sustainability of NGI and EGI.eu operational services.

      In the morning session we will discuss the status and next steps for a unified EGI information discovery service.

      Convener: Dr Stephen Burke (EGi.eu)
      • 167
        Towards an integrated information system - third workshop
        Speakers: Balazs Konya (EMI project), Daniele Cesini (INFN), Ilya Saverchenko (BADW), Stephen Burke (EGI.EU)
        ARC
        EMIR latency
        EMIR rollout
        Info system future
        Introduction
        OSG plans
        Profile
        • a) Introduction
          Speaker: Stephen Burke (EGI.EU)
        • b) EGI Profile for GLUE 2
          Speaker: Stephen Burke (EGI.EU)
          Slides
        • c) OSG plans for GLUE 2
          Speaker: Rob Quick (Open Science Grid)
        • d) EMIR rollout
          Speaker: Laurence Field (CERN)
        • e) Evolution of the information system as seen by EMI
          Speaker: Laurence Field (CERN)
        • f) EMIR multi-tier performance testing
          Speaker: ahmed shiraz memon (JUELICH)
        • g) Consuming GLUE2 information in the ARCLIB compute library
          Speaker: Florido Paganelli (Lund University)
        • h) GLUE2 in the the EMI-ES job management interface
          Speaker: Florido Paganelli (Lund University)
    • Resource Infrastructure Services: LRMS and job scheduling services Nadir

      Nadir

      Clarion Conference Centre

      A single session on Services followed by a double session training workshop for service administrators.

      Convener: Goncalo Borges (LIP)
      • 168
        Testing SLURM batch system for a grid farm: functionalities, scalability, performance and how it works with Cream-CE
        Speaker: Dr Giacinto Donvito (INFN)
        Slides
      • 169
        GWpilot: a personal pilot system
        Speakers: Mr Antonio J. Rubio-Montero (CIEMAT), Rafael Mayo-Garcia (CIEMAT)
        Slides
      • 170
        GridWay interoperability through BES
        Speaker: Dr Ismael Marín Carrion (Complutense University of Madrid)
        Slides
    • Science Gateways: Harmonising Development and Provisioning Taurus

      Taurus

      Clarion Conference Centre

      As the digital research landscape broadens, so more research communities are seeking to establish community or science domain specific environments for data sharing and analysis scenarios. These environments, the so called Virtual Research Environments (VREs) use a mix of EGI, third party academic and commercial resources to support multi-national communities on a sustainable and long term basis. Science gateways are key enablers of VREs: they integrate and provide a coherent view of the various software tools and services that a researcher needs for a custom analysis workflow. Authentication frameworks, visualisation tools, monitors, databases, workflow systems, job execution pilots are few examples from the rich set of services that science gateways glue together and make easily consumable through a Web portal or a desktop application.

      Over the last decade the members of the European Grid Infrastructure collaboration accumulated rich knowledge on developing, deploying, operating and monitoring science gateways. EGI members provide nearly 30 science gateways for various scientific groups in Europe and beyond. Many of these gateways are built from 'off the shelf' frameworks or components that exist as reusable products to those who wish to build new gateways for their own specific needs. (The gateways and the enabling technologies are listed here: http://go.egi.eu/sciencegateways)

      The contributions of this double-session will focus on various technical aspects of science gateway enabling technologies and of gateway development. The EGI-InSPIRE project recently started a 'Virtual Team' with participants from 15 NGIs and from EGI.eu to develop a primer document for gateway developers (https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/VT_Science_Gateway_Primer). The document will collect best practices and state of the art in relevant technological and policy areas. The double-session will provide an opportunity to update the community about the activities to be covered by the primer document and that facilitate the adoption of EGI gateways and gateway technologies within the European Research Area.

      Convener: Nuno Ferreira (EGI.EU)
      • 171
        Science Gateway session introduction
        Speaker: Dr Robert Lovas (MTA SZTAKI)
        Slides
      • 172
        EGI's Support services for Science Gateway developers
        Speaker: Nuno Ferreira (EGI.EU)
        Slides
      • 173
        WS-PGRADE/gUSE generic DCI gateway framework for EGI user communities
        Speaker: Zoltan Farkas (MTA SZTAKI)
        Slides
      • 174
        How to integrate portals with EGI monitoring system
        Speaker: Mr Dusan Vudragovic (Institute of Physics Belgrade)
        Slides
      • 175
        How to integrate EGI portals with identity federations
        Speaker: Roberto Barbera (University of Catania and INFN)
        Slides
    • Sustainability of National Infrastructures Leo

      Leo

      Clarion Conference Centre

      This session aims at guiding NGIs to analyse the key issues that need to be faced to become sustainable: costs, cost models, service portfolio, business models and service management structures. The evolution of the European Grid from a project-based structure to a network of organisations with a common strategy to provide federated services is a major step forward for long-term sustainability of the EGI community. In this context, each national infrastructure needs to develop or consolidate its own business model and service management structures to achieve sustainability. This dedicated session is designed to better understand the development and progress of the sustainability plans and strategies coming from the national infrastructures, therefore participation from these representatives is essential.

      Convener: Sy Holsinger (EGI.EU)
      • 176
        Sustainability of NGI Operations
        Speaker: Dr Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)
        Slides
      • 177
        NGI Sustainability Checklist
        Speaker: Owen Appleton (Emergence Tech Limited)
        Slides
      • 178
        An NGI Sustainability Perspective: PL-Grid case study
        Speaker: Mr T. Szepieniec (CYFRONET)
        Slides
      • 179
        Panel Discussion
    • Virtualised Resources: Higher Level Services Kepler

      Kepler

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Which services are needed/available to efficiently use Cloud infrastructures? Services bridging the gap between pure Cloud infrastructure services and VREs, such as Brokers, Workflow services portals, etc.

      Conveners: Dr Matteo Turilli (Oxford e-Research Centre), Michel Drescher (EGI.EU)
      • 180
        Use Case: Running Monte Carlo LHCb simulations using DIRAC with EGI Federated Cloud
        Speaker: Dr Victor Mendez (Port d'Informació Cientìfica, PIC)
        Slides
      • 181
        Performance Prediction of Cloud Applications Using Dwarf Benchmarks
        Speaker: Mr Juri Papay (IT Innovation Centre, University of Southampton)
      • 182
        D4Science Infrastructure: a novel open approach to distributed software management based on Maven
        Speaker: Andrea Manzi (CERN)
        Slides
      • 183
        Remote analysis of human voice - environment for voice training and ORL medicine
        Speaker: Mr Tomáš Kulhánek (CESNET)
        Slides
    • 12:30 PM
      Lunch
    • EGI Council: Workshop Virgo

      Virgo

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Convener: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)
    • Genesis II tutorial Tycho

      Tycho

      Clarion Conference Centre

      This is a double session Tutorial being run by Karolina Sarnowska-Upton of Virginia University

      Convener: Karolina Sarnowska-Upton (University of Virginia)
      slides
      • 184
        Genesis II – From the Global Federated File System to Running Jobs
        Speakers: Daniel Dougherty (University of Virginia), Karolina Sarnowska-Upton (University of Virginia)
    • Operations: Future of EGI Operations (OMB workshop Part I) Zenit

      Zenit

      Clarion Conference Centre

      This operations track addresses the problem of the future technical evolution of EGI operations, and on the sustainability of NGI and EGI.eu operational services.

      In the morning session we will discuss the status and next steps for a unified EGI information discovery service.

      Convener: Dr Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)
      • 185
        Future of EGI Operations - workshop
        Speaker: Dr Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)
      • 186
        Sustainability of NGI operations and assessment of EGI global operations services
        Speaker: Dr Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)
        Slides
      • 187
        Future directions of EGI operations
        Speaker: Dr Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)
        Slides
    • Resource Infrastructure Services: EMI Training - Security Nadir

      Nadir

      Clarion Conference Centre

      A single session on Services followed by a double session training workshop for service administrators.

      Convener: John White (University of Helsinki, Finland)
      • 188
        EMI Security for Grids and Clouds - aims of double session
        Speaker: John White (University of Helsinki, Finland)
      • 189
        STS status
        Speaker: Henri Mikkonen (Helsinki Institute of Physics)
        Slides
      • 190
        Exploring the SAML 2.0 ECP-Profile
        Speaker: Carolina Lindqvist (Helsinki Institute of Physics)
        Slides
      • 191
        Common AuthN libraries
        Speaker: Daniel Kouril (CESNET)
        Slides
      • 192
        Trustmanager and CANl - Joni Hahkala
        Speaker: Joni Hahkala (Helsinki Institute of Physics/EMI)
        Slides
      • 193
        EMI Hydra and Cloud(s)
        Speaker: John White (University of Helsinki, Finland)
        Slides
      • 194
        Argus EES
        Speaker: Oscar Koeroo (FOM)
    • Science Gateways: Harmonising Development and Provisioning Taurus

      Taurus

      Clarion Conference Centre

      As the digital research landscape broadens, so more research communities are seeking to establish community or science domain specific environments for data sharing and analysis scenarios. These environments, the so called Virtual Research Environments (VREs) use a mix of EGI, third party academic and commercial resources to support multi-national communities on a sustainable and long term basis. Science gateways are key enablers of VREs: they integrate and provide a coherent view of the various software tools and services that a researcher needs for a custom analysis workflow. Authentication frameworks, visualisation tools, monitors, databases, workflow systems, job execution pilots are few examples from the rich set of services that science gateways glue together and make easily consumable through a Web portal or a desktop application.

      Over the last decade the members of the European Grid Infrastructure collaboration accumulated rich knowledge on developing, deploying, operating and monitoring science gateways. EGI members provide nearly 30 science gateways for various scientific groups in Europe and beyond. Many of these gateways are built from 'off the shelf' frameworks or components that exist as reusable products to those who wish to build new gateways for their own specific needs. (The gateways and the enabling technologies are listed here: http://go.egi.eu/sciencegateways)

      The contributions of this double-session will focus on various technical aspects of science gateway enabling technologies and of gateway development. The EGI-InSPIRE project recently started a 'Virtual Team' with participants from 15 NGIs and from EGI.eu to develop a primer document for gateway developers (https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/VT_Science_Gateway_Primer). The document will collect best practices and state of the art in relevant technological and policy areas. The double-session will provide an opportunity to update the community about the activities to be covered by the primer document and that facilitate the adoption of EGI gateways and gateway technologies within the European Research Area.

      Convener: Nuno Ferreira (EGI.EU)
      • 195
        How to integrate portals with EGI accounting system
        Speaker: Dr Ricardo Graciani Diaz (University of Barcelona)
        Slides
      • 196
        Data handling in scientific gateways on DCIs
        Speaker: Mark Santcroos (Academic Medical Center Amsterdam)
        Slides
      • 197
        A Grid execution model for the ANSYS engineering simulation software
        Speaker: Alessandro Costantini (INFN)
        Slides
      • 198
        Science Gateways and Clouds
        Speaker: Wibke Sudholt (CloudBroker GmbH)
        Slides
      • 199
        Science Gateway session - concluding discussion
        Speaker: Dr Robert Lovas (MTA SZTAKI)
    • Sustainability of Technology Providers Leo

      Leo

      Clarion Conference Centre

      The technology area within the EGI ecosystem is built upon open-source or commercial software coming from community and generic technology providers that is put together by platform integrators to meet the needs of particular research communities. For instance, the EMI project integrates a platform for high-throughput computing from software that is developed within the project primarily for the EGI community (i.e. community technology providers such as the product teams within EMI) with software developed outside the EGI community (i.e. generic technology providers such as Apache) to meet particular use cases coming from their target research community (e.g. WLCG). The aim of this session is to share vision and strategies from the perspectives of technology providers to guarantee sustainable software and support for the EGI community.

      Convener: Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU)
      • 200
        Introduction
        Speaker: Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU)
      • 201
        Commercial applications of open source middleware: the EMI and DCore experience
        Speakers: Alberto Di Meglio (EMI), Mr Robert Harakaly (EMI)
        Paper
        Slides
      • 202
        Status of the StratusLab Sustainability Efforts
        Speaker: Dr Charles Loomis (CNRS/LAL)
        Paper
        Slides
      • 203
        The sustainability plan of VisIVO
        Speaker: UGO BECCIANI (INAF)
        Paper
      • 204
        Common strategy for Community-Building tools
        Speaker: Dr Gergely Sipos (EGI.EU)
        Slides
      • 205
        Q&A / Discussion
    • Virtualised Resources: EGI Fed Cloud W/S Kepler

      Kepler

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Which services are needed/available to efficiently use Cloud infrastructures? Services bridging the gap between pure Cloud infrastructure services and VREs, such as Brokers, Workflow services portals, etc.

      Convener: Dr Matteo Turilli (Oxford e-Research Centre)
      • 206
        Cloud infrastructure for the on demand provisioning of Worker Nodes
        Speaker: Christos Triantafyllidis (GRNET)
        Slides
      • 207
        Federated Clouds workshop
        Speakers: Dr Matteo Turilli (Oxford e-Research Centre), Stephen Brewer (EGI.EU)
    • 3:30 PM
      Break
    • EGI Council: Workshop Virgo

      Virgo

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Convener: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)
    • EGI InSPIRE: Information system technical discussion Kepler

      Kepler

      Clarion Conference Centre

      A series of closed EGI InSPIRE project meetings

      Convener: Stephen Burke (EGI.EU)
      • 208
        Introduction
        Speaker: Stephen Burke (EGI.EU)
      • 209
        GLUE2 XML renderings
        Speaker: david meredith (STFC)
        Slides
      • 210
        Adopting the BDII as an information system for Globus services
        Speaker: Ilya Saverchenko (BADW)
        Slides
      • 211
        Discussion
    • Genesis II tutorial Tycho

      Tycho

      Clarion Conference Centre

      This is a double session Tutorial being run by Karolina Sarnowska-Upton of Virginia University

      Convener: Karolina Sarnowska-Upton (University of Virginia)
      slides
    • Operations: Future of EGI Operations (OMB workshop Part II) Zenit

      Zenit

      Clarion Conference Centre

      This operations track addresses the problem of the future technical evolution of EGI operations, and on the sustainability of NGI and EGI.eu operational services.

      In the morning session we will discuss the status and next steps for a unified EGI information discovery service.

      Convener: Dr Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)
      • 212
        "One size does not fit all" or making the grid more versatile
        Speaker: Ron Trompert (SARA)
        Slides
      • 213
        Grid Oversight in Service Level Agreement environment.
        Speaker: Marcin Radecki (CYFRONET)
        Slides
      • 214
        Integrating OSG Operational Services
        Speaker: Rob Quick (Open Science Grid)
      • 215
        Status and perspectives of operations in the Asia Pacific region
        Speaker: Eric Yen (ASGC)
      • 216
        Concluding remarks
    • Resource Infrastructure Services: EMI Training - Security Nadir

      Nadir

      Clarion Conference Centre

      A single session on Services followed by a double session training workshop for service administrators.

      Convener: John White (University of Helsinki, Finland)
      • 217
        Argus tutorial: Installation, configuration and policy writing
        Speaker: Mr Valery Tschopp (SWITCH)
        Slides
      • 218
        gLExec tutirial: Installation, configuration and policy writing
        Speakers: Dennis van Dok (FOM), Oscar Koeroo (FOM)
    • Training on Service Portfolio design for NGIs Leo

      Leo

      Clarion Conference Centre

      National Grid Infrastructures are currently in a transition phase from startup states to sustainable organisational structures. A key part of this is precisely defining what services they offer and who will make use of them, This is necessary as not only are NGIs variable in goals, structure and resources, but also because they have often grown out of other organisations. This means that they have often evolved to provide value to many groups without clearly defining either the groups or services.
      This session will use knowledge and approaches from commercial IT Service Management and experts from the gSLM & FedSM projects to help NGIs understand who to clearly define service portfolios. This will support later development of business models and structures for efficient and cost effective management of NGIs. The session will work through the process of designing a service portfolio and provide a schema to support NGIs is carrying out the same process themselves.

      Conveners: Owen Appleton (Emergence Tech Limited), Thomas Schaaf (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
      • 219
        Tutorial on NGI Service Portfolio Design
        Speakers: Owen Appleton (Emergence Tech Limited), Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU), Mr T. Szepieniec (CYFRONET), Thomas Schaaf (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
    • VREs - Community Contributions Taurus

      Taurus

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Virtual Research Environments (VREs) are a combination of environments that provide researchers with easy access to the services deployed through the EGI to enable data analysis activities. As the digital research landscape broadens, so more research communities are seeking to establish such VREs. This session includes presentations of software and services that are available for VRE developers, and experiences in using and establishing services for VREs.

      Convener: Dr Gergely Sipos (EGI.EU)
      • 220
        DIRAC: breaking the frontiers of the Grid
        Speaker: Dr Ricardo Graciani Diaz (University of Barcelona)
        Slides
      • 221
        Running OpenFOAM in parallel on the grid: CFD in the study of cardiovascular disease
        Speakers: Dr Bogdan ENE-IORDACHE (Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research), Dr Giuseppe La Rocca (INFN)
        Slides
      • 222
        Deploying User Oriented Services in IBERGRID
        Speaker: Goncalo Borges (LIP)
        Slides
      • 223
        Latest improvements in the GridWay metascheduler
        Speaker: Dr Ismael Marín Carrión (Complutense University of Madrid)
        Slides
    • 7:00 PM
      EGI Gala dinner
    • Plenary Zenit/Nadir

      Zenit/Nadir

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Keynote talks

      Convener: Stephen Brewer (EGI.EU)
      • 224
        Clouds, what next?
        Speaker: Joe Baguley
        Slides
      • 225
        Manchester
        Speaker: Claire Devereux (STFC)
      • 226
        Awards & Prizes presentation
      • 227
        Closing remarks
        Speaker: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)
        Slides
    • 10:30 AM
      Break
    • EGI Council: Meeting Virgo

      Virgo

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Convener: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)
    • GGUS Advisory Board Leo

      Leo

      Clarion Conference Centre

      This is the first face to face meeting of the recently founded GGUS Advisory Group. GGUS (Global Grid User Support) is the tool behind the EGI helpdesk. Since the EGI helpdesk is used for various purposes by a large number of different user groups, the establishment of an advisory group regularly discussing seemed necessary. Amongst other things, the meeting aims to further detail the composition of the group, its processes and frequency of convening. There will be presentations on current development and strategic topics.
      This is a closed meeting - anyone intending to attend should contact the Chairman, Dr Torsten Antoni.

      The development of GGUS, the tool behind the EGI helpdesk and the EGI technology helpdesk, has been guided by advisory groups since the days of EGEE-II, when first the ESC (Executive Support Committee) and later on the USAG (User Support Advisory Group) were fulfilling this role. With the start of EGEE, this role was shared between the OTAG (Operational Tools Advisory Group) and the USAG (User Services Advisory Group). After the USAG was discontinued it was decided that a GGUS specific advisory body should be founded, bringing on board all the stakeholder from EGI, NGIs, VRCs and Technology Providers. The group will meet on a regular basis to discuss the high level strategic direction the development of GGUS should be taking.

      The EGI helpdesk is one of the central tools used to communicate within the EGI ecosystem, inside and across the borders of projects, infrastructures and user communities. As such it is vital that the general strategic direction of the development is discussed with all the stakeholders. This face to face meeting aims at kick starting the new advisory group.

      Convener: Dr Torsten Antoni (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
      Minutes
      slides
      • 228
        GGUS Advisory Group - Introduction
        Speaker: Dr Torsten Antoni (KIT-G)
        • a) Introduction
          Speaker: Dr Torsten Antoni (KIT-G)
      • 229
        Defining the GGUS Advisory Board
        Speaker: Dr Torsten Antoni (KIT-G)
        Slides
      • 230
        GGUS Report Generator
        Speaker: Guenter Grein (KIT-G)
        Slides
      • 231
        Discussion
    • Operations: Software Vulnerability Group Zenit

      Zenit

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Three separate sessions on security and vulnerability

      Convener: Linda Cornwall (STFC)
      • 232
        The EGI Software Vulnerability Group (SVG) - Introduction
        Speakers: Elisa Heymann (UAB), Linda Cornwall (STFC)
        • a) Software vulnerability issue handling in EGI
          Speaker: Linda Cornwall (STFC)
        • b) Security Assessment of VOMS Core and WMS
          Speaker: Manuel Brugnoli (UAB)
        • c) Top 10 code flaws that cause real vulnerabilities
          Speaker: Elisa Heymann (UAB)
      • 233
        Software Vulnerability issue handling in EGI
        Speaker: Linda Cornwall (STFC)
      • 234
        Vulnerability Assessment of Middleware packages supplied by EMI :VOMS Core
        Speaker: Manuel Brugnoli (UAB)
        Slides
      • 235
        Top 10 Code flaws that cause real vulnerabilities
        Speaker: Elisa Heymann
    • Regional Operator on Duty - Training Tycho

      Tycho

      Clarion Conference Centre

      This session is aimed at personnel contributing to NGI Regional Operator on Duty activities (ROD).

      There will be three 30 minute slots. The first one will cover an overview of the Operations Portal - the tool used in daily operations support activities, and information on how recent developments influence daily operators work. Likely a new version of the dashboard will be presented.

      The second slot is about the status and issues of the Grid Oversight activity. The Central Operator on Duty team (COD) will also provide information on current status and open issues.

      The session will close with a Question and Answer session, which will give attendees the opportunity to ask any questions about grid oversight activities.

      This is session is particularly recommended to ROD personnel, in particular from NGIs that recently joined the production infrastructure.

      Convener: Ron Trompert (SARA)
    • Workflow community workshop Taurus

      Taurus

      Clarion Conference Centre

      As the digital research landscape broadens, so more research communities are seeking to establish community or science domain specific environments for data sharing and analysis scenarios. Workflow systems are key contributors to these environments: they enable scientist to describe a sequence of computational and data manipulation steps in such a way that it can be automated, repeated, monitored, shared and gradually improved by a community of experts. Workflow systems are graphical or text environments that provide interfaces to design workflows, just like word or spreadsheet processors allow users to write a document or set up a series of calculations, and they often also support the execution of workflows on various infrastructures.

      EGI workflow systems enable scientific communities to design and execute applications on resources of the European Grid Infrastructure. The 15-20 workflow systems and the few dozens of workflows that have been built and published from these systems until now are available through the EGI website (http://go.egi.eu/workflows).

      This double-session will present the most important workflow systems, workflows and support projects from the EGI community and beyond, and will give us opportunity to discuss and exchange experiences, best practices and issues of building ‘communities of interest’ through workflows. The workshop is jointly organised by the EGI-InSPIRE, SHIWA and ER-Flow EC projects. The workshop will be a forum to present and discuss solutions and issues of:

      • Interoperability of workflows and distributed computing infrastructures
      • Re-using workflows between different workflow languages
      • Data interoperability, data management during building and executing workflows
      • Workflow validation and curation
      • Multi-scale simulations with workflows
      • Sharing workflows within and among communities
      • Uptake and sustainability of workflows and workflow systems
      Convener: Dr Gergely Sipos (EGI.EU)
      • 237
        The SHIWA simulation platform for workflow interoperability and sharing
        Workflow applications are very widely used to enact scientific applications on the grid infrastructure. Scientific workflow language provides high-level construct which is well suited to describe complex data-intensive applications. Communities may use many different workflow languages and to be able to share the scientific work, they need an interoperability solution. The workflow environment shields the end users from the low-level details related to the use of the grid infrastructure. The SHIWA project provides a multi-systems workflow execution platform and an interoperability solution, called the SHIWA Simulation Platform, that enables the collaboration of user communities that work on similar research field but use different workflow systems. The SHIWA Simulation Platform also includes a repository for publishing and sharing workflow applications. During the presentation both coarse- and fine-grained solutions will be introduced, together with the achievements the SHIWA project. The tools presented during this presentation can be of interest for any community who want to publish and share workflows, and also want to work together with others to ease and extend their research.
        Speaker: Tamas Kiss (University of Westminster, London, UK)
        Slides
      • 238
        Building an European Research Community through Interoperable Workflows and Data - the ER-Flow project
        Speaker: Mr Gabor Terstyansky
        Slides
      • 239
        Multiscale Programming and Execution Tools in the MAPPER project
        Speaker: Mrs Katarzyna Rycerz
        Slides
      • 240
        WS-VLAM workflow management system
        Speaker: Mr Adam Belloum
        Slides
    • e-Fiscal - Cost Analysis of the European Computing e-Infrastructures: Comparing the HPC, HTC & Cloud offerings Aquarius

      Aquarius

      Clarion Conference Centre

      The provision of ICT services for research is increasingly using cloud services to complement the traditional federation of computing centres. Due to the complex funding structure and differences in the basic business model, comparing the cost-effectiveness of these options requires a new approach to cost assessment. The e-Fiscal project has been funded to assess the overall cost of computing service provision for research in Europe, gathering high-level experts in the e-Infrastructure service provision, cost assessment and policy development. This workshop will present the key findings of the project to date, a state of the art review, cost models and analysis, work and results on benchmarking EGI and HPC vs. Amazon EC2 as well as the results of the e-Fiscal Summer Workshop held 3-4 July in Greece. It will also be the occasion to publicly review a new and more concise version of the questionnaire that can be used to collect data. Participants will gain a better understanding of the kind of cost assessment issues high-utilisation rate ICT services that should be considered when choosing between different infrastructure options and is aimed at cloud, HTC and HPC centre management and technical personnel.

      Convener: Dr Fotis Karagiannis (Independent)
      • 241
        Introduction and Key Findings
        Speakers: Dr Fotis Karagiannis (Independent), Prof. Sandra Cohen (Athens University of Economics and Business)
        Slides
      • 242
        Benchmarking Results: EGI & HPC vs. Amazon EC2
        Speaker: Dr Kashif Iqbal (ICHEC)
        Slides
      • 243
        Reflections on the Experience and Way Forward
        Speaker: Mr Matti Heikkurinen (Emergence Tech Ltd)
        Slides
      • 244
        Q&A
    • 12:30 PM
      Lunch
    • EGI Council: Meeting Virgo

      Virgo

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Convener: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)
    • EGI InSPIRE: Security Policy Group meeting Nadir

      Nadir

      Clarion Conference Centre

      A series of closed EGI InSPIRE project meetings

      Convener: David Kelsey (STFC)
      • 245
        EGI Security Policy Group meeting
        Speaker: David Kelsey (STFC)
    • EGI-CSIRT Security Training Hands-on Wrap-Up Zenit

      Zenit

      Clarion Conference Centre

      If you want to participate, please register at the following URL: http://go.egi.eu/security

      This is a sequence of sessions starting Tues 18th at 11:00, followed by Wed 16:00 and concluding with a double session on Fri.

      In this security hands-on, the participants will take on the role as security teams being responsible for the operational security of simulated grid sites running in a virtualized environment. The sites will face attacks very similar to those seen in real life. The team's task is to respond to these attacks and keep their services up and running as far as possible.
      The target audience is system administrators with a good knowledge of linux. Please note that the number of participants will be somehow limited by the underlying testbed used for the hands-on (18 max).
      An introduction to the the tutorial can be found here:
      https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI_CSIRT:TDG/SecTut-EGI17092012

      Convener: Riccardo Brunetti (INFN)
      • 246
        EGI-CSIRT Security Training Hands-on Wrap-Up
        Speakers: Riccardo Brunetti (INFN), Dr Sven Gabriel (Nikhef)
    • OTAG Meeting Leo

      Leo

      Clarion Conference Centre

      OTAG-13 on regionalisation

      Convener: Daniele Cesini (INFN)
      • 247
        OTAG Meeting (Closed)
        Speaker: Daniele Cesini (INFN)
    • Virtualised Resources: Scientific Software in the Cloud - workshop Aquarius

      Aquarius

      Clarion Conference Centre

      Scientific software in the Cloud: with flexibility comes responsibility - what impact has Cloud Computing on the architecture of scientific software? Which Cloud mechanisms are available to support scientific software in the Cloud e.g. high-availability for scientific applications (self-serving HA, etc.)?

      Convener: Dr Matteo Turilli (Oxford e-Research Centre)
      • 248
        WS on GlobusOnline/GridFTP integration into a Cloud-Installation
        Speaker: Mr Wolfgang Hennerbichler
        Slides
    • Workflow community workshop Taurus

      Taurus

      Clarion Conference Centre

      As the digital research landscape broadens, so more research communities are seeking to establish community or science domain specific environments for data sharing and analysis scenarios. Workflow systems are key contributors to these environments: they enable scientist to describe a sequence of computational and data manipulation steps in such a way that it can be automated, repeated, monitored, shared and gradually improved by a community of experts. Workflow systems are graphical or text environments that provide interfaces to design workflows, just like word or spreadsheet processors allow users to write a document or set up a series of calculations, and they often also support the execution of workflows on various infrastructures.

      EGI workflow systems enable scientific communities to design and execute applications on resources of the European Grid Infrastructure. The 15-20 workflow systems and the few dozens of workflows that have been built and published from these systems until now are available through the EGI website (http://go.egi.eu/workflows).

      This double-session will present the most important workflow systems, workflows and support projects from the EGI community and beyond, and will give us opportunity to discuss and exchange experiences, best practices and issues of building ‘communities of interest’ through workflows. The workshop is jointly organised by the EGI-InSPIRE, SHIWA and ER-Flow EC projects. The workshop will be a forum to present and discuss solutions and issues of:

      • Interoperability of workflows and distributed computing infrastructures
      • Re-using workflows between different workflow languages
      • Data interoperability, data management during building and executing workflows
      • Workflow validation and curation
      • Multi-scale simulations with workflows
      • Sharing workflows within and among communities
      • Uptake and sustainability of workflows and workflow systems
      Convener: Dr Gergely Sipos (EGI.EU)
      • 249
        A workflow manager for NMR: objectives, design and implementation
        Speaker: Dr Rasmus Fogh (University of Cambridge)
        Slides
      • 250
        TopHat on the Grid: an automatic workflow for sequence alignment exploiting EGI/IGI grid infrastructure
        Speaker: Dr Giacinto Donvito (INFN)
        Slides
      • 251
        Wf4Ever: Supporting Reuse and Reproducibility in Experimental Science
        Speaker: Susana Sánchez
        Diapositivas
      • 252
        Workshop discussions
        Speaker: Dr Gergely Sipos (EGI.EU)
        Slides
    • 3:00 PM
      Break
    • EGI InSPIRE: Security Policy Group meeting Nadir

      Nadir

      Clarion Conference Centre

      A series of closed EGI InSPIRE project meetings

      Convener: David Kelsey (STFC)
      • 253
        EGI SPG meeting (closed)
        See agenda at https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1161
        Speaker: David Kelsey (STFC)
    • EGI-CSIRT Security Training Hands-on Wrap-Up Zenit

      Zenit

      Clarion Conference Centre

      If you want to participate, please register at the following URL: http://go.egi.eu/security

      This is a sequence of sessions starting Tues 18th at 11:00, followed by Wed 16:00 and concluding with a double session on Fri.

      In this security hands-on, the participants will take on the role as security teams being responsible for the operational security of simulated grid sites running in a virtualized environment. The sites will face attacks very similar to those seen in real life. The team's task is to respond to these attacks and keep their services up and running as far as possible.
      The target audience is system administrators with a good knowledge of linux. Please note that the number of participants will be somehow limited by the underlying testbed used for the hands-on (18 max).
      An introduction to the the tutorial can be found here:
      https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI_CSIRT:TDG/SecTut-EGI17092012

      Convener: Riccardo Brunetti (INFN)
    • OTAG Meeting Leo

      Leo

      Clarion Conference Centre

      OTAG-13 on regionalisation

      Convener: Daniele Cesini (INFN)