Swiss Academic Compute Cloud kick-off workshop

Friday 19 Apr 2013, 10:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

HS 304 3.OG/Ost

This is the kick-off meeting of the Swiss Academic Compute Cloud (SwissACC) project. It aims to present and discuss the various tasks within the project and agree on the distribution of the workload among the participating partners.

10:00 → 10:10 Welcome

Welcome by Sergio, the SwissACC project leader

10:10 → 10:40 Short introduction of partners/people

10:40 → 11:35 Where do we come from and where are we going ?

Convener: sergio maffioletti (UZH)

10:40 Presenting CRUS program: "Scientific Information" 2013 - 2016

Speaker: Martin Walder (IBM)

10:55 SwiNG perspective

Speaker: Dean Flanders (SwiNG)

11:05 SMSCG

Speaker: Placi Flury (SWITCH)

11:20 Academic Cloud

Speaker: Dr Peter Kunszt (ETH)

11:35 → 12:05 Introduction to SwissACC

Convener: sergio maffioletti (UZH)

slides SwissACC_20130419.pdf

12:05 → 12:55 Infrastructure integration tasks

Convener: Placi Flury (SWITCH)

12:05 RS-NAS intergration plans

Speaker: Dr Peter Kunszt (ETH)

12:20 Venus-C

Speaker: Dr Markopekka Niinimaeki (HES-SO//Ge)

12:35 Authentication and authorization (AA)

Speaker: Placi Fluri (SWITCH)

12:55 → 13:55 Lunch

There's no organized catering for lunches; participants can use the UniBe mensa.

13:55 → 16:00 Application portfolio: presentation of new applications

Convener: sergio maffioletti (UZH)

13:55 QIIME

Speaker: Dr Heinz Stockinger (UniL/Vital-IT)

14:15 SwissExperiment/OSPER

Speaker: Dr Nicholas Dawes (SLF)

14:35 A4Mesh

Speaker: Dr Almerima Jamakovic-Kapic (UniBE)

14:55 OpenFoam

Speaker: Dr Markopekka Niinimaeki (HES-SO//Ge)

15:10 SWAT

Speaker: Dr Nicholas Ray (UNEP/DEWA/GRID-Geneva)

15:30 GEOTOP

Speaker: sergio maffioletti (UZH)

15:45 GC3Pie

Speaker: sergio maffioletti (UZH)

16:05 → 16:45 Collaborative Distributed Support (CDS)

Parallel session

Convener: sergio maffioletti (UZH)

16:05 → 16:45 Infrastructure

Parallel session

Convener: Placi Flury (SWITCH)

16:45 → 17:00 Closing