EGI Technical Forum 2013 - Madrid

Session

Plenary Session

16 Sept 2013, 11:30

Meliá Castilla Convention Centre, Madrid

Conveners

Plenary Session

• Isabel Plasencia (CSIC)

Plenary Session

• Claire Devereux (STFC)

Plenary Session

• Ludek Matyska (CESNET)

Plenary Session: Closing

• Jorge Gomes (LIP)

0. Local Welcome

Dr Isabel Campos (CSIC)

16/09/2013, 11:30

1. IBM Key-note: Emerging Technologies and Trends in the IT sector

Mrs Elisa Martin Garijo (IBM)

16/09/2013, 11:45

Elisa Martin Garijo is Director of Technology for IBM in Spain, Portugal, Greece and Israel. She is also the Senior Architect for certified Information Systems and holds the position of Distinguished Engineer and a member of the leadership team of the IBM Academy of Technology. As director of technology, Elisa brings technology and innovation in the country, with the main objective of...

2. EGI perspective

Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)

16/09/2013, 12:00

3. EC Perspective on DCIs and Horizon 2020

Luis C. BUSQUETS PÉREZ (European Commission)

17/09/2013, 09:00

The talk will focus on how the policy of the European Commission on Distributed Computing infrastructures and how these can address the increasing needs of research communities for processing massive amounts of data and experimenting in silico. The talk will present policies and actions expected for e-Infrastructures under Horizon 2020, how Cloud Computing becomes part of the solution, and...

4. Bringing Private Cloud Computing to HPC and Science: Present and Future

Ignacio M. Llorente (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

17/09/2013, 09:30

HPC-optimized clouds provide access to flexible and elastic scientific and technical computing to solve complex problems and drive innovation. This talk will describe the most demanded features for building HPC and science clouds. Using real-life case studies from leading research and industry organizations, the talks will illustrate how OpenNebula effectively addresses the challenges of cloud...

130. Computing Testbed as a Service - CTaaS in FutureGrid

Dr Geoffrey Fox (Indiana Uni)

17/09/2013, 10:00

https://portal.futuregrid.org/ We describe our experience in providing Computing Testbed as a Service CTaaS in FutureGrid with lessons for the Future. We give an overview of the operating model as now and looking forward. We give details of partners, hardware and services offered and go through sample projects in the fore areas computer science, domain science, education and technology...

5. National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and e-infrastructures

Dr Brian Wee (NEON)

18/09/2013, 09:00

The rapid pace of large-scale environmental changes around the globe has underscored the value of accessible long-term data sets for understanding the context of scientific observations, and for forecasting future conditions for societal benefit. We are also entering an era of large-scale, interdisciplinary science fuelled by large data sets that will be analysed by current and future...

6. ELIXIR: The European research infrastructure for life-science data

Dr Niklas Blomberg (ELIXIR)

18/09/2013, 09:45

The mission of ELIXIR is to construct and operate a sustainable infrastructure for the sharing of biological information throughout Europe, to support life science research and drive its translation to medicine and the environment, the bio- industries and society. The challenges in storing, integrating and analyzing the data from modern biological experiments are real; ELIXIR meets this...

129. Unveiling the mechanisms behind biomolecules – the role of Grid

Dr Afonso Duarte (ITQB - UNL)

19/09/2013, 09:00

Structural Biology studies the molecular structure of biological molecules and the way molecules interact with each other. This information is crucial to understand how they function inside living cells and how their deregulation can lead to disease. Structures are determined by measuring distances and angles between the millions of atoms inside proteins and other macromolecules. To obtain...

7. The most powerful European astronomical observatories and their interplay with e-science

Prof. Xavier Barcons (Instituto de Física de Cantabria (CSIC-UC), Santander, Spain)

19/09/2013, 09:30

Astronomy is largely an observationally-driven scientific discipline, but with a wide range of associated activities (space exploration, computing, data archiving, theory and simulations, etc.). Large observatories built and operated by European intergovernmental organisations, in particular those from ESO - European Southern Observatory and ESA - European Space Agency, drive a very...

131. Closing Remarks and Awards

Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)

19/09/2013, 10:00