Name: EGI Community Forum 2015
Start: 2015-11-10T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2015-11-13T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Villa Romanazzi Carducci

Monday, 9 November 2015
Tuesday, 10 November 2015
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Europa
Contributions

09:00 Opening cerimony

09:10 The role of the Italian e-Infrastructure in supporting the Research Roadmap - Cristina Messa (University of Milano-Bicocca)

09:50 EGI: Status, challenges and opportunities in the Digital Single Market era - Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.eu)
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Scuderia
Contributions

11:00 Introduction - David Foster (CERN)

11:10 PICSE procurement case studies and procurement process assessment tool - Sara Garavelli (TRUST-IT)

11:40 Procurement in EGI & CERN Cloud Market Survey Feedback - Sy Holsinger (EGI.eu)

12:00 Update on the HNSciCloud Pre Commercial Procurement project - David Foster (CERN)

12:20 Discussion, summary and next steps - David Foster (CERN)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Federico II
Contributions

11:00 Open Grid Forum - Jens Jensen (STFC)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Sala A+A1, Giulia Centre
Contributions

11:00 Introduction - David Kelsey (STFC)

11:05 Security Policy - David Kelsey (STFC)

11:15 Software Vulnerability Group - Linda Cornwall (STFC)

11:30 Developments in the Trust Fabric - David Groep (FOM)

11:50 Security Operations - Daniel Kouril (CESNET) Sven Gabriel (NIKHEF) Vincent Brillault (CERN)

12:20 Discussion - Security Groups progress and plans in the changing EGI environment. - David Kelsey (STFC) Linda Cornwall (STFC) Sven Gabriel (NIKHEF)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Europa
Contributions

11:00 The EGI FedCloud - User Support - Diego Scardaci (EGI.eu/INFN)

11:10 EPOS-CC Computational Seismology Use Case - Alessandro Spinuso (KNMI) Andre Gemuend (FRAUNHOFER)

11:25 From Case Studies to Application Requirements from Research Communities in the INDIGO-DataCloud project - Ignacio Blanquer (UPVLC) Peter Solagna (EGI.eu)

11:40 ITRANS database - sorting structural motifs in cellular transporters - Afonso Duarte (ITQB-UNL)

11:55 Modeling transport phenomena in mesoscopic quantum systems - Alexandru Nicolin (IFIN-HH) Mihaela Carina Raportaru (IFIN-HH)

12:10 Lightweight construction of rich scientific applications - Daniel Harezlak (CYFRONET)

12:25 Open Discussion - Diego Scardaci (EGI.eu/INFN)
12:30

12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Scuderia
Contributions

13:30 EGI Marketplace - Dean Flanders (SwiNG)
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Sala A+A1, Giulia Centre
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Europa
Contributions

13:30 BBMRI Competence Center in EGI-ENGAGE - Petr Holub (BBMRI-ERIC)

13:50 A FreshWater VRE for LifeWatch - Fernando Aguilar (CSIC) Jesus Marco de Lucas (CSIC)

14:10 DARIAH requirements and roadmap in EGI - Davor Davidovic (RBI)

14:30 The SADE mini-project of the EGI DARIAH Competence Centre - Giuseppe La Rocca (INFN Catania)

14:50 The EPOS e-Infrastructure for solid Earth sciences: architeture and collaborative framework - Daniele Bailo (EGI.eu)

15:10 Progress of EISCAT_3D Competence Center - Ingemar Haggstrom (EISCAT)
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Federico II
Contributions

13:30 Introduction to the EGI Federated Cloud – the user perspective - Boris Parak (CESNET) Diego Scardaci (EGI.eu/INFN) Enol Fernandez (EGI.eu)
15:30

15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Scuderia
Contributions

16:00 EGI Business Development - Sy Holsinger (EGI.eu)

16:25 EGI Pay-for-Use Demo (e-GRANT) - Roksana Rozanska (CYFRONET) T. Szepieniec (CYFRONET)

16:50 The First GEANT Open Call - Innovation & Outreach in an e-Infrastructure - Annabel Grant (GEANT) Michael Enrico (GEANT)

17:15 Panel Led Discussion - Annabel Grant (GEANT) Giuseppe Fiameni (CINECA - Consorzio Interuniversitario) Roberta Piscitelli (EGI.eu)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Europa
Contributions

16:00 ENVRI_plus: Toward Joint Strategy and Harmonized Policies for Access to Research Infrastructures - Ingrid Mann (EISCAT Scientific Association)

16:20 Tsunami Wave Propagation Forward and Inverse Simulation and Scientific Gateway Building for Disaster Mitigation - Eric Yen (AS)

16:40 West-Life: Developing a VRE for Structural Biology - Chris Morris (STFC)

17:00 User needs, tools and common policies from PARTHENOS, a E-research networking in the field of linguistic studies, humanities and cultural heritage - Sara Di Giorgio (Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries)

17:20 Promoting Grids and Clouds for the Health Science and Medical Research Community in France - Gilles Mathieu (INSERM)

17:40 Research Infrastructures for Integrated Environmental Modeling: the DRIHM(2US) experience - Daniele Dagostino
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Sala A+A1, Giulia Centre
Contributions

16:00 DIRAC service tutorial - Andrei Tsaregorodtsev (CNRS)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Federico II
Contributions

16:00 Dos and Don'ts for Virtual Appliance Preparation -- Hands-on Tutorial - Boris Parak (CESNET)
18:00

18:00 - 19:00
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Europa
Contributions

09:00 EUDAT services - Giuseppe Fiameni (CINECA - Consorzio Interuniversitario)

09:05 EGI services - Diego Scardaci (EGI.eu/INFN)

09:10 EGI EUDAT interoperability use case demo - Diego Scardaci (EGI.eu/INFN)

09:20 ICOS Community Requirements - Dejan Vitlacil (KTH)

09:30 BBMRI Community Requirements - Petr Holub (BBMRI-ERIC)

09:40 EMBL Community Requirements - Tony Wildish (European Bioinformatics Institute)

09:50 EISCAT-3D Community Requirements - Ingemar Haggstrom (EISCAT)

10:00 EPOS Community Requirements - Daniele Bailo (INGV)

10:10 Discussion
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Sala A+A1, Giulia Centre
Contributions

09:00 Advances in EGI LifeWatch Competence Center - Fernando Aguilar (CSIC) Jesus Marco de Lucas (CSIC)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Scuderia
Contributions

09:00 Introduction of RICH - Elena Maffia (APRE - Coordinator of RICH project)

09:15 RI Work Programme 2016-17 - Laurent Ghys (Belgian Science Policy Office)

09:45 Experience of beneficiaries in RI Calls - Luciano Gaido (INFN) Pasquale Pagano (CNR)

10:15 Discussion
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Federico II
Contributions

09:00 Tracking Dataset Transformations with HAPPI Toolkit - Luigi Briguglio (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A.)
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Europa
Contributions

11:00 Removing legal barriers in the sharing of fisheries & marine sciences data: an approach to relevant legal interoperability issues - Enrique Alonso García (Consejo de Estado (España))

11:25 Data policies and legal aspects with a focus on fishery and marine sciences - Anton Ellenbroek (FAO)

11:55 Infrastructure data policies - Pasquale Pagano (CNR)

12:20 Discussion on Data Policies
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Sala A+A1, Giulia Centre
Contributions

11:00 Disaster Mitigation Competence Centre Face-to-Face Meeting - Eric Yen (AS) Siew Hoon Leong (EGI.eu) Simon Lin (ASGC)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Scuderia
Contributions

11:00 Latest progresses on AC activity in EGI-Engage - Marco Verlato (INFN) Viet Tran (UI SAV)

11:20 GPGPU-enabled molecular dynamics of proteins on a distributed computing environment - Andrea Giachetti (CIRMMP) Antonio Rosato (CIRMMP)

11:40 Bioinformatics simulations by means of running virtual machines as a grid jobs in the MolDynGrid Virtual Laboratory - Andrii Salnikov (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)

12:00 GPGPU support in EGI Federated Cloud - Andrii SALNIKOV (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) Viet Tran (UI SAV)

12:20 Session wrapup
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Federico II
Contributions

11:00 Running Chipster data analysis platform in EGI Federated Cloud - Kimmo Mattila (CSC)
12:30

12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Europa
Contributions

13:30 Overview of Market Analysis - Kostas Koumantaros (GRNET)

14:00 Fishery/Marine: initial requirements and market analysis - Nadia Nardi (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica spa)

14:30 Agri-food: initial requirements and market analysis - Kostas Koumantaros (GRNET)

15:00 Summary and Discussion
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Scuderia
Contributions

13:30 An integrated IaaS and PaaS architecture for scientific computing - Germán Moltó Martínez (UPVLC) Giacinto Donvito (INFN) Ignacio Blanquer (UPVLC)

13:50 Virtual Research Environments as-a-Service - Pasquale Pagano (CNR)

14:10 Occopus and its usage to build efficient data processing workflow infrastructures in clouds - Peter Kacsuk (MTA SZTAKI)

14:30 R Computing services as SaaS in the Cloud - Fernando Aguilar (CSIC)

14:50 Atmosphere: A Platform for Development, Execution and Sharing of Applications in Federated Clouds - Marian Bubak (ACC Cyfronet and Department of Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland)

15:10 The VESPA Virtual Research Environment: a final report about the project at the beginning of clinical operations - Marco Pappalardo (Software Engineering Italia srl)
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Sala A+A1, Giulia centre
Contributions

13:30 VIP: a Virtual Imaging Platform for the long tail of science - Sorina POP (CNRS, Creatis)

13:50 The Characterisation Virtual Laboratory - Wojtek James Goscinski (Monash University)

14:10 Big data analysis in neuGRID towards a modern e-Health science - alberto redolfi (INFN)

14:30 Human Brain Project - Sean Hill

14:50 Test activities for HBP/SP5 neuroinformatics: results and next steps - Lukasz Dutka (CYFRONET) Yin Chen (EGI.eu)

15:10 Discussion
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Federico II
Contributions

13:30 NGS Data Analysis Training Workshop - Anastasia Hadzidimitriou (Institute of Applied Biosciences / CERTH) Anna Vardi (Institute of Applied Biosciences / CERTH) Fotis Psomopoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) Kostas Koumantaros (GRNET)
15:30

15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Europa
Contributions

16:00 Data Repositories and Science Gateways for Open Science - Roberto Barbera (University of Catania and INFN)

16:20 Digital Knowledge Platforms - Jesus Marco de Lucas (CSIC)

16:40 Maximising uptake by opening access to research: The BlueBRIDGE endeavour - Gianpaolo Coro (CNR)

17:00 Storage Management in INDIGO - Marcus Hardt (KIT-G) Patrick Fuhrmann (DESY) Paul Millar (DESY)

17:20 Wikidata - structured information for Wikipedia and what this means for research workflows - Daniel Mietchen (National Institute of Health (US))

17:40 EGI-Engage Open Data Platform Prototype - Bartosz Kryza (ACK Cyfronet AGH)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Scuderia
Contributions

16:00 Accessing Grids and Clouds with DIRAC services - Andrei Tsaregorodtsev (CNRS)

16:20 The Ophidia stack: a big data analytics framework for Virtual Research Environments - Sandro Fiore (CMCC)

16:40 CernVM-FS vs Dataset Sharing - Catalin Condurache (STFC)

17:00 Cloud-enabled, scalable Data Avenue service to process very large, heterogeneus data - Peter Kacsuk (MTA SZTAKI)

17:20 Supporting Big Data Processing via Science Gateways - Tamas Kiss (University of Westminster, London, UK)

17:40 Scalable ABM platforms with friendly interaction to address practical problems. - Luis Cabellos (CSIC)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Sala A+A1, Giulia centre
Contributions

16:00 A new platform from EGI for the long tail of science - Gergely Sipos (EGI.eu)

16:20 A science gateway example in the EGI long-tail of science platform: The Catania Science Gateway - Giuseppe La Rocca (INFN Catania)

16:40 Opportunistic use of supercomputers: linking with Cloud and Grid platforms - Fernando Aguilar (CSIC) Luis Cabellos (CSIC)

17:00 Outreach strategies for the long tail of science in France - Romier Romier (CNRS)

17:20 Developing the computing environment for new research communities in Romania - Ionut Traian Vasile (IFIN-HH)

17:40 Engaging with the long tail of science in the Netherlands - Jan Bot (SARA)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Federico II
Contributions

16:00 Programming Distributed Computing Platforms with COMPSs - Daniele Lezzi (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
18:00

18:00 - 19:00
Room: Sala A+A1
Thursday, 12 November 2015
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Scuderia
Contributions

09:00 EGI-Engage: the AAI strategy for the EGI infrastructure - Christos Kanellopoulos (GRNET)

09:25 Services for an easy access to X509 personal certificates - Mischa Salle (FOM)

09:40 Comparison of Authentication and Authorization e-Infrastructures for Research - Lukas Haemmerle (SWITCH)

10:00 Enhancing the user life-cycle management management in EGI Federated Cloud - Slavek Licehammer (CESNET)

10:15 The Indigo AAI - Andrea Ceccanti (INFN) Marcus Hardt (KIT-G)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Sala A+A1, Giulia Centre
Contributions

09:00 Welcome and introduction - Matthias Hemmje (FernUniversität in Hagen)

09:10 Current State Of Demand Of Data Science Skills & Competences - Yuri Demchenko (University of Amsterdam)

09:30 Demand from e-Infrastructures - Sy Holsinger (EGI.eu)

09:50 Big Data Infrastructure And Skills From A Consulting Point Of View - Kevin Berwind (University of Hagen)

10:05 Data Science Competences To Understand Big Data Analysis From A Management Perspective - Marco Xaver Bornschlegl (University of Hagen)

10:20 Q&A
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Europa
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Federico II
Contributions

09:00 A Tutorial on Hybrid Data Infrastructures: D4Science as a case study - Pasquale Pagano (CNR) gianpaolo coro (CERN)
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Scuderia
Contributions

11:00 Introduction: first 8 months of AARC projec - Christos Kanellopoulos (GRNET)

11:15 Dissemination and training programs - Marialaura Mantovani (GARR)

11:35 Community requirements - Peter Solagna (EGI.eu)

11:50 Architecture overview - Marcus Hardt (KIT-G)

12:10 Level of Assurence management - David Groep (FOM)

12:25 Discussion
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Sala A+A1
Contributions

11:00 Academic Supply For Data Science – Consultation And Validation Of Body Of Knowledge - Andrea Manieri (Engineering)

11:20 Industry-driven Master Certificate in Data Science - Gianluca Reali (University of Perugia)

11:40 The online big data course at the University of Liverpool - Yuri Demchenko (University of Amsterdam)

12:00 Education Interests of Summer School Students at GridKaSchool - Christopher Jung (KIT-G)

12:20 Discussion
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Europa
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Federico II
Contributions

11:00 Security training - Daniel Kouril (CESNET) Sven Gabriel (NIKHEF)
12:30

12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Scuderia
Contributions

13:30 Euclid Satellite mission: the ground segment distributed computing infrastructure - Frailis Marco (INAF - OATs)

13:50 Gaia: A Stereoscopic Census of our Galaxy - UGO BECCIANI (INAF)

14:10 Cherenkov Telescope Array data processing: a production system prototype - arrabito arrabito (LUPM CNRS/IN2P3)

14:30 CANFAR: The Canadian Advanced Network for Astronomy Research - David Schade (Canada - CADC)

14:50 Discussion - Giuliano Taffoni (INAF) UGO BECCIANI (INAF)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Europa
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Federico II
Contributions

13:30 EUDAT and the research life cycle - Rene Horik, van (DANS - Data Archiving and Networked Services)

13:45 Interoperability use case between EUDAT and EGI services. Demo. - Diego Scardaci (EGI.eu/INFN) Giuseppe Fiameni (CINECA - Consorzio Interuniversitario)

13:55 Store and share data with the B2Share API - Carl Johan Hakansson (SNIC) Sarah Berenjiardestani (SNIC)

14:25 Persistent identifiers and the B2Handle service - Dejan Vitlacil (KTH) Peter Gille (KTH)
15:00

15:00 - 15:15
15:15
15:15 - 16:45
Room: Sala A+A1, Giulia centre
Contributions

15:15 Virtual Research Environment and Computational Chemistry Community - Gabor Terstyanszky (University of Westminster)

15:35 Collaborative service on ab initio evaluation of gas phase processes efficiency - Antonio Lagana (UNIPG)

15:55 From ab-initio calculations to full technological systems simulations: application to aerospace and nuclear fusion - Fabrizio Esposito

16:15 General discussion on: Building multiscale simulations and data repositories on the efficiency of Molecular processes as a service - Antonio Lagana (UNIPG)
15:15 - 16:45
Room: Scuderia
Contributions

15:15 Linking EUBrazilCloudConnect and EGI Federated Cloud - Ignacio Blanquer (UPVLC)

15:35 Setting up a new FedCloud site in collaboration with the industry - Fernando Aguilar (CSIC)

15:55 Volunteer Clouds for the LHC experiments - Hassen Riahi (CERN)
15:15 - 16:45
Room: Europa
15:15 - 16:45
Room: Federico II
Contributions

15:15 Building Virtual Research Environments: The Lion grid Experience. - Collins Udanor (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nigeria) Florence Akaneme (Dept. of Plant Science & Biotechnology, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nigeria.)

15:35 Energising Scientific Endeavour through Science Gateways and e-Infrastructures in Africa: the Sci-GaIA project - Roberto Barbera (Univesity of Catania and INFN)

15:55 Peak to long-tail : how cloud is the fabric and the workshop - Steve Quenette (Monash University)

16:15 Next generation Science Gateways in the context of the INDIGO project: a pilot case on large scale climate change data analytics - Emidio Giorgio (INFN Catania)
16:45

16:45 - 21:45
Friday, 13 November 2015
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Europa
Contributions

09:00 Opportunities and challenges of the e-Infrastructures and the new H2020 Work Programme 16-17 - Augusto Burgeño (European Commission)

09:40 Conclusions and closing ceremony - Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.eu) Yannick Legre (EGI.eu)
10:00

10:00 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Europa
Contributions

10:30 Welcome and introduction - Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.eu)

10:45 The Open Science Cloud: Eight Elements for Success - Manola Manola (University of Athens, Greece)

11:00 Mission and vision: how to meet the researchers needs for Open Science - Antony Ross Hellauer (Scientific Manager at Göttingen State and University Library)
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Scuderia

10:30 - 12:00
Room: Federico II

12:00

12:00 - 13:00
13:00
13:00 - 15:30
Room: Europa
Contributions

13:00 Developing the Open Science Cloud - Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.eu)

14:15 Governing the Open Science Cloud - Per Oster (CSC)

15:15 Reports from rapporteurs and conclusions - Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.eu)
13:00 - 15:30
Room: Scuderia

13:00 - 15:30
Room: Federico II

15:30

15:30 - 16:00