Name: EGI Conference 2019
Start: 2019-05-06T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2019-05-08T18:00:00+02:00
Location: WCW Congress Centre

Monday, 6 May 2019

12:00

12:00 - 13:00
13:00
13:00 - 15:00
Room: Turing
Contributions

13:00 Welcome and introduction - Arjen van Rijn (NIKHEF)

13:15 The EGI Federation is 15! The role and challenges of computing in data-driven science - Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.eu)

13:50 Evolving distributed computing for the LHC - Ian Bird (CERN)

14:30 e-Infrastructures in the European Open Science Cloud Era - Andreas Veiskpak (Head of Unit e-Infrastructures, DG-CONNECT)
15:00

15:00 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 17:30
Room: VK1,2 SURFsara
Contributions

15:30 Integration of OPENCoastS in EGI Check-in - Mario David (LIP Lisbon)

15:45 AARC2 SA1: Pilots on community-driven use-cases and on infrastructure AAIs integration - Arnout Terpstra (SURFnet)

16:00 Information Security 3: Who you gonna call? - David Groep (NIKHEF)

16:15 De-provisioning - necessity even in proxy IdP/SP architecture - Slavek Licehammer (CESNET)

16:30 The DARIAH AAI - Peter Gietz (DAASI International / DARIAH)

16:45 Native OpenID Connect Implementation for OpenStack Clouds - Aida Palacio (IFCA-UC) Fernando Aguilar (CSIC)

17:00 INAF Remote Authentication Portal - sara bertocco (INAF)
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Euler
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Turing
Contributions

15:30 Structural biology in the clouds: Past, present and future - Alexandre Bonvin (eNMR/WeNMR (via Dutch NGI))

15:55 BIOMED, VIP and the long tail of science: achievements and lessons learnt - Sorina POP (CNRS)

16:20 The Datafication paradigm to face the Global Changes of our Planet - Stefano Nativi (CNR)

16:45 Advanced VIRGO offline processing and data analysis - Sarah Caudill (NIKHEF)

17:10 Panel discussion - Arjen van Rijn (NIKHEF)
17:45

17:45 - 19:30
Tuesday, 7 May 2019

09:00

09:00 - 10:30
Room: Turing
09:00 - 10:30
Room: VK1,2 SURFsara
Contributions

09:00 Accelerators in the Cloud: users and resource providers perspective. - Alvaro Lopez Garcia (CSIC)

09:20 Accelarated Computing in the Cloud. - Viet Tran (IISAS)

09:40 Orchestrating containers and GPU accelerated resources - Alessandro Costantini (INFN) Marica Antonacci (INFN)

10:00 udocker support for accelerators - Mario David (LIP)

10:20 Panel of discussion
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Euler
Contributions

09:00 Service Security Challenge 2019: what we did and why - Sven Gabriel (NIKHEF)

09:30 Intro to forensics - Daniel Kouril (CESNET)
10:30

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

11:00 The EGI Notebooks experience

11:10 Data analysis using Jupyter Notebooks for Open Science - Hans Fangohr (European XFEL) Robert Rosca (EuXFEL)

11:25 Onedata and Jupyter notebooks - Michal Orzechowski (CYFRONET)

11:40 CVMFS and Jupyter Noteboks - Catalin Condurache (STFC)

12:00 Open discussion: what's next
11:00 - 12:30
Room: VK1,2 SURFsara
Contributions

11:00 Introduction - Matthew Viljoen (EGI.eu)

11:15 Security update - Vincent Brillault (CERN)

11:45 GOCDB and its development roadmap - George Ryall (STFC)

12:00 Cloud badging - Alessandro Paolini (EGI.eu)

12:15 Discussion and SRM/DPM - Matthew Viljoen (EGI.eu)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Euler
Contributions

11:00 Hands-On Training, solving the SSC-19

12:00 Debrief: Divide and Conquer - Distributing delivery of large Security Challenge payloads - Jouke Roorda (NIKHEF)
12:30

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

13:30 dCache in XDC and EOSC: Event-driven data placement and processing - Michael Schuh (DESY)

13:50 openRDM.swiss: a national research data management service for the Swiss scientific community - Alex Upton (ETH ZURICH)

14:10 Onedata - Michal Orzechowski (CYFRONET)

14:30 Evolution of data management and data access in scientific computing - Xavier Espinal (CERN)

14:50 Update about EGI Services for Data Management - Baptiste Grenier (EGI.eu)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: VK1,2 SURFsara
Contributions

13:30 Introduction and setting the scene. CREAM-CE decommissioning.

13:35 Plans for EGI migration readiness - Alessandro Paolini (INFN) Alessandro Paolini (EGI.eu)

13:45 ARC Introduction - Balazs Konya (EMI project)

14:05 ARC Site Experience - Catalin Condurache (STFC)

14:15 HTCondor and HTCondor-CE Introduction (focussing on HEP) - Brian Bockelman (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Brian Bockelman

14:30 APEL accounting with HTCondor - Stephen Jones (Liverpool University)

14:40 HTCondor-CE Site Experience (Pic) - Jose Flix (IFAE)

14:50 HTCondor-CE Site Experience (Frascati (INFN)) - Stefano DalPra (INFN)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Turing
Contributions

13:30 France Grilles: 9 years of engagement with user communities and the long tail of science - Geneviève Romier (CNRS)

13:48 Supporting Users of the Australian Nectar Research Cloud - Paul Coddington (Australian Research Data Commons)

14:06 Nuclear Medicine research environments: from EGI production to EOSC services - Gilles Mathieu (INSERM) Isabelle PERSEIL (INSERM)

14:24 IBERGRID strategy in EOSC: expanding capacity, services and user base - Isabel Campos (CSIC) Joao Pina (LIP)

14:42 Bulgarian National Centre for High Performance and Distributed Computing - history and perspectives - Emanouil Atanassov (IICT-BAS)
15:00

15:00 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Euler
Contributions

15:30 XDC use cases - Alessandro Costantini (INFN) Fernando Aguilar (CSIC)

15:45 JRC/Copernicus - Guido Lemoine (EC)

16:00 PaNOSC use cases - Jamie Hall (ILL)

16:15 EISCAT-3D - Ingemar Haggstrom (EISCAT)

16:30 Exploring collaborations and piloting activities - Bjorn Backeberg (EGI.eu)
15:30 - 17:00
Room: VK1,2 SURFsara
Contributions

15:30 No CE solutions. Introduction. - Maarten Litmaath (CERN)

15:40 No CE. VAC & VCycle - Andrew McNab (MANCHESTER)

15:55 No CE. DODAS. - Daniele Spiga (INFN)

16:10 Pros and cons of various CE alternatives - Stephen Jones (Liverpool University)

16:20 SIMPLE framework (Easy deployment) - Mayank Sharma (CERN)

16:35 Dirac and No CE - Sorina POP (CNRS)

16:50 Panel discussion
15:30 - 17:00
Contributions

15:30 Updates about EGI Cloud - Enol Fernandez (EGI.eu)

15:45 Updates about EGI Notebooks - Gergely Sipos (EGI.eu)

16:00 Updates about Workload manager - Yin Chen (EGI.eu)

16:15 Updates about Applications on Demand - Giuseppe La Rocca (EGI.eu)

16:30 New service security policies - David Kelsey (STFC)

16:45 Further updates from the NGIs (voluntary reports)
Wednesday, 8 May 2019
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Euler
Contributions

09:00 Introduction to the Cloud Workshop - Enol Fernandez (EGI.eu)

09:05 AppDB - Alexander Nakos (IASA)

09:25 OSCAR: Serverless Computing for Data-Processing Applications in the EGI Federated Cloud - Alfonso Pérez (Universitat Politècnica de València) Germán Moltó (Universitat Politècnica de València)

09:45 EKaaS - Elastic Kubernetes as a Service in EGI Federated Cloud - Ignacio Blanquer (UPVLC)

10:05 MiCADO - A highly customisable multi-cloud orchestration and auto-scaling framework - Tamas Kiss (University of Westminster)

10:25 Open Q&A
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Turing
Contributions

09:00 Data intensive agricultural sciences : requirements based on Aginfra+ Project and high throughput phenotyping infrastructure - Vincent Negre (INRA)

09:30 Trends in computing technologies and markets - Helge Meinhard (CERN)

10:00 Towards a Data Integration System for European Ocean Observatories – EMSO ERIC’s Perspective - Ivan Rodero (EMSO ERIC)
10:30

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

11:00 Addressing the challenges of federation in the Nectar Research Cloud - Paul Coddington (Australian Research Data Commons)

11:10 From bare metal to the cloud: the endless journey of a scientific data center - Alvaro Lopez Garcia (CSIC)

11:20 Feedback on integration to the EGI Federated Cloud - Cyrille TOULET (Université de Lille, France)

11:30 CESNET status update - Boris Parak (CESNET)

11:40 Security in a cloud environment - David Crooks (STFC)

11:50 Opportunities for EGI Service Providers through Pay-for-Use Models - Sy Holsinger (EGI.eu)

12:00 Future of the federation: discussion
11:00 - 12:30
Room: VK1,2 SURFsara
Contributions

11:00 Introduction - Ian Collier (STFC)

11:10 Benchmarking update - Domenico Giordano (CERN)

11:40 Middleware Recommendations - Erik Wadenstein (University of Umea) Maarten Litmaath (CERN)

12:05 Report on Cream Migration Workshop - Jose Flix (IFAE)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Turing
Contributions

11:00 NGI_CZ Operational Experience - Alexandr Mikula (CESNET)

11:15 Boosting the CMS computing efficiency for data taking at higher luminosities - Leonardo Cristella (CERN)

11:30 DARE: Integrating solutions for Data-Intensive and Reproducible Science - Alessandro Spinuso (KNMI)

11:45 A metadata repository (MDR) for clinical study objects - Sergei Goryanin (ECRIN)

12:00 VIP, Boutiques, CARMIN and Dirac to access distributed compute and storage resources - Axel Bonnet (CNRS)

12:15 Using federated cloud computing services and tools to support ocean search and rescue: A use case of the Lagrangian Ocean Search Targets (LOST) application - Michael Hart-Davis (Nelson Mandela University, Nansen-Tutu Centre for Marine Environmental Research)
12:30

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

13:30 Brief status update from teams

13:40 Rethinking Federated Cloud Integration Tools - Zdenek Sustr (CESNET)

14:00 Roadmapping
13:30 - 15:00
Room: VK1,2 SURFsara
Contributions

13:30 Bringing services in to EOSC - Matthew Viljoen (EGI.eu)

13:50 Privacy update - David Kelsey (STFC)

14:10 HEPiX San Diego report - Helge Meinhard (CERN)

14:30 Security Challenge debrief - Sven Gabriel (NIKHEF)
15:00

15:00 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 16:30
Contributions

15:30 Roadmap for the EGI AAI - Kostas Koumantaros (GRNET)

15:40 Roadmap for Engagement with research communities - Gergely Sipos (EGI.eu)

15:50 Roadmap for cloud development - Enol Fernandez (EGI.eu)

16:00 EGI contributions to the European Open Science Cloud - Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.eu)