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

EGI Conference 2019

from Monday, May 6, 2019 (8:00 AM) to Wednesday, May 8, 2019 (6:00 PM)

Monday, May 6, 2019

12:00 PM

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Turing
Contributions

1:00 PM Welcome and introduction - Arjen van Rijn (NIKHEF)

1:15 PM The EGI Federation is 15! The role and challenges of computing in data-driven science - Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.eu)

1:50 PM Evolving distributed computing for the LHC - Ian Bird (CERN)

2:30 PM e-Infrastructures in the European Open Science Cloud Era - Andreas Veiskpak (Head of Unit e-Infrastructures, DG-CONNECT)
3:00 PM

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: VK1,2 SURFsara
Contributions

3:30 PM Integration of OPENCoastS in EGI Check-in - Mario David (LIP Lisbon)

3:45 PM AARC2 SA1: Pilots on community-driven use-cases and on infrastructure AAIs integration - Arnout Terpstra (SURFnet)

4:00 PM Information Security 3: Who you gonna call? - David Groep (NIKHEF)

4:15 PM De-provisioning - necessity even in proxy IdP/SP architecture - Slavek Licehammer (CESNET)

4:30 PM The DARIAH AAI - Peter Gietz (DAASI International / DARIAH)

4:45 PM Native OpenID Connect Implementation for OpenStack Clouds - Aida Palacio (IFCA-UC) Fernando Aguilar (CSIC)

5:00 PM INAF Remote Authentication Portal - sara bertocco (INAF)
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Euler
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Turing
Contributions

3:30 PM Structural biology in the clouds: Past, present and future - Alexandre Bonvin (eNMR/WeNMR (via Dutch NGI))

3:55 PM BIOMED, VIP and the long tail of science: achievements and lessons learnt - Sorina POP (CNRS)

4:20 PM The Datafication paradigm to face the Global Changes of our Planet - Stefano Nativi (CNR)

4:45 PM Advanced VIRGO offline processing and data analysis - Sarah Caudill (NIKHEF)

5:10 PM Panel discussion - Arjen van Rijn (NIKHEF)
5:45 PM

5:45 PM - 7:30 PM
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Turing
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: VK1,2 SURFsara
Contributions

9:00 AM Accelerators in the Cloud: users and resource providers perspective. - Alvaro Lopez Garcia (CSIC)

9:20 AM Accelarated Computing in the Cloud. - Viet Tran (IISAS)

9:40 AM Orchestrating containers and GPU accelerated resources - Alessandro Costantini (INFN) Marica Antonacci (INFN)

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

10:20 AM Panel of discussion
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Euler
Contributions

9:00 AM Service Security Challenge 2019: what we did and why - Sven Gabriel (NIKHEF)

9:30 AM Intro to forensics - Daniel Kouril (CESNET)
10:30 AM

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

11:00 AM The EGI Notebooks experience

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

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

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

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

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

11:15 AM Security update - Vincent Brillault (CERN)

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

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

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

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

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

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Euler
Contributions

1:30 PM dCache in XDC and EOSC: Event-driven data placement and processing - Michael Schuh (DESY)

1:50 PM openRDM.swiss: a national research data management service for the Swiss scientific community - Alex Upton (ETH ZURICH)

2:10 PM Onedata - Michal Orzechowski (CYFRONET)

2:30 PM Evolution of data management and data access in scientific computing - Xavier Espinal (CERN)

2:50 PM Update about EGI Services for Data Management - Baptiste Grenier (EGI.eu)
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: VK1,2 SURFsara
Contributions

1:30 PM Introduction and setting the scene. CREAM-CE decommissioning.

1:35 PM Plans for EGI migration readiness - Alessandro Paolini (INFN) Alessandro Paolini (EGI.eu)

1:45 PM ARC Introduction - Balazs Konya (EMI project)

2:05 PM ARC Site Experience - Catalin Condurache (STFC)

2:15 PM HTCondor and HTCondor-CE Introduction (focussing on HEP) - Brian Bockelman (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Brian Bockelman

2:30 PM APEL accounting with HTCondor - Stephen Jones (Liverpool University)

2:40 PM HTCondor-CE Site Experience (Pic) - Jose Flix (IFAE)

2:50 PM HTCondor-CE Site Experience (Frascati (INFN)) - Stefano DalPra (INFN)
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Turing
Contributions

1:30 PM France Grilles: 9 years of engagement with user communities and the long tail of science - Geneviève Romier (CNRS)

1:48 PM Supporting Users of the Australian Nectar Research Cloud - Paul Coddington (Australian Research Data Commons)

2:06 PM Nuclear Medicine research environments: from EGI production to EOSC services - Gilles Mathieu (INSERM) Isabelle PERSEIL (INSERM)

2:24 PM IBERGRID strategy in EOSC: expanding capacity, services and user base - Isabel Campos (CSIC) Joao Pina (LIP)

2:42 PM Bulgarian National Centre for High Performance and Distributed Computing - history and perspectives - Emanouil Atanassov (IICT-BAS)
3:00 PM

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Euler
Contributions

3:30 PM XDC use cases - Alessandro Costantini (INFN) Fernando Aguilar (CSIC)

3:45 PM JRC/Copernicus - Guido Lemoine (EC)

4:00 PM PaNOSC use cases - Jamie Hall (ILL)

4:15 PM EISCAT-3D - Ingemar Haggstrom (EISCAT)

4:30 PM Exploring collaborations and piloting activities - Bjorn Backeberg (EGI.eu)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: VK1,2 SURFsara
Contributions

3:30 PM No CE solutions. Introduction. - Maarten Litmaath (CERN)

3:40 PM No CE. VAC & VCycle - Andrew McNab (MANCHESTER)

3:55 PM No CE. DODAS. - Daniele Spiga (INFN)

4:10 PM Pros and cons of various CE alternatives - Stephen Jones (Liverpool University)

4:20 PM SIMPLE framework (Easy deployment) - Mayank Sharma (CERN)

4:35 PM Dirac and No CE - Sorina POP (CNRS)

4:50 PM Panel discussion
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM Updates about EGI Cloud - Enol Fernandez (EGI.eu)

3:45 PM Updates about EGI Notebooks - Gergely Sipos (EGI.eu)

4:00 PM Updates about Workload manager - Yin Chen (EGI.eu)

4:15 PM Updates about Applications on Demand - Giuseppe La Rocca (EGI.eu)

4:30 PM New service security policies - David Kelsey (STFC)

4:45 PM Further updates from the NGIs (voluntary reports)
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Euler
Contributions

9:00 AM Introduction to the Cloud Workshop - Enol Fernandez (EGI.eu)

9:05 AM AppDB - Alexander Nakos (IASA)

9:25 AM OSCAR: Serverless Computing for Data-Processing Applications in the EGI Federated Cloud - Alfonso Pérez (Universitat Politècnica de València) Germán Moltó (Universitat Politècnica de València)

9:45 AM EKaaS - Elastic Kubernetes as a Service in EGI Federated Cloud - Ignacio Blanquer (UPVLC)

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

10:25 AM Open Q&A
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Turing
Contributions

9:00 AM Data intensive agricultural sciences : requirements based on Aginfra+ Project and high throughput phenotyping infrastructure - Vincent Negre (INRA)

9:30 AM Trends in computing technologies and markets - Helge Meinhard (CERN)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11:00 AM Introduction - Ian Collier (STFC)

11:10 AM Benchmarking update - Domenico Giordano (CERN)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:15 PM 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 PM

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Euler
Contributions

1:30 PM Brief status update from teams

1:40 PM Rethinking Federated Cloud Integration Tools - Zdenek Sustr (CESNET)

2:00 PM Roadmapping
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: VK1,2 SURFsara
Contributions

1:30 PM Bringing services in to EOSC - Matthew Viljoen (EGI.eu)

1:50 PM Privacy update - David Kelsey (STFC)

2:10 PM HEPiX San Diego report - Helge Meinhard (CERN)

2:30 PM Security Challenge debrief - Sven Gabriel (NIKHEF)
3:00 PM

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM Roadmap for the EGI AAI - Kostas Koumantaros (GRNET)

3:40 PM Roadmap for Engagement with research communities - Gergely Sipos (EGI.eu)

3:50 PM Roadmap for cloud development - Enol Fernandez (EGI.eu)

4:00 PM EGI contributions to the European Open Science Cloud - Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.eu)