EGI Technical Forum

Session

Plenary

20 Sept 2011, 09:00

Lyon Conference Centre

323. Welcome and Opening

Vincent Breton (CNRS)

20/09/2011, 09:00

324. Grid activity in France

Dominique Boutigny

20/09/2011, 09:10

268. An overview of the current policy developments at EU-level and the role of e-infrastructures in this evolving context

Kostas Glinos (Head of the European Commission’s GÉANT & e-Infrastructures unit of the Directorate General for Information Society)

20/09/2011, 09:30

Kostas Glinos will present an overview of the current policy developments at EU-level and the role of e-Infrastructures in this evolving context. He will focus on two Europe 2020 flagship initiatives, the Digital Agenda for Europe and the Innovation Union, and on the steps towards the construction of the European Research Area. He will also refer to the ongoing consultation on the successor of...

267. EGI-InSPIRE: Current status and future plans

Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)

20/09/2011, 10:00

EGI-InSPIRE is now a third of the way through the 4 year project and is making progress against its ambitious goals of providing a general purpose e-infrastructure for different science communities around Europe. This talk will highlight the successes of the first year, some of the highlights taking place during this weeks technical forum, and how these discussions will refine the plans that...

269. Extreme Data Intensive Computing in Science

Alex Szalay (Professor of Astronomy and Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University)

21/09/2011, 09:00

Scientific computing is increasingly revolving around massive amounts of data. From physical sciences to numerical simulations to high throughput genomics and homeland security, we are soon dealing with Petabytes if not Exabytes of data. This new, data-centric computing requires a new look at computing architectures and strategies. We will revisit Amdahl's Law establishing the relation between...

270. The Digital Agenda for Europe

Carl-Christian Buhr (Member of the Cabinet of Neelie Kroes)

21/09/2011, 09:45

The talk will present the Digital Agenda for Europe, the EU's vision and action plan for bringing the benefits of the Digital Age to everybody. From among the many elements of the Digital Agenda the actions related to European e-Infrastructures and Cloud Computing will be explained in more detail.

271. The XSEDE Architecture – The Importance of Interoperability and the Role of Standards

Andrew Grimshaw (Professor of Computer Science, University of Virginia)

22/09/2011, 09:00

XSEDE introduces a new approach—one that combines an emphasis on standards as well as quality attributes such as ease-of-use, reliability, extensibility, and interoperability—to satisfying user needs. Standards, a key feature of the architecture, reduce risk, exploit a diversity of software source, and extend the set of accessible resources to include other national infrastructures. This talk...

272. Life Sciences computing needs and the GRID

Erik Boncam-Rudloff (Chairman of the European COST Action: SeqAhead, Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis Network)

22/09/2011, 09:45

The technology of Next Generation Sequencing represents a new dimension for research in the Life Sciences field. The new technologies allow the sequencing of genomes and transcriptomes faster and at a much lower budget than in previous genome sequencing projects. In Europe more than 70 institutions host more than 200 of those NGS systems with a capacity to sequence about one Tera bp per day,...