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...
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...
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.
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.
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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,...
