Name: EGI Technical Forum
Start: 2011-09-19T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2011-09-23T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Lyon Conference Centre

EGI Technical Forum

from Monday, 19 September 2011 (08:00) to Friday, 23 September 2011 (18:00)

Monday, 19 September 2011
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Rhone 4 (40)
Contributions

09:00 Welcome and Introduction - Mingchao Ma (STFC)

09:30 IRTF update - Leif Nixon (LIU)

10:00 Security monitoring group update - Daniel Kouril (CESNET)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Rhone 2 (75)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Rhone 3 (175)
Contributions

09:00 Globus EUROPE
09:00 - 10:30
Room: St Clairs
Contributions

09:00 OGF

09:00 OGF

09:00 OGF

09:00 OGF

09:00 OGF OCCI WG F2F
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Rhone 1 (75)
Contributions

09:00 OGF
Tutorial on Secure Programming
Tutorial on Secure Programming
09:00 - 10:30
Room: St Clair 4
Contributions

09:00 Tutorial on Secure Programming - Barton Miller (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Elisa Heymann (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00

10:30 - 20:30
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Rhone 2 (75)
Contributions

11:00 EMI data services - the second year - Patrick Fuhrmann (DESY)

11:15 EMI_datalib - consolidating ARC and gLite data libraries - Jon Kerr Nilsen (UIO)

11:30 dCache, the evolving storage technology - Paul Miller (dCache.org/DESY)

11:45 DPM/LFC: Standards, Status and Plans - Ricardo Rocha Ricardo Rocha (CERN)

12:00 SYNCAT - Storage Catalogue Consistency - Fabrizio Furano

12:15 File Transfer Service (FTS3): redesign for file transfer optimization and reliability - Michail Salichos (CERN) Michail Salichos
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Rhone 4 (40)
Contributions

11:00 Security training and dissemination group update - Dorine Fouossong (CNRS)

11:30 Security drill group update - Sven Gabriel (Nikhef)

12:00 Discussion
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Rhone 3 (175)
Contributions

11:00 Globus EUROPE
11:00 - 12:30
Room: St Clairs
Contributions

11:00 OGF OCCI WG F2F

11:00 OGF

11:00 OGF

11:00 OGF

11:00 OGF
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Rhone 1
Contributions

11:00 Welcome, on-going activities, goals for the meeting - Mario Reale (GARR)

11:05 HINTS status and Demo - Olivier Lenormand (CNRS)

11:30 NetJobs overview and Demo - Mario Reale (GARR)

11:40 PerfSONAR overview and update - Domenico Vicinanza (DANTE)

12:00 IPv6 survey and wrap up - Mario Reale (GARR)

12:05 General Discussion on next steps for Monitoring and for IPv6 - All
Tutorial on Secure Programming
Tutorial on Secure Programming
11:00 - 12:30
Room: St Clair 4
Contributions

11:00 Tutorial on Secure Programming - Barton Miller (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Elisa Heymann
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Rhone 2 (75)
Contributions

14:00 Data Management - a Grid enablers perspective - Mark Santcroos (Academic Medical Center Amsterdam)

14:14 LifeWatch NL - Evert Lammerts

14:27 Dutch bioinformatics data management - Jan Bot

14:40 Earth System Grid (ESG) and EGI interoperability - Jan Raciazek

14:53 Delivering a Collaborative Data Infrastructure - the EUDAT project - Mark van den Sanden

15:06 Grid Data Access: Proxy caches and User views - Jan Just Keijser

15:19 Simplifying Large Scale Data Movement with Globus - Steve Tuecke (University of Chicago / Argonne National Laboratory)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Rhone 3 (175)
Contributions

14:00 Globus EUROPE
14:00 - 15:30
Room: St Clairs
Contributions

14:00 OGF OCCI WG F2F

14:00 OGF

14:00 OGF

14:00 OGF

14:00 OGF
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Rhone 4 (40)
Contributions

14:00 OGF
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Rhone 5 (12M)
Contributions

14:00 OSIRIS
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Rhone 1
Towards Making Metadata Handling Much Easier with AMGA in EGI
Towards Making Metadata Handling Much Easier with AMGA in EGI
14:00 - 15:30
Room: St Clair 4
Contributions

14:00 Towards Making Metadata Handling Much Easier with AMGA in EGI - Geun Chul Park (KISTI) Soonwook Hwang (KISTI) Taesang Huh (KISTI)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Rhone 2 (75)
Contributions

16:00 The Cluster of Research Infrastructures for Synergies in Physics (CRISP) project - Laurence Field (CERN)

16:13 Questions, answers and discussion
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Rhone 3 (175)
Contributions

16:00 Globus EUROPE
16:00 - 17:30
Room: St Clairs
Contributions

16:00 OGF OCCI WG F2F

16:00 OGF

16:00 OGF

16:00 OGF

16:00 OGF
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Rhone 4 (40)
Contributions

16:00 OGF
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Rhone 1
Towards Making Metadata Handling Much Easier with AMGA in EGI
Towards Making Metadata Handling Much Easier with AMGA in EGI
16:00 - 17:30
Room: St Clair 4
Contributions

16:00 Towards Making Metadata Handling Much Easier with AMGA in EGI - Soonwook Hwang (EGI.EU)
17:30 Welcome cocktail
Welcome cocktail
17:30 - 19:00
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Welcome and Opening - Vincent Breton (CNRS)

09:10 Grid activity in France - Dominique Boutigny

09:30 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)

10:00 EGI-InSPIRE: Current status and future plans - Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)
09:00 - 19:00

10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Rhone 5
Contributions

11:00 CHAIN F2F
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Rhone 2
Contributions

11:00 Summary on the EGI Policy achievements - Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU)

11:25 Digital Agenda going Local, Horizon 2020, Structural Funds - Damir Marinovic (EGI.EU)

11:45 Discussion
EGI SVG F2F (Closed) - Linda Cornwall (STFC)
EGI SVG F2F (Closed)
- Linda Cornwall (STFC)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: St Clair 5 (12M) The EGI SVG members would like to take the opportunity to have a Face to Face meeting, as many will be attending the conference. This is primarily an internal meeting, where we discuss what we do and plans. A detailed agenda will be provided nearer the time.
Globusonline.org -- Reliable File Transfer, No IT Required - Steve Tuecke (University of Chicago / Argonne National Laboratory)
Globusonline.org -- Reliable File Transfer, No IT Required
- Steve Tuecke (University of Chicago / Argonne National Laboratory)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: St Clair 3a Science has become increasingly computation and data intensive. The ability to locate suitable resources, access resources reliably and securely, create and manage virtual organizations spanning multiple administrative domains, and transport large quantities of data, has emerged as fundamental requirement for progress. Globus software is established as a major source of middleware delivering these capabilities. We recently reengineered certain Globus components, improving usability and manageability in order to decrease the cost and complexity of deploying, operating, and using Globus infrastructure. However, we see lower rates of adoption among smaller scientific teams. To meet the needs of these communities, we are developing a new online, hosted service, globusonline.org, that provides a more integrated end-user solution for researchers. The initial goal of globusonline.org is to provide robust file transfer capabilities. Scientists often need to move data while pursuing their domain-specific goals (e.g., transferring simulation results from HPC facilities to their home institutions in accordance with purge policies, disseminating data to colleagues for further analyses, pipelining data to/from specialized machinery, etc.) Yet moving high-volume data across wide area networks is no easy task. Infrastructure failures are common, and tracking which transfers succeeded and which ones failed can be quite time-consuming. globusonline.org addresses these issues by delivering high-performance, reliable data movement services to end-users without requiring construction of custom, end-to-end systems. In this session, we will provide an update on recent developments in Globus and discuss future plans. We will also provide a brief introduction to globusonline.org, demonstrate current capabilities, and describe how they map to some current use cases.
HUC Sustainability Workshop - Claudio Vuerli (INAF) Horst Schwichtenberg (FRAUNHOFER) Jamie Shiers (CERN) Laura Perini (INFN - IGI) Johan Montagnat (CNRS)
HUC Sustainability Workshop
- Claudio Vuerli (INAF)
- Horst Schwichtenberg (FRAUNHOFER)
- Jamie Shiers (CERN)
- Laura Perini (INFN - IGI)
- Johan Montagnat (CNRS)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Rhone 3 (175) This session address sustainability in the context of the so-called Heavy User Communities (HUCs) of EGI-InSPIRE that are supported by SA3. For each of the communities involved, a senior user will briefly present their vision of the issues, after which we will hold a panel discussion. The main themes to be addressed include: <UL> <LI>Sustainability of the discipline <LI>Sustainability of the associated grid / DCI community <LI>Sustainability of support for the specific tools and services currently provided / assisted by SA3 </UL> The main HUCs (in terms of dedicated tasks) are: <UL> <LI>High Energy Physics (HEP) <LI>Life Sciences (LS) <LI>Earth Sciences (ES) <LI>Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A) <LI>Others - supported by the Shared Tools and Services task </UL> As time is tight, ONE slide per each question is all that can be accommodated (to leave plenty of time for discussion).
Science Gateways & Portals
Science Gateways & Portals
11:00 - 12:30
Room: St Clair 3b (90)
Contributions

11:00 Adopting SAGA standard in Science Gateways - Diego Scardaci (INFN)

11:20 Supporting Identity Federations in Science Gateways - Marco Fargetta (Consorzio COMETA and INFN) Riccardo Rotondo (INFN)

11:40 Web interface for generic grid jobs, Web4Grid - Antonia Tugores (CSIC)

12:00 Experiences and Design of the New EGI Metrics Portal - Ivan Diaz (FCTSG)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Rhone 4 (40)
Contributions

11:00 Introduction - Torsten Antoni (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

11:10 The EGI Helpdesk - Guenter Grein (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Torsten Antoni (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

11:30 Regional Helpdesk - GRNET Example - Vassilis Gkamas

11:45 Regional Helpdesk - Czech Example - Miroslav Ruda (Cesnet)

12:00 xGUS - the EGI Helpdesk Template - Guenter Grein (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Torsten Antoni (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

12:15 Discussion
11:00 - 12:30
Room: St Clairs
Contributions

11:00 OGF

11:00 OGF

11:00 OGF
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Rhone 1
Contributions

11:00 RP OLA and VO SLA status

11:30 Critical Services Availability trends
EGI Virtualisation Roadmap
EGI Virtualisation Roadmap
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Pasteur (300)
Contributions

11:00 EGI Virtualisation Roadmap
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: St Clair 5
Contributions

14:00 Agree Agenda and appoint note taker

14:05 Minutes of last meeting, review work plan and open actions

14:20 Revision of Terms of Reference

14:30 Service Operations Security Policy

14:45 Revision of top-level Security Policy

15:25 AOB and future meetings
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Rhone 2
Contributions

14:00 Welcome and General Introduction - Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)

14:10 NGIs/EIROs Sustainability Survey Report - Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU)

14:25 Grid Computing in Germany and the Quest for Sustainability - Torsten Antoni (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

14:40 The long-term future for WLCG and the role of EGI - Bob Jones (CERN)

14:55 EMI Sustainability Plans - MORRIS RIEDEL (JUELICH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTRE)

15:10 Panel Discussion
14:00 - 15:30
Room: St Clair 3a
Contributions

14:00 EMI 1 (Kebnekaise) Highlights, status and plans - Cristina Aiftimiei (INFN)

14:30 EMI 2 (Matterhorn) Roadmap - Balazs Konya (EMI project)

15:00 EMI and Cloud Association Models - Shahbaz memon
Security
Security
14:00 - 15:30
Room: St Clair 3b (90)
Contributions

14:00 Argus policies in action - Andrea Ceccanti (INFN) Valery Tschopp (Switch)

14:20 CertWizard: a New Certificate Tool for the UK NGI User Community - John Kewley (STFC)

14:40 Moonshot in Grids - one year after - Daniel Kouril (CESNET)

15:00 Securing the network - David Crooks (UG)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: St Clairs
Contributions

14:00 OGF

14:00 OGF

14:00 OGF
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Rhone 4
Contributions

14:00 OGF
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Rhone 1 (75)
Contributions

14:00 GSTAT - Eric Yen (ASGC)

14:10 SAM Status Update - Marian Babik (CERN)

14:30 ACE Status Update - Pedro Andrade (CERN)

14:40 New Availability Requirements - Christos Kanellopoulos (GRNET)

15:00 Operational Tools Monitoring - Emir Imamagic (SRCE)

15:10 UNKNOWN Status in A/R Reports - Malgorzata Krakowian (CYFRONET)

15:20 Discussion
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Rhone 3
Contributions

14:00 The DECIDE project Science Gateway - Valeria Ardizzone (COMETA and INFN)

14:15 The INDICATE project e-Culture Science Gateway - Roberto Barbera (University of Catania and INFN and COMETA)

14:30 Portals for the WeNMR Community - Schmitz Christophe

14:45 SCI-BUS: building e-Science gateways in Europe - Peter Kacsuk (MTA SZTAKI) Zoltan Farkas (MTA SZTAKI)

15:00 LGI Pilot Job Portal - Jan Keijser (FOM)

15:15 Gridcertlib - From Shibboleth authentication to X.509 certificates - sergio maffioletti (UZH)
UNICORE integration - Gert Svensson (KTH)
UNICORE integration
- Gert Svensson (KTH)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Rhone 5 (12M) This session will tackle the open issues related to the integration of UNICORE Resource Centres into EGI. It can be viewed as an extended UNICORE integration task force meeting but giving some more background for the benefit of occasional participant. Agenda: • Welcome and introduction • Status reports • Report by Marcin Radecki, ICM, Poland • Report by Rebecca Breu, Jülich, Germany • Management interface GOCDB • Monitoring interface SAM • Accounting interface • EGI Accounting Plans, John Gordon, STFC • User Membership Management • Argus Overview, Oscar Koeroo, Nikhef • Unicore and Argus Integration, Krzysztof Benedyczak, ICM (slides shown by Gert Svensson) • Next meeting
Technology
Technology
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Pasteur (300)
Contributions

14:00 Virtualisation & Cloud Computing Technology
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Rhone 2
Contributions

16:00 Introduction to Business Models - Sy Holsinger (EGI.EU)

16:35 Business Models: A Concrete Example for EGI - Zeev Vaxman Fisher (IUCC)

17:00 Panel Discussion
GLOBUS integration - Michaela Lechner (KTH) Gert Svensson (KTH)
GLOBUS integration
- Michaela Lechner (KTH)
- Gert Svensson (KTH)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Rhone 5 (12M) This session will tackle open issues related to the integration of GLOBUS Resource Centres into EGI. It can be viewed as an extended GLOBUS integration task force meeting but giving some more background for the benefit of occasional participant. Agenda: Welcome and introduction Status reports Globus in UMD - Report from Early Adaptor, Matteo Lanati, LRZ Management interface GOCDB Monitoring interface SAM Accounting interface - Grid-SAFE overview and status, Stephen Crouch, SSI - UK experiment with Grid-SAFE, John Gordon, STFC User Membership Management - Argus and Globus, Oscar Koeroo, Nikhef Next meetings AOB
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Rhone 1
Contributions

16:00 Introduction - Daniele Cesini (INFN)

16:05 NGI_AEGIS: WatG Browser, gFinger, DWARF - Vladimir Slavnic (IPB)

16:25 NGI_IT: HLRMon, WMSMonitor - Danilo Dongiovanni (INFN) Enrico Fattibene (INFN)

16:45 NGI_CH: national infrastructure operation tools - Andres Aeschlimann (SWITCH) sergio maffioletti (UZH)

17:00 CESNET: Improved x509 credential management - Daniel Kouril (CESNET)

17:15 NGI_PL: Bazaar - Marcin Radecki (CYFRONET)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: St Clairs
Contributions

16:00 OGF

16:00 OGF

16:00 OGF
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Rhone 3
Contributions

16:00 Discussions
Service Management in the EGI/NGI ecosystem - Owen Appleton (Emergence Tech Limited) Thomas Schaaf (LMU) Tomasz Szepieniec (Cyfronet)
Service Management in the EGI/NGI ecosystem
- Owen Appleton (Emergence Tech Limited)
- Thomas Schaaf (LMU)
- Tomasz Szepieniec (Cyfronet)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Rhone 4 (40) This session has two core purposes: to collect feedback and experiences from EGI and NGI representatives in how they manage their Grid-based services, and to provide a vision of the emerging challenge of Grid service management and how it can be faced. Effective service level management is critical in production Grids, as their increasing maturity means that users are demanding a greater quality of service than seen in the development phase of the infrastructure. To compete with commercial services that aim for and often achieve ‘five nines’ levels of reliability, the Grid community needs to learn from industry’s experience in the area. This session provides a platform for members of the community to discuss service level management as a process by which grid infrastructure providers identify and agree on the level of IT service needed to satisfy their current level of maturity. It will also discuss best practices in delivering the utility and warranty users need (or expect), and pave the way to more advanced and effective service level agreements in grids. The session will be organised by the gSLM project, which is funded by the EC to bring experience from the commercial IT Service Management community to the Grid. It is also connected to two recently organized international workshops: BDIM2011 (held in conjunction with the 12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management) and the MDGS2011 (held in conjunction 17th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Euro-Par 2011). It will build upon the discussions about the Service level management in Grids, which takes place at both workshops, The session will have presentations by both IT Management and Grid researchers as well as an in-depth panel discussion.
Using Agile in Academic, national and European projects - Marc-Elian Begin (SixSq) Pau Minoves (i2CAT Foundation)
Using Agile in Academic, national and European projects
- Marc-Elian Begin (SixSq)
- Pau Minoves (i2CAT Foundation)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: St Clair 3a (90) Several institutions and organisations are experimenting with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban and engineering practices from XP (e.g. TDD, continuous integration), or even Lean (e.g. stop the line culture). This session proposes a set of short experience reports, followed by a round table, perhaps in the form of an open fishbowl, where several people/projects could share their experience regarding their experimentation, focusing on which aspects were explored, what worked and what didn't. StratusLab for example is using most Scrum practices with a significant gain in performance (e.g. 4 public releases in its first year) and a great ability to adapt to our fast changing world. Introducing these methods in the grid world offers challenges and agile implementations must take into account its specificity (e.g. shared resources, distributed teams, highly specialised teams and individuals, operations vs development/integration). New tools and technologies also bring challenges, but also solutions. For example, releasing more often requires a higher level of process automation, which can be complex when dealing with testing services sensitive to security. For people unaware of agile methods, a short introduction to the agile eco-system should provide enough background such that this session is interesting to all.
Users and Experience
Users and Experience
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Pasteur (300)
Contributions

16:00 Virtualisation & Cloud Computing Users and Experience
17:30 Welcome Cocktail
Welcome Cocktail
17:30 - 19:00
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Extreme Data Intensive Computing in Science - Alex Szalay (Professor of Astronomy and Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University)

09:45 The Digital Agenda for Europe - Carl-Christian Buhr (Member of the Cabinet of Neelie Kroes)
09:00 - 19:00

10:30 Coffe break
Coffe break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 EGI Task Force: Quality Assurance (Closed) - Ivan Diaz Alvarez (FCTSG) Michel Drescher (EGI.EU) Alvaro Simon (FCTSG) Enol Fernandez del Castillo (CSIC)
EGI Task Force: Quality Assurance (Closed) (Technology)
- Ivan Diaz Alvarez (FCTSG)
- Michel Drescher (EGI.EU)
- Alvaro Simon (FCTSG)
- Enol Fernandez del Castillo (CSIC)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Rhone 5 (12M) Review of Quality Assurance processes and documents. Intended outcome: List of actions assigned to EGI, and all Technology Providers that are engaged with EGI with an SLA.
11:00 - 12:30
Room: St Clair 5 (15M)
Contributions

11:00 EGI InSPIRE PAC (closed)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Rhone 2
Contributions

11:00 Introduction to the EGI/NGI Roadshow Model - Stephen Brewer (EGI.EU)

11:15 Elements of the model - Richard McLennan (EGI.EU)

11:45 The NGS roadshows - Gillian Sinclair

12:00 Discussion
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Rhone 1
Contributions

11:00 EMI Security Overview

11:15 Upcoming Use Cases for Initializing Grid Identity - Henri Mikkonen (Helsinki Institute of Physics)

11:45 LCG and the HEP Community - Maarten Litmaath (CERN)

12:10 Webstart tool for Encrypted Data
11:00 - 12:30
Room: St Clairs
Contributions

11:00 PGI: BES/JSDL/GLUE Discussions

11:00 OGF

11:00 OGF
11:00 - 12:30
Room: St Clair 3b
Contributions

11:00 Introduction - Daniele Cesini (INFN)

11:05 GGUS report generator - Guenter Grein (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

11:25 Operations Portal Status and VO Dashboard Roadmap - Cyril Lorphelin (CNRS)

11:50 SAM: EMI UI and NRPE Support - David Collados (CERN) Marian Babik (CERN)

12:05 Enabling ACLs on Message Broker Network - Christos Triantafyllidis (GRNET)

12:15 Deployment of package building infrastructure for JRA1 - Christos Triantafyllidis (GRNET)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Rhone 3 (175)
Contributions

11:00 SIENA
Collaborating Projects
Collaborating Projects
11:00 - 12:30
Room: St Clair 4 (45)
Contributions

11:00 Virtualisation & Cloud Computing Collaborating Projects
e-FISCAL project workshop - Fotis Karayannis (AUEB-RC)
e-FISCAL project workshop
- Fotis Karayannis (AUEB-RC)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Pasteur (300) Description: The goal of the e-FISCAL project is to analyse the costs of the current European dedicated HTC and HPC computing e-Infrastructures for research, compare them with equivalent commercial leased or on-demand offerings and provide an evaluation report. The cost of the national computing e-Infrastructures will be analysed in relation to its components that correspond to the recurring operating costs (Opex – Operating expenditures) that will include the operation of the hardware and the human support necessary to successfully exploit the hardware (system administrators, user support, training, application porting, managers, etc.) and the cost related to the investments in infrastructure (Capex – Capital Expenditures). Other methods will complement this approach. Information will be collected mainly through questionnaires and interviews triggered by the e-FISCAL project workshop. The e-FISCAL workshop aims to provide an introduction to the project and stimulate an initial discussion and feedback with regard to e-Fiscal draft questionnaire that will made available to the participants before the session. The session will start with a brief introduction from the Project director outlining the goals and the work-plan of the e-Fiscal project. The second presentation will review the state-of-the-art on costs and business models for e-Infrastructures. Finally, the third presentation will show a draft of the e-FISCAL questionnaire, followed by open discussion and feedback from the participants. The target audience is EGI/NGI representatives, PRACE and HPC centers representatives and related financial experts including industrial representatives and financial experts from Cloud computing; nevertheless, anyone with genuine interest in financial matters for e-Infrastructures is welcome to participate in the session. For the e-FISCAL representatives the workshop serves as an opportunity to directly engage with the community ensuring active participation from related stakeholders. For the participants – the workshop offers an opportunity to understand the scope of the project and the requirements needed to complete the e-Fiscal questionnaire in order to obtain quality data that will be used in further cost estimation and analysis. Participants will also have the chance to engage in a focused discussion in order to better evaluate the importance of the e-Fiscal project for improving the decision-making process in the expansion and changes in operations and technology application, evolution and sustainability planning of e-Infrastructures, introduction of business models and energy saving through green computing. Agenda: - Introduction to e-Fiscal Project (15') - Setting the Scene for e-Infrastructures Cost Analysis and Sustainability Plans (15') - Presenting the e-Fiscal Methodology and Draft Questionnaire (15') - Open discussion stimulated by the methodology and questionnaire supported by a panel (45')
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Rhone 2 (75)
Contributions

14:00 Climate Change: WRF4G & CAM4G - Valvanuz Fernandez Quiruelas (University of Cantabria, Spain)

14:15 eInfrastructures for Agricultural Research (agINFRA) - Miguel-Angel Sicilia (University of Alcala)

14:30 Applications in South Africa - Bruce Becker (Meraka Institute)

14:45 Short reports from WeNMR and HealthGrid - Marco Verlato (INFN)

15:05 Results from CHAIN - Ales Krenek (CESNET)

15:20 Discussion
14:00 - 15:30
Room: St Clair 5 (15M)
Contributions

14:00 EGI-InSPIRE PMB (closed)
Software Environments
Software Environments
14:00 - 15:30
Room: St Clair 3b
Contributions

14:00 GC3Pie: A Python framework for high-throughput computing - Sergio Maffioletti (UZH/GC3)

14:20 Managing deployment and activation of Web Applications in a distributed e-Infrastructure - Andrea Manzi (CERN)

14:40 User Defined Runtime Environments in UNICORE - Bjoern Hagemeier (JUELICH)

15:00 apppot - Generic application deployment on a computational Grid - Riccardo Murri (UZH/GC3)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Rhone 4
Contributions

14:00 Overview of EGI SPG and work plans for 2011 - David Kelsey (STFC)

14:20 Draft Service Operations Security Policy - David Groep (FOM)

14:40 Draft Security Policy for the Endorsement and Operation of Virtual Machine Images - David Kelsey (STFC)

15:00 Future Security Policy work and collaboration with other infrastructures - David Kelsey (STFC)

15:15 Discussion
14:00 - 15:30
Room: St Clairs
Contributions

14:00 PGI: BES/JSDL/GLUE Discussions

14:00 OGF

14:00 OGF
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Rhone 1
Contributions

14:00 Role and Challenges of the Resource Centre in the EGI Ecosystem - Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)

14:15 KIT: experience and plans - Andreas Heiss (KIT)

14:30 PIC: experience and plans - Gonzalo Merino (Port d'Informació Científica)

14:45 INFN-CNAF: experience and plans - Mauro Morandin (INFN)

15:00 NDGF:experience and plans - Oxana Smirnova (NDGF)

15:15 SARA/NIKHEF: experience and plans - Ron Trompert (SARA)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Rhone 3 (175)
Contributions

14:00 SIENA
14:00 - 15:30
Room: St Clair 4
Contributions

14:00 Towards an effective e-Infrastructures impact assessment - Andrea Manieri (Engineering) Fabiana Monacciani (Eurokleis) antonella Passani (T6 ecosystems)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Pasteur 300
Contributions

14:00 Services for EGI VRCs - Stephen Brewer (EGI.EU)

14:20 WeNMR: the tale of Virtual Research Community in NMR and structural biology - Alexandre Bonvin (eNMR/WeNMR (via Dutch NGI))

14:35 The Life-Science Grid Community VRC in EGI - Tristan Glatard (CNRS)

14:45 Technical Support Teams in the Life-Science Grid Community - Franck MICHEL (CNRS)

14:55 Towards a Molecular Science VRC - Alessandro Constantini

15:10 Activities of the EGI Fusion Community - Antonio Gomez
e-FISCAL project (closed meeting) - Fotis Karagiannis (AUEB-RC)
e-FISCAL project (closed meeting)
- Fotis Karagiannis (AUEB-RC)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Rhone 5 (12M) This is an internal meeting for the e-Fiscal project.
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Rhone 2 (75)
Contributions

16:00 GISELA - Philippe Gavillet (CIEMAT)

16:15 EUIndiaGrid2 - Alberto Masoni (EU-IndiaGrid2)

16:30 EMI - Alberto Di Meglio (EMI)

16:45 Interoperabilty and Standards - Giuseppe Andronico (INFN)

17:00 Discussion and Conclusions
EGI Software Vulnerability Group - Elisa Heymann (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Linda Cornwall (STFC)
EGI Software Vulnerability Group
- Elisa Heymann (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
- Linda Cornwall (STFC)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Rhone 4 (40) The purpose of the EGI Software Vulnerability Group (SVG) is to eliminate existing software vulnerabilities from the EGI infrastructure and prevent the introduction of new ones. Thus reducing the likelihood of Security Incidents. This session will inform attendees of the activities of the SVG, and plans for the future. This will include a summary of the Vulnerability issue handling process, how the group interacts with various parties including software providers, and what has been learnt over the last year. It will also include a summary of the vulnerability assessement activities which have taken place and plans for the coming year. Plans for how to take the activity forward in the future will be presented and discussed.
EGI Task Force: Repositories and Automation - Michel Drescher (EGI.EU) Kostas Koumantaros (GRNET)
EGI Task Force: Repositories and Automation
- Michel Drescher (EGI.EU)
- Kostas Koumantaros (GRNET)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Rhone 5 (12M) Review of Provisioning UMD 1.0, and UMD 1.1. Review of current software provisioning processes. Intended outcome: List of actions assigned to EGI, and all Technology Providers that are engaged with EGI with an SLA.
16:00 - 17:30
Room: St Clair 5 (15M)
Contributions

16:00 EGI-InSPIRE PMB (closed)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: St Clairs
Contributions

16:00 PGI: BES/JSDL/GLUE Discussions

16:00 OGF

16:00 OGF
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Rhone 1
Contributions

16:15 CYFRONET: experience and plans - T. Szepieniec (CYFRONET)

16:30 RAL: experience and plans - Prof David Britton (UG)

16:45 UMD distribution: feedback from sites - Mario David (LIP Lisbon)

17:00 Discussion
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Rhone 3 (175)
Contributions

16:00 SIENA
16:00 - 17:30
Room: St Clair 4
Contributions

16:00 Towards an effective e-Infrastructures impact assessment
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Pasteur 300
Contributions

16:00 Earth Science HUC and the ES GRID Community - Andre Gemünd (SCAI)

16:15 Astronomy & Astrophysics community: Status, Activities, and Evolution - Claudio Vuerli (INAF)

16:30 Towards an Auger VRC - Jiri Chudoba (CESNET)

16:45 The Digital Cultural Heritage community - Antonella Fresa

17:00 Discussion
18:30 Travel to the dinner venue
Travel to the dinner venue
18:30 - 19:30

19:30 GALA DINNER
GALA DINNER
19:30 - 23:00
Thursday, 22 September 2011
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Pasteur (300)
Contributions

09:00 The XSEDE Architecture – The Importance of Interoperability and the Role of Standards - Andrew Grimshaw (Professor of Computer Science, University of Virginia)

09:45 Life Sciences computing needs and the GRID - Erik Boncam-Rudloff (Chairman of the European COST Action: SeqAhead, Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis Network)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
10:30 - 13:00
Room: Rhone 3
Contributions

10:30 Riding the wave: One year later - Carlos Morais Pires (European Commission) Krystyna Marek (European Commission)

10:40 The global scene - Wouter Los (LIFEWATCH)

11:00 Digital object identifiers: Presentation of the study - Paolo Bouquet

11:20 Panel: Towards a data access interoperability task force - Herbert Van de Sompel
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Rhone 1
Contributions

11:00 Introduction - John Gordon (STFC)

11:10 The APEL Architecture - Alison Packer (STFC)

11:25 Messaging - William Rogers

11:40 Experiences

12:20 Discussion
11:00 - 12:30
Room: St Clair 2
Contributions

11:00 EGI InSPIRE Collaboration Board (closed)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: St Clair 4
Distributed Production Cyberinfrastructure and Middleware: I
Distributed Production Cyberinfrastructure and Middleware: I
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Pasteur
Contributions

11:00 A WS-Agreement-based QoS Auditor Negotiation Mechanism for Grids - Alba Cristina Magalhães de Melo Alisson Andrade

11:30 Mediation of Service Overhead in Service-Oriented Grid Architectures - E. Elmroth P.-O. Östberg

12:00 Mutual job submission architecture that considered workload balance among computing resources in the grid interoperation - Kazushige Saga Kenichi Miura Kento Aida
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Rhone 2
Contributions

11:00 User Support in EGI - reactive and proactive services - Gergely Sipos (EGI.EU)

11:12 User support activites in Slovenia - Barbara Krasovec (ARNES)

11:25 GC3Pie: A Python framework for high-throughput computing and Grid proxies - sergio maffioletti (UZH)

11:38 Grid User Support activities in Hungary - Agnes Szeberenyi (MTA SZTAKI)

11:51 User support in IGI: related tools and services in Italy - Giuseppe Giuseppe (INFN)

12:04 User support activites in Germany - Torsten Antoni (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

12:17 HPC Cloud - Interactive User Support - Floris Sluiter (SARA)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Rhone 4
Contributions

11:00 Decommission of GOCWIKI - Andres Aeschlimann (SWITCH)

11:20 Presentation of PROC01 - Ulf Tigerstedt (CSC)

11:50 SAM Nagios training for ROD and admin - Emir Imamagic (SRCE)

12:20 FAQs from GGUS. Discussion and needs. - Andres Aeschlimann (SWITCH) Ulf Tigerstedt (CSC)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: St Clair 3a (90T)
Contributions

11:00 Software Provisioning in EGI
Tutorial: Towards better managed Grids. IT Service Management best practices based on ITIL V3 - Thomas Schaaf (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Tutorial: Towards better managed Grids. IT Service Management best practices based on ITIL V3
- Thomas Schaaf (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: St Clair 1 (60) The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a today widely-used collection of best practices in IT Service Management that has, of all standardization efforts, gained the most popularity. Since it combines the principles of service- and process-orientation in IT management and is easily accessible, it has become increasingly attractive for IT organizations of almost any size, branch or organizational setup. But is ITIL also applicable in Grid environments? What would be the impact, and why should we care about it? The scope of ITIL is not limited to technical issues, but also covers the organizational, human and economic dimensions of managing distributed services. In this tutorial, we give an overview of the ITIL framework, covering its most important concepts and contents, including an outline of those management practices and processes that might be most interesting for site managers, NGI managers or Grid operations/technology experts. The processes selected for presentation within the tutorial include Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Configuration Management, Capacity Management, Availability Management, Security Management, Service Level Management, and Demand Management. Participants will learn more about how ITIL helps to deal with unexpected situations, to manage changes and the configuration in a distributed environment, to define and manage quality of service, and how it supports the continual improvement and alignment to customer and user needs. The goal of this training/tutorial is to deliver insight into the topics of IT Service Management and ITIL, and in addition: provide some ideas on how ITIL may be relevant and useful in the Grid context. The session is run by members of the gSLM project (www.gslm.eu), which is funded by the EC to bring commercial ITSM approaches such as ITIL to the Grid community and more broadly improve grid Service Level Management. This tutorial is targeted to people who have no or few previous knowledge on ITIL.
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: St Clair 1
Contributions

14:00 Introduction - John Gordon (STFC)

14:15 CPU - Andrea Guarise (INFN-Torino)

14:30 Storage Accounting
14:00 - 15:30
Room: St Clair 2 (60)
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 SA2 F2F - Michel Drescher (EGI.EU)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Rhone 2 (75)
Clouds and Virtualization: I
Clouds and Virtualization: I
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Rhone 3
Contributions

14:00 Energy-Aware Ant Colony Based Workload Placement in Clouds - Eugen Feller

14:30 Graph-Cut Based Coscheduling Strategy towards Efficient Execution of Scientific Workflows in Collaborative Cloud Environments - Dong Yuan Jinjun Chen Junqiang Song Kaijun Ren Kefeng Deng

15:00 Optimizing Resource Consumptions in Clouds - Ligang He
14:00 - 15:30
Room: St Clair 3
Contributions

14:00 Scientific Data Preservation - Cristinel Diaconu (CPP Marseille)

14:20 Data Caching in Life Sciences - Tristan Glatard (CNRS)

14:35 Data Management and Caching - Fernando Barreiro Megino (CERN / EGI-InSPIRE TSA3.3)

14:55 Monitoring - The Experiment Dashboard - Edward Karavakis (CERN)

15:10 Analysis Tools and Support - Daniel Colin VAN DER STER (CERN)
Operations training - Ulf Tigerstedt (CSC)
Operations training (Operations)
- Ulf Tigerstedt (CSC)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Rhone 1 Topics of the training will be defined in the coming weeks.
StratusLab Training - Charles Loomis (CNRS/LAL)
StratusLab Training
- Charles Loomis (CNRS/LAL)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: St Clair 4 StratusLab develops and provides an open-source cloud distribution that allows data centers to expose their computing resources as an "Infrastructure as a Service" (IaaS) type cloud. Administrators can run their services over the cloud to improve availability, scalability, and maintainability of their grid and non-grid services. Virtual organizations and users can use the cloud to develop custom computing environments and domain-specific services. This tutorial presents the main features of the current StratusLab distribution. Using the project's reference cloud infrastructure, participants will see how those features can be used by system administrators and scientists. The tutorial concludes with a presentation of the project's development roadmap and schedule of future releases. Participants will be provided credentials for accessing the StratusLab reference cloud infrastructure. Participants will learn about cloud technologies in general and will understand the distinction between Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) infrastructures. They will understand how infrastructures based on the StratusLab distribution can be integrated with the European Grid Infrastructure and how the cloud services complement grid services. Practical exercises will teach the participants how to launch virtual machines, customize their computing environment, share those customized environments with others, manage virtual disks, and define complete services.
Joint security training for system admins and alike
Joint security training for system admins and alike
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 How to install and configure glexec - Dennis van Dok (FOM)

14:45 How to install Argus policies - Andrea Ceccanti (INFN)
14:00 - 19:30
Room: Rhone 3
Contributions

14:00 Exhibition scientific data

15:20 e-Science environments perspectives - Zajzon-Laszlo Bodo (European Commission)

15:35 Strategic Plan for a Scientific Cloud Computing infrastructure for Europe - Maryline Lengert (ESA)

16:00 Panel e-science environments: meeting user needs - Sverker Holmgren (Nordforsk)

17:30 Exhibition e-Science environments & networking cocktail
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: St Clair 1
Contributions

16:00 Applications - Ivan Diaz Alvarez (FCTSG)

16:20 MPI - Enol Fernandez del Castillo (CSIC) John Walsh (TCD)

16:35 Virtual Machines - David wallom

16:55 Other Suggestions
16:00 - 17:30
Room: St Clair 2 (60)
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 SA2 F2F - Michel Descher
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Rhone 2 (75)
Grid Oversight - Ron Trompert (SARA) Cyril Lorphelin (CNRS) Malgorzata Krakowian (CYFRONET)
Grid Oversight
- Ron Trompert (SARA)
- Cyril Lorphelin (CNRS)
- Malgorzata Krakowian (CYFRONET)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Rhone 1 (75) There will be four slots in this session. 1. Grid Oversight Issues and Topics 2. Results of the Questionnaire In this slot we will discuss the outcome of the questionnaire that we have sent to the ROD teams 3. Discussion on our requirements. 4. Latest developments of the Dashboard A presentation on the latest developments of the dashboard that are important for RODs.
Tools & Services, Resource Management and Runtime Environments: I
Tools & Services, Resource Management and Runtime Environments: I
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Rhone 3
Contributions

16:00 A Strategy to Improve Resource Utilization in Grids Based on Network-Aware Meta-Scheduling in Advance - Agustin Caminero Blanca Caminero Carmen Carrion Luis Tomas

16:30 A Highly Scalable Decentralized Scheduler of Tasks with Deadlines - J Celaya U Arronategui

17:00 Adaptive Scheduling on Power-Aware Managed Data-Centers using Machine Learning - J Torres J.Ll. Berral R Gavalda
16:00 - 17:30
Room: St Clair 3
Contributions

16:00 GRelC database access and integration service - Sandro Fiore (SPACI)

16:20 Hydra Encryption Service - Franck MICHEL (CNRS)

16:30 VisIVO - Giuliano Taffoni

16:50 Workflows and Schedulers

17:10 MPI - Alessandro Costantini
StratusLab Training - Charles Loomis (none)
StratusLab Training
- Charles Loomis (none)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: St Clair 4 StratusLab develops and provides an open-source cloud distribution that allows data centers to expose their computing resources as an "Infrastructure as a Service" (IaaS) type cloud. Administrators can run their services over the cloud to improve availability, scalability, and maintainability of their grid and non-grid services. Virtual organizations and users can use the cloud to develop custom computing environments and domain-specific services. This tutorial presents the main features of the current StratusLab distribution. Using the project's reference cloud infrastructure, participants will see how those features can be used by system administrators and scientists. The tutorial concludes with a presentation of the project's development roadmap and schedule of future releases. Participants will be provided credentials for accessing the StratusLab reference cloud infrastructure. Participants will learn about cloud technologies in general and will understand the distinction between Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) infrastructures. They will understand how infrastructures based on the StratusLab distribution can be integrated with the European Grid Infrastructure and how the cloud services complement grid services. Practical exercises will teach the participants how to launch virtual machines, customize their computing environment, share those customized environments with others, manage virtual disks, and define complete services.
Joint security training for system admins and alike
Joint security training for system admins and alike
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Open discussion
17:30 e-Research, Applications and Distributed Data-Intensive Science
e-Research, Applications and Distributed Data-Intensive Science
17:30 - 19:00
Room: Rhone 3
Contributions

17:30 Exploiting Inherent Task-Based Parallelism in Object-Oriented Programming - E Tejedor F Lordan R Badia

18:00 MARIANE: MApReduce Implementation Adapted for HPC Environments - E Dede L Ramakrishnan M Govindaraju Z Fadika

18:30 Benchmarking MapReduce Implementations for Application Usage Scenarios - E Dede L Ramakrishnan M Govindaraju Z Fadika
Friday, 23 September 2011
08:30 Distributed Production Cyberinfrastructure and Middleware: II
Distributed Production Cyberinfrastructure and Middleware: II
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Rhone 3
Contributions

08:30 Adjustable Module Isolation for Distributed Computing Infrastructures - S Schulz W Blochinger

09:00 Improved Grid Security Posture through Multi-factor Authentication - M Ezell M Johnson P Kovatch P Redd V Hazelwood

09:30 Scalable and Distributed Processing of Scientific XML Data - C Gupta E Dede M Govindaraju Z Fadika

10:00 Detecting Credential Abuse in the Grid using Bayesian Networks - C Kunz M Smith N Tahmasebi T Risse
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Rhone 1 (75)
Contributions

09:00 Desktop Grids at EGI TF in Lyon - Ad Emmen (EDGI, DEGISCO, e-IRGSP3 projects) Peter Kacsuk (MTA SZTAKI, EDGI)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Rhone 2 (75)
Contributions

09:00 EUMEDGrid-Support
Joint security training for system admins and alike
Joint security training for system admins and alike
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Rhone 1
Contributions

09:00 Advanced pakiti tutorial - Daniel Kouril (CESNET)

09:30 SSC5 case study - Malware analysis - Eygene Ryabinkin (RRC "Kurchatov Institute") Oscar Koeroo (FOM)

10:00 Using the security service challenge (SSC) framework
09:00 - 10:35
Room: Pasteur
Contributions

09:00 Keynote - Rob Pennington

09:25 HPC policy, PRACE and results from exascale call - Bernhard Fabianek (European Commission)

09:45 HPC software: Presentation of the study - Steve Conway

10:10 PRACE initiatives - Catherine Riviere
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Rhone 4
Contributions

11:00 Desktop Grid
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Rhone 2 (75)
Contributions

11:00 EUMEDGrid-Support
Clouds and Virtualization: II
Clouds and Virtualization: II
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Rhone 3
Contributions

11:00 Differentiated Availability in Cloud Computing SLAs - A Chilwan A Undheim P Heegaard

11:30 Migration of Multi-tier Applications to Infrastructure-as-a-Service Clouds: An Investigation Using Kernel-based Virtual Machines - J Lyon K Rojas M Arabi O David S Pallickara W Lloyd

12:00 Embedded Processor Virtualization for Broadband Grid Computing - A Shabarshin L Carloni R Neill S Tcherepanov V Sigaev
Joint security training for system admins and alike
Joint security training for system admins and alike
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Incident workflow and forensic tools - Leif Nixon (LIU)

11:45 Linux rootkit and TTY hijacking - Antonio Perez Perez (CERN)

12:15 Vulnerability handling (what to do if you find a vulnerability and How are they handled) - Linda Cornwall (STFC)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Pasteur
Contributions

11:00 Update on e-infrastructures under HORIZON 2020 - Kostas Glinos (European Commission)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Tools & Services, Resource Management and Runtime Environments: II
Tools & Services, Resource Management and Runtime Environments: II
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Rhone 3
Contributions

14:00 Autonomic Resource Management with Support Vector Machines - A Brinkmann A Krieger J Simon O Niehörster

14:30 Supporting Deadline Constrained Distributed Computations on Grids - N Jamali X Zhao

15:00 Performance Evaluation of Overload Control in Multi-Cluster Grids - A Iosup D Epema N Yigitbasi O Sonmez
SHIWA Simulation Platform - Tamas Kukla (Univ. of Westminster) Gabor Terstyanszky (Univ. of Westminster) Peter Kacsuk (MTA SZTAKI)
SHIWA Simulation Platform
- Tamas Kukla (Univ. of Westminster)
- Gabor Terstyanszky (Univ. of Westminster)
- Peter Kacsuk (MTA SZTAKI)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Rhone 1 (75) A large number of research teams creates and runs workflows to support their applications. There are two key players in this process: e-scientists who use workflows and workflow developers who create workflows. Elaborating a workflow may require significant efforts and specific expertise. Workflow developers have to be familiar with both the research area which they address and workflow systems they use. Workflow development, testing and validation is a time consuming process and it requires specific expertise. These constrains limit the number of available workflows, so it is important to reuse them. However, there is a further obstacle to workflow dissemination: there are many workflow systems, and workflows developed for one workflow system is normally not compatible with workflows of other workflow systems. As a result research communities cannot easily use workflows. This situation can be resolved by workflow interoperability according to which publicly available workflows can be and should be used by different research communities on different workflow systems and on multiple distributed computing infrastructures. The SHIWA Simulation Platform (SSP) was designed to provide a platform through which scientists can share and re-use their workflows. The production SSP v1.0 is available since mid March. SSP v1 supports coarse-grained workflow interoperability where nodes of a native workflow can be workflows written in other workflow languages and systems and are considered as black boxes. In SSP v1.0 the native workflow system is the P-GRADE workflow system. The coarse-grained interoperability enables either embedding or invoking ASKALON, GWES, Kepler, MOTEUR, Taverna and Triana workflows. SSP v1 allows e-scientists to search workflows uploaded to the SHIWA Repository and use them in their experiments. The workshop will show the concept and technical details of SSP v1.0 as well as some application examples where SSP v1.0 was actively used.
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Distributed Production Cyberinfrastructure and Middleware: III
Distributed Production Cyberinfrastructure and Middleware: III
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Rhone 3
Contributions

16:00 Using the Gfarm File System as a POSIX compatible storage platform for Hadoop MapReduce applications - K Ohta O Tatebe S Mikami

16:30 A Fast Location Service for Partial Spatial Replicas - Ph Rhodes Y Tian

17:00 Replicated Grid Resources - A Grimshaw S Valente

17:30 Beyond batch computing on the WLCG Grid - M Meoni