Name: EGI Technical Forum 2010
Start: 2010-09-14T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2010-09-17T20:30:00+02:00
Location: Beurs van Berlage

EGI Technical Forum 2010

from Tuesday, 14 September 2010 (09:00) to Friday, 17 September 2010 (20:30)

Monday, 13 September 2010
Tuesday, 14 September 2010

09:00

09:00 - 11:00
Room: Derkindern

09:00 - 17:30
Room: Archief Damrakzijde
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Yakult Room
Contributions

11:00 Welcome from the Local Organisers - Patrick Aerts (NCF)

11:15 Presentation from the European Commission

11:45 Current Status of EGI.eu and EGI-InSPIRE - Steven Newhouse (EGI.eu)
12:30

12:30 - 19:00
Room: Demonstrations in Grote Zaal

12:30 - 14:00
Room: Grote zaal

12:30 - 19:00
Room: Posters in the Grote zaal
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Berlage
Contributions

14:00 Welcome/Introduction

14:10 Earth Sciences Community - Horst Schwichtenberg (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany)

14:25 Biomedical Community - Johan Montagnat (CNRS)

14:40 CLARIN Project - Dieter Van Uytvanck

14:55 Photon Facilities and Authentication - Hans Weyer

15:10 Moonshot Project - Daniel Kouril (CESNET)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Derkindern
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Mendes da Costa
Contributions

14:00 Roundtable Introduction

14:05 Introduction to EGI CSIRT - Mingchao Ma (STFC - RAL)

14:25 Update from Incident Response Task Force - Leif Nixon (SNIC)

14:45 Update from Security Drill Group - Sven Gabriel (Nikhef)

15:05 Security Service Challenge 4 debrief - Sven Gabriel (Nikhef)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Graanbeurszaal
Contributions

14:00 From EGEE to EGI: status of the EGI infrastructure, results and roadmap - Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)

14:30 Operational Considerations From Running Grid Services on Cloud Resources - Charles Loomis (Linear Accelerator Laboratory (LAL))

14:50 NGI_DE experience and future plans for the operation of heterogeneous middleware stacks - Angela Poschlad (KIT) Foued Jrad (KIT)

15:10 The European Desktop Grid Federation: status of the infrastructure and integration plans - Robert Lovas (SZTAKI)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Verwey
Contributions

14:00 Using agents to support grid users - Eduard Drenth (Logica) Sylvia Delgado Olabarriaga (University of Amsterdam)

14:20 Operations in the biomed VO: monitoring and incident prevention - Tristan Glatard (CNRS)

14:40 Monitoring of the infrastructure from the VO perspective - julia andreeva (CERN)

15:05 Integrating Cloud Monitoring and Accounting with Grid Operational Tools - Evangelos Floros (GRNET)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Keurzaal
14:00 - 15:40
Room: Yakult Room
Contributions

14:00 Introduction: the role of the VRC

14:10 DARIAH brief overview

14:20 CLARIN brief overview

14:30 GISELA brief overview

14:40 EnviroGrids brief overview

14:50 WeNMR brief overview

15:00 NEXPReS brief overview

15:10 DECIDE brief overview

15:20 The EGI VRC accreditation process - Stephen Brewer (EGI)
15:30

15:30 - 16:00
Room: Grote zaal
16:00
16:00 - 17:45
Room: Berlage
Contributions

16:00 ILL: Neutrons for Science Project

16:15 ELIXIR Project - John White (University of Helsinki, Finland)

16:30 LifeWatch Project - Axel Poigne

16:45 HEP Community - Maarten Litmaath

17:00 IT Grid Community - vincenzo ciaschini

17:15 UK Grid Community
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Derkindern

Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Projects
Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Projects
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Yakult Room
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Mendes da Costa
Contributions

16:00 Update from Security Monitoring Group - Daniel Kouril (CESNET)

16:20 Update from Security Training Group - Wilhelm Buehler (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

16:40 Update from WLCG - Romain Wartel (CERN"'><i>CERN)

17:00 Open Discussion
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Graanbeurszaal
Contributions

16:00 Grid Operations Interoperability Overview - Michaela Lechner (EGI.EU)

16:10 The Operations Portal and the Grid Operations Interoperability - Cyril Lorphelin (CNRS)

16:30 Procedures and Policies - Vera Hansper (CSC)

16:50 Fitting ARC services into the EGI infrastructure - Michael Gronager (NDGF)

17:10 Operational Integration of UNICORE services - Rebecca Breu
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Verwey
Contributions

16:00 Scalable stochastic tracing of large-scale data management events - Mario Lassnig (CERN)

16:20 The EMI Infrastructure Services: An Overview - Laurence Field (CERN)

16:45 Understanding Large Scale HPC Systems Through Scalable Monitoring and Analysis - Ann Gentile (Sandia National Laboratories)

17:10 Results and issues for the Grid Observatory - Cécile Germain-Renaud (CNRS)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Keurzaal
Contributions

16:00 UMD Roadmap - Steven Newhouse (EGI.eu)

16:20 Quality Criteria Definition - Enol Castillo (CSIC)

16:40 Quality Criteria Verification - Carlos Fernandez (FCTSG)

17:00 EGI Software Repository - Kostas Koumantaros (GRNET)
17:30

17:30 - 19:00
Room: Grote zaal
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Yakult Room
Contributions

09:00 National Research and Education Networks as engines for innovation in research - Erik-Jan Bos

09:45 LifeWatch: An e-Science infrastructure for biodiversity research - Alex Hardisty (LifeWatch)
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
Room: Grote zaal

10:30 - 17:30
Room: Demonstrations in Grote Zaal

10:30 - 17:30
Room: Posters in the Grote zaal
11:00 Environmental (ENV) Projects
Environmental (ENV) Projects
11:00 - 12:35
Room: Yakult Room
Contributions

11:00 Data pre-processing for CO2 monitoring and ecosystem sequestration

11:20 Data post-processing for CO2 monitoring and ecosystem sequestration

11:40 Data pre-processing for understanding geophysical processes

12:00 Data post-processing for understanding geophysical processes

12:20 Discussion
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Berlage
Contributions

11:00 User & Community Support Process/Team - Stephen Brewer (EGI)

11:30 Training Events/Training Repository - David Fergusson (STFC/UE)

11:50 EGI Applications Database - Vassilis William Karageorgos (IASA)

12:10 VO Services - Jorge Gomes (LIP)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Keurzaal
Contributions

11:00 Current status of OLAs in in EGI - Christos Kanellopoulos

11:10 Results of NGI OLA Questionnaire - Dimitrios Zilaskos

11:30 JRA1 input on OLAs - Daniele Cesini

11:40 Biomed VO thoughts on OLAs - Tristan Glatard

11:50 GGUS TPMs OLA - Torsten Antoni

12:00 Discussion
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Verwey
Contributions

11:00 Handling Software Vulnerabilities in the EGI infrastructure - Linda Cornwall (STFC, The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

11:45 In Depth Vulnerability Assessment of Middleware - Elisa Heymann

12:15 Discussion
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Mendes da Costa
Contributions

11:00 Grid Jobs for Network Monitoring for the Grid

11:30 PerfSONAR-Lite TSS Troubleshooting System

12:00 PerfSONAR development
Roadmap and Interactions
Roadmap and Interactions
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Graanbeurszaal
Contributions

11:00 Presentation of the DCI Roadmap and Interactions - Steven Newhouse (EGI.eu)

11:30 DCI Projects Panel - Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)
12:30

12:30 - 14:00
Room: Roland Holst Kamer

12:30 - 14:00
Room: Grote zaal

12:30 - 14:00
Room: Rode Kamer

12:30 - 16:00
Room: Derkindern
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Verwey
Contributions

14:00 Status of EGI Accounting

15:00 Requirements for CPU Accounting
Summary and Next Steps
Summary and Next Steps
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Yakult Room
Contributions

14:00 Introduction - Bob Jones (CERN)

14:05 Overview of the environmental sciences (ENV) use-cases - Alex Hardisty (LifeWatch)

14:20 Overview of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) use-cases - Daan Broeder (Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)

14:35 Overview of the life sciences (BMS) use-cases

14:50 Overview of the Physics, Astronomy and Analytical Facilities (PHYS) use-cases - Bob Jones (CERN)

15:05 Overview of the EUDAT use-cases - Kimmo Koski (CSC)

15:20 Discussion and Summary
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Berlage
Contributions

14:00 The COD activity and site availability, ensuring the quality of the Grid - Radecki Radecki (CYFRONET)

14:30 From EGEE to EGI, the transition from ROCs to NGIs - Malgorzata Krakowian (ACK CYFRONET AGH)

15:00 Operational documentation - Vera Hansper (CSC)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Archief Damrakzijde
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Mendes da Costa
Contributions

14:00 Overview of Grid technology for AAI

14:25 State of the SAML federation landscape - moving closer to the grids

14:50 Policy issues for Identity Management (and other Attributes too)

15:15 Discussion Panel: SAML + Grid Policy and Progress
Standards and Interoperability Roadmap
Standards and Interoperability Roadmap
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Graanbeurszaal
Contributions

14:00 Interoperability and the need for standards in the DCI Roadmap Vision - Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.eu)

14:30 Contribution of the Production Grid Infrastructure WG - Morris RIEDEL (JUELICH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTRE)

14:50 Discussion: Standards Engagement of the DCI Projects - Silvana Muscella (SIENA)
15:30

15:30 - 16:00
Room: Grote zaal
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Verwey
Contributions

16:00 Requirements for CPU Accounting (II)

16:30 Requirements for Other types of Accounting
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Yakult Room
Contributions

16:00 High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data - David Giaretta

16:25 eIRG Data Management Task Force - Matti Heikkurinen

16:50 Data Management Issues in Digital Cultural Heritage - Rosette Vandenbroucke

17:15 Discussion - Neil Geddes (STFC)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Derkindern
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Berlage
Contributions

16:00 Ensuring the quality of the Grid, a discussion session
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Archief Damrakzijde
Contributions

16:00 Introduction

16:05 MPI support: Users view and perspectives

16:25 Site deployment and MPI support

16:45 Middleware support to MPI through gLite, ARC and UNICORE
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Mendes da Costa
Contributions

16:00 Summary of AAI Req's for DCIs

16:25 AAI-enabled VO Platform at SWITCH

16:50 perfSONAR + SIR federation
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Archief Beursstrazijde
Contributions

16:00 EGI and Dissemination - Sara Coelho

16:10 eScienceTalk/iSGTW - Dan Drollette (iSGTW) Manisha Lalloo (eScienceTalk)

16:20 Telling your story - Martin Ince (Martin Ince Communications)

17:00 Q&A - Catherine Gater (EGI.EU)
Discussion
Discussion
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Graanbeurszaal
Contributions

16:00 SIENA: Standards Roadmap for grids & clouds - Silvana Muscella (SIENA)
16:00 - 17:40
Room: Keurzaal
Contributions

16:00 Introduction: the role of the VRC with respect to EGI

16:10 CineGrid brief overview

16:20 The role of the VRC: general discussion
Thursday, 16 September 2010

09:00

09:00 - 17:30
Room: Archief Damrakzijde
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Yakult Room
Contributions

09:00 Managing Clouds, The Impact Of Virtualization In The Data Center

09:45 Virtual Use Cases – bridging the gap between the GRID-world and the emerging research infrastructures in the humanities and social sciences
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
Room: Grote zaal

10:30 - 14:00
Room: Demonstrations in Grote Zaal

10:30 - 14:00
Room: Posters in the Grote zaal
11:00 ECEE - Part I/III - Industry Track
ECEE - Part I/III - Industry Track
11:00 - 12:45
Room: Yakult Room
Contributions

11:00 Network architectures and converged networks fabrics for cloud computing

11:35 Exploratory Cloud Projects in IBM Research

12:10 OpenNebula
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Berlage
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Graanbeurszaal
Contributions

11:00 Introduction to EMI - Alberto Meglio (EMI)

11:10 EMI Collaboration Programs - Diana Cresti (INFN)

11:30 User Experience: a stable user community

11:45 User Experience: an emerging user community

12:00 Open Discussion
11:00 - 12:35
Room: Mendes da Costa
Contributions

11:00 Session Introduction - Jamie Shiers (CERN)

11:05 Hadrontherapy and Grids - Issues and Requirements - Ken Peach (The John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, Oxford University)

11:25 The Climate-G testbed: issues, requirements and results - Giovanni Aloisio (Università del Salento) Sandro Fiore

11:45 Life Science Requirements - Samuel Keuchkerian (HealthGrid)

12:05 Panel on Common Requirements - Giovanni Aloisio (Università del Salento) Johan Montagnat (CNRS) José Salt (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular ( Joint Center CSIC-Univ. of Valencia)) Ken Peach (Particle Therapy Cancer Research Institute, University of Oxford) Samuel Keuchkerian (HealthGrid) Łukasz Kokoszkiewicz (CERN / EnviroGRIDS)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Verwey
Contributions

11:00 Introduction - John Kennedy (Rechenzentrum Garching (RZG))

11:10 Standards in HPC/HTC Inter-Operation - MORRIS RIEDEL (JUELICH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTRE)

11:30 JSAGA - Sylvain Reynaud (IN2P3)

11:50 Interoperability: The SAGA Approach and Experience - Shantenu Jha

12:10 HPC-Grid workflows in fusion research: The EUFORIA approach - Francisco Castejon (CIEMAT)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Rode Kamer
Contributions

11:00 EGI and Dissemination - Catherine Gater (EGI.EU)

11:10 eScienceTalk

11:20 Discussion/Introductions - Neasan ONeill (EGI)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Keurzaal
Contributions

11:00 Africa ROC and SAGRID - Bruce BECKER (SAGrid)

11:15 Asia-Pacific JRU - Simon LIN (ASG)

11:30 The CHAIN Project - Federico RUGGIERI (INFN)

11:45 The EPIKH Project - Roberto BARBERA (University of Catania and INFN)

12:00 EU-IndiaGrid2 Project - Alberto MASONI (INFN)

12:15 EUMEDGRID-Support Project - Mario REALE (GARR)
11:00 - 13:30
Room: Derkindern

12:30

12:30 - 14:00
Room: Grote zaal
13:55
13:55 - 15:50
Room: Berlage
Contributions

14:00 Session Introduction - Jamie Shiers (CERN)

14:05 Services for High Energy Physics - Maria Girone (CERN)

14:30 Services for Life Sciences - Johan Montagnat (CNRS)

14:50 Services for Earth Sciences - Horst Schwichtenberg (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany)

15:10 Services for Astronomy and Astrophysics - Claudio Vuerli
14:00 ECEE - Part II/III - Projects Track
ECEE - Part II/III - Projects Track
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Yakult Room
Contributions

14:00 Introduction to ECEE and VENUS-C

14:25 BiG Grid HPC Clouds; Virtual Private HPC Clusters

14:45 NEON

15:05 StratusLab

15:25 NGS
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Mendes da Costa

14:00 - 15:30
Room: Derkindern
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Verwey
Contributions

14:00 Introduction - Daniele Cesini (INFN)

14:10 Operation Portal - Cyril Lorphelin (CNRS)

14:25 GOCDB - Gilles Mathieu (RAL-STFC)

14:40 NAGIOS/MyEGI - David Horat (CERN)

14:55 Broker network configuration - Christos Triantafyllidis (GRNET)

15:05 GGUS Helpdesk - Torsten Antoni (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

15:20 Metrics Portal - Javier Lopez Cacheiro (CESGA)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Keurzaal
Contributions

14:00 GISELA Project - Bernard MARECHAL (CIEMAT)

14:15 HP-SEE Project - Ognjen PRNJAT (GRNET)

14:30 General Discussion
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Rode Kamer
Contributions

14:00 The EGI Policy team - Damir Marinovic (EGI.EU)

14:10 History and current status of EGI security policies

14:30 Terms of Reference and procedures for SPG

15:00 SPG future plans
15:30

15:30 - 16:00
Room: Grote zaal
16:00 ECEE - Part III/III - Work Track
ECEE - Part III/III - Work Track
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Yakult Room
Contributions

16:00 GRNET CLOUD

16:20 Discussion and update of common roadmap
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Mendes da Costa
16:00 - 17:35
Room: Verwey
Contributions

16:00 GGUS - EGI's central helpdesk - Torsten Antoni (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

16:15 TPM - EGI's first line support - Helmut Dres (GGUS)

16:30 COD - EGI's operator on duty - Ron Trompert (SARA)

16:45 xGUS - an easy way to set up an NGI helpdesk - Sabine Reisser (NGI-DE)

17:00 PL-Grid - An example of an NGI support infrastructure - Marcin Radecki (CYFRONET)

17:15 Network Support Coordination: Status and Plans - Mario Reale (GARR)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Derkindern
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Graanbeurszaal
Contributions

16:00 Introduction to IGE - Helmut Heller (LRZ)

16:40 Presentation of globus.org service - Florian Zrenner (LRZ)

17:00 Discussing the relations between EGI and IGE - Anton Frank (LRZ)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Rode Kamer
Contributions

16:00 EGI/EMI security groups - Introduction

16:05 Security Coordination Group - SCG - Steven Newhouse (EGI.eu)

16:10 Security Policy Group - SPG - David Kelsey (STFC)

16:15 Software Vulnerability Group - SVG

16:20 EUGridPMA - David Groep (FOM-Nikhef)

16:25 EGI Computer Security Incident Response Team - CSIRT - Mingchao Ma (STFC)

16:30 Summary of AAI DCI - John White (University of Helsinki, Finland)

16:40 Summary of TERENA NRENs and Grids Workshop - David Kelsey (STFC)

16:50 Open Discussion
16:00 - 17:55
Room: Berlage
Contributions

16:00 Shared Services and Tools - Dashboards - Edward Karavakis julia andreeva

16:20 Shared Services and Tools - Applications (Ganga, DIANE) - Dan van der Ster (CERN)

16:40 Shared Services and Tools - Services: GReIC - Sandro Fiore

17:00 Shared Services and Tools - Workflows and Schedulers - Francisco Castejon Magana (CIEMAT)

17:20 Shared Services and Tools - MPI - John Walsh (Grid-Ireland)

17:40 ATLAS distributed data management - Fernando Harald Barreiro Megino (CERN)

17:50 EGI-InSPIRE SA3 Milestones and Deliverables
19:00

19:00 - 22:00
Room: Grote zaal
Friday, 17 September 2010

08:00

08:00 - 10:30
Room: Rode Kamer

09:00

09:00 - 13:00
Room: Archief Damrakzijde
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Yakult Room
Contributions

09:00 NGI based User Support in EGI

09:15 User Support in IGI, the Italian NGI

09:30 User Support in NGI-DE, the German NGI

09:45 User Support in the UK NGI

10:00 Application and User Support in Asia-Pacific

10:15 Discussion
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Derkindern
Contributions

09:00 Introdution

09:05 EGI Security Incident Handling Procedure - Tobias Dussa (KIT-CERT)

09:30 Security Service Challenge 4 - Case Study - Tobias Dussa (NGI_DE) Ursula Epting (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

10:00 Security Monitoring with Pakiti and Nagios - Daniel Kouril (CESNET) Giuseppe Misurelli (INFN)
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Graanbeurszaal
Contributions

09:00 Software rollout procedures

09:40 SW providers perspective, feedback

10:10 Early Adopters perspective - Martin Braun

10:20 Discussion
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Keurzaal
Contributions

09:00 Desktop Grids for EGI/NGI User Communities - Ad Emmen (AlmereGrid)

09:30 Desktop Grid Infrastructure and User Support Service for EGI/NGI User Communities - Tamas Kiss (University of Westminster)

09:50 ISDEP, a Fusion Application Deployed on Volunteer Computing Platform - Dario Ferrer (Instituto de Biocomputación y Física de Sistemas Complejos (BIFI) de la Universidad de Zaragoza)

10:00 Connecting the XWCH Computing Platform with ARC - Marko Niinimaki (University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland)

10:10 DesktopGrid Applications in Asia - Eric Yen (Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre (ASGC), Taipei, Taiwan)

10:20 Questions and Discussion
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
Room: Grote zaal

11:00

11:00 - 12:00
Room: Yakult Room

12:00

12:00 - 13:00
Room: Grote zaal

13:00

13:00 - 14:30
Room: Verwey
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Derkindern
Contributions

13:00 Security recommendations CREAM - Cristina Aiftimiei

13:15 Security recommendations ARC CE - A. Filipcic

13:30 Security recommendations UNICORE - K. Benedyczak

13:45 Security recommendations DPM - J-P Baud

13:55 Security recommendations dCache - P. Millar

14:05 Security recommendations Argus - V. Tschopp

14:15 Security recommendations MyProxy - Daniel Kouril (CESNET)

14:25 Q&A
13:00 - 16:00
Room: Mendes da Costa
Contributions

13:00 Introduction to Desktop Grid Computing - Ad Emmen (AlmereGrid)

13:45 User Support Services for DG Infrastructures - Tamas Kiss (University of Westminster)

15:00 Managing an EGEE/EGI Virtual Organisation (VO) with EDGES Bridged Desktop Resources - Robert Lovas (MTA SZTAKI)

15:30 Questions and discussion
14:30

14:30 - 15:00
Room: Grote zaal

15:00

15:00 - 16:30
Room: Verwey

15:00 - 16:30
Room: Mendes da Costa