EGI Technical Forum 2010

Europe/Amsterdam
Yakult Room (Beurs van Berlage)

Yakult Room

Beurs van Berlage

Damrak 277 Amsterdam
Steven Newhouse (EGI.eu)
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    • 09:00 11:00
      EMI Technical Meeting (Closed) Derkindern

      Derkindern

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 09:00 17:30
      ENVRI Project Meeting (Closed) Archief Damrakzijde

      Archief Damrakzijde

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 11:00 12:30
      Opening & Welcome Yakult Room

      Yakult Room

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
      • 11:00
        Welcome from the Local Organisers 15m
        Speaker: Patrick Aerts (NCF)
        Slides
      • 11:15
        Presentation from the European Commission 30m
        Slides
      • 11:45
        Current Status of EGI.eu and EGI-InSPIRE 45m
        Speaker: Steven Newhouse (EGI.eu)
        Slides
    • 12:30 19:00
      Demonstrations Demonstrations in Grote Zaal

      Demonstrations in Grote Zaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch Grote zaal

      Grote zaal

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      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 12:30 19:00
      Posters Posters in the Grote zaal

      Posters in the Grote zaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 14:00 15:30
      AAI Needs of the DCIs Berlage

      Berlage

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      This is an EMI workshop on gathering the requirements of Authentication and Authorization
      Infrastructure (AAI) for various Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs).

      This workshop surveys AAI needs in DCIs in order to pick the most relevant ones that have to be supported by the EMI common security infrastructure.

      There will be presentations from Grid User groups, ESFRI projects and DCIs on which Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure (AAI) systems they currently use or expect to use in the foreseeable future.

      • 14:00
        Welcome/Introduction 10m
        Slides
      • 14:10
        Earth Sciences Community 15m
        Speaker: Horst Schwichtenberg (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany)
        Slides
      • 14:25
        Biomedical Community 15m
        Speaker: Mr Johan Montagnat (CNRS)
        Slides
      • 14:40
        CLARIN Project 15m
        Speaker: Dieter Van Uytvanck
        Slides
      • 14:55
        Photon Facilities and Authentication 15m
        Speaker: Hans Weyer
        Slides
      • 15:10
        Moonshot Project 15m
        Speaker: Daniel Kouril (CESNET)
        Paper
    • 14:00 15:30
      EC EGI meeting (Closed) Derkindern

      Derkindern

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      Bilateral discussions on legal and financial matters with EC Unit's legal and financial officer

    • 14:00 15:30
      EGI CISRT F2F (Closed) Mendes da Costa

      Mendes da Costa

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      EGI Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) is responsible for all aspects of operational security aiming at achieving a secure infrastructure within EGI. The EGI CSIRT ensures both the coordination with peer grids and with the NGIs and NREN CSIRTs. The EGI CSIRT acts as a forum to combine efforts and resources from the NGIs in different areas, including Grid security monitoring, Security training and dissemination, and improvements in responses to incidents (e.g. security drills).

      EGI CSIRT security team is organized in following groups.

      • Incident Response Task Force (IRTF)
        Handle day to day operational security issues and coordinate Computer-Security-Incident-Response across the EGI infrastructure.
      • Security Drills Group (SDG)
        Provide an overview of the various CSIRTs readiness' to react to an computer security incident and challenge the inter CSIRT communication channels.
        Security Monitoring Group (SMG)
        Develop, deploy and maintain security monitoring tools.
        Training and Dissemination Group (TDG)
        Raise security awareness and improve security for system administrators by providing security training and best practice

      The session will present current work and status of EGI CSIRT and most important we will also discuss the further plans.

      All EGI CSIRT members should attend this session, but this session is also open to NGI security officers, site security contacts, site manager and system administrators who wish to be involved or are just interested in Grid operational security.

      • 14:00
        Roundtable Introduction 5m Mendes da Costa

        Mendes da Costa

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        Damrak 277 Amsterdam
        Minutes taker Round table introduction
      • 14:05
        Introduction to EGI CSIRT 20m Mendes da Costa

        Mendes da Costa

        Beurs van Berlage

        Damrak 277 Amsterdam
        Speaker: Dr Mingchao Ma (STFC - RAL)
        Slides
      • 14:25
        Update from Incident Response Task Force 20m Mendes da Costa

        Mendes da Costa

        Beurs van Berlage

        Damrak 277 Amsterdam
        Speaker: Leif Nixon (SNIC)
        Slides
      • 14:45
        Update from Security Drill Group 20m Mendes da Costa

        Mendes da Costa

        Beurs van Berlage

        Damrak 277 Amsterdam
        Speaker: Dr Sven Gabriel (Nikhef)
        Slides
      • 15:05
        Security Service Challenge 4 debrief 25m Mendes da Costa

        Mendes da Costa

        Beurs van Berlage

        Damrak 277 Amsterdam
        Speaker: Dr Sven Gabriel (Nikhef)
    • 14:00 15:30
      EGI Production Infrastructure Graanbeurszaal

      Graanbeurszaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      The purpose of this session is two-fold: to present the current status of the EGI infrastructure after the transition from EGEE, and to pave the way towards the operations of an integrated set of DCIs making different types of grid middleware and resources (desktop grids, HPC, virtualization) easily accessible to international user communities.

      In the first part, we will provide an overview of the EGI global services, of the infrastructure composition and usage, and of the new procedures and operational units that entered production during the first quarter of the EGI-InSPIRE project.

      The second part will concentrate on the evolution of EGI operations. The future plans and operational issues related to the integration of heterogeneous resources and services will be explored from different points of view: the site, the NGI, and the DCI.

      The operational issues arising at the site level with the deployment of StratusLab virtualized services will be explored. NGI_DE - one of the larges national grid infrastructures in EGI - will then present its plans and operational issues towards the integration of multiple grid middleware stacks. Finally, the European Desktop Grid Federation will provide its view on the current status of the EDGI infrastructure, the application use cases that an integrated infrastructure addresses, and the related operational challenges.

      • 14:00
        From EGEE to EGI: status of the EGI infrastructure, results and roadmap 30m
        Speaker: Dr Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)
        slide (pdf)
      • 14:30
        Operational Considerations From Running Grid Services on Cloud Resources 20m
        Speaker: Charles Loomis (Linear Accelerator Laboratory (LAL))
        Slides
      • 14:50
        NGI_DE experience and future plans for the operation of heterogeneous middleware stacks 20m
        1- NGI plans of integration of new resources and/or multiple middleware stacks, - related timescales - amount of resources and sites involved in this integration process 2- Which Virtual Research Communities are going to benefit from this integration? - is the integration "pushed" by the user community, or is it NGI-driven for organizational reasons? - which VRC use cases will take benefit from this integrated set of middleware stacks? 3- What are the advantages from an NGI perspective of running an integrated infrastructure? 4. What are the operational technical challenges to be faced in order of priority?
        Speakers: Angela Poschlad (KIT), Foued Jrad (KIT)
        Slides
      • 15:10
        The European Desktop Grid Federation: status of the infrastructure and integration plans 20m
        1- status of the EDGI infrastructure and its evolution in the medium term 2. EDGI plans for a EDGI-EGI integration - related timescales - amount of resources and sites involved in this integration process 2- Virtual Research Communities (VRCs) - user communities taking advantage of this integration and the related use cases/applications 3- advantages from an DCI perspective of running an integrated infrastructure? 4. operational challenges to be faced according to EDGI?
        Speaker: Robert Lovas (SZTAKI)
        Slides
    • 14:00 15:30
      Instrumenting the Infrastructure Verwey

      Verwey

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      In the broader scope of the EGI era, a major operational and scientific challenge is a better understanding of the e-science requirements and infrastructure usage. The first goal of the session is to provide a transversal view of the related developments and analysis, covering the full scope of the High Performance Ecosystem - from the Peta-Scale world to Cloud, EGI and EMI – The session will also contribute to fostering collaboration between information providers and users.

      poster
      Session Abstract
      • 14:00
        Using agents to support grid users 20m
        Speakers: Mr Eduard Drenth (Logica), Dr Sylvia Delgado Olabarriaga (University of Amsterdam)
        Slides
      • 14:20
        Operations in the biomed VO: monitoring and incident prevention 20m
        Speaker: Tristan Glatard (CNRS)
        Slides
      • 14:40
        Monitoring of the infrastructure from the VO perspective 25m
        Speaker: julia andreeva (CERN)
        Paper
        Slides
      • 15:05
        Integrating Cloud Monitoring and Accounting with Grid Operational Tools 20m
        Speaker: Mr Evangelos Floros (GRNET)
        Slides
    • 14:00 15:30
      User Training - Getting started with the European Grid Infrastructure Keurzaal

      Keurzaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      Introduction

      This session provides introduction to the concepts of Grid Computing, and to the architecture, components

      and user support services of the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI).


      The session consists of short talks and demonstrations that introduce

      • Main services of the European Grid Infrastructure
      • Getting access to the EGI production infrastructure
      • Lifecycle of a job, low level access: command line tools
      • Complex jobs, high level tools for application development
      • Providing grid applications for end users

      The course does not require prior knowledge of grid computing and of EGI. It aims to demonstrate the value of

      EGI for data- and compute-intensive e-Science projects, and give practical information on the steps that need to

      be taken to benefit from EGI services. Attendees will have the opportunity to become familiar with the structure and

      components of the European Grid and how these can advance e-Science applications.



      Speakers

      Speakers are from European research institutes and universities and operate User Community Support services in EGI.



      Detailed schedule

      • Introduction to EGI, main services of the infrastructure, getting access (talk, Gergely Sipos, EGI.eu)
      • Demo: Finding your CA, requesting a certificate (Dutch CA as an example)
      • Lifecycle of a job, low level access: command line tools (talk, Gergely Sipos, EGI.eu)
      • Demo: Submitting a job from command line (Antonio Calanducci, INFN, Catania)
      • Complex jobs, support for the development of complex applications (talk, Gergely Sipos, EGI.eu)
      • Demo: Developing and managing complex application with P-GRADE portal (Gergely Sipos, EGI.eu)
      • Providing grid applications for end users (talk, Gergely)
      • Demo: gLibrary application (Antonio Calanducci, INFN, Catania)
      • Conclusions, Q&A




      Registration

      The tutorial is part of the main program of the EGI Technical Forum, no additional registration is required.

      Presented_slides
    • 14:00 15:40
      Virtual Research Communities Yakult Room

      Yakult Room

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      The purpose of this two-part session is to present and discuss the role of the VRC in the EGI era. EGI defines the VRC as a "self-organising group that collects and represents the interests of a focussed collection of researchers across a clear and well-defined field". During the first half a number of presentations will be made on behalf of communities that could become VRCs. During the second half the working relationship between VRCs and EGI wil be discussed and refined.

      slides
      • 14:00
        Introduction: the role of the VRC 10m
        Within EGI the model for scalable user support is the Virtual Research Community (VRC). This model will serve both large and small communities by offering structured research communities a sustainable mechanism with which to interact with EGI. This will allow the VRC to access EGI services and provide a point through which EGI can gather objectives and requirements from a defined set of users. This session will explore how the VRC model will work and how EGI will work with VRCs to optimise usage of the infrastructure.
        Slides
      • 14:10
        DARIAH brief overview 10m
        A brief overview of this ESFRI project from Peter Doorn.
      • 14:20
        CLARIN brief overview 10m
        A brief overview of this ESFRI project from Martin Wynne.
        Slides
      • 14:30
        GISELA brief overview 10m
        A brief overview of this project from Bernard Marechal.
        Slides
      • 14:40
        EnviroGrids brief overview 10m
        A brief overview of this project from Lukasz Kokoszkiewicz.
        Slides
      • 14:50
        WeNMR brief overview 10m
        A brief overview of this project from Alexandre Bonvin.
        Slides
      • 15:00
        NEXPReS brief overview 10m
        An outline of VLBI in general before discussing the NEXPReS project in general and some details about the computational component from Mark Kettenis.
      • 15:10
        DECIDE brief overview 10m
        Laura Leone gives a brief overview of the DECIDE project
      • 15:20
        The EGI VRC accreditation process 10m
        Speaker: Mr Stephen Brewer (EGI)
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee / Tea Grote zaal

      Grote zaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 16:00 17:45
      AAI Needs of the DCIs Berlage

      Berlage

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      This is an EMI workshop on gathering the requirements of Authentication and Authorization
      Infrastructure (AAI) for various Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs).

      This workshop surveys AAI needs in DCIs in order to pick the most relevant ones that have to be supported by the EMI common security infrastructure.

      There will be presentations from Grid User groups, ESFRI projects and DCIs on which Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure (AAI) systems they currently use or expect to use in the foreseeable future.

      • 16:00
        ILL: Neutrons for Science Project 15m
        Slides
      • 16:15
        ELIXIR Project 15m
        Speaker: John White (University of Helsinki, Finland)
        Slides
      • 16:30
        LifeWatch Project 15m
        Speaker: Axel Poigne
        Slides
      • 16:45
        HEP Community 15m
        Speaker: Maarten Litmaath
        Slides
      • 17:00
        IT Grid Community 15m
        Speaker: Dr vincenzo ciaschini
        Slides
      • 17:15
        UK Grid Community 15m
        Slides
    • 16:00 17:30
      EC EGI meeting (Closed) Derkindern

      Derkindern

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      Bilateral discussions on legal and financial matters with EC Unit's legal and financial officer

    • 16:00 17:30
      EEF Requirements and the ESFRI projects: Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Projects Yakult Room

      Yakult Room

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
      Conveners: Hans Jørgen Marker (Swedish National Data Service), Peter Wittenburg (MPI)
    • 16:00 17:30
      EGI CISRT F2F (Closed) Mendes da Costa

      Mendes da Costa

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      EGI Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) is responsible for all aspects of operational security aiming at achieving a secure infrastructure within EGI. The EGI CSIRT ensures both the coordination with peer grids and with the NGIs and NREN CSIRTs. The EGI CSIRT acts as a forum to combine efforts and resources from the NGIs in different areas, including Grid security monitoring, Security training and dissemination, and improvements in responses to incidents (e.g. security drills).

      EGI CSIRT security team is organized in following groups.

      • Incident Response Task Force (IRTF)
        Handle day to day operational security issues and coordinate Computer-Security-Incident-Response across the EGI infrastructure.
      • Security Drills Group (SDG)
        Provide an overview of the various CSIRTs readiness' to react to an computer security incident and challenge the inter CSIRT communication channels.
        Security Monitoring Group (SMG)
        Develop, deploy and maintain security monitoring tools.
        Training and Dissemination Group (TDG)
        Raise security awareness and improve security for system administrators by providing security training and best practice

      The session will present current work and status of EGI CSIRT and most important we will also discuss the further plans.

      All EGI CSIRT members should attend this session, but this session is also open to NGI security officers, site security contacts, site manager and system administrators who wish to be involved or are just interested in Grid operational security.

      • 16:00
        Update from Security Monitoring Group 20m Mendes da Costa

        Mendes da Costa

        Beurs van Berlage

        Damrak 277 Amsterdam
        Speaker: Daniel Kouril (CESNET)
      • 16:20
        Update from Security Training Group 20m Mendes da Costa

        Mendes da Costa

        Beurs van Berlage

        Damrak 277 Amsterdam
        Speaker: Wilhelm Buehler (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
      • 16:40
        Update from WLCG 20m Mendes da Costa

        Mendes da Costa

        Beurs van Berlage

        Damrak 277 Amsterdam
        Speaker: Romain Wartel (CERN"'><i>CERN)
        Slides
      • 17:00
        Open Discussion 30m Mendes da Costa

        Mendes da Costa

        Beurs van Berlage

        Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 16:00 17:30
      Grid Operations Interoperations Graanbeurszaal

      Graanbeurszaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      A growing EGI production infrastructure has to define a basic set of operational interfaces, this touches tools as well as procedures and policies. It should be in the interest of the NGIs to push development in this field and spread their wishes and requests to achieve a smoothless experience for a regional operator on duty.

      This session introduces you to the new field of operational interoperability and confronts you with different ideas and approaches to achieve the desired state. We will see already successful examples when it comes to integration of middleware stack services in the current EGI production infrastructure as well as examples where they real work hasn't even started yet. More exact requirements have to be defined and a basic understanding of different viewpoints is hopefully established during this session.

      • 16:00
        Grid Operations Interoperability Overview 10m
        This session includes a description of the global task O-E-11, Coordination of interoperations between NGIs and with other Grids (EGI.eu), situated under TSA1.3. It will define the goals that are to be achieved in operational interoperability and try to give a rough overview of the status quo. Furthermore the forthcoming and the current version and future development of of Milestone MS407 "Definition of the operational interfaces that must be supported for resources to be integrated into the production infrastructure." will be shortly discussed.
        Speaker: Michaela Lechner (EGI.EU)
        Slides
      • 16:10
        The Operations Portal and the Grid Operations Interoperability 20m
        in the Operations Portal information management is mainly ensured with the help of our Web Service Lavoisier. Lavoisier is an extensible service designed to provide an unified view of data collected from multiple heterogeneous data sources. This unified view is represented as XML documents, which can be queried using standard languages, such as XSLT. Lavoisier has proven effective in increasing maintainability of the Operations portal, by making its code independent from the technologies used by the data sources and from the data cache management policy. Its design and interfaces made easier writing reusable code, and good performances are easily obtained by tuning the cache mechanisms in an absolutely transparent way for the portal code. Indeed, the different components work in a normalized way through the output of the Lavoisier Web Service. For new information resources, we will develop new plug-ins to be able to retrieve information from a new provider. The integration of different Information Systems present into different middlewares such as ARC, UNICORE, or Globus will be done via an abstraction layer. One possibility could be the SAGA Service Discovery specification integrated into a Lavoisier plug-in which will permit to access information using different services like the information service of UNICORE – CIS and different schema like CIM or Glue Schema standards. Cyril L'Orphelin - Operations Portal Team Manager
        Speaker: Cyril Lorphelin (CNRS)
        Slides
      • 16:30
        Procedures and Policies 20m
        The importance of having procedures and best practices that are valid for all project partners can not be overemphasized. Precise definitions are needed for these to guarantee that OLAs are fulfilled, which in turn is a precondition for a high quality and stable production environment. The heritage of the EGEE projects provide a solid platform on which we stand and from which we can create an exceptional grid infrastructure. In contrast to other Grid projects, which were oriented more towards technical experiments, the EGI focuses largely on QoS. A bold initiative for this new era. This session will give a quick overview of the procedures, policies and best practices inherited, changes needed and the adaptions and ideas for obtaining high standards in all aspects of the infrastructure. This will include introducing the key players - and their involvement - the NGIs.
        Speaker: Vera Hansper (CSC)
        Slides
      • 16:50
        Fitting ARC services into the EGI infrastructure 20m
        The ARC middleware stack can look back at an already successful integration within the EGI production infrastructure. Focus during this session lies on achievments and experiences so far and lessons learned which should be useful for other middleware stacks as well.
        Speaker: Michael Gronager (NDGF)
        Slides
      • 17:10
        Operational Integration of UNICORE services 20m
        Up to now UNICORE services haven't been deployed in the EGI infrastructure but in D-Grid, DEISA and other infrastructures. The operational model of D-Grid, where Globus, gLite, dCache, and UNICORE are operated, will be used to highlight the challenges of operational integration. Requirements from resource providers and virtual organizations as well as resource usage models will be described to understand the background of the operational model.
        Speaker: Rebecca Breu
        Slides
    • 16:00 17:30
      Instrumenting the Infrastructure Verwey

      Verwey

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      In the broader scope of the EGI era, a major operational and scientific challenge is a better understanding of the e-science requirements and infrastructure usage. The first goal of the session is to provide a transversal view of the related developments and analysis, covering the full scope of the High Performance Ecosystem - from the Peta-Scale world to Cloud, EGI and EMI – The session will also contribute to fostering collaboration between information providers and users.

      poster
      Session Abstract
      • 16:00
        Scalable stochastic tracing of large-scale data management events 20m
        Speaker: Mario Lassnig (CERN)
        Slides
      • 16:20
        The EMI Infrastructure Services: An Overview 25m
        Speaker: Laurence Field (CERN)
        Slides
      • 16:45
        Understanding Large Scale HPC Systems Through Scalable Monitoring and Analysis 25m
        Speaker: Ann Gentile (Sandia National Laboratories)
        Paper
        Slides
      • 17:10
        Results and issues for the Grid Observatory 20m
        Speaker: Cécile Germain-Renaud (CNRS)
        Slides
    • 16:00 17:30
      Software Provisioning in EGI Keurzaal

      Keurzaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      This session will highlight the software provisioning process taking place in EGI. This will include an overview of the Unified Middleware Distribution Roadmap process and the software service and verification process quality assurance.

      • 16:00
        UMD Roadmap 20m
        An overview of the Unified Middleware Distribution Roadmap will be presented along with the process by which it will be generated, including how it fits into the broader evolution of technology within EGI.
        Speaker: Steven Newhouse (EGI.eu)
        Slides
      • 16:20
        Quality Criteria Definition 20m
        An overview of the structure that will be used to define the quality criteria (generic & specific) for components delivered to UMD.
        Speaker: Enol Castillo (CSIC)
      • 16:40
        Quality Criteria Verification 20m
        Delivered software is validated against the defined criteria. This process is important in ensuring that the software is ready to go into staged rollout.
        Speaker: Carlos Fernandez (FCTSG)
        Slides
      • 17:00
        EGI Software Repository 20m
        The EGI Software Repository supports the interaction that the Technology Unit has with its suppliers by helping to manage the workflow between the technology providers, the quality assessment process and the staged rollout.
        Speaker: Kostas Koumantaros (GRNET)
    • 17:30 19:00
      Welcome Reception Grote zaal

      Grote zaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 09:00 10:30
      Plenary Keynote Yakult Room

      Yakult Room

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
      • 09:00
        National Research and Education Networks as engines for innovation in research 45m
        National Research and Education Networks can make a nique contribution to the quality of higher education and research by ensuring that researchers, instructors, and students can work together simply and effectively with the aid of ICT. In order to link individuals and teams seamlessly together and to give them access to services, data, and tools SURFnet focuses on three areas - a hybrid end-to-end network as the basis for all collaboration, providing efficient, unlimited data transport; - a trusted identity offering secure and seamless access to all the electronic materials and facilities that researchers, instructors, and students need; - a pioneering collaboration environment that reaches beyond existing boundaries and that seamlessly integrates the services and tools provided by a large number of suppliers and institutions.
        Speaker: Erik-Jan Bos
        Paper
        Slides
      • 09:45
        LifeWatch: An e-Science infrastructure for biodiversity research 45m
        LifeWatch, the new emerging European research infrastructure for biodiversity research is set to embark upon its construction phase in 2011. A fundamental assumption of construction is that LifeWatch can be built on top of the European Grid Infrastructure. A video will introduce LifeWatch. Two example show cases: "Bird Strike Monitoring" and "Urban Sprawl" will give an insight into the complexity of the distributed data and computing needs of LifeWatch, as well as illustrating potential societal benefits. The speaker will then describe 5 challenges facing the construction programme and the approaches being taken to address them. The aim will be to give the Forum an idea of the scale and requirements coming from some of the new communities that EGI would hope to engage with and to show that there are challenges that are common to many of the ESFRI infrastructures that will need to be addressed by EGI. The focus will be more on the technical rather than the political challenges; but one can never be separated from the other.
        Speaker: Alex Hardisty (LifeWatch)
        Paper
        Slides
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee / Tea Grote zaal

      Grote zaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 10:30 17:30
      Demonstrations Demonstrations in Grote Zaal

      Demonstrations in Grote Zaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 10:30 17:30
      Posters Posters in the Grote zaal

      Posters in the Grote zaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 11:00 12:35
      EEF Requirements and the ESFRI projects: Environmental (ENV) Projects Yakult Room

      Yakult Room

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
      Convener: Mr Alex Hardisty (Univ Cardiff)
      • 11:00
        Data pre-processing for CO2 monitoring and ecosystem sequestration 20m
        Use cases for the Environmental cluster of proposed ESFRI infrastructures (ENVRI) revolve around two scientific themes: i) CO2 monitoring and ecosystem sequestration, and ii) understanding geophysical processes. Within each theme, infrastructures encounter difficulties with data (including work flow) processing, specifically: data pre-processing (raw data, data transfer, calibration, interoperability and data fusion, information representation) and data post processing (analysis, modelling, visualization). As indicated by the title, this talk will focus on one combination of scientific theme and data processing needs, and will highlight some of the problems for which several infrastructures could benefit from common technical solutions.
        Slides
      • 12:20
        Discussion 10m
        Discussion
    • 11:00 12:30
      EGI User Support Services Berlage

      Berlage

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      This session aims to introduce the role, the achievements and the key challenges of the User & Community Support Team/Activity in the EGI era and to present the current status, as well as the future plans, of the supportive technical services that are (or will be) available to all users of the European DCIs."

      • 11:00
        User & Community Support Process/Team 30m
        Speaker: Mr Stephen Brewer (EGI)
        Slides
      • 11:30
        Training Events/Training Repository 20m
        Speaker: Mr David Fergusson (STFC/UE)
        Slides
      • 11:50
        EGI Applications Database 20m
        Speaker: Mr Vassilis William Karageorgos (IASA)
        Slides
      • 12:10
        VO Services 20m
        Speaker: Mr Jorge Gomes (LIP)
        Slides
    • 11:00 12:30
      OLA Workshop Keurzaal

      Keurzaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      The purpose of the OLA workshop is to provide a short overview of the current status of the OLAs in EGI as adapted from EGEE, identify new OLAs and extesions to existing OLAs, and dicuss on future plans using the feedback recieved from the OLA questionnaire

      • 11:00
        Current status of OLAs in in EGI 10m
        Speaker: Christos Kanellopoulos
        Slides
      • 11:10
        Results of NGI OLA Questionnaire 20m
        Speaker: Dimitrios Zilaskos
        Slides
      • 11:30
        JRA1 input on OLAs 10m
        Speaker: Daniele Cesini
        Slides
      • 11:40
        Biomed VO thoughts on OLAs 10m
        Speaker: Tristan Glatard
        Slides
      • 11:50
        GGUS TPMs OLA 10m
        Speaker: Torsten Antoni
        Slides
      • 12:00
        Discussion 30m
    • 11:00 12:30
      Software Vulnerability Group Verwey

      Verwey

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      This 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. The first talk in this session describes the scope and process for
      handling vulnerability issues in the EGI infrastrucutre and ensuring their
      resolution, and more general activities. The second talk describes work
      being carried out to assess software for vulnerabilities.

      slides
      • 11:00
        Handling Software Vulnerabilities in the EGI infrastructure 45m
        This talk will describe the handling of software vulnerabilities in the EGI infrastructure. This will include how to report a vulnerability, the basic issue handling process, and what should done by various parties involved to ensure the timely resolution of vulnerabilities according to their severity. Some of the other activities the EGI SVG plans to carry out will also be described.
        Speaker: Linda Cornwall (STFC, The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
        Slides
      • 11:45
        In Depth Vulnerability Assessment of Middleware 30m
        As part of a the effort to secure middleware, I will present First Principles Vulnerability Assessment (FPVA), an analyst-centric technique that aims to focus the analyst’s attention on the parts of the software system and its resources that are mostly likely to contain vulnerabilities that would provide access to high-value assets. We will apply FPVA to different software components in EGI-InSPIRE and EMI.
        Speaker: Prof. Elisa Heymann
        Slides
      • 12:15
        Discussion 15m
    • 11:00 12:30
      TERENA NRENs and Grids Workshop Mendes da Costa

      Mendes da Costa

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
      • 11:00
        Grid Jobs for Network Monitoring for the Grid 30m
        Slides
        Video
      • 11:30
        PerfSONAR-Lite TSS Troubleshooting System 30m
        Slides
      • 12:00
        PerfSONAR development 30m
        Slides
    • 11:00 12:30
      The DCI Projects: Roadmap and Interactions Graanbeurszaal

      Graanbeurszaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
      • 11:00
        Presentation of the DCI Roadmap and Interactions 30m
        The attached document is a DRAFT and is provided here to receive comments from the EGI Community. Comments can be made to dci-projects@mailman.egi.eu
        Speaker: Steven Newhouse (EGI.eu)
        Paper
        Slides
      • 11:30
        DCI Projects Panel 1h
        Panel discussion involving representatives from the 6 DCI projects providing an opportunity for the end-user, software developer and resource provider communities to comment on the DCI Roadmap and vision.
        Speaker: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)
    • 12:30 14:00
      EEF (Closed) Roland Holst Kamer

      Roland Holst Kamer

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch Grote zaal

      Grote zaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 12:30 14:00
      Press Conference (Closed) Rode Kamer

      Rode Kamer

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 12:30 16:00
      Production Grid Security Coordination (Closed) Derkindern

      Derkindern

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 14:00 15:30
      Accounting Workshop Verwey

      Verwey

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      Workshop bringing together developers within the EGI-InSPIRE and EMI projects involved with accounting, and the resource providers in the NGIs and user communities that have requirements relating to accounting information.

      • 14:00
        Status of EGI Accounting 1h
        • Introduction 20m
          Speaker: Dr John Gordon (STFC)
          Slides
        • APEL 30m
          Speaker: Ms Cristina Del Cano Novales (STFC)
          DGAS
          Slides
        • The Accounting Portal 30m
          Speaker: Dr Javier Lopez Cacheiro (CESGA)
          Portal NGI View
          Slides
      • 15:00
        Requirements for CPU Accounting 30m
        Requirements for additions to existing cpu accounting in either collection of data or the way it is displayed and visualised
        • MPI 15m
          DGAS
          MPI WG
        • Local Jobs 15m
          DGAS
        • Portal 15m
    • 14:00 15:30
      EEF Requirements and the ESFRI projects: Summary and Next Steps Yakult Room

      Yakult Room

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
      Convener: Dr Bob Jones (CERN)
      • 14:00
        Introduction 5m
        All the ESFRI clusters have adopted the approach of identifying use-cases or pilot projects that develop/deploy key services making use of e-infrastructure elements. The goal of this session is for the ESFRI clusters to outline their use cases/pilot projects sowe can identify synergies across the clusters and remover potentially duplicated effort and close any gaps. This sessions acontinuation fo the dialog between the European E-infrastructure Forum and the ESFRI projects that started at the EGEE09 conference (Barcelona, September 2009), continued at the EGEE user fourm (Uppsala, April 2010) and documented in the report on the e-infrastructure requirements (published April 2010)
        Speaker: Dr Bob Jones (CERN)
        document
        more information
        Slides
      • 14:05
        Overview of the environmental sciences (ENV) use-cases 15m
        Speaker: Alex Hardisty (LifeWatch)
        Slides
      • 14:20
        Overview of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) use-cases 15m
        Speaker: Daan Broeder (Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
        Slides
      • 14:35
        Overview of the life sciences (BMS) use-cases 15m
        Slides
      • 14:50
        Overview of the Physics, Astronomy and Analytical Facilities (PHYS) use-cases 15m
        Bob will present slides prepared by Ian Bird based on the PHYS ESFRI cluster meeting held the day before in Grenoble
        Speaker: Bob Jones (CERN)
        Slides
      • 15:05
        Overview of the EUDAT use-cases 15m
        EUDAT is a proposal that will be submitted to the FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-2 call INFRA-2011-12.2: Dat infrastructure for e-Science to provide data services to the European research community EUDAT is an evolution of the services and structures defined in the original PARADE whitepaper http://www.csc.fi/english/pages/parade
        Speaker: Dr Kimmo Koski (CSC)
        Slides
      • 15:20
        Discussion and Summary 10m
        Identify synergies between the use-cases presented by each of the clusters and determine how to proceed.
        Slides
    • 14:00 15:30
      Grid Oversight, ensuring the quality of the Grid infrastructure Berlage

      Berlage

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
      • 14:00
        The COD activity and site availability, ensuring the quality of the Grid 30m
        Central Operator on Duty (COD) is responsible for ensuring the operational problems with EGI grid infrastructure are solved in an efficient manner. Quick problem solution leads to a higher site availability but requires timely and precise actions. A number of teams and tools are involved in the process: (teams) - Site Admins - Regional Technical Support (1st line support) - Regional Operator on Duty - Central Operator on Duty (tools) - infrastructure monitoring system - message bus - operations dashboard - ticketing system During this session EGI Operations Support Model will be presented including operations teams, interactions between them and time constraints. Next the Operations Support Metrics providing overview on the whole process will be introduced. COD procedures related to Availability/Reliability followup will be explained. Some view on tools used by COD will be given.
        Speaker: Radecki Radecki (CYFRONET)
        Slides
      • 14:30
        From EGEE to EGI, the transition from ROCs to NGIs 30m
        During this session approved by OMB procedure of the creation and validation of a new NGI will be presented. Also we will start discussion of the procedure for the EGEE ROC decommission.
        Speaker: Malgorzata Krakowian (ACK CYFRONET AGH)
        Slides
      • 15:00
        Operational documentation 30m
        For large infrastructures like the European Grid, which is comprised of many people and parts, procedures play a vital role in the overall harmony of the system, thereby ensuring that processes run smoothly. It is very similar to any other large organisation or company in this sense. Good, (excellent is better!) documentation is the critical media to convey these procedures. In this session the focus will be on the Operational documentation which is immediately relevant to the Grid Operations teams at the various NGIs. The discussion will cover what was, what is, and what will or should come in the near future.
        Speaker: Vera Hansper (CSC)
        Slides
    • 14:00 15:30
      Project Administrative Committee (Closed) Archief Damrakzijde

      Archief Damrakzijde

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      Detailed agenda https://www.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=135

    • 14:00 15:30
      TERENA NRENs and Grids Workshop Mendes da Costa

      Mendes da Costa

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
      • 14:00
        Overview of Grid technology for AAI 25m Mendes da Costa

        Mendes da Costa

        Beurs van Berlage

        Damrak 277 Amsterdam
        Slides
      • 14:25
        State of the SAML federation landscape - moving closer to the grids 25m Mendes da Costa

        Mendes da Costa

        Beurs van Berlage

        Damrak 277 Amsterdam
        Slides
      • 14:50
        Policy issues for Identity Management (and other Attributes too) 25m Mendes da Costa

        Mendes da Costa

        Beurs van Berlage

        Damrak 277 Amsterdam
        Slides
      • 15:15
        Discussion Panel: SAML + Grid Policy and Progress 15m Mendes da Costa

        Mendes da Costa

        Beurs van Berlage

        Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 14:00 15:30
      The DCI Projects: Standards and Interoperability Roadmap Graanbeurszaal

      Graanbeurszaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
      • 14:00
        Interoperability and the need for standards in the DCI Roadmap Vision 30m
        Given the need for interoperability within the DCI Roadmap, what standards are available to contribute to the vision?
        Speaker: Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.eu)
        Slides
      • 14:30
        Contribution of the Production Grid Infrastructure WG 20m
        How will PGI standards contribute to the DCI Roadmap and Vision?
        Speaker: Morris RIEDEL (JUELICH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTRE)
        Slides
      • 14:50
        Discussion: Standards Engagement of the DCI Projects 40m
        1. What Working Groups in various SDOs do you regularly engage with and which respond to the technical requirements of your architecture? 2. What are the most important products of the OGF process and how are these likely to be used in the future? 3. What other standards bodies play a vital role in the distributed computing area? Give some explicit use cases. 4. Grid computing has been demonstrated to be an effective and efficient tool for scientific research (as shown by, e.g. by articles in the iSGTW newsletter). What characterizes the domains of science and the type of computation or data processing where grid computing has been successful?
        Speaker: Silvana Muscella (SIENA)
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee / Tea Grote zaal

      Grote zaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 16:00 17:30
      Accounting Workshop Verwey

      Verwey

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      Workshop bringing together developers within the EGI-InSPIRE and EMI projects involved with accounting, and the resource providers in the NGIs and user communities that have requirements relating to accounting information.

      • 16:00
        Requirements for CPU Accounting (II) 30m
        Continued from before Coffee Break.
      • 16:30
        Requirements for Other types of Accounting 1h
        The current infrastructure only accounts for cpu usage. Other suggestions for resource usage for which EGI should gather accounts is welcome.
        • Application Accounting 15m
          Speaker: Dr Javier Lopez Cacheiro (CESGA)
          Slides
        • Storage Accounting 15m
          DGAS
          EMI
          gstat
        • Clouds/Virtualisation 15m
          Stratuslab
        • Services 15m
    • 16:00 17:30
      Data Management Requirements in EGI Yakult Room

      Yakult Room

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      This session will review policy and strategic issues around data management arising from the work of a number of recent influential expert activities and touch on how EGI and NGIs can and should respond to the recommendations and requirements as seen from each area/activity.

      • 16:00
        High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data 25m
        Speaker: Dr David Giaretta
        Slides
      • 16:25
        eIRG Data Management Task Force 25m
        Speaker: Dr Matti Heikkurinen
        Slides
      • 16:50
        Data Management Issues in Digital Cultural Heritage 25m
        Speaker: Dr Rosette Vandenbroucke
        Slides
      • 17:15
        Discussion 15m
        Speaker: Dr Neil Geddes (STFC)
        Slides
    • 16:00 17:30
      ESFRI ENV & EGI (Closed) Derkindern

      Derkindern

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 16:00 17:30
      Grid Oversight, ensuring the quality of the Grid infrastructure Berlage

      Berlage

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
      • 16:00
        Ensuring the quality of the Grid, a discussion session 1h 30m
        The idea is that this session has a free format and that people involved with the ROD and COD activity and people that are interested can discuss various interesting topics related to the oversight work. In this discussion session, the people involved with the COD activity would like to have a discussion session on the oversight work. We were thinking about topics like, operational tools and procedures etc., for example. Further, we would like to know about your experience since may 1st. In addition, we would like to have your input on how the COD and ROD should interact.
    • 16:00 17:30
      Message Passing Interface - Current Status and Future Developments Archief Damrakzijde

      Archief Damrakzijde

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      The scope of the session is to update on the status of support to MPI parallel applications from the users perspective, operational and middleware point of view. In the first presentation we will have an update of the users experience based mainly on the Computational Chemistry VO. Afterwards the operational support and procedures to validate and certificate middleware will be outlined. In the last part of the session there will be representatives from glite, ARC and Unicore to discuss the different support strategies provided by each middleware, and the technical possibilities to offer an unified support in the framework of the EGI infrastructure.

      • 16:00
        Introduction 5m
      • 16:05
        MPI support: Users view and perspectives 20m
        Slides
      • 16:25
        Site deployment and MPI support 20m
        Slides
      • 16:45
        Middleware support to MPI through gLite, ARC and UNICORE 45m
        Slides
    • 16:00 17:30
      TERENA NRENs and Grids Workshop Mendes da Costa

      Mendes da Costa

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
      • 16:00
        Summary of AAI Req's for DCIs 25m Mendes da Costa

        Mendes da Costa

        Beurs van Berlage

        Damrak 277 Amsterdam
        Slides
      • 16:25
        AAI-enabled VO Platform at SWITCH 25m Mendes da Costa

        Mendes da Costa

        Beurs van Berlage

        Damrak 277 Amsterdam
        Slides
      • 16:50
        perfSONAR + SIR federation 25m Mendes da Costa

        Mendes da Costa

        Beurs van Berlage

        Damrak 277 Amsterdam
        Slides
    • 16:00 17:30
      Telling your story Archief Beursstrazijde

      Archief Beursstrazijde

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      As the eInfrastructure landscape changes across Europe, so do the routes for communicating the successes of your work. This session aims to introduce the new dissemination team at the EGI to the community and explain how they go about sourcing, writing and promoting success stories from the grid world. Also at the session will be a journalist who will explain what they are looking for in a story and what they want from you. The eScienceTalk team will also be on hand to explain their project and how researchers can help them (and themselves) with the project’s products.

      • 16:00
        EGI and Dissemination 10m
        Introduction to the new EGI team based in Amsterdam. This will include the people involved, their roles and where the team sits in the EGI framework.
        Speaker: Sara Coelho
        Slides
      • 16:10
        eScienceTalk/iSGTW 10m
        A brief overview of the new eScienceTalk project. This will include a description of their various products and plans for expansion during their 3 year term. Also the iSGTW editor will be on hand to talk about being a “tame” journalist
        Speakers: Mr Dan Drollette (iSGTW), Ms Manisha Lalloo (eScienceTalk)
        Slides
      • 16:20
        Telling your story 40m
        A journalist will talk about what they look for in a story and how researchers can get involved.
        Speaker: Mr Martin Ince (Martin Ince Communications)
        Slides
      • 17:00
        Q&A 30m
        An open question and answer session aimed at the EGI team, eScienceTalk or the journalist.
        Speaker: Catherine Gater (EGI.EU)
    • 16:00 17:30
      The DCI Projects: Discussion Graanbeurszaal

      Graanbeurszaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
      • 16:00
        SIENA: Standards Roadmap for grids & clouds 1h 30m
        Speaker: Silvana Muscella (SIENA)
    • 16:00 17:40
      Virtual Research Communities Keurzaal

      Keurzaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      The purpose of this two-part session is to present and discuss the role of the VRC in the EGI era. EGI defines the VRC as a "self-organising group that collects and represents the interests of a focussed collection of researchers across a clear and well-defined field". During the first half a number of presentations will be made on behalf of communities that could become VRCs. During the second half the working relationship between VRCs and EGI wil be discussed and refined.

      slides
      • 16:00
        Introduction: the role of the VRC with respect to EGI 10m
        An introduction to the EGI VRC accreditation process. This process explains what it is that EGI is looking for in a VRC and why.
      • 16:10
        CineGrid brief overview 10m
        Paola Grosso from UvA will present an overview of CineGrid: http://www.cinegrid.org/
        Paper
      • 16:20
        The role of the VRC: general discussion 1h 10m
        All are welcome to participate in this discussion. The objective is to fine-tune how the EGI VRC accreditation process will be implemented but mainly to enable EGI to identify the most promising candidates for new VRCs to be established over the coming months. Candidate VRCs will have a well-organised community with agreed contact points with which EGI can communicate. The VRC should be able to identify and prioritise its own requirements.
    • 09:00 17:30
      ESFRI Pilot Project Coordinators (Closed) Archief Damrakzijde

      Archief Damrakzijde

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 09:00 10:30
      Plenary Keynote Yakult Room

      Yakult Room

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
      • 09:00
        Managing Clouds, The Impact Of Virtualization In The Data Center 45m
        Managing IT is being fundamentally reshaped by the notion of Clouds, i.e. that an enterprise or organization can focus its energies on those areas of technology (if any) that provide true differentiating value, and effectively access everything else as a commoditized service, via the network. The technologies that enable this, particularly virtualization, have been evolving for a long time, but an inflection point has been reached where their maturity and relative cost have driven fundamental shifts in the business of IT management. This presentation will look at the how Clouds, and the technologies that make them real, impact IT operations. What are the opportunities? What are the challenges? What really does change for IT operations, and what doesn't.
        Slides
      • 09:45
        Virtual Use Cases – bridging the gap between the GRID-world and the emerging research infrastructures in the humanities and social sciences 45m
        The GRID world is reaching out to the humanities and social sciences communities, who are interested in GRID as a potential technical foundation for new research infrastructures. Despite this convergence in intentions, it is by no means clear if there will be a match. The positions of three European research infrastructures, one in preparation, one in construction, one in a state of overhaul (DARIAH, CLARIN, CESSDA respectively) will be examined. As a means to clarify their infrastructural requirements, a virtual use case is presented, containing generic elements on which real use cases can be based. The challenge then boils down to: is it possible to develop these generic elements on top of GRID technology and organisation?
        Slides
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee / Tea Grote zaal

      Grote zaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 10:30 14:00
      Demonstrations Demonstrations in Grote Zaal

      Demonstrations in Grote Zaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 10:30 14:00
      Posters Posters in the Grote zaal

      Posters in the Grote zaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 11:00 12:45
      ECEE: ECEE - Part I/III - Industry Track Yakult Room

      Yakult Room

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      A number of European projects are collaborating to better understand
      the value cloud computing could bring to today's researchers. To
      succeed with this there is a need to learn, by testing, what is
      possible to do today, and the implications these services has on
      economy, security, vendor lock-in, and last but not least the
      usability and quality.

      To succeed with this objective, international collaboration is key,
      and in this session six collaborating projects share their findings
      and roadmaps.

      Topics in this session covers ongoing studies of the use of open
      source softwares as well as commercial products, and their
      combinations. One common goal is to identify the value in cloud
      computing to HPC users; end-user interfaces provided by cloud
      technologies and identify possible added value to today's grid and
      standard HPC interfaces. Concretely this amounts to e.g.

      • Investigate if a machine provisioning interface like that of
        Amazon's EC2 coupled with a library of scientific appliances is of
        value to European academic research communities.
      • Investigate how to build a cloud storage infrastructure that
        supports the use of clouds for scientific applications.
      • Identify the economic value of cloud computing
      • Understand the economic implications of moving parts of HPC onto
        cloud infrastructures. More notably by:
        • Estimate the fraction of current HPC compute jobs that could
          realistically be executed on clouds
        • Estimate the cost of building and operating a cloud facility
          of the same capacity as the above percentage of the total current
          resources
        • Estimate possible cost reductions achievable by scaling out
          peak loads to commercial clouds
        • Compare cost of a private cloud facility with a commercial cloud
        • Estimate savings in scenarios with
        • Commercial clouds when aiming at direct peering (data transfer cost)
        • Allocating their spare capacity at a reduced price

      During the OGF28 a 2 hr 25 min ECEE workshop was conducted, with a
      common guiding document, and collaboration web site, was produced
      (web: www.scientific-cloud.org).

      This guiding document will be updated during the workshop. Outline of
      current document:

      1.Roadmaps
      a.Sharing roadmaps
      b.Avoiding ‘built in’ interoperability problems later on

      1. Use cases
        a.Gap analysis
        b.“Market analysis” – today’s users, tomorrow’s
        c.Guidelines – best practices, quick start one-pager + checklist
        (cloud, grid, hpc, something else?), rules of thumb

      2. Offering
        a.Compared to existing (and evolving) public services – what do/can we offer?
        b.Service levels – how to handle, in practice
        c.Some mentioned last mile, customer support (application specific
        needs), platforms for specific users (like rendering example from
        BalticCloud)

      3. Focus areas
        a.Security – access and ID mgmt in line with local requirements
        b.Metering (what), Accounting, Billing, Business models
        c.Federation of clouds (cf grids)
        d.Network
        e.Licenses
        f.Scheduling, load balancing (resource sharing, application correlation)
        g.Technical solutions studied –list of tested solutions, their pros and cons

      4. Trends of small/medium DCIs and cloud computing
        a.Will they change their mode of operation?

      6.GAP analysis
      a.Identified overlaps
      i. E.g. compare project’s current deliverables
      b.Identified gaps
      i.What projects did not include into the plan
      ii.What is posing the main problem for the projects. E.g. lack of
      user communities, grid legacy
      c.Identify already existing policies, best practices and
      recommendations, and technology from the grid community – to be used
      as is, or modified

      • 11:00
        Network architectures and converged networks fabrics for cloud computing 35m
        When constructing cloud infrastructures and 'infrastructure as a service' in the data centre, most effort is usually spent on host-based virtualisation and on the provisioning of the virtual machine images. Connectivity of the virtual machines between themselves and with the world at large is usually done with traditional network setups, and for the provisioning of the machine images a separate storage connect fabric chosen. New developments in converged data centre fabrics that bring together both IP network connectivity as well as the storage fabric, and the virtualisation of the network to allow for transparent migration of virtual machines. New standards like TRILL help manage the cloud fabric as a large flat and transparent network, but additional features can also allow the migration of network properies of the VM, such as QoS settings or VLAN membership. In this talk these development are explained and put in the context of developing standards and available solutions.
        Slides
      • 11:35
        Exploratory Cloud Projects in IBM Research 35m
        Cloud computing is here This new IT delivery model can significantly reduce enterprise IT costs & complexities while improving workload optimization and service delivery. Cloud computing is massively scalable, provides a superior user experience, and is characterized by new, internet-driven economics. Information technology is changing rapidly, and now forms an invisible layer that increasingly touches every aspect of our lives. Power grids, traffic control, healthcare, water supplies, food and energy, along with most of the world's financial transactions, now depend on information technology. Cloud workloads from IBM IBM has cloud options. Whether you choose to build private clouds, use the IBM cloud, or create a hybrid cloud that includes both, these secure workload solutions provide superior service management and new choices for deployment. You may have wondered about cloud computing as compared to grid computing. It is important to understand cloud computing service types and the similarities and differences between cloud and grid computing. Cloud computing may be advantageous over grid computing, what issues to consider in both, and there are security concerns to take into account. To get cloud computing to work, you need three things: thin clients (or clients with a thick-thin switch), grid computing, and utility computing. Grid computing links disparate computers to form one large infrastructure, harnessing unused resources. Utility computing is paying for what you use on shared servers like you pay for a public utility (such as electricity, gas, and so on). With grid computing, you can provision computing resources as a utility that can be turned on or off. Cloud computing goes one step further with on-demand resource provisioning. This eliminates over-provisioning when used with utility pricing. It also removes the need to over-provision in order to meet the demands of millions of users.
        Slides
      • 12:10
        OpenNebula 35m
        Slides
    • 11:00 12:30
      EGI-InSPIRE CB (Closed) Berlage

      Berlage

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 11:00 12:30
      European Middleware Initiative Graanbeurszaal

      Graanbeurszaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
      slides
      • 11:00
        Introduction to EMI 10m
        The European Middleware Initiative (EMI) project represents a close collaboration of the major European middleware providers - ARC, gLite, UNICORE and dCache - to establish a sustainable model to support, harmonise and evolve the grid middleware for deployment in EGI, PRACE and other distributed e-Infrastructures. This talk will provide an overview of the project and how it fits concretely in the DCI ecosystem.
        Speaker: Alberto Meglio (EMI)
        Slides
      • 11:10
        EMI Collaboration Programs 20m
        This talk will focus on the specific collaboration mechanisms made available by EMI to ensure that "everyone is heard" by the project's middleware providers. EMI's collaboration program is articulated along several lines of dialogue, from the Common DCI Roadmap activities, to specific collaborations with VRCs, ESFRIs and other user community representatives, to a series of activities with technology partners (including commercial parties), to the Works-with-EMI program for the numerous software tools that interact with the EMI middleware.
        Speaker: Diana Cresti (INFN)
        Slides
      • 11:30
        User Experience: a stable user community 15m
        Testimonial from a community that has used the EMI middleware for several years and that depends on these services for its daily work.
        Slides
      • 11:45
        User Experience: an emerging user community 15m
        Testimonial from a community that has begun to use the EMI middleware relatively recently and expects a growth in demand for these services.
        Slides
      • 12:00
        Open Discussion 30m
    • 11:00 12:35
      Heavy User Communities - Requirements Mendes da Costa

      Mendes da Costa

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      Input from projects such as EnviroGRIDS (ES), PARTNER (LS) and ULICE (LS). Also other related projects / activities either in areas directly relevant for the Heavy User Communities or else those interested in adopting these technologies in the immediate future.

      • 11:00
        Session Introduction 5m
        Speaker: Jamie Shiers (CERN)
        Slides
      • 11:05
        Hadrontherapy and Grids - Issues and Requirements 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Ken Peach (The John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, Oxford University)
        Slides
      • 11:25
        The Climate-G testbed: issues, requirements and results 20m
        The main goal of this talk is the Climate-G testbed. It is a data-oriented research effort conceived in the context of the EGEE Earth Science Cluster and devoted to the Climate Change community. Climate-G is a distributed testbed addressing challenging data and metadata management issues at a very large scale. The testbed is an interdisciplinary effort joining expertise in the field of climate change and computational science. The main goal of Climate-G is to allow scientists carrying out geographical and cross-institutional data discovery, access, visualization and sharing of climate data. The involved partners come from Europe and USA and an EGEE VO has been established to support the scientific activities. Main achievements of this testbed are the distributed data/metadata architecture (exploiting the GRelC service), the monitoring infrastructure, the harvesting system and the scientific gateway of the testbed (Climate-G Portal). The presentation will discuss the main requirements coming from this community, the most relevant issues and results related to this testbed.
        Speakers: Giovanni Aloisio (Università del Salento), Sandro Fiore
        Slides
        Website
      • 11:45
        Life Science Requirements 20m
        Speaker: Samuel Keuchkerian (HealthGrid)
        Slides
      • 12:05
        Panel on Common Requirements 30m
        Speakers: Giovanni Aloisio (Università del Salento), Mr Johan Montagnat (CNRS), Prof. 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)
        Slides
    • 11:00 12:30
      Interoperation HPC & HTC Verwey

      Verwey

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      Modern research communities often require access to both HPC and HTC computing infrastructures to enable leading edge research.

      Ambitious research projects leverage the power of the different infrastructures and engage in HPC through projects like DEISA/PRACE as well as in HTC through projects under the umbrella of EGEE/EGI.

      Current work in the field is paving the way towards a future seamless infrastructure which will allow research communities worldwide to exploit both HPC and HTC facilities with minimum overhead.

      This session highlights the current state of HPC/HTC Inter-operation.
      Focus is placed on the definition of standards to enable inter-operation and existing projects which currently utilize both HPC and HTC facilities.

      • 11:00
        Introduction 10m
        A brief introduction to HPC/HTC inter-operation providing a background for the session.
        Speaker: Dr John Kennedy (Rechenzentrum Garching (RZG))
        Slides
      • 11:10
        Standards in HPC/HTC Inter-Operation 20m
        Speaker: Mr MORRIS RIEDEL (JUELICH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTRE)
        Slides
      • 11:30
        JSAGA 20m
        JSAGA is a Java implementation of the Simple API for Grid Applications (SAGA) specification from the Open Grid Forum. It enables uniform usage of existing grid middlewares, such as gLite, Unicore, Globus, and soon ARC.
        Speaker: Sylvain Reynaud (IN2P3)
        Slides
      • 11:50
        Interoperability: The SAGA Approach and Experience 20m
        SAGA and SAGA based interoperation in HPC/HTC.
        Speaker: Dr Shantenu Jha
        Slides
      • 12:10
        HPC-Grid workflows in fusion research: The EUFORIA approach 20m
        Speaker: Francisco Castejon (CIEMAT)
        Slides
    • 11:00 12:30
      Regional Dissemination Rode Kamer

      Rode Kamer

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      As the eInfrastructure landscape changes across Europe, so do the routes for communicating the successes of your work. This session aims to bring together all the people tasked with dissemination who are attending the conference. It is not limited to these and anyone with an interest in being involved or understanding the people and frameworks in place for outreach are welcome to attend.

      • 11:00
        EGI and Dissemination 10m
        An introduction to the new EGI team based in Amsterdam. This will include the people involved, their roles and where the team sits in the EGI framework.
        Speaker: Catherine Gater (EGI.EU)
        Slides
      • 11:10
        eScienceTalk 10m
        A brief overview of the new eScienceTalk project. This will include a description of their various products and plans for expansion during their 3 year term
        Slides
      • 11:20
        Discussion/Introductions 1h 10m
        This will be an opportunity for the community of dissemination personnel and researchers to discuss their ideas, plans, hopes and dreams for dissemination. It will be an open discussion starting with people explaining who they are, their role and their interest/expertise in dissemination.
        Speaker: Mr Neasan ONeill (EGI)
    • 11:00 12:30
      Regional Initiatives Keurzaal

      Keurzaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      Ognjen Prnjat - HP-SEE
      Federico Ruggieri - CHAIN
      Alberto Masoni - EUIndiaGrid2
      Bernard Marechal - GISELA

      • 11:00
        Africa ROC and SAGRID 15m
        - Africa ROC and SAGrid The Africa Regional Operation Centre (Africa ROC) has been created as a coordination and support point for all sites in the Continent wanting to participate in the stimulating and challenging endeavour of creating a common Grid infrastructure to foster e-Science. Africa ROC is supported by many projects and initiatives. (http://roc.africa-grid.org/) SAGrid is a project to deploy a national grid infrastructure based on the gLite middleware from EGEE at several universities and national laboratories in South Africa.
        Speaker: Bruce BECKER (SAGrid)
        Slides
      • 11:15
        Asia-Pacific JRU 15m
        Speaker: Simon LIN (ASG)
        Slides
      • 11:30
        The CHAIN Project 15m
        - CHAIN The CHAIN project aims to coordinate and leverage the efforts made over the past 6 years to extend the European e-Infrastructure operational and organisational principles to a number of regions in the world.
        Speaker: Federico RUGGIERI (INFN)
        Slides
      • 11:45
        The EPIKH Project 15m
        - EPIKH The EPIKH project officially started on the 1st of March 2009. The strategic aims of the EPIKH project are to: • Reinforce the impact of e-Infrastructures in scientific research defining and delivering stimulating programme of educational events, including Grid Schools and High Performance Computing courses; • Broaden the engagement in e-Science activities and collaborations both geographically and across disciplines. These goals translate into the following specific actions: • Spreading the knowledge about the “Grid Paradigm” to all potential users: both system administrators and application developers through an extensive training programme; • Easing the access of the trained people to the e-Infrastructures existing in the areas of action of the project; • Fostering the establishment of scientific collaborations among the countries/continents involved in the project.
        Speaker: Roberto BARBERA (University of Catania and INFN)
        Slides
      • 12:00
        EU-IndiaGrid2 Project 15m
        Speaker: Alberto MASONI (INFN)
        Slides
      • 12:15
        EUMEDGRID-Support Project 15m
        - EUMEDGRID-Support EUMEDGRID-Support (2010-2012) builds on the successful outcomes of EUMEDGRID (2006-2008), and spotlights Europe and the Mediterranean and Middle-east regions through an open dialogue aimed at increasing stakeholder and community awareness on the fundamental importance of e-Infrastructures with the ultimate goal of ensuring long-term sustainability. (www.eumedgrid.eu)
        Speaker: Mario REALE (GARR)
        Slides
    • 11:00 13:30
      gSLM Project Meeting (Closed) Derkindern

      Derkindern

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      The gSLM project (www.gslm.eu) brings together experts from the grid community with experts in IT service management in order to apply IT service management concepts, methods and technologies in grid environments.

      gSLM is a collaborative, European project with the primary goal of supporting policy development for e-Infrastructures in the area of service delivery and service level management with a specific focus on grid infrastructures and their user communities.

      The project started in September 2010. The formal kickoff meeting is co-located with the EGI Technical Forum and attended by representatives from all partners in the gSLM consortium: LMU (Munich), UvA (Amsterdam), UPC (Barcelona), CYFRONET (Krakow) and ETL (London).

    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch Grote zaal

      Grote zaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 13:55 15:50
      Services for the EGI Heavy User Communities Berlage

      Berlage

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      This session will include status updates from all technical tasks and sub-tasks in SA3, more detail of which can be found here.

      In summary, this activity provides continued support for activities previously supported by EGEE while they transition to a sustainable support model within their own community or within the production infrastructure by:

      • Supporting the tools, services and capabilities required by different heavy user communities (HUCs)
      • Identifying the tools, services and capabilities currently used by the HUCs that can benefit all user communities and to promote their adoption
      • Migrating the tools, services and capabilities that could benefit all user communities into a sustainable support model as part of the core EGI infrastructure
      • Establishing e a sustainable support model for the tools, services and capabilities that will remain relevant to single HUCs

      Who should attend this session?

      • Anyone seeking an update on these activities, including current and prospective users of these services.
      • 14:00
        Session Introduction 5m
        Speaker: Jamie Shiers (CERN)
        Slides
      • 14:05
        Services for High Energy Physics 25m
        Speaker: Maria Girone (CERN)
        Slides
      • 14:30
        Services for Life Sciences 20m
        Speaker: Mr Johan Montagnat (CNRS)
        Slides
      • 14:50
        Services for Earth Sciences 20m
        Speaker: Horst Schwichtenberg (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany)
        Slides
      • 15:10
        Services for Astronomy and Astrophysics 20m
        Speaker: Claudio Vuerli
        Slides
    • 14:00 15:45
      ECEE: ECEE - Part II/III - Projects Track Yakult Room

      Yakult Room

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      A number of European projects are collaborating to better understand
      the value cloud computing could bring to today's researchers. To
      succeed with this there is a need to learn, by testing, what is
      possible to do today, and the implications these services has on
      economy, security, vendor lock-in, and last but not least the
      usability and quality.

      To succeed with this objective, international collaboration is key,
      and in this session six collaborating projects share their findings
      and roadmaps.

      Topics in this session covers ongoing studies of the use of open
      source softwares as well as commercial products, and their
      combinations. One common goal is to identify the value in cloud
      computing to HPC users; end-user interfaces provided by cloud
      technologies and identify possible added value to today's grid and
      standard HPC interfaces. Concretely this amounts to e.g.

      • Investigate if a machine provisioning interface like that of
        Amazon's EC2 coupled with a library of scientific appliances is of
        value to European academic research communities.
      • Investigate how to build a cloud storage infrastructure that
        supports the use of clouds for scientific applications.
      • Identify the economic value of cloud computing
      • Understand the economic implications of moving parts of HPC onto
        cloud infrastructures. More notably by:
        • Estimate the fraction of current HPC compute jobs that could
          realistically be executed on clouds
        • Estimate the cost of building and operating a cloud facility
          of the same capacity as the above percentage of the total current
          resources
        • Estimate possible cost reductions achievable by scaling out
          peak loads to commercial clouds
        • Compare cost of a private cloud facility with a commercial cloud
        • Estimate savings in scenarios with
        • Commercial clouds when aiming at direct peering (data transfer cost)
        • Allocating their spare capacity at a reduced price

      During the OGF28 a 2 hr 25 min ECEE workshop was conducted, with a
      common guiding document, and collaboration web site, was produced
      (web: www.scientific-cloud.org).

      This guiding document will be updated during the workshop. Outline of
      current document:

      1.Roadmaps
      a.Sharing roadmaps
      b.Avoiding ‘built in’ interoperability problems later on

      1. Use cases
        a.Gap analysis
        b.“Market analysis” – today’s users, tomorrow’s
        c.Guidelines – best practices, quick start one-pager + checklist
        (cloud, grid, hpc, something else?), rules of thumb

      2. Offering
        a.Compared to existing (and evolving) public services – what do/can we offer?
        b.Service levels – how to handle, in practice
        c.Some mentioned last mile, customer support (application specific
        needs), platforms for specific users (like rendering example from
        BalticCloud)

      3. Focus areas
        a.Security – access and ID mgmt in line with local requirements
        b.Metering (what), Accounting, Billing, Business models
        c.Federation of clouds (cf grids)
        d.Network
        e.Licenses
        f.Scheduling, load balancing (resource sharing, application correlation)
        g.Technical solutions studied –list of tested solutions, their pros and cons

      4. Trends of small/medium DCIs and cloud computing
        a.Will they change their mode of operation?

      6.GAP analysis
      a.Identified overlaps
      i. E.g. compare project’s current deliverables
      b.Identified gaps
      i.What projects did not include into the plan
      ii.What is posing the main problem for the projects. E.g. lack of
      user communities, grid legacy
      c.Identify already existing policies, best practices and
      recommendations, and technology from the grid community – to be used
      as is, or modified

      • 14:00
        Introduction to ECEE and VENUS-C 25m
        Slides
      • 14:25
        BiG Grid HPC Clouds; Virtual Private HPC Clusters 20m
        Slides
      • 14:45
        NEON 20m
      • 15:05
        StratusLab 20m
        Slides
      • 15:25
        NGS 20m
        Slides
    • 14:00 15:30
      EGI Council (Closed) Mendes da Costa

      Mendes da Costa

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 14:00 15:30
      European Middleware Initiative - InReach Derkindern

      Derkindern

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 14:00 15:30
      Operational Tools Roadmap Verwey

      Verwey

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      A session dedicated to the presentation of the status and future plans for the operational tools developed within the EGI project. Focus will be on the Operation Portal, the GGUS Helpdesk, the GOCDB, the Nagios/MyEGI Monitoring Framework and the Metrics Portal. All the accounting related tools developments will be presented at the accounting workshop on Wednesday.

      • 14:00
        Introduction 10m
        Speaker: Daniele Cesini (INFN)
        Slides
      • 14:10
        Operation Portal 15m
        Speaker: Cyril Lorphelin (CNRS)
        Slides
      • 14:25
        GOCDB 15m
        Speaker: Mr Gilles Mathieu (RAL-STFC)
        Slides
      • 14:40
        NAGIOS/MyEGI 15m
        Speaker: David Horat (CERN)
        Slides
      • 14:55
        Broker network configuration 10m
        Speaker: Christos Triantafyllidis (GRNET)
        Slides
      • 15:05
        GGUS Helpdesk 15m
        Speaker: Dr Torsten Antoni (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
        Slides
      • 15:20
        Metrics Portal 10m
        Speaker: Dr Javier Lopez Cacheiro (CESGA)
        Slides
    • 14:00 15:30
      Regional Initiatives Keurzaal

      Keurzaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      Ognjen Prnjat - HP-SEE
      Federico Ruggieri - CHAIN
      Alberto Masoni - EUIndiaGrid2
      Bernard Marechal - GISELA

      • 14:00
        GISELA Project 15m
        Speaker: Bernard MARECHAL (CIEMAT)
        Slides
      • 14:15
        HP-SEE Project 15m
        Speaker: Ognjen PRNJAT (GRNET)
        more information
      • 14:30
        General Discussion 1h
        Slides
    • 14:00 15:30
      Security Policy Group Rode Kamer

      Rode Kamer

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      The EGI Security Policy Group (SPG) is charged with developing and
      maintaining Security Policy for use by EGI and the NGIs. Each NGI and EIRO
      member of EGI.eu is entitled to appoint one voting member of SPG.
      SPG should, wherever possible, aim to prepare and maintain simple and
      general policies which are not only applicable to EGI/NGIs but that are also
      of use to other Grid infrastructures and DCIs in Europe and across the world.
      The adoption of common policies by multiple infrastructures eases the problems of
      interoperability. The membership should also include expertise from other
      stakeholders, including site security officers, site
      system administrators, operational experts, middleware experts, VRCs and other DCIs.

      This session will present the current status of the EGI security policies and discuss the future plans.

      Members of SPG should definitely attend, but the session is also open to
      anyone who wishes to be involved or is just interested in learning about this work.

      • 14:00
        The EGI Policy team 10m
        Speaker: Damir Marinovic (EGI.EU)
        Slides
      • 14:10
        History and current status of EGI security policies 20m
        Slides
      • 14:30
        Terms of Reference and procedures for SPG 30m
        Slides
      • 15:00
        SPG future plans 30m
        Slides
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee / Tea Grote zaal

      Grote zaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 16:00 17:30
      ECEE: ECEE - Part III/III - Work Track Yakult Room

      Yakult Room

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      A number of European projects are collaborating to better understand
      the value cloud computing could bring to today's researchers. To
      succeed with this there is a need to learn, by testing, what is
      possible to do today, and the implications these services has on
      economy, security, vendor lock-in, and last but not least the
      usability and quality.

      To succeed with this objective, international collaboration is key,
      and in this session six collaborating projects share their findings
      and roadmaps.

      Topics in this session covers ongoing studies of the use of open
      source softwares as well as commercial products, and their
      combinations. One common goal is to identify the value in cloud
      computing to HPC users; end-user interfaces provided by cloud
      technologies and identify possible added value to today's grid and
      standard HPC interfaces. Concretely this amounts to e.g.

      • Investigate if a machine provisioning interface like that of
        Amazon's EC2 coupled with a library of scientific appliances is of
        value to European academic research communities.
      • Investigate how to build a cloud storage infrastructure that
        supports the use of clouds for scientific applications.
      • Identify the economic value of cloud computing
      • Understand the economic implications of moving parts of HPC onto
        cloud infrastructures. More notably by:
        • Estimate the fraction of current HPC compute jobs that could
          realistically be executed on clouds
        • Estimate the cost of building and operating a cloud facility
          of the same capacity as the above percentage of the total current
          resources
        • Estimate possible cost reductions achievable by scaling out
          peak loads to commercial clouds
        • Compare cost of a private cloud facility with a commercial cloud
        • Estimate savings in scenarios with
        • Commercial clouds when aiming at direct peering (data transfer cost)
        • Allocating their spare capacity at a reduced price

      During the OGF28 a 2 hr 25 min ECEE workshop was conducted, with a
      common guiding document, and collaboration web site, was produced
      (web: www.scientific-cloud.org).

      This guiding document will be updated during the workshop. Outline of
      current document:

      1.Roadmaps
      a.Sharing roadmaps
      b.Avoiding ‘built in’ interoperability problems later on

      1. Use cases
        a.Gap analysis
        b.“Market analysis” – today’s users, tomorrow’s
        c.Guidelines – best practices, quick start one-pager + checklist
        (cloud, grid, hpc, something else?), rules of thumb

      2. Offering
        a.Compared to existing (and evolving) public services – what do/can we offer?
        b.Service levels – how to handle, in practice
        c.Some mentioned last mile, customer support (application specific
        needs), platforms for specific users (like rendering example from
        BalticCloud)

      3. Focus areas
        a.Security – access and ID mgmt in line with local requirements
        b.Metering (what), Accounting, Billing, Business models
        c.Federation of clouds (cf grids)
        d.Network
        e.Licenses
        f.Scheduling, load balancing (resource sharing, application correlation)
        g.Technical solutions studied –list of tested solutions, their pros and cons

      4. Trends of small/medium DCIs and cloud computing
        a.Will they change their mode of operation?

      6.GAP analysis
      a.Identified overlaps
      i. E.g. compare project’s current deliverables
      b.Identified gaps
      i.What projects did not include into the plan
      ii.What is posing the main problem for the projects. E.g. lack of
      user communities, grid legacy
      c.Identify already existing policies, best practices and
      recommendations, and technology from the grid community – to be used
      as is, or modified

      • 16:00
        GRNET CLOUD 20m
        Slides
      • 16:20
        Discussion and update of common roadmap 1h 10m
        Discussion, panel, pointing at common challenges and how to share the load, to update the common high-level roadmap
        Slides
    • 16:00 17:30
      EGI Council (Closed) Mendes da Costa

      Mendes da Costa

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 16:00 17:35
      EGI Helpdesk - Support, Process and Implementation Verwey

      Verwey

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      This session aims at giving an overview of the tools and processes put in place to offer a complete set of user support services for th whole EGI landscape.

      • 16:00
        GGUS - EGI's central helpdesk 15m
        The transtion EGEE to EGI made it necessary to adapt the support infrastructure and support processes to fit the new operations model. One of the major changes is that the support now has to cover a large number of independent projects (EGI-InSPIRE, EMI, IGE, ...). In such a distributed environment it is even more important to have clearly defined processes and proper interfaces between the various tools in use. This give an overview of the central user support tool, the GGUS portal, and describes the support workflows it facilitates.
        Speaker: Dr Torsten Antoni (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
        Slides
      • 16:15
        TPM - EGI's first line support 15m
        With the transition from EGEE to EGI the first line support (TPM) model has changed. From originally 15 support teams spread all over the EGEE region two teams one in Italy and one Germany are remaining and share the work in biweekly shifts. The talk will cover the questions how the new model is organized what EGI users can expect from the TPM and how EGI benefits from the agreement the TPM made to WLCG.
        Speaker: Helmut Dres (GGUS)
        Slides
      • 16:30
        COD - EGI's operator on duty 15m
        In the transition from EGEE to EGI there were substantial changes in the grid oversight actitivity. The monitoring of sites moved from an central model to a regional model and the EGEE Regional Operations Centres transformed into one or more NGIs. In this talk we will discuss these changes and their impact. In addition, we will discuss how the COD activity has changed going from EGEE to EGI Inspire.
        Speaker: Ron Trompert (SARA)
        Slides
      • 16:45
        xGUS - an easy way to set up an NGI helpdesk 15m
        With the transition from EGEE to EGI the formerly federative model of ROCs changed to the model of NGIs (National Grid Initiatives). In order to fulfil the requirement of having its own helpdesk, GGUS offers the NGIs a regional support portal template which is based on a slim version of GGUS. It includes all basic support portal functionalities such as a ticket database, an email engine, user administration, a news module and basic portal administration. This means that fields like ‚Type Of Problem‘, ‚Affected Site‘, ‚Affected VO‘, ‚Responsible Unit‘, and link lists can be administered directly via the portal. The template comes with synchronization to GGUS, so tickets coming from or going to GGUS are duplicated and synchronized automatically. The layout will be adjusted to a provided banner.
        Speaker: Sabine Reisser (NGI-DE)
        Slides
      • 17:00
        PL-Grid - An example of an NGI support infrastructure 15m
        In this session Polish NGI support structure will be presented. Polish NGI uses own helpdesk bi-directionally integrated with GGUS. National helpdesk is based on Request Tracker. The support groups include a national team responsible for assigning tickets which require that, a group of specific domain experts and of course the users. There are procedures in place which ensure efficient problem solving. For the process overview there are reports generated in RT which allow to identify problems.
        Speaker: Marcin Radecki (CYFRONET)
        Slides
      • 17:15
        Network Support Coordination: Status and Plans 15m
        Speaker: Dr Mario Reale (GARR)
        Slides
    • 16:00 17:30
      EMI (Closed) Derkindern

      Derkindern

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 16:00 17:30
      Initiative for Globus in Europe Graanbeurszaal

      Graanbeurszaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
      • 16:00
        Introduction to IGE 40m
        Speaker: Dr Helmut Heller (LRZ)
        Slides
      • 16:40
        Presentation of globus.org service 20m
        Speaker: Mr Florian Zrenner (LRZ)
        Slides
      • 17:00
        Discussing the relations between EGI and IGE 30m
        Speaker: Dr Anton Frank (LRZ)
        Slides
    • 16:00 17:30
      Security Forum - Open Discussions Rode Kamer

      Rode Kamer

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      This session is intended to offer a open forum to allow various security-related topics to be discussed. It is also an opporunity to bring together representatives of the various security groups within EGI/EMI. The session starts from a brief introduction of each security groups in EGI and EMI projects. Each group will present current work/status. The second half session will be open discussion session, where one can raise question or initiate any interesting topic for discussion.

      This session is open to anyone who is interested in Grid security.

      • 16:00
        EGI/EMI security groups - Introduction 5m
        Following security groups in EGI and EMI project will give a brief introduction to summarize what the group does. Each talk will have about 5-6 minutes. - Security Coordination Group - SCG (Michel Drescher/Steven Newhouse) - Security Policy Group - SPG (David Kelsey) - Software Vulnerability Group - SVG (Linda Cornwall) - EGI Computer Security Incident Response Team - CSIRT (Mingchao Ma) - EUGridPMA (David Groep)
      • 16:05
        Security Coordination Group - SCG 5m
        Speaker: Steven Newhouse (EGI.eu)
      • 16:10
        Security Policy Group - SPG 5m
        A brief introduction of what SPG is and does!
        Speaker: David Kelsey (STFC)
        Slides
      • 16:15
        Software Vulnerability Group - SVG 5m
        A brief introduction of what SVG is and does!
        Slides
      • 16:20
        EUGridPMA 5m
        Speaker: David Groep (FOM-Nikhef)
      • 16:25
        EGI Computer Security Incident Response Team - CSIRT 5m
        A brief introduction of what is EGI CSIRT and does!
        Speaker: Mingchao Ma (STFC)
        Slides
      • 16:30
        Summary of AAI DCI 10m
        To summarize the output of AAI DCI session
        Speaker: John White (University of Helsinki, Finland)
        Slides
      • 16:40
        Summary of TERENA NRENs and Grids Workshop 10m
        To summarize output TERENA NRENs and Grids Workshop session!
        Speaker: David Kelsey (STFC)
        Slides
      • 16:50
        Open Discussion 40m
        A list of topics/questions will be avaliable here before the discussion Any topics/questions from the audience are very welcome! Questions ======= * what security problem would the audience most like to see solved?
    • 16:00 17:55
      Services for the EGI Heavy User Communities Berlage

      Berlage

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      This session will include status updates from all technical tasks and sub-tasks in SA3, more detail of which can be found here.

      In summary, this activity provides continued support for activities previously supported by EGEE while they transition to a sustainable support model within their own community or within the production infrastructure by:

      • Supporting the tools, services and capabilities required by different heavy user communities (HUCs)
      • Identifying the tools, services and capabilities currently used by the HUCs that can benefit all user communities and to promote their adoption
      • Migrating the tools, services and capabilities that could benefit all user communities into a sustainable support model as part of the core EGI infrastructure
      • Establishing e a sustainable support model for the tools, services and capabilities that will remain relevant to single HUCs

      Who should attend this session?

      • Anyone seeking an update on these activities, including current and prospective users of these services.
      • 16:00
        Shared Services and Tools - Dashboards 20m
        Speakers: Edward Karavakis, julia andreeva
        Slides
      • 16:20
        Shared Services and Tools - Applications (Ganga, DIANE) 20m
        Speaker: Dan van der Ster (CERN)
        Abstract
        Slides
      • 16:40
        Shared Services and Tools - Services: GReIC 20m
        Speaker: Sandro Fiore
        Slides
      • 17:00
        Shared Services and Tools - Workflows and Schedulers 20m
        Speaker: Francisco Castejon Magana (CIEMAT)
        Slides
      • 17:20
        Shared Services and Tools - MPI 20m
        Speaker: John Walsh (Grid-Ireland)
        Slides
      • 17:40
        ATLAS distributed data management 10m
        Speaker: Mr Fernando Harald Barreiro Megino (CERN)
        Slides
      • 17:50
        EGI-InSPIRE SA3 Milestones and Deliverables 5m
        Slides
    • 19:00 22:00
      Conference Dinner Grote zaal

      Grote zaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 08:00 10:30
      EGI-InSPIRE PMB (Closed) Rode Kamer

      Rode Kamer

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 09:00 13:00
      ESFRI Pilot Project Coordinators (Closed) Archief Damrakzijde

      Archief Damrakzijde

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 09:00 10:30
      NGI User Support Teams Yakult Room

      Yakult Room

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      The stated goal of EGI is to provide significant added value for existing and new user communities. The main providers

      of User Support service in EGI are National Grid Initiatives (NGIs), under the coordination of a central body, the EGI.eu

      organisation. While the primary responsibility of the User Support Teams of NGIs is to serve and support the development

      of users inside their own countries, the EGI.eu UCST assures that these national efforts fit together at the European

      level and satisfy multi-national, large scientific collaborations.



      The session includes an overview presentation on the User Support services of EGI, followed by presentations from

      different NGIs that actively search for and serve user communities. Services provided by these NGIs include:

      • consultancy
      • training
      • porting scientific applications
      • providing access to gridified scientific applications
      • assisting the setup and monitoring of Virtual Organisations (VO)
      • development of new grid software services (infrastructure, portal, toolkit, etc.)
      • collecting feedbacks and requirements from users
      • documentation
      • helpdesk
      • Integration of new communities
      • 09:00
        NGI based User Support in EGI 15m
        Slides
      • 09:15
        User Support in IGI, the Italian NGI 15m
        Slides
      • 09:30
        User Support in NGI-DE, the German NGI 15m
        Slides
      • 09:45
        User Support in the UK NGI 15m
        Slides
      • 10:00
        Application and User Support in Asia-Pacific 15m
        Slides
      • 10:15
        Discussion 15m
    • 09:00 10:30
      Security Training Derkindern

      Derkindern

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      This training session is a joint effort between EGI CSIRT and EGI/EMI middleware security team. The frist half session will focus on operational security while the second half session will focus on various Grid services. One should expect to learn some practical tips and tiricks in both fields from security experts.

      The training session is open to anyone, but particularly to EGI/NGI site system managers and administrators.

      • 09:00
        Introdution 5m
      • 09:05
        EGI Security Incident Handling Procedure 25m
        Speaker: Mr Tobias Dussa (KIT-CERT)
        Slides
      • 09:30
        Security Service Challenge 4 - Case Study 30m
        Speakers: Mr Tobias Dussa (NGI_DE), Ursula Epting (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
        Slides
      • 10:00
        Security Monitoring with Pakiti and Nagios 30m
        Speakers: Daniel Kouril (CESNET), Giuseppe Misurelli (INFN)
        Slides
    • 09:00 10:40
      Software Rollout to the Production Infrastructure Graanbeurszaal

      Graanbeurszaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      Objectives: Bring together the SW providers and early adopter sites to provide information on the current SW rollout process, and what is planed for the future. Get feedback and comments from all involved parties.

      Document proposal
    • 09:00 10:30
      Supporting EGI user communities with Desktop Grid resources Keurzaal

      Keurzaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      The EDGI (European Desktop Grid Initiative) project develops middleware that consolidates the results achieved in EDGeS (Enabling Desktop Grids
      for e-Science) concerning the extension of Service Grids with Desktop Grids in order to support EGI and NGI user communities that are heavy users of
      DCIs and require extremely large number of CPUs and cores. EDGI goes beyond existing DCIs that are typically cluster Grids and supercomputer
      Grids, and extends them with public and institutional Desktop Grids and Clouds. EDGI integrates software components of ARC, gLite, Unicore,
      BOINC, XtremWeb-HEP, 3G Bridge, and Cloud middleware (such as OpenNebula and Eucalyptus) into SG->DG->Cloud platforms for service provision.

      The aim of the session is to introduce the current state and the roadmap of the EDGI infrastructure to EGI user communities already utilizing this
      infrastructure, and to attract new EGI user communities as potential users for the EDGI infrastructure. Case studies from EGI and external user
      communities supported by the DEGISCO (Desktop Grids for International Scientific Collaboration) project and utilising the EDGI/EDGeS infrastructure
      will be presented, followed by an open discussion.

      Who should attend this session?
      We are aiming for all EGI/NGI user communities who are willing to explore how Desktop Grid resources are able to extend the EGI/NGI resources they
      currently have access to.

      • 09:00
        Desktop Grids for EGI/NGI User Communities 30m
        Speaker: Mr Ad Emmen (AlmereGrid)
        Slides
      • 09:30
        Desktop Grid Infrastructure and User Support Service for EGI/NGI User Communities 20m
        The European EDGeS project has established a distributed computing infrastructure that extends “traditional” EGEE resources with Desktop Grid worker nodes. The infrastructure is further developed by EDGI and maintained and made available even for non-European researchers by the DEGISCO project. This talk describes the currently existing resources that are available for EGI/NGI user communities, and introduces all user and application support activities that aim to help these communities to utilise Desktop Grid resources for their computation or data intensive applications.
        Speaker: Tamas Kiss (University of Westminster)
        Slides
      • 09:50
        ISDEP, a Fusion Application Deployed on Volunteer Computing Platform 10m
        Nuclear fusion is the process by which multiple atomic nucleus join together to form a heavier nucleus. It occurs naturally in the core of stars. Fusion could be the clean and sustainable energy source of the future. ISDEP (Integrator of Stochastic Differential Equations for Plasmas) is a Monte Carlo code developed by CIEMAT and BIFI which solves neoclassical transport in fusion devices. ISDEP integrates a large number of independent particle trajectories and extracts statistical information from them. Thus, there is no need of communication between processes and the code scales perfectly in distributed computing platforms. Using volunteer computer resources, specifically deploying it in the EDGeS@home and Ibercivis projects, we've simulated several fusion processes in Tokamaks reactors, collecting a huge amount of data that will be useful for understanding the physical processes in ITER.
        Speaker: Mr Dario Ferrer (Instituto de Biocomputación y Física de Sistemas Complejos (BIFI) de la Universidad de Zaragoza)
        Slides
      • 10:00
        Connecting the XWCH Computing Platform with ARC 10m
        XtremWebCH is a Swiss volunteer computing inspired platform for distributed computing. Its latest version includes a command line API for task management. Using this API, we have created a bridge by which XtremWebCH can communicate with NorduGrid ARC Grid middleware, i.e. simple ARC jobs can be executed in XtremWebCH nodes. The presentation discusses the implementation, and work in progress.
        Speaker: Mr Marko Niinimaki (University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland)
        Slides
      • 10:10
        DesktopGrid Applications in Asia 10m
        In Asia, Desktop Grid system is substantial to complement Service Grid in some sense. Instead of targeting on big science, it is more essential to fight for emerging topics such as natural disaster mitigation, diseases, and cultural heritage preservation etc. Conducting by EGEE Asia Federation and EUAsiaGrid, regional e-Infrastructure and many e-Science collaborations are in stable operation. Some exemplar applications like avian flu and dengue fever drug discovery, earthquake disaster mitigation and typhoon simulation have been available to support research activities. ASGC has established BOINC-based Desktop Grid solutions and launched several pilot applications integrated with Service Grids, in collaboration with the EDGeS project. In DEGISCO collaboration, ASGC is extending the stable integrated DG and SG infrastructure to this region and bringing together regional-focused e-Science applications and user communities.
        Speaker: Mr Eric Yen (Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre (ASGC), Taipei, Taiwan)
        Slides
      • 10:20
        Questions and Discussion 10m
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee / Tea Grote zaal

      Grote zaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 11:00 12:00
      Closing Keynote Yakult Room

      Yakult Room

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
      slides
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch Grote zaal

      Grote zaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 13:00 14:30
      Grid Oversight Training Verwey

      Verwey

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      Please register for this session at:

      https://www.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=125

      This will be a general training session on the Operations Dashboard Portal. There will be an initial 15min overview presentation, and then a hands on session, with experts to provide help. Questions are encouraged.

      New ROD Operations personnel are particularly welcome.

      NOTE: Special Requirements: Please read the old EGEE documentation at https://documents.egi.eu/document/15

      Laptop with network connectivity
      Have a valid certificate
      Regional Staff role for your NGI in the GOCDB - you must be registered to apply for this role
      GGUS registration (as support staff)
      Registered in the dteam OPS VO

      slides
    • 13:00 14:30
      Security Training Derkindern

      Derkindern

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      This training session is a joint effort between EGI CSIRT and EGI/EMI middleware security team. The frist half session will focus on operational security while the second half session will focus on various Grid services. One should expect to learn some practical tips and tiricks in both fields from security experts.

      The training session is open to anyone, but particularly to EGI/NGI site system managers and administrators.

      • 13:00
        Security recommendations CREAM 15m
        Speaker: Cristina Aiftimiei
        Slides
      • 13:15
        Security recommendations ARC CE 15m
        Speaker: A. Filipcic
        Slides
      • 13:30
        Security recommendations UNICORE 15m
        Speaker: K. Benedyczak
        Slides
      • 13:45
        Security recommendations DPM 10m
        Speaker: J-P Baud
        Slides
      • 13:55
        Security recommendations dCache 10m
        Speaker: P. Millar
        Slides
      • 14:05
        Security recommendations Argus 10m
        Speaker: V. Tschopp
        Slides
      • 14:15
        Security recommendations MyProxy 10m
        Speaker: Daniel Kouril (CESNET)
        Slides
      • 14:25
        Q&A 5m
    • 13:00 16:00
      Using Desktop Grids in an eScience environment Mendes da Costa

      Mendes da Costa

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      Objective

      Goal of the tutorial is to provide an introduction into Desktop Grid
      computing, programming for Desktop Grids, connecting Desktop Grids to
      EGI type of infrasttructures.
      Desktop Grids consist of otherwise unused computing resources, that are
      collected and made available for scientific applications. A Desktop Grid can,
      for instance, consist of office machines in a University or computers in
      lecture rooms. These are called local Desktop Grids.
      Desktop Grids can also consist of unused computing time donated by
      citizens. These are called Volunteer Desktop Grids.
      Scientific programmes need to be adapted or ported onto the Desktop Grid.
      Desktop Grids can be connected to become part of Europe's main Grid
      infrastructure (EGI) by use of EDGeS Bridge technology.

      Who should attend?

      Anyone who considers setting up a local or Volunteer Desktop Grid.
      Scientists and appliaction developers looking for ways to use more
      computing power.
      NGI/EGI Grid operators who want to extend their services with more
      computational power and are considering Desktop Grids.

      Organisation

      The tutorial is organised by the International Desktop Grid Federation, with
      support from the EDGI project and Gridforum.nl. It is facilitated by the EGI
      technical Forum. Local organisation: AlmereGrid.

      Preliminary programme:

      Introduction into Desktop Grid computing
      Hands on with setting up and programming for Desktop Grids
      Extending EGI type of Grids with Desktop Grids.

      • 13:00
        Introduction to Desktop Grid Computing 45m
        Speaker: Mr Ad Emmen (AlmereGrid)
        Slides
      • 13:45
        User Support Services for DG Infrastructures 45m
        Speaker: Tamas Kiss (University of Westminster)
        Slides
      • 14:30
        Break 30m
      • 15:00
        Managing an EGEE/EGI Virtual Organisation (VO) with EDGES Bridged Desktop Resources 30m
        Speaker: Dr Robert Lovas (MTA SZTAKI)
        Slides
      • 15:30
        Questions and discussion 30m
    • 14:30 15:00
      Coffee / Tea Grote zaal

      Grote zaal

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam
    • 15:00 16:30
      Grid Oversight Training Verwey

      Verwey

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      Please register for this session at:

      https://www.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=125

      This will be a general training session on the Operations Dashboard Portal. There will be an initial 15min overview presentation, and then a hands on session, with experts to provide help. Questions are encouraged.

      New ROD Operations personnel are particularly welcome.

      NOTE: Special Requirements: Please read the old EGEE documentation at https://documents.egi.eu/document/15

      Laptop with network connectivity
      Have a valid certificate
      Regional Staff role for your NGI in the GOCDB - you must be registered to apply for this role
      GGUS registration (as support staff)
      Registered in the dteam OPS VO

      slides
    • 15:00 16:30
      Using Desktop Grids in an eScience environment Mendes da Costa

      Mendes da Costa

      Beurs van Berlage

      Damrak 277 Amsterdam

      Objective

      Goal of the tutorial is to provide an introduction into Desktop Grid
      computing, programming for Desktop Grids, connecting Desktop Grids to
      EGI type of infrasttructures.
      Desktop Grids consist of otherwise unused computing resources, that are
      collected and made available for scientific applications. A Desktop Grid can,
      for instance, consist of office machines in a University or computers in
      lecture rooms. These are called local Desktop Grids.
      Desktop Grids can also consist of unused computing time donated by
      citizens. These are called Volunteer Desktop Grids.
      Scientific programmes need to be adapted or ported onto the Desktop Grid.
      Desktop Grids can be connected to become part of Europe's main Grid
      infrastructure (EGI) by use of EDGeS Bridge technology.

      Who should attend?

      Anyone who considers setting up a local or Volunteer Desktop Grid.
      Scientists and appliaction developers looking for ways to use more
      computing power.
      NGI/EGI Grid operators who want to extend their services with more
      computational power and are considering Desktop Grids.

      Organisation

      The tutorial is organised by the International Desktop Grid Federation, with
      support from the EDGI project and Gridforum.nl. It is facilitated by the EGI
      technical Forum. Local organisation: AlmereGrid.

      Preliminary programme:

      Introduction into Desktop Grid computing
      Hands on with setting up and programming for Desktop Grids
      Extending EGI type of Grids with Desktop Grids.