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EGI-CF. The full name is "UNICORE Forum e.V. General Meeting" room 02.07.014, designated "Seminar 6", on Monday the 26th from
13:00 until 17:00.
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The Operations Management Board is the EGI policy board leading development of operations across NGIs, EIROs and integrated infrastructure providers.
It will be possible to participate via EVO.
This double session comprises various examples of non-core services designed to meet the needs of various communities.
This session comprises 3 contributions describing current activity in this area.
In 2011 the EGI-InSPIRE project revised its user engagement activities. The purpose of the restructuring was to improve the efficiency and flexibility of the interaction between the NGIs, EGI.eu and other organisations to achieve common goals in the field of "Engaging with New User Communities". The new user community engagement activity brings together individuals from NGIs and EGI.eu to carry out focussed, short term activities that directly or indirectly relate to engagement with new users. The session provides an overview of the new structure and of the first set of focused projects that have been setup.
Further information: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Virtual_Team_Projects
The session comprises contributions on Operations-related services plus a further related contribution covering messaging services.
The session will address the complexities of the EGI ecosystem in the longer term from various perspectives.
The workshop is aimed at researchers and members of the community who need to communicate their work to targeted audiences.
This double session comprises various examples of non-core services designed to meet the needs of various communities.
A grouping of 6 interrelated presentations covering a portfolio of data technologies (including EMI specific data technologies).
Internal Project Administration Committee (PAC) meeting.
This workshop will explore the impact of EGI service offerings on the ESFRI, CLUSTER and other related projects.
Session 1 – 14:00 – 15:30 (15min presentations)
1. David Wallom – CRISP
2. Alexandre Bonvin – INSTRUCT
3. Claudio Vuerli – CTA
4. David Corney – EU-DAT
5. Wouter Los – ENVRI
6. Giuditta Marinaro - EMSO
Session 2 – 16:00 – 17:30
1. Dan Broeder – DASISH
2. Ye Cao – DARIAH
3. Antonella Fresa – DCH-RP
4. Discussion – 45 mins
Representatives from all of these are encouraged to attend.
The EGI service offering is a broad and diverse portfolio which can be tailored to the specific needs of the various communities. Services cover various areas from technical operations, community support and communication coordination to organisation-level support and coordination.
The focus of the workshop is to capture key short and medium term needs from the ESFRI Cluster projects and match them where possible to current and forthcoming EGI/NGI service offerings.
The tutorial focuses on using WS-PGRADE/gUSE and its customization methodology for creating scientific gateways.
Initiatives contributing towards a stable EGI ecosystem will be discussed from various perspectives.
Towards an Integrated Information System: This is the second joint EGI/EMI/IGE workshop which addresses the need of an EGI integrated service for service discovery across heterogeneous grid infrastructures - based on ARC, gLite, GLOBUS, UNICORE - and offering virtualized services.
Status of progress in the various projects involved will be assessed and a plan of future actions will be defined.
A facilitated discussion based upon input from a small panel of specialists.
The workshop will begin with a series of short ten minute talks by the specialists about their experiences and thoughts on the key issues relevant to managing the delivery of scalable services to the research community.
1) Steve Tuecke - the dream team: what skill sets are needed to build a delivery team based on lessons learnt from Globus Online service.
2) Vladimir Viro - Peachnote music analysis service running on the Cloud
3) Owen Appleton - The business perspective: Emergence Tech Limited - specialised consultancy providing communication, strategy, policy and technical services to academic and commercial clients. Owen is also involved in the gSLM project.
4) Naomi Wynter-Vincent - RAMIRI (Realising and Managing International Research Infrastructures). The RAMIRI project aims to deliver a training and networking programme for people involved in planning and managing international research infrastructures within the European Union (and Associated States).
Others are welcome and encouraged to participate in discussions from their own perspectives.
The aim is to capture some best practices and lessons learned and potential actions.
A grouping of 6 interrelated presentations covering a portfolio of data technologies (including EMI specific data technologies).
This workshop will explore the impact of EGI service offerings on the ESFRI, CLUSTER and other related projects.
Session 1 – 14:00 – 15:30 (15min presentations)
1. David Wallom – CRISP
2. Alexandre Bonvin – INSTRUCT
3. Claudio Vuerli – CTA
4. David Corney – EU-DAT
5. Wouter Los – ENVRI
6. Giuditta Marinaro - EMSO
Session 2 – 16:00 – 17:30
1. Dan Broeder – DASISH
2. Ye Cao – DARIAH
3. Antonella Fresa – DCH-RP
4. Discussion – 45 mins
Representatives from all of these are encouraged to attend.
The EGI service offering is a broad and diverse portfolio which can be tailored to the specific needs of the various communities. Services cover various areas from technical operations, community support and communication coordination to organisation-level support and coordination.
The focus of the workshop is to capture key short and medium term needs from the ESFRI Cluster projects and match them where possible to current and forthcoming EGI/NGI service offerings.
The tutorial focuses on using WS-PGRADE/gUSE and its customization methodology for creating scientific gateways.
A collection of interrelated presentations on monitoring and testing of the infrastructure.
Initiatives contributing towards a stable EGI ecosystem will be discussed from various perspectives.
Towards an Integrated Information System: This is the second joint EGI/EMI/IGE workshop which addresses the need of an EGI integrated service for service discovery across heterogeneous grid infrastructures - based on ARC, gLite, GLOBUS, UNICORE - and offering virtualized services.
Status of progress in the various projects involved will be assessed and a plan of future actions will be defined.
This meeting is being convened by Claudio VUERLI,(INAF-OA Trieste). A&A has been identified as a Heavy User Community (HUC) in EGI. After the startup phase of EGI-InSPIRE, HUCs have been encouraged to organize themselves as VRCs and to subscribe a MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) to be officially endorsed by EGI. Anyone wishing to participate in the meeting should contact the convenor.
This is the 1st of the day's 3 sessions on the Cloud. Presentations within this session focus on the user perspective.
This double session comprises various examples of non-core services designed to meet the needs of a number of diverse communities including NMR, weather, life sciences and HEP (WLCG).
EGI Helpdesk - this session comprises presentations on GGUS covering report generation and the important role it plays in WLCG
The initial 2 parts of 3 EMI focussed sessions in which job-related elements of the middleware are presented. The final session of the sequence will focus on QA of the development and testing process for middleware components.
The PRACE Partnership for Advance Computing in Europe (PRACE) Research Infrastructure provides a persistent world-class HPC service for scientists and researchers from academia and industry. The workshop will give a general overview of objectives and achievements and then focus on services for the operation and usage of the PRACE Infrastructure as well as on user support activities through examples of user communities whose research needs span the use of PRACE and EGI resources.
9:45 – 10:30 ScalaLife Project: Using PRACE and EGI resources (title tbd) (Erwin Laure)
Schedule:
The PRACE Infrastructure
11:00 – 11:30 PRACE – Introduction and Overview (Th.Eickermann, FZJ)
11:30 – 12:00 Enabling Scientific Codes to the Next Generation of HPC Systems: a Community Driven Approach (Claudio Gheller, CSCS)
12:00 – 12:30 Towards a European training network in high-performance computing(Pekka Maninen)
Technical User Stories: Using both PetaScale HPC and Distributed HTC resources
14:00 – 14:30 ScalaLife (Project Technical Director) title and speaker tbc
14:30 – 15:00 MAPPER (krzysztof.kurowski@man.poznan.pl / Alfons Hoekstra) title and speaker tbc
15:00 – 15:30 DRIHM (Antonio Parodi) title and speaker tbc
Infrastructure Operations
16:00 – 16:20 PRACE Distributed Infrastructure Services and Evolution Tools (Axel Berg, SARA)
16:20 – 16:40 EGI Services for Integrated Use (Tiziana Ferrari, EGI)
16:40 –17:30 Discussion
The CERN Virtual Machine File System (CVMFS) developed at CERN provides an http-based distributed filesystem. This training workshop will cover details of the current deployment of CVMFS at CERN which serves nearly 2 TB of files to at least 70,000 clients. Details will be given of how other communities are able to use CVMFS.
Presentations:
Introduction and to tutorial to CvmFS - Steve Traylen, CERN
Use of CvmFS within GridPP - Christopher Walker, QMUL, UK
Use of CvmFS within LHCb - Elisa Lanciotti, CERN
This is the 2nd of the day's 3 sessions on the Cloud. Presentations within this session focus on the provider perspective.
This double session comprises various examples of non-core services designed to meet the needs of a number of diverse communities including NMR, weather, life sciences and HEP (WLCG).
Closed meeting of the EGI-InSPIRE Project Management Board
The initial 2 parts of 3 EMI focussed sessions in which job-related elements of the middleware are presented. The final session of the sequence will focus on QA of the development and testing process for middleware components.
The PRACE Partnership for Advance Computing in Europe (PRACE) Research Infrastructure provides a persistent world-class HPC service for scientists and researchers from academia and industry. The workshop will give a general overview of objectives and achievements and then focus on services for the operation and usage of the PRACE Infrastructure as well as on user support activities through examples of user communities whose research needs span the use of PRACE and EGI resources.
9:45 – 10:30 ScalaLife Project: Using PRACE and EGI resources (title tbd) (Erwin Laure)
Schedule:
The PRACE Infrastructure
11:00 – 11:30 PRACE – Introduction and Overview (Th.Eickermann, FZJ)
11:30 – 12:00 Enabling Scientific Codes to the Next Generation of HPC Systems: a Community Driven Approach (Claudio Gheller, CSCS)
12:00 – 12:30 Towards a European training network in high-performance computing(Pekka Maninen)
Technical User Stories: Using both PetaScale HPC and Distributed HTC resources
14:00 – 14:30 ScalaLife (Project Technical Director) title and speaker tbc
14:30 – 15:00 MAPPER (krzysztof.kurowski@man.poznan.pl / Alfons Hoekstra) title and speaker tbc
15:00 – 15:30 DRIHM (Antonio Parodi) title and speaker tbc
Infrastructure Operations
16:00 – 16:20 PRACE Distributed Infrastructure Services and Evolution Tools (Axel Berg, SARA)
16:20 – 16:40 EGI Services for Integrated Use (Tiziana Ferrari, EGI)
16:40 –17:30 Discussion
This workshop will build on the gSLM workshop and ITSM tutorial run by the gSLM project at the EGI Technical Forum 2011 to further assist the EGI community in increasing their awareness and expertise int he area of IT Service Management (ITSM) and in particular, Service Level Management (SLM).
2 presentations:
An update on the overall status of the recent developments in Service Availability Monitoring (SAM). Includes an update on the architecture, the roadmap and a demonstration.
Training session for the second level EGI SAM/Nagios supportes. This will be an informal session discussing the technical internals of SAM (closed).
A series of presentations on different workflow management systems that are in use across the user community.
This is the last of the day's 3 sessions on the Cloud. Building on the earlier 8 presentations and based on the outcomes to date of the Federated Cloud Task Force, this meeting will aim to identify the next steps.
Closed meeting of the EGI-InSPIRE Project Management Board
The final of the day's 3 sessions will focus on QA of the development and testing process for middleware components. (The initial 2 parts focussed on job-related elements of the middleware. )
The PRACE Partnership for Advance Computing in Europe (PRACE) Research Infrastructure provides a persistent world-class HPC service for scientists and researchers from academia and industry. The workshop will give a general overview of objectives and achievements and then focus on services for the operation and usage of the PRACE Infrastructure as well as on user support activities through examples of user communities whose research needs span the use of PRACE and EGI resources.
9:45 – 10:30 ScalaLife Project: Using PRACE and EGI resources (title tbd) (Erwin Laure)
Schedule:
The PRACE Infrastructure
11:00 – 11:30 PRACE – Introduction and Overview (Th.Eickermann, FZJ)
11:30 – 12:00 Enabling Scientific Codes to the Next Generation of HPC Systems: a Community Driven Approach (Claudio Gheller, CSCS)
12:00 – 12:30 Towards a European training network in high-performance computing(Pekka Maninen)
Technical User Stories: Using both PetaScale HPC and Distributed HTC resources
14:00 – 14:30 ScalaLife (Project Technical Director) title and speaker tbc
14:30 – 15:00 MAPPER (krzysztof.kurowski@man.poznan.pl / Alfons Hoekstra) title and speaker tbc
15:00 – 15:30 DRIHM (Antonio Parodi) title and speaker tbc
Infrastructure Operations
16:00 – 16:20 PRACE Distributed Infrastructure Services and Evolution Tools (Axel Berg, SARA)
16:20 – 16:40 EGI Services for Integrated Use (Tiziana Ferrari, EGI)
16:40 –17:30 Discussion
The goal of this training/tutorial is to deliver insight into the topics of Quality Management, IT Service Management and Information Security Management, based on these ISO standards, and in addition: provide some ideas on how this may be relevant and useful in the EGI/Grid context. The session is run by members of the gSLM project (www.gslm.eu).
One of the main objectives of the EGI-InSPIRE project is to increase the use of the European Grid Infrastructure by lowering the barriers of adoption for new communities. The intensive and efficient reuse of EGI assets is a key factor for reaching this goal. The project selected a set of tools that can facilitate the reuse of tangible assets within the community. These tools – namely the Applications Database, the Training Marketplace, Client Relationship Management system and Requirement Tracker – help the community to monitor and keep track of relevant applications, developer tools, developers, training materials, sites and services and to reuse these for custom purposes. The talks present the latest features of these services, and how they contribute to the EGI User Support Platform, a framework that enables support teams within VRCs, NGIs and other groups to tailor EGI services as preferred by their clients.
This EGI-led workshop builds on the earlier Workflow presentation session and aims to bring together members and supporters of DCI user communities, user support teams from NGI, VRCs and VOs, scientific groups that are not yet engaged with EGI.
16:00 - 16:10 Richard Mclennan/Gergely Sipos: Coordination of workflow activities in Europe by EGI
16:10 - 16:20 Peter Kacsuk: The importance of making workflows interoperable - the SHIWA technology
16:20 - 16:30 Stian Soiland-Reyes: The Wf4Ever project objectives and experiences
16:30 - 16:40 Joris Borgdorff: Workflow usage in MAPPER
16:40 - 16:50 Gabor Terstyanszky: ER-flow project to support SHIWA user communities
16:50 - 17:00 Alessandro Costa: Workflows for astrophysics
17:00 - 17:10 Sonja Herres-Pawlis: Developing and using workflows by the MoSGrid community
17:10 - 17:30 Discussion forum: How to strengthen workflow-oriented collaboration in Europe?
This session comprises 4 presentations relevant to resource usage accounting on the grid.
CHAIN aims to further coordinate and leverage the experience of e-Infrastructure Initiatives in Europe plus emerging in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Detailed agenda and presentations of the workshop are available at http://agenda.ct.infn.it/conferenceOtherViews.py?view=standard&confId=761
The purpose of this workshop is to investigate how research teams commission or select original software applications: what approaches are taken, how long does it take, how do you explain what you need? The workshop is targeted at research teams and their leaders to explain what they need, together with application developers to explain what is possible and the NGIs to explain what is available.
We will discuss current approaches, identify best practices and also some next steps to improve these processes.
A series of presentation relating to software QA as performed within EMI.
The workshop will provide an overview of different actions and approaches to assessment of e-Infrastructures impact.
Three sessions covering 12 presentations on Portals and Gateways.
Participants will learn about cloud technologies in general and will understand the distinction between Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) infrastructures.
Endpoints to use in configuration for tutorial:
Recommended 64-bit images (search for "airaj" or "hudson.builder"):
CHAIN aims to further coordinate and leverage the experience of e-Infrastructure Initiatives in Europe plus emerging in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Detailed agenda and presentations of the workshop are available at http://agenda.ct.infn.it/conferenceOtherViews.py?view=standard&confId=761
A double session over 2 days which brings together 5 presentations on Cloud technology.
A series of presentation relating to adoption of standards within EMI.
This session will be held Thursday 29th at 14:00, where some of the most important novelties introduced by the upcoming EMI 2 will be shown. The session will begin with WNoDeS, a product being released for the first time within an EMI release. It will provide an overview of the product and a demonstration of its basic functionalities. The session will continue with the presentation of the DPM's new NFS and HTTP interfaces, followed by the demonstration of new data staging features in ARC CE, and a taste of EMI-ES, featuring submission, with the very same set of commands, to UNICORE and CREAM CE. In conclusion, the L&B product team leader will introduce the audience to the most interesting innovations in the next LB release, notably the new mechanism to control L&B's broadcasting of information over the messaging infrastructure.
Two sessions aimed at helping users get the most out of DCI resources: first is a desktop grid tutorial from EDGI, the second is a workshop about Parallel Computing in the EGI, including use of MPI, OpenMP, and GPGPUs.
Three sessions covering 12 presentations on Portals and Gateways.
This double session will follow the model of previous EGI forums and invite representatives from the Virtual Research Communities (VRC) associated with EGI to present their activities, achievements and goals.
This session is aimed at application developers creating e-Science or Grid-enabled applications and will introduce some of the APIs supported by EMI products.
The session will be structured in two parts : in the first of them, the ARGUS team will introduce some techniques for the interaction, via API, with the ARGUS authorization service. In the second part, the NGI-CH will give an overview of how High Throughput solutions can be developed using ARC.
This workshop will focus technical discussions relating to future activities within the Task Force.
Two sessions aimed at helping users get the most out of DCI resources: first is a desktop grid tutorial from EDGI, the second is a workshop about Parallel Computing in the EGI, including use of MPI, OpenMP, and GPGPUs.
Presentations from PLGrid, the Finish NGI site and the European Globus Community Forum (EGCF).
Three sessions covering 12 presentations on Portals and Gateways.
This double session will follow the model of previous EGI forums and invite representatives from the Virtual Research Communities (VRC) associated with EGI to present their activities, achievements and goals.
A double session over 2 days which brings together 5 presentations on Cloud technology.
This session will be a general update on the status of the provided tools for EGI Network Support and on the IPv6-related activities. It includes a presentation on High Energy Physics transition to IPv6.
A session comprising 2 presentations covering Computational Chemistry applications and the Green Computing Observatory.
The training will include extensive hands-on for the attendees to get real experiment on how to combine different types of workflows to develop and run complex workflow applications on different kind of DCIs (clouds, grids, desktop grids, clusters). The attendees will acquire knowledge on at least one workflow language and its practical use for DCIs.
3 presentations including Vulnerability and UK experience on Security.
F2F meeting convened by Michel Drescher.
The training will include extensive hands-on for the attendees to get real experiment on how to combine different types of workflows to develop and run complex workflow applications on different kind of DCIs (clouds, grids, desktop grids, clusters). The attendees will acquire knowledge on at least one workflow language and its practical use for DCIs.