| Monday, February 13 |
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Production Grids Plenary
(105 mins)
Sponsor Keynote: Fabrizio Gagliardi, EMEA Director for Technical Computing, Microsoft
Production Grids overview: EGEE, OSG, HellasGrid
"Experience with production Grids and outlook for industrial uptake of Grid technology" Presented by Fabrizio Gagliardi, Microsoft. This talk will review the experience of production Grids with a particular emphasis on industrial use. It will discuss current issues and opportunities for long term sustainability and uptake of Grid technology by industry.
"Enterprise IT Automation Technologies" - Dejan Milojicic, ISSL, HP Labs
Next generation enterprises will require increased dynamism in meeting business objectives at the fraction of today's cost. Increased scale, geographic distribution, reliability, and dynamism of enterprise IT demand higher degrees of automation. Hewlett Packard Laboratories develops a number of automation technologies and demonstrators that enable HP and its customers IT to better meet their needs. This talk will present some of these technologies, such as adaptive monitoring, scheduling and capacity planning, and statistical analysis; then we will demonstrate how they contribute towards a virtual desktop service.
Wayne Clark - Technical Leader, Network Management Technology Group, Cisco
This presentation will discuss the challenges that networking vendors face in the support of grid applications. While the holy grail of grid networking is to treat the network as a complete schedulable grid resource just like processors and storage, that capability really isn't available yet. This presentation will address some interim solutions and briefly talk about the range of networking possibilities, including the use of commodity networks and leveraging user-owned network infrastructure.
"EGEE presented by Erwin Laure, EGEE Technical Director"
EGEE is a project that integrates current national, regional and thematic Grid efforts, in order to create a seamless Grid infrastructure for the support of scientific research. The infrastructure supports distributed research communities, which share common Grid computing needs and are prepared to integrate their own computing infrastructure and agree on common access policies. In this talk, we will give an update on the status of the EGEE infrastructure focusing on the operational aspects of providing a large scale dependable Grid infrastructure.
Frank Wuerthwein, OSG Executive Board chair, UCSD
Frank Wuerthwein will report on the status and plans for the Open Science Grid Consortium, an open, shared national distributed facility in the US which supports a multi-discplinary suite of science applications. More than fifty University and Laboratory groups, including 2 in Brazil and 3 in Asia, now have their resources and services accessible to OSG. 16 Virtual Organizations have registered their users to use the infrastructure. The US LHC experiments are depending on the Open Science Grid as the underlying facility in the US as part of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, other astrophysics experiments, and the currently running particle physics experiments are actively engaged in moving their legacy systems to the common infrastructure to support their computing needs and extensions. Frank will also present OSG's planned program of work to operate, mature and extend the capacities of the OSG. The activities proposed will sustain effective operation of the facility itself, increase the diversity in the applications supported, help new sites join the infrastructure and expand the scale of the fabric of computing and storage resources.
"Building a nation-wide production Grid infrastructure in Greece: The Hellasgrid project", Prof. Nectarios Koziris, NTUA & Vice-Chairman, GRNET.
The Hellasgrid project is the national Greek initative for building a nation-wide GRID infrastructure. In this talk, the cornerstones of cluster and middleware deployment are going to be presented, along with tools and systems for day to day operations to deliver seamless grid services to the research community. Several VOs, with different resource needs are supported, with established administrative procedures to ensure sustainability of production level operations.
Agenda:
10:30-10:50: Gagliardi
10:50-11:00: Milojicic
11:00-11:10: Clark
11:10-11:30: Laure
11:30-11:50: Wuerthwein
11:50-12:10: Koziris
Location: Olympia A & B
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| | Slides: Production Grids - Clark |
| | Slides: Production Grids - Gagliardi |
| | Slides: Production Grids - Koziris |
| | Slides: Production Grids - Laure |
| | Slides: Production Grids - Milojicic |
| | Slides (PDF): Production Grids - Wuerhwein |