OGF25/EGEE User Forum
March 2-6, 2009
Catania, Italy


Monday March 2, 2009

 9:00am - 10:30am
   Introducing Desktop Grids and integration with Service Grids such as EGEE
    Slides (PDF):     Introducing DGs and integration with SGs such as EGEE – Part II
    Slides (PDF):     Introduction to Desktop Grids

  Distributed data access and management with OGSA-DAI (1/2)
    Slides (PDF):     OGF-25-OGSA-DAI-Tutorial.pdf

  Elastic Management of a Grid Computing Service with OpenNebula and Amazon EC2
    Slides (PDF):      Elastic Management of a Grid Computing Service with OpenNebula and Amazon EC2

  Metascheduling architectures for NGIs
    Slides:     Experiences with GridWay on CRO NGI infrastructure
    Slides:     MetaScheduling and Advanced Application Support in the Spanish NGI
    Slides:     Presentation
    Slides:     State and Future Plans for GridWay Metascheduler

  OGF Standards Adoption Track: UNICORE 6 Grid Middleware
    Slides (PDF):     1 - UNICORE - A European Grid Technology (Shiraz Memon)
    Slides (PDF):     2 - e-Science with UNICORE (Shahbaz Memon)

  OGF-Europe Tutorial: Managing Computational Activities on the Grid - from Specifications to Implementation (2nd edition) (1st part)
    Slides:     1) JSDL schema - A. Ciuffoletti
    Slides:     2) BES schema - A. Konstantinov
    Slides:     3) PGI Security Profile - M. Riedel
    Slides:     4) Glue Infomodel - B. Konya
    Link:     5) ARC demo (video)

  Transition towards EGI workshop (1/2)
    Slides:     EGI_DS Status Report

  Using the ETICS Test System to analyse standard compliance and interoperability of grid software (1/2)
    Slides:     ETICS Overview
    Slides:     Installing the ETICS Client
    Slides:     The ETICS Portal and the Web Applications

  Vulnerability Assessment and Secure Coding Practices for Middleware Tutorial (1/2)
    Slides:     Vulnerability Assessment and Secure Coding Practices for Middleware Tutorial

 11:00am - 12:30pm
  Distributed data access and management with OGSA-DAI (2/2)
    Document (PDF):     OGF-25-OGSA-DAI-SessionReport.pdf
    Slides (PDF):     OGF-25-OGSA-DAI-Users-ADMIRE.pdf
    Slides (PDF):     OGF-25-OGSA-DAI-Users-AIST.pdf
    Slides (PDF):     OGF-25-OGSA-DAI-Users-BEinGRID.pdf
    Slides (PDF):     OGF-25-OGSA-DAI-Users.pdf

  Genesis II
    Slides:     Grimshaw - Genesis II Tutorial

  OGF-Europe Tutorial: How new communities can get access to a Grid infrastructure
    Slides:     DEISA case - Morris Riedel
    Slides:     EGEE case - David Fergusson
    Slides:     NorduGrid case - Oxana Smirnova

  OGF-Europe Tutorial: Managing Computational Activities on the Grid - from Specifications to Implementation (2nd edition) (2nd part)
    Link:     ARC demo (video)
    Slides:     BES schema - A. Konstantinov
    Slides:     Glue Infomodel - B. Konya
    Slides:     JSDL schema - Augusto Ciuffoletti
    Slides:     PGI Security Profile - Morris Riedel

  Porting applications to the Grid using the EDGeS Application Development Methodology
    Slides (PDF):     Porting applications to the Grid using the EDGeS Appl. Dev. Methodology Part II
    Slides (PDF):     Porting applications to the Grid using the EDGeS Application Development

  Porting Applications with Globus GridWay
    Slides:     1 - Overview of the GridWay Metascheduler
    Slides:     2 - Submission, Monitoring and Control of Jobs of GridWay
    Slides:     3 - Programming with the DRMAA OGF Standard

  Usage Control for Next Generation Grids (2/2)
    Slides:     1. Introduction
    Slides:     2. GridTrust Architecture
    Slides:     3. Distributed knowledge management case study
    Slides:     4. Computational usage control
    Slides:     5. Supply chain case study

  Using the ETICS Test System to analyse standard compliance and interoperability of grid software (2/2)
    Slides:     Basic ETICS Usage Scenarios
    Slides:     ETICS Overview
    Slides:     Installing the ETICS Client
    Slides:     Interoperability Tests
    Slides:     The ETICS Plugins and Compliance Analysis
    Slides:     The ETICS Portal and the Web Applications

  Vulnerability Assessment and Secure Coding Practices for Middleware Tutorial (2/2)
    Slides:     Vulnerability Assessment and Secure Coding Practices for Middleware Tutorial

 2:00pm - 3:30pm
  Welcome to EGEE User Forum/OGF25 and Keynote
    Slides:     Keynote - Catara
    Slides:     Opening - Baxevanidis
    Slides (PDF):     Opening - Jones
    Slides:     Opening - Lee
    Slides:     Opening - Muscella
    Slides:     Opening - Walker

 4:00pm - 5:30pm
  Cloud and Grid I: Innovation and Operations
    Slides:     Keynote - Coffee
    Slides:     Keynote - Shiers

 5:30pm - 7:00pm
  CAOPS - IGTF Workshop (1/3) (CAOPS-WG)
    Slides:     CAOPS Agenda and review of document status

  Enterprise Grid Requirement - Reserach Group (EGR-RG)
    Slides:     agenda
    Slides:     ETSI initiatives on gap analysis for interoperability in Grids - Julian Gallop

  HPC Profile: Status and next steps (HPCP-WG)
    Slides (PDF):     HPC Profile WG
    Slides (PDF):     SMOA Computing use of HPC Profile

  OGF101 (OGF101)
    Slides:     OGF 101 Slides

  Resource Selection Working Session (OGSA-RSS-WG)
    Slides:     Presentation by Donal Fellows

Tuesday March 3, 2009

 9:00am - 10:30am
  Grid Application Experiences
    Slides:     Keynote - Nativi
    Slides:     Keynote - Piero Poccianti

 11:00am - 12:30pm
  CAOPS - IGTF Workshop (2/3) (CAOPS-WG)
    Slides:     IGTF APGRIDPMA UPDATE
    Slides:     IGTF RAT UPDATE
    Slides:     IGTF TAGPMA UPDATE

  Cloud Computing API BoF Session (Cloud Computing API)
    Audio (MP3):     Audio recording of BoF session
    Slides:     CohesiveFT.pdf
    Slides:     ElasticHosts.pdf
    Slides:     Eucalyptus.pdf
    Slides:     GoGrid.pdf
    Slides:     OpenNebula.pdf
    Slides:     Presentation.pdf
    Slides:     RESERVOIR.pdf
    Slides:     SAP.pdf
    Slides:     SLASOI.pdf

  GridRPC WG meeting (GRIDRPC-WG)
    Document (PDF):     Grpc Data document proposal 0.9

  GSM-WG I (GSM-WG)
    Slides:     Introduction to SRM
     Document (Word):     S2 document (draft)
     Document (Word):     WLCG MoU

  JSDL General Session (JSDL-WG)
     Document (Word):     Parameter sweep draft
    Slides:     Session slides

 2:00pm - 3:30pm
  Activity instance document schema (JSDL-WG)
    Slides:     Activity instance document instance slides
    Document (Text):     Minutes (actions)

  CAOPS - IGTF Workshop (3/3) (CAOPS-WG)
    Slides:     OGF25 OpenCA Workshop

  GFS-WG RNS & File Catalog Standardization (GFS-WG)
    Slides (PDF):     Agenda, Introduction, RNS-1.1, and File Catalog Standardization
    Document (PDF):     Data Location Interface for the Workload Management System
    Slides (PDF):     Multi-Server Based Data Management For Resource Namespace Service
    Document (PDF):     Multi-Server Based Namespace Data Management of Resource Namespace Service
    Slides (PDF):     RNS 1.1 Demonstration
    Document (PDF):     RNS 1.1 OGSA WSRF Basic Profile Rendering 1.0
    Slides (PDF):     RNS Requirements from KEKbased on operational experiences using LCG/SRB/NAREGI
    Document (PDF):     RNS Specification 1.1
    Slides (PDF):     The Data Location Interface
    Document (PDF):     WS-Enumeration and OGSA
    Document (PDF):     WS-Iterator 1.0

  Grid Interoperation Now - Update & Applications (GIN-CG)
    Slides:     Julian Gallop - ETSI Interoperability Testing
    Slides:     Morris Riedel - GIN Update & PGI Relationship
    Slides:     Tamas Kukla - Workflow Interoperability

  GSM-WG II (GSM-WG)
    Slides:     EarthScienceGrid presentation

Wednesday March 4, 2009

 9:00am - 10:30am
  Cloud and Grid II: e-Infrastructures
    Slides:     Keynote - Newhouse
    Slides:     Keynote - Rochwerger

 11:00am - 12:30pm
  GLUE 2.0 Specification - Overview (GLUE)
    Link:     http://www.ogf.org/documents/GFD.147.pdf
    Slides:     Presentation

  HPC Job Delegation Profile Working Session (GSA-RG)
     Document (Word):     Current Draft Document Version
    Slides:     Session Slides

  NSI working group 1 (NSI-WG)
    Slides:     Issues Introduction John Vollbrecht
    Slides:     NML for NSI
    Slides:     Session introduction
    Slides:     Tree vs. Chain model discussion

  OGSA-DMI Update Session (OGSA-DMI-WG)
    Slides:     OGF25 OGSA-DMI Status
    Slides:     UNICORE – DMI Implementation

  Remote Instrumentation Services in Grid Environment - presentations (RISGE-RG)
    Slides:     ARGUGRID use case - Mary Grammatikou
    Slides:     Enterprise Service Bus for Environmental Observatories - Duane Edgington
    Slides:     Introduction - Marcin Plociennik
    Slides:     Telecommunication measurement instrumentation on the eInfrastructure - Franco Davoli

 2:00pm - 3:30pm
  GLUE 2.0 Specification - Implementation (GLUE)
    Link:     GLUE Implementation plans

  NSI Working Group 2 (NSI-WG)
    Slides:     Abstract vs. tech specific parameters
    Slides:     Advanced reservation/Scheduling
    Slides:     NSI Architecture Issue #9 Topology Information Sharing

  Resource Usage Service Core Specification
    Slides:     Woking Group Discussion Slides, before session

 4:00pm - 5:30pm
  Earth Sciences grid/cloud applications using OGC services
    Document (PDF):     Agenda

  OGF-EU Community Outreach Seminar: Software development tools for distributed computing (1/2)
    Slides (PDF):     Developing Distributed Applica4ons using SAGA
    Slides (PDF):     GPU Programming with NVIDIA CUDA
    Slides (PDF):     Programming with DRMAA: DRMAA + WS + JSDL
    Slides (PDF):     The SAGA Standards Landscape

  OGF-Europe Tutorial: How to make sustainable a grid-enabled e-Infrastructure
    Slides:     Slides of the tutorial (P. Pagano, and P. Andrade)

  Production Grid Infrastrucuture Profile Workshop (1/2)
    Slides:     PGI Use Cases
    Slides:     Production Grid Infrastructure WG: an overview

 5:30pm - 7:00pm
  Grid Computing & Geospatial Technologies
    Slides (PDF):     Geospatial workflows on the D-Grid infrastructure
    Slides:     OWS-6 Grid Computing Activities
    Slides:     Sensor Web, Grid Computing and Geospatial Web Services for Real Time Decision Support

  OGF-EU Community Outreach Seminar: Software development tools for distributed computing (2/2)
    Slides (PDF):     ETICS Interoperability Testing
    Slides:     ETICS Interoperability Testing
    Slides (PDF):     GPU Programming with NVIDIA CUDA
    Slides (PDF):     Multicore programming environments: CellSs and SMPSs

  OGF-EU: Using IT to reduce Carbon Emissions and Delivering the Potential of Energy Efficient Computing (1/4)
    Slides (PDF):     Energy efficiency in the Telecom sector - Marisa Vargas - Telefonica

  Production Grid Infrastrucuture Profile Workshop (2/2)
    Slides:     ARC perspective
    Slides (PDF):     CSC perspective
    Slides:     EDGeS perspective
    Slides:     Glite perspective
    Slides:     Naregi perspective
    Slides:     Unicore perspective

Thursday March 5, 2009

 9:00am - 10:30am
  From Grids to Clouds, a workshop for Grid users facing the Cloud (1/3)
    Slides:     Avner Algom: Cloud Computing - Pay-per-use for on-demand scalability, why now? Challenges and opportunities.
    Slides:     Charles Loomis: Cloud and Grid Technologies
    Slides:     Martin Antony Walker: Introduction
    Slides:     Shantenu Jha (Louisiana University): Application-level Interoperability between Grids and Clouds
    Slides:     Wolfgang Gentzsch: Use Case: DEISA, from HPC to Grid, from Grid to Cloud ?

  OGF-EU: Using IT to reduce Carbon Emissions and Delivering the Potential of Energy Efficient Computing (2/4)
    Slides (PDF):     Data Centres beyond the EU CoC - Liam Newcombe - BCS
    Slides (PDF):     Energy Optimization of Existing Datacenters - Bernhard Schott - Platform
    Slides (PDF):     VM Management for GreenIT Data Centers - Ignacio Llorente - UCM

  Production Grid Infrastructure (PGI) Standard Working Session (1) (PGI-WG)
    Slides:     PGI Reference Model (Morris Riedel)
    Slides:     PGI Use Cases (Morris Riedel)

 11:00am - 12:30pm
  Evolvement of US and European HPC Infrastructures
    Slides:     Evolvements of US and European HPC Infrastructures - DEISA and its Contributions
    Slides:     TeraGrid: Past, Present, and Future

  From Grids to Clouds, a workshop for Grid users facing the Cloud (2/3)
    Slides:     Marcel Kunze, Research Centre Karlsruhe: The Cumulus Project
    Slides:     Mathias Dalheimer: Integrating EC2 services into the Fraunhofer PHASTGrid
    Slides:     Thijs Metsch, Sun: The RESERVOIR Project: "The Reservoir Utility Computing Use Case".
    Slides:     Wolfgang Gentzsch: Use Case: DEISA, from HPC to Grid, from Grid to Cloud ?

  OGF-EU: Using IT to reduce Carbon Emissions and Delivering the Potential of Energy Efficient Computing (3/4)
    Slides (PDF):     Clouds of CO2, An API for CO2 Reporting in Cloud Services - Sven van den Berghe - Fujitsu
    Slides:     The Larger Context for Green IT Systems - Craig Lee - OGF

 2:00pm - 3:30pm
  From Grids to Clouds, a workshop for Grid users facing the Cloud (3/3)
    Slides:     gridgain_open_cloud_platform.pdf
    Slides:     Nimbus.pdf
    Slides:     The_OpenNebula_VI_Engine.pdf
    Slides:     VCL_OGF25_v2.pdf

  Grid technologies in e-Health
    Slides (PDF):     Grid Technologies for Cancer Research in the ACGT Project
    Slides:     Healthgrid Systems - Experiences from International Projects
    Slides (PDF):     The @neurIST Grid Infrastructure
    Slides:     The ACGT Workflow Editing & Enactment Environment

 4:00pm - 5:30pm
  GRAAP#1 (GRAAP-WG)
    Slides:     Slides of session #1
    Slides:     Slides presented by Ioannis Kotsiopoulos

 5:30pm - 7:00pm
  GRAAP#2 (GRAAP-WG)
    Slides:     Slides of Session #2

Friday March 6, 2009

 9:00am - 10:30am
  Firewall Virtualization for Grid Applications - WG (FVGA-WG)
    Slides:     Firewall Traversal Protocol (FiTP) - A protocol draft for dynamic opening of Firewalls
    Slides:     Firewall Virtualization for Grid Applications - Work Group - Agenda and Introduction
    Slides:     FiTP extension requests and how to deal with

  GHPN (GHPN-RG)
    Document (RTF):     agenda

  Grid License Management BoF (Grid License Management BoF)
    Slides:     Introduction + GenLM License Management for Grids & Clouds (M. Dalheimer)
    Slides:     Licence Management in Grid - A result from the BEinGRID Project (Y. Raekow)
    Slides:     Licensed Software in the EGEE infrastructure (V. Floros)
    Slides:     SmartLM Overview (W. Ziegler)

  IPv6 compliance of Grid middleware
    Slides:     Gabor Roczei - NIIF, NDGF-NorduGrid - IPv6 support in Nordugrid ARC middleware
    Slides (PDF):     Kyriakos Baxevanidis - EC - IPv6 deployment plan in Europe
    Slides:     Mario Reale - EGEE SA2 - IPv6 compliance of gLite
    Slides:     Ralph Niederberger - UNICORE IPv6 readiness
    Slides:     Xavier Le Bris - RIPE - IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 status

  OGSA Status and next steps (OGSA-WG)
    Slides:     OGSA Status and Furure Work
    Document (Text):     session-minutes

 1:00pm - 2:30pm
  GRAAP#3 (GRAAP-WG)
    Document (Text):     Session was cancelled after having completed our work planned for OGF25 in the other two sessions.

 1:00pm - 1:45pm
  Grid Security Requirements
    Slides:     Grid security requirements

 1:00pm - 2:30pm
  Usage Record Session (UR-WG)
    Slides:     UR1 session notes
    Slides:     Usage Record Experiences