This e-IRG workshop has been organised under the Polish Presidency of the European Union in Poznań (Poland), on Wednesday afternoon 12 October and Thursday morning 13 October 2011.
Poznan workshop summary
Recorded videos of each e-IRG workshop session available below!
Official programme
Wednesday 12 October 2011
Training courses: on grids, clouds and HPC (9:00-12:00)
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| 9:00-10:30 |
- Campus Computing for universities in the academic network PIONIER, Marek Zawadzki (PSNC)
- Storage infrastructure and access to remote backup services, Maciej Brzeźniak (PSNC)
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| 10:45-12:00 |
- Grid Computing via Unicore platform, Maciej Filocha (ICM)
- CUDA programming for GP/GPU clusters, Michał Kierzynka, Marek Błażewicz (PSNC)
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Wednesday 12 October 2011
(Political, financial and international aspects of e-Infrastructure)
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13:00 |
Registration and lunch |
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13:30 |
Session 1: Opening
- Welcome by prof. Jan Węglarz (Director of PSNC, PL)
- Welcome by prof. Maria E. Orłowska (Secretary of State, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, PL) [ pdf ]
- Konstantinos Glinos (Head of Unit GÉANT & e-Infrastructure in DG INFSO, EC)
- Gudmund Høst (e-IRG Chair) [ pdf ]
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| 13:30 |
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14:30 |
Session 2: Sustainable e-Infrastructure fostering international and multidisciplinary cooperation
- e-Infrastructure in HORIZON 2020, Konstantinos Glinos (Head of Unit GÉANT & e-Infrastructure in DG INFSO, EC) [ pdf ]
- Co-ordinating Research e-Infrastructure Policies: e-Infranet and SIM4RDM ERANETs, Matthew Dovey (JISC,UK) [ pdf ]
- An angle of regional coordination/support/funding to large scale research projects, Sverker Holmgren (Nordforsk, SE) [ pdf ]
Discussion
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15:00 |
Coffee break |
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16:30 |
Session 3: Synergies between structural funds, EU and national funding
- Research Infrastructures and synergies between the EU Research and Innovation Framework Programme and the Structural Funds, Manfred Horvat (Vienna University of Technology, AT) [ pdf ]
- Research Infrastructures in HORIZON 2020 and possible EU actions to increase synergies, Christos Vasilakos (DG Research & Innovation, EC) [ pdf ]
- Building blocks to reach a competitive place in European Research Area, Dana Petcu (Head of Computer Science Department, West University of Timisoara, RO), Viorel Negru, Daniela Zaharie [ pdf ]
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| 16:30 |
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17:00 |
Coffee break
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| 17:00 |
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18:30 |
Session 4: Polish feedback for sustainable and reliable local infrastructure
- PIONIER – the national fibre optic network for new generation services, Artur Binczewski, Maciej Stroiński (PSNC, PL) [ pdf ]
- High Performance Computing infastructure - POWIEW Project, Maciej Filocha, Marek Niezgódka (ICM, PL) [ pdf ]
- PL-Grid: Innovative Grid Infrastructure for Scientific Research in European Space - Tools and Services, Łukasz Dutka, Jacek Kitowski (CYFRONET, PL) [ pdf ]
- Advanced Service Platform for e-Science, Robert Pękal, Maciej Stroiński, Jan Węglarz (PSNC, PL) [ pdf ]
- Open knowledge infrastructures, Marek Niezgódka (ICM, PL) [ pdf ]
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| 19:30 |
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Gala dinner |
Thursday 13 October 2011
(Technology aspects)
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09:00 |
Registration |
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10:30 |
Session 5: Grand Challenges
- IT and Data Management in the CRISP project, Laurence Field (CERN)
- Euro-Argo: European contribution to worldwide ocean monitoring, Giulio Notarstefano and Pierre-Marie Poulain (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS, IT) [ pdf ]
- ITER: a driver for e-science and e-infrastructures?, Par Strand (Chalmers, SE) [ pdf ]
- Challenges to found a sustainable e-Infrastructure, Rosette Vandenbroucke (University of Brussels, BE) [ pdf ]
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| 10:30 |
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11:00 |
Coffee break
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| 11:00 |
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13:00 |
Session 6: Data Infrastructures and Data Management
- Towards an Open Data Infrastructure for Photon and Neutron Sciences, Frank Schluenzen (DESY, DE) [ pdf ]
- EUDAT – Data Infrastructures for e-Science, Leif Laaksonen (CSC, FI) [ pdf ]
- OpenAIREplus project: Towards an European Open Access infrastructure for Research, Paolo Manghi, Donatelle Castelli (CNR, IT) [ pdf ]
- A data infrastructure for digital cultural heritage: characteristics, requirements and priority services , Antonella Fresa (Italian Ministry of Culture, IT) [ pdf ]
- BioMedBridges: Infrastructure to provide research and data links between the ESFRI Bio Molecular Sciences Research Infrastructures, Andrew Lyall, ELIXIR Project Manager, (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK) [ pdf ]
- DASISH The harmonization of five ESFRI Infrastructures within Social Sciences and Humanities, Birger Jerlehag (SND, SE) [ pdf ]
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| 13:00 |
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14:00 |
lunch
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15:30 |
Session 7: Panel discussions
- How to integrate the data infrastructure with the existing grid and HPC infrastructures
- Users and infrastructure providers – demands vs. offers
Panellists:
- Konstantinos Glinos (Head of Unit GÉANT & e-Infrastructure in DG INFSO)
- Peter Wittenburg (MPI, NL) [ pdf ]
- Richard Kenway (Chair of the PRACE Scientific Board, University of Edinburgh, UK) [ pdf ]
- Steven Newhouse (EGI.eu Director, NL)
- Leif Laaksonen (CSC, FI) [ pdf ]
- Lars Börjesson (Chalmers University of Technology, SE)
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| 15:30 |
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16:00 |
Summary and conclusions of the workshop.
- Gudmund Høst (e-IRG Chair)
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