Open Workshop on e-Infrastructures

(e-IRG Workshop)
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria


Monday, April 10, 2006

13:30-15:30 Welcome and Opening

  • Gunter Pilz (Vice-rector Joh. Kepler University Linz)
  • Jens Volkert (GUP, Coordinator: Austrian Grid Initiative)
  • Kyriakos Baxevanidis (European Commission)
  • Werner Koblitz, (Austrian e-IRG Delegate, bm:bwk - Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture)

Objectives and Agenda Overview - Dieter Kranzlmueller (e-IRG chair)
Invited Speakers:

  • Belief - Bridging e-Infrastructure Technology and Its Users: Advancing Scientific Repositories-Stephen Benians [presentation]
  • A Study of European Grid Research and Commercial Adoption to Identify Future Technology Requirements and Infrastructure Needs - Robert Cohen [presentation]
  • BEinGRID - Business Experiments in GRID - Sergi Girona [presentation]

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Presentation:

  • Future of Research Networking and its Role in e-Infrastructures - Vasilis Maglaris [presentation]
  • The Supercomputing Grid and the European HPC Initiative - Victor Alessandrini [presentation]
  • Towards Sustainable Grid Infrastructures - Leif Laaksonen (chair e-IRG Task Force on Sustainable e-Infrastructures) [presentation]

evening Social Dinner

  • Rendezvouz for dinner at Trinity Column, Town Square at 19:00
  • Tour with the Linz City Express
  • Dinner at Restaurant Klosterhof starts at 19:30

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
08:30-09:00

  • Summary of Previous Day and Agenda Overview - Dieter Kranzlmueller
  • ESFRIs View on e-IRG - John Wood (ESFRI chair)
  • Report from the e-IRG Task Force on Data Management - Allan Foster

09:00-10:30 Parallel Sessions A

  • Room: Authentication and Authorization Policies - Diego Lopez, David Groep - A1: pdf
  • Research Networking Policy Challenges for e-Infrastructures- Afrodite Sevasti, Lajos Balint - A2: pdf
  • SZ4 Incentives for Resource Provision in Scientific Grids- Costas Courcoubetis, Panayotis Antoniadis - A3: pdf
  • SZ2 Usage Policies - David Kelsey - A4: pdf
  • UC6 Training and Education- Malcolm Atkinson - A5: pdf


10:30-11:45 Reports from Sessions A
11:45-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Parallel Sessions B

  • Room:SZ1 Grid Economy - Allocation and Accounting- Anders Ynnerman, David Kelsey - B1: pdf
  • UC5 Middleware Interoperability and Repositories- Steven Newhouse- B2: pdf
  • SZ4 User Support -Torsten Antoni, Harald Kornmeyer - B3: pdf
  • Z2 Supercomputing and Grid Harmonizing Policies- Sergi Girona, Victor Alessandrini - B4: pdf
  • UC6 Responsive Grids - Short Jobs and Scheduling Policy Issues- Cecile Germain-Renaud - B5: pdf

14:30-15:45 Reports from Sessions B
15:45-16:00 e-IRG Closing Remarks - Dieter Kranzlmueller

The eIRG Workshop is immediately followed by:

1st BELIEF Brainstorming Event Future Knowledge Infrastructures - Scientific Repositories and

Content Mangement over the Grid

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
15:15 Arrival and Registration
15:45 Welcome and Introduction

1st ForSociety Workshop Future Dialogs (starts on Wednesday, 12th)