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Workshop on
eInfrastructures (Internet and Grids)
The new foundation for knowledge-based Societies
Roma, Accademia dei Lincei
9th December 2003
Agenda
| MORNING SESSION (9.00-12.30) | |||
| SESSION 1 (9.00-10.30) INTRODUCTION OF THE EVENT, GENERAL CONTEXT AND EXPECTATIONS | |||
| 1. | 9.00- | Welcome to the participants | Prof. Giorgio Salvini - Honorary President of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei |
| 2. | Welcome to the participants | Prof. Enzo Iarocci - INFN President | |
| 3. | -9.20 | Introduction of the agenda | Dr. Gioacchino Fonti - Representative of Ministry of Education University and Research |
| 4. | 9:20-9:30 | Summary of the e-Infrastructure event Athens (Download ppt 155 KB / pdf) | Prof. Vasilis Maglaris GRNET |
| 5. | 9:30-9:50 | Italian initiatives on e-Infrastructures (Download ppt 1352 KB) | Dr. Mirco Mazzucato INFN-Grid Project Manager |
| 6. | 9:50-10:10 | Progress towards a EU eInfrastructure: developments, technological research and strategies (Download ppt 745 KB) | Dr. Luis Rodríguez-Roselló Director a.i. Directorate Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures. Applications, European Commission, DG Information Society |
| 7. | 10:10-10:30 | Current and future challenges and opportunities of eInfrastructures for the European Industry and related access policies issues and challenges (Download ppt 168 KB) | Dr. Christian Saguez, Ecole Centrale di Paris |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee Break | ||
| SESSION 2 (11:00-12:30) BEST PRACTICES AND CHALLENGERS - SOME EXAMPLES
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| 1. | 11.00-11.10 | Introduction (Download ppt 206 KB) | Dr. Fabrizio Gagliardi - DataGrid Project Manager and designated EGEE Project Director |
| 2. | 11:10-11:30 | LCG progress on access policy and future challenges (Download ppt 3052 KB) | Dr. Ian Bird CERN-LCG Operation Area Manager |
| 3. | 11:30-11:50 | The UK eScience experience and future challenges (Download ppt 1493 KB) | Dr. Neil Geddes PPARC, Director, eScience |
| 4. | 11:50-12:10 | The Italian experience and future challenges (Download ppt 922 KB) | Dr. Antonia Ghiselli INFN-CNAF INFN Grid Technical Manager |
| 5. | 12:10-12:30 | GRID-initiatives in the Nordic region - status and future challenges (Download ppt 693 KB) | Prof. Anders Ynnerman EGEE North Federation Coordinator |
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch | ||
| AFTERNOON SESSION (14.00-18.00) | |||
| SESSION 3 (14:00-15:00) THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION Objective: Review resource access policy, procedures, rules and challenges in major International Grid Initiatives | |||
| 1. | 14:00-14:15 | International cooperation and communication (Download ppt 1148 KB) | Dr. Mario Campolargo European Commission |
| 2. | 14:15-14:30 | The US NSF perspective and Cyber-infrastructure challenges (Download ppt 1762 KB) | Dr. Deborah Crawford Deputy NSF Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science & Engineering (CISE) |
| 3. | 14:30-14:45 | The US Resource Centers perspective and Teragrid challenges (Download ppt 124 KB) | Dr. Alan Blatecky San Diego Supercomputer Center Executive Director |
| 4. | 14:45-15:00 | The Japan perspective (Download ppt 10485 KB) | Prof. Ken-ichi Miura NII NAREGI Head |
| SESSION 4 (15:00-16:00) EINFRASTRUCTURES SPECIAL COMPONENTS Objectives: Review some of the eInfrastructure special components and related access policy issues and challenges | |||
| 1. | 15.00- 15.20 | Supercomputing aspects (Download ppt 486 KB) | Dr. Sanzio Bassini, DEISA-CINECA |
| 2. | 15.20-15.35 | Towards a robust software environment for e-Infrastructure (Download ppt 307 KB) | Dr. Paul Messina Senior Computer Scientists in Argonne National Laboratory, former Director of the Caltech Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) and Chief Architect of NPACI |
| 3. | 15.35-15.50 | The Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute - Vision and Agenda (Download ppt 83 KB) | Dr. Alistair Dunlop, OMII consultant, UK |
| 4. | 15.50-16.00 | Discussion | |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee Break | ||
| SESSION 5 (16.30-18.00) ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURE OF THE EINFRASTRUCTURE REFLECTION GROUP Objectives: report on experience in establishing international policy for access to Network infrastructure and elaborate on more detailed term of reference for the Reflection Group | |||
| 1. | 16.30-16.40 | Roles, structures and resources for building the eInfrastructure (Download ppt 383 KB) | Dr. K. Baxevanidis Scientific Officer European Commission, DG-INFSO |
| 2. | 16.40-16.50 | The Research Network experience | Dr. Dany Vandromme, Renater Director, DANTE Board Chairman |
| 3. | 16.50-17.00 | Networking Experience (Download ppt 382 KB) | Dr. Dai Davies, DANTE General Manager |
| 4. | 17.00-17.15 | Regulated access policies and infrastructure development (Download ppt 857 KB) | Dr. Davide Gallino - The Italian regulator for tlc and audiovisual |
| 5. | 17:15-17.25 | Summary report (Download ppt 74 KB) | Dr. Ian Bird - CERN |
| 6. | 17.25-18.00 | Discussion on next steps and conclusion | |