White Paper |
Workshop on
eInfrastructures (Internet and Grids)
The new foundation for knowledge-based Societies
Roma, Accademia dei Lincei
9th December 2003
White Paper
First Draft
Agenda
| MORNING
SESSION (9.00-12.30) |
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| SESSION
1 (9.00-10.30) INTRODUCTION OF THE EVENT, GENERAL CONTEXT AND EXPECTATIONS |
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| 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) |
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) Objective: Review resource access policy, procedures,
rules and challenges in major EU grid Initiatives |
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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) |
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| SESSION
3 (14:00-15:00) THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION Objective: Review resource access policy,
procedures, rules and challenges in major International Grid Initiatives
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| 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 |
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| 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) Chairman Dr. Kyriakos Baxevanidis (EU) 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 |
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| 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 conclusions | |
