European Grid Technology Days 2004
IST-FP6 Grid projects concertation: 16-17 September

07:45

Registration opens

08:30

Welcome and introduction
W. Boch and J. Gasos, Grid Technologies Unit, European Commission

Beyond ensuring a smooth transfer of FP5 research results to the FP6 projects, the major objectives of this forum are to take stock of existing European Middleware environments and toolkits; to position the developments and their exploitation routes; to discuss options for improving interoperability, integration, and joint exploitation; and to agree a plan for further actions towards better capitalizing on the results.

08:45

Setting the scene
M. Lemke, Deputy Head of Unit Grid Technologies, European Commission

09:00

European Grid Middleware: “Promising Research Results - Weak Exploitation”-
A scenario from a business perspective
S. Robertshaw and W. Schmidt, FP5 Project Reviewers

09:30

Feedback and positioning by individual FP5, FP6 and national projects:
GRIP, GRIA, GRASP, GRIDLAB, CROSSGRID, OGSA-DAI, OMII …
NextGrid, AKOGRIMO, EGEE, DEISA, UNIGRIDS, …

10:15

Break

10:45

Open discussion: European Grid Middleware - Opportunities for integration and joint exploitation
Moderators: S. Robertshaw and W. Schmidt, FP5 Project Reviewers

11:45

Lunch

Other IST Grid related projects and initiatives (plenary session)

13:00

Presentations of complementary projects and initiatives:

- Research Infrastructure Initiatives in FP6
- K. Baxevanidis, Research Infrastructure Unit, European Commission
- - -- EGEE – Enabling Grids for e-science in Europe
- - - -F. Gagliardi, CERN
- - -- Deisa – Distributed European infrastructure for supercomputing applications
- - - -V. Alessandrini, CNRS
- Trustcom – Trust, security and contract management in dynamic virtual organisations
- S. Ristol, Atos Origin
- DBE – Digital business ecosystems
- A. Nicolai, T6
- ASG – Adaptive service Grid
- M. Weske, University of Potsdam
- DIP – Data, Information, and Process Integration with Semantic Web Services
- S. Harand, Deri
- eLegi – European learning Grid infrastructure
- A. Paradell, Atos Origin

Technology Focus Sessions 1 (parallel)

14:15

These sessions focus on common technologies and challenges across projects, supporting creation of synergies and avoiding duplication of work. (Click here to see more details)

16:45

Break

17:00

A new approach to coordination and cooperation in Framework 6
A. Bogliolo, Grid Technologies Unit, European Commission

17:15

Building on GRIDSTART in Framework 6
M. Parsons, GRIDSTART Project, EPCC, The University of Edinburgh

17:30

The purpose of these parallel sessions is to discuss the Framework 6 collaboration tasks in more detail and settle on some initial plans for timetable and actions. (click for further details).

18:30

Close

Cocktails