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CERN openlab for DataGrid Applications - Thematic Workshop
Series
Industrializing the Grid
- Draft Programme
CERN, June 13th – 14th 2005
CERN IT
Auditorium, Building 31 3rd floor
Organizer: François Grey
Slides available
Day 1
(IT
Auditorium)
Introductory talks
09:00–09:10 Introduction and
Status of CERN openlab (Wolfgang von Rueden, Head of IT
Department and Head of CERN openlab)
09:10–09:30 Opening up openlab -
opportunities to broaden the scope of the partnership
(Francois Fluckiger, Manager of CERN openlab)
EGEE and
middleware
09:30 – 10:30 Status of EGEE and
gLite middleware and plans for EGEE Phase 2 (Bob Jones,
Technical Director of EGEE)
10:30– 11:00 Coffee break
The
Industry dimension
11:30-12:00 CGG as an
industrial user of the EGEE infrastructure (Dominique Thomas
- Compagnie Generale de Geophysique - tbc)
Q&A
11:30-12:30 Morning Q&A
Session: FAQs about EGEE and industry (chaired by Bob Jones)
NB:
participants encouraged to submit further questions for the
morning and afternoon Q&A sessions prior to or at the
workshop. Some FAQs include:
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What is the
business model of a Grid like EGEE?
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What are the
main hurdles to industrial exploitation?
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Industry as
user or as provider - what are the different possible roles for
industry in EGEE?
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What does it
cost to port an application to the GILDA testbed?
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What services
would industry be interested/able to commercialise (helpdesk,
training, security…)?
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What is the
status of IPR for gLite?
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What are the
software licencing challenges for EGEE exploitation?
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What is the
independent software vendor position?
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Where is
industry going? What is the future of web services?
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Is there a
possibility to develop web-service public domain tools with
industry?
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How does
commercial database technology match Grid 24/7 needs?
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
Practicing industrialization
14:00-14:45 Experience of
adding new architectures to the LCG production environment
(Sverre Jarp - CTO of openlab)
14:45-15:30 Quattor
Industrialisation plans (Tony Cass, German Cancio - CIO
Group Leader)
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
Q&A
16:00-17:00 Afternoon Q&A session:
Synergies of CERN openlab and EGEE (chaired by Francois Fluckiger)
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How could CERN
openlab membership be widened in future?
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Is there a role
for openlab in implementation and testing using the EGEE testbed?
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What is the
future of the EGEE industry forum, and what role could openlab
play in this?
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How could
current openlab partners contribute to discussion of software
development, testing and life-cycle?
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What
suggestions are there for future workshop topics of common
interest?
17:00_17:30 Wrap-up session: Summary of recommendations to EGEE
and openlab managements (chaired by Francois Grey)
17:30 End of meeting
19:00 Workshop Dinner in downtown Geneva
Day 2
(CERN
openlab openspace, Building 513 R-070)
One-to-one
meetings
Detailed
schedule tbc
08:00-12:00
Intel and HP
- Detailed
schedule tbc
14:00-16:00 IBM
(Phone conference)
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