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:

What is the business model of a Grid like EGEE?

What are the main hurdles to industrial exploitation?

Industry as user or as provider - what are the different possible roles for industry in EGEE?

What does it cost to port an application to the GILDA testbed?

What services would industry be interested/able to commercialise (helpdesk, training, security…)?

What is the status of IPR for gLite?

What are the software licencing challenges for EGEE exploitation?

What is the independent software vendor position?

Where is industry going? What is the future of web services?

Is there a possibility to develop web-service public domain tools with industry?

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)

How could CERN openlab membership be widened in future?

Is there a role for openlab in implementation and testing using the EGEE testbed?

What is the future of the EGEE industry forum, and what role could openlab play in this?

How could current openlab partners contribute to discussion of software development, testing and life-cycle?

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)