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  • European Globus Community Forum 2012 - CFP
    14 December 2011

    The European Globus Community Forum (EGCF) is following on the success
    of its first-ever annual meeting in 2011 by hosting its second forum
    meeting on March 26, 2012 during the European Grid Infrastructure
    Community Forum (EGI-CF).

    EGCF 2012 gives users and developers the opportunity to learn from
    Globus team experts about current and future plans for the Globus
    software stack. It also provides a forum for hearing from other users
    how Globus can help scientists leverage the resources of the European
    distributed computing infrastructures (DCIs) for their research.
    Attendees will have a unique chance to actively participate in the
    building of the Globus community in Europe.

    *This is your chance to network with other European Globus users and
    developers, meet the leaders of the Globus project, and learn how your
    colleagues employ Globus to advance their projects.*

    Meeting highlights will include:

      * Keynote by Globus US team leader, Globus project lead, on the future
        development of Globus and Globus Online
      * Hands-on workshops led by Globus experts
      * Community stories by researchers using Globus
      * Constitution of the 2012 EGCF Council and election of its speaker

    A social dinner complements the event and allows participants to mingle
    with colleagues and meet new people.

    *Participation is free of charge.

    For more information and registration to the EGCF2012 event, please
    visit: http://www.egcf.eu/site/cfp/Invitation_to_EGCF2012.html

  • GlobusEUROPE 2011
    5 August 2011

    GlobusEUROPE will bring together a range of users from communities across Europe, along with the lead Globus PI from the US and the team from the Initiative for Globus in Europe (IGE). There is no better forum to connect with European Globus users and get your questions answered by experts from Europe and the US.

    Keynote addresses by:

    • Steve Tuecke, Globus co-founder and PI, University of Chicago and Argonne Laboratory
    • Dr. Helmut Heller, Project Director, Initiative for Globus in Europe (IGE)

    Organised by IGE, GlobusEUROPE is the European counterpart of GlobusWORLD (the leading annual Globus event) and has an equally strong community focus with topics geared specifically to the concerns of the European audience. GlobusEUROPE is co-located with the Technical Forum of the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI), the Open Grid Forum 33rd Conference (OGF33), and Grid2011.

  • Joint European DCI Summer School in Budapest, July 11-16, 2011
    18 April 2011

    Projects funded within the FP7th "Capacities" programme (EDGI, EGI Inspire, EMI, IGE, StratusLab, DEGISCO) organize this joint event with the aim of preparing the European grid community for the upcoming distributed computing infrastructure.

    Thus, are expected to attend application developers, resource providers, and anyone else interested in major grid technologies.For further information please visit the link:

    http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu/eudciss2011/?m=0

  • European Globus Community Forum
    18 April 2011

    The first meeting of the European Globus Community Forum will take place in 18-19 May 2011, in Garching near Munich, Germany. The FP7-funded consortium Initiative for Globus in Europe (IGE) aims to coordinate the European Globus users and developers by providing an organizational platform, the European Globus Community Forum. Grid practitioners from allover Europe are welcome to participate! Check here for details and updates of the event.

  • Concertation meeting on Romanian participation in the European Grid Initiative
    15 December 2009

    The meeting was organized on December 15, 2009, at the University of Bucharest, following the previous agreement reached between representatives of RoGrid and RoNGI initiatives, Prof.dr. Doina Banciu – General Director of the National Institute for R&D in Informatics (ICI) Bucharest and Dr. Nicolae Zamfir - General Director of the National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering Magurele, respectively, with support provided by the Ministry of Communication and Information Society (MCSI) and the National Agency for Scientific Research (ANCS).  

    The aim of the meeting was to reach a consensus on joint representation of the Romanian Grid community in the European Grid Initiative, the EGI Council and the EGI related InSPIRE project.
     
    Besides chairs nominated above, the meeting was attended by Dr. Ionel Andrei – General Director, Directorate General R&D Programs, National Authority for Scientific Research, Dr. Catalin Nae – General Director of the National Institute for Aerospace Research Bucharest, Dr. Florin Buzatu - General Director of the Institute for Atomic Physics Magurele, Dr. Neculai Andrei – Scientific Director of ICI Bucharest, Prof. dr. Gheorghe Sebestyen – Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Dr. Gabriel Neagu – senior researcher ICI Bucharest, Dr. Mihnea Dulea – Head of IT and Communication Department - IFIN-HH, Dr. Sorin Zgura – senior researcher, Institute for Space Science Magurele, Cosmin Nistor – representative of the Romanian Space Agency Bucharest.
     
    The participants agreed on the following conclusions:
     
    - To set up a unique NGI, based on the current initiatives RoGrid and RoNGI, with the acronym RoGrid-NGI
    - To nominate a team including Mihnea Dulea, Gabriel Neagu, Gheorghe Sebestyen and Sorin Zgura, in charge of elaborating a draft regulation for RoGrid-NGI
    - To nominate ICI Bucharest as coordinator of RoGrid-NGI
    - ICI Bucharest to nominate the RoGrid-NGI representative in the EGI Council
    - LHC community to nominate its representative for EGI affairs having the same access rights to the EGI Council related information as the RoGrid-NGI representative
    - To inform MCSI and ANCS about these conclusions, followed by a clarification message to be sent to the President of EGI and to the Director of the EGI InSPIRE project.

  • EGEE 3 Training event “Grid Days”, Campulung Muscel, December 14-15, 2009
    14 December 2009

    In accordance with the working plan of the EGEE III project, ICI Bucharest, organized the training event “Grid Days” in Campulung Muscel in Arges County, on December 14-15, 2009. The event was also supported by the Western University of Timisoara (WUT) and the University of Bucharest (UB) - members of the RoGrid JRU involved in the EGEE III project. 

    The event agenda included an opening session, with an overview of the ICT Research in European context, presented by Prof. Doina Banciu. It was followed by a section illustrating the national results in Grid development with an overview of the RoGrid Consortium contribution to this field, also provided by Prof. Doina Banciu, and a presentation of Grid activities at the Western University of Timisoara (WUT) from 2002 to 2009, presented by Drd. Silviu Panica, Grid administrator at the Deptartment of Mathematics and Computer Science of said University.
    Participation in the FP7 funded projects of the Romanian Grid community was the main topic of the third session, which included the presentation of the EGEE III and SEE-GRID-SCI projects given by their local coordinators Prof. Doina Banciu and Dr. Gabriel Neagu, respectively.
    The final session was devoted to technical aspects regarding Grid infrastructure administration and usage. First, an introductory talk about Grid Computing was given by Dr. Gabriel Neagu. Then Stefan Preda – representing the Grid infrastructure administration team from ICI Bucharest - presented the gLite architecture and gLite cluster installation and configuration procedure. The final presentation was given by Drd. Silviu Panica, focusing mainly on accessing virtual resources and job execution procedure on the gLite platform.
     
    The event was attended by about 30 people, including Prof. Mihai Talmaciu  Dean of the Mathematics and Informatics Faculty of the University of Bacau, Assist. Prof. Emil Burtescu and Assist. Prof. Florin Smaranda from the University of Pitesti, young researchers from ICI Bucharest and the University of Pitesti, students from the Department of Mathematics and Informatics at the University of Bucharest.

  • GridTalk upgrades European grid computing communications
    5 May 2008

    A new era in grid computing communications debuted on 1 May 2008 with the launch of GridTalk, an innovative EU project that will create a unified and cohesive approach to European grid communications.

    In addition to a new mission dedicated to deciphering grid policy, GridTalk will contribute to the growth of rapidly expanding online newsletter International Science Grid This Week and revamp the widely acclaimed GridCafé, a website produced in 2003 and nominated for Pirelli International and Webby awards.

    Sarah Pearce, GridTalk project manager, says this coordinated approach is essential to the ongoing success of European grid computing efforts.

    “The impact of grids has rapidly expanded beyond that which can be disseminated by individual groups,” Pearce said. “Grid initiatives across Europe are contributing to new scientific results and changing the way science is done. The GridTalk team will co-ordinate the communication of these results, ensuring that grid-enabled scientific successes are reported widely in print and online.”

  • The start of EGEE III
    1 May 2008

    The grid steps up a gear with EGEE III

    Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) is the largest multi-disciplinary grid infrastructure in the world. Finding the Higgs boson; saving lives; addressing the energy problem; feeding the planet - the grid is swiftly becoming one of the extraordinary tools scientists use everyday. This month sees the start of the third phase of the project, EGEE-III, which is revolutionising the way data is analysed, stored and shared.

    EGEE-III aims to expand and optimise the Grid infrastructure, which is currently used over 150,000 times per day by users working together on scientific domains ranging from biomedicine to fusion science. Co-funded by the European Commission, EGEE III brings together more than 120 organisations to produce a reliable and scalable computing resource available to the European and global research community. At present, it consists of 250 sites in 48 countries and more than 60,000 CPUs with over 20 Petabytes of storage, available to some 8,000 users 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

    These figures considerably exceed the goals planned for the end of the first four years of the EGEE programme, demonstrating the enthusiasm within the scientific community for EGEE and grid solutions. Ultimately EGEE would like to see a unified, interoperable grid infrastructure, and with this goal in mind is working closely with other European and world wide grid projects to help define the standards to make this happen.

    One of the founding cases for EGEE and the grid came from the search for the Higgs boson, or “God Particle”. The computing demands of the Large Hadron Collider, the machine designed to search for the elusive particle, are presenting an unprecedented challenge, with over 15 Petabytes of data to be generated and processed each year. Analysing such a large amount of information will require computing facilities that don’t exist in a single location, but the grid can distribute the workload, and let researchers around the world work together on key problems.

    The EGEE infrastructure has also been used to search through over 500,000 drug-like molecules in just a few weeks, to find drugs that will fight against bird flu. Finding potential solutions on the grid before going into the lab means huge numbers of unsuitable molecules can be ruled out without wasting precious time and physical resources. In the instance of a mutating virus this time-saving step could be life-saving.

    Other scientists are using the grid to understand the complexity of muscle cells, calculate the dynamics of dark energy, simulate cell processes, predict protein structure, study pollution in the atmosphere and search for the genes that help wheat adapt to new threats. EGEE is opening up unprecedented amounts of computing power to researches across the globe and making it easy for them to share data and results.

    The tools and techniques used in one discipline can often be recycled and used elsewhere, by other scientists, or even in the world of business and finance. where EGEE is being used in problems such as finding new oil reserves, simulating market behaviour and mapping taxation policy.

     

    Egee III Press Release

  • SEE-GRID 2 Press Release: Athens policy-makers workshop for e-infrastructures in South-East Europe
    19 February 2008

    The Policy-makers Workshop for e-Infrastructures in South-East Europe, organized by the European Commission SEE-GRID-2 project (South-East European GRID e-Infrastructure Development), will take place in Greece, on February 21st . More specifically, the Workshop, which will be hosted by the Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET), will be held in Divani Caravel Hotel, in the center of Athens.

    The workshop aims to bring together key policy-makers of South-East European governments supervising the development of electronic infrastructure in their countries, as well as leaders in e-Infrastructure implementation activities in these countries. The objective of the workshop is to involve these key players in a dialogue and exchange of experience regarding the current status of e-Infrastructure and help pave the way for a future common vision and strategy.

    The workshop will include keynote address by high-level European Commission representatives leading the EC electronic infrastructure activities, followed by presentations of country-level activities in e-Infrastructures, and will conclude with an open discussion regarding regional vision and common strategy.

  • Industry Forum
    1 February 2008

    The European Commission has invested in and widely supported the development of Grids for both business and scientific research. This major investment in Grids and related technologies will help generate a vibrant computing sector in Europe, leading to the creation of new skills, new jobs, and new opportunities across the region. With much of the ground work in place, the key question is how best to capitalise on these new opportunities by enabling technology transfer from R&D projects into commercial services and products.

    This issue’s Special Report is dedicated to Knowledge Transfer in the UK, an article written by Alex Efimov from the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) with a contribution from Ian Osborne from Intellect UK. The first feature tells the story of Imense Ltd, a small start-up from Cambridge (UK) and its connections with EGEE, GridPP & the STFC.

    Our Year in Review, EGEE on the Road in 2007, looks at a sample of events supported by the Industry Forum, including Industry Days and the EGEE’07 Business Track.

    Outreach to business has focused on the benefits of Grid technology across different vertical markets and for companies of all sizes. The Industry Day in Greece explored how Grids can enable SMEs with emphasis both on possible applications and the paths to adoption.

    Grid not only plays a key role in enabling the pharmaceutical industry, but also offers huge potential for health care systems. These opportunities were explored during the Industry Day in Bratislava (Slovak Republic) and the Business Track within EGEE’07. The year concluded with an Industry Day in Paris targeting the financial services sector.

    EGEE Newsletter Feb 08

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