EGEE Global News
Second EGEE Conference a Success!
The Second Enabling Grids for E-sciencE Conference , held in The Netherlands in the last week of November, was a great success. The event was one of several being held under the banner "European Leadershop in Grids and e-Science" during the six months of the Dutch EU Presidency.
The event was attended by more than 400 delegates, including members of related EU research infrastructure projects such as SEE-GRID, DILIGENT and DEISA.
Over 50 People Participated in the First EGEE and SEE-GRID Workshop
More than 50 people participated in the First EGEE and SEE-GRID Workshop which took place in Bulgaria on 30 and 31 October 2004.
The workshop, "EU Grid projects: mission, current status, perspectives", was organised by the Institute for Parallel Processing at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (formerly CLPP-BAS).
Register for EGEE Conference Today!
The Second EGEE Conference
registration is now open. The Conference will be held at the NCC
in The Hague, The Netherlands, between Monday 22 November and Friday
26 November. Early registration is open until Monday 18 October.
The second EGEE conference is one of the events taking place in
the Netherlands under the banner "European Leadership in e-Science
and Grids" during the six months of the Dutch European presidency.
Other EC Research Infrastructure Grid projects - DEISA, SEEGRID
and DILIGENT will participate in this large event where project
partners will gather to discuss issues and work together.
EGEE, DEISA, SEEGRID, DILIGENT and GN2 will host the first Concertation
Meeting on eInfrastructures on the Monday and Tuesday.
The EGEE
programme includes guest speakers Professor Tetsuya Sato, from
the Earth Simulator Centre in Japan and Dr. Irving Wladawsky Berger,
from IBM.
Member of the Bulgarian EGEE Team Receives Top Award
Dr.Emanouil Atanassov, SA1 Leader in the Bulgarian EGEE team, recently received a "John Atanasoff" honorary diploma
(John Atanassoff was the inventor of the first electronic digital computer) from the President of Bulgaria, Mr.Georgi Parvanov.
The prize is awarded annually in Bulgaria to young people for outstanding contributions in the field of information technology.
Dr.Atanassov was nominated for his theoretical work in the field
of mathematics and computer science, as well as his important
contributions for building the Bulgarian Grid infrastructure through his participation in the EGEE and SEE-GRID projects.
Dr.Atanassov (pictured right) was given the award by the Bulgarian
President, Mr. Parvanov (pictured left) at an official ceremony
that took place at the Bulgarian President's Palace on 4 October 2004.
Join the SEE-GRID Policy Workshop at The Hague
SEE-GRID will run a
Policy Workshop in The Hague, The Netherlands, on Wednesday
November 24 2004, as part of the event European Leadership in E-science
and Grids.
The SEE-GRID project (South Eastern European GRid-enabled eInfrastructure
Development) is an initiative co-funded and carried out within European
Commissions Sixth Framework Programme under Research Infrastructures.
The workshop will address issues related to establishing National
Grid Initiatives (NGIs) in greenfield regions through presentations,
lectures and round-table Q&A sessions that will be given by experts
with accumulated experience in advancing NGIs and shaping relevant
policies.
GridKa a Success
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, an EGEE partner and one of
Germany's largest research institutions, held its second annual
GridKa Computing School last month.
Taking place at the FZK premises in Karlsruhe, Germany, 94 participants
from institutions in Germany and Europe followed 14 lectures ranging
from Grid research ("The EGEE Middleware Architecture" by Leanne
Guy) to Grid deployment ("Grid Experiences" by Federico Carminati).
Applications Urged to Apply to Join EGEE
EGAAP, The EGEE Generic Applications Advisory Panel, is appealing to organisations
to apply to join the project.
EGAAP was set-up to advise EGEE management on the best deployment
strategy. The next EGAAP meeting, scheduled on 25 November 2004
in The Hague, The Netherlands (during the Second EGEE Conference)
will decide which applications can join. In order to be considered,
Virtual Organisations should submit their requests to have their
applications deployed on the EGEE infrastructure no later than 1
November 2004.
Register Now for the Second EGEE Conference
The Second EGEE Conference registration is now open. The Conference will be
held at the NCC in The Hague, The Netherlands, between Monday 22
November and Friday 26 November.
The second EGEE conference is one of the events taking place in
the Netherlands under the banner "European Leadership in e-Science
and Grids" during the six months of the Dutch European presidency.
Other EC Research Infrastructure Grid projects - DEISA, SEEGRID
and DILIGENT will participate in this large event where project
partners will gather to discuss issues and work together.
EGEE, DEISA, SEEGRID, DILIGENT and GN2 will host the first Concertation
Meeting on eInfrastructures on the Monday and Tuesday.
EGEE Sytems Administrators Gather in Oxford
Last month, EGEE system administrators gathered in in Oxford, UK, for a workshop
to train on installing and maintaining Grid middleware. The three
day course was held in the Physics Department of Oxford University,
and was a great success.
Run by GridPP (the UK particle physics Grid), the course attracted
participants from the UK, Germany Ireland and CERN. The key aspect
of the course was its practical nature - participants were split
into four groups each with a set of five Dell Poweredge 1750 servers
with which to practice the installation process. With a number of
experts on-hand at all times to help, every group had completed
a Grid installation by the end of the second day and were able to
run through testing and other maintenance procedures during the
third day.
Annual Gridka Registration Open
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK), one of EGEE's partners and one of
Germany's largest research institutions, will hold its annual GridKa
computing school between 20 and 23 September on its premises in
Karlsruhe, Germany.
The main audience of the school are postdocs, graduate and advanced
undergraduate students of high energy and nuclearphysics. But people
interested in information about Grid Computing in other data-intensive
environments will benefit from a wealth of different topics presented
by a wide array of speakers. Registration is now open. For further
details click here.
Major Russian Grid Conference a Success
The first major Grid conference in Russia, hosted by Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), has been hailed a success. The conference, distributed Computing and Grid-technologies in Science and Education, took place in Dubna, Russia, between 29 June and 2 July and attracted participants from as far afield as Bulgaria, Ukraine, Slovakia, Armenia, Germany, Czech Republic and Belarus. Russians from 29 Universities and Research institutes, also attended.
EGEE Presented in Cyprus
EGEE was firmly on the agenda of the 3rd EMISPHER Euro-Mediterranean Conference
on eInfrastructures and e-Health, organised by the University of
Cyprus last month.
Marios Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus, gave a presentation on the
EGEE Project and Ignacio Espert-Blanquer, UPV, gave a presentation
about EGEE and Healthgrids.
EGEE Presence at Linux Tag in Germany
Linux Tag, had over 16,000 visitors and 170 exhibitors at its Trade Show in
Karlsruhe, Germany, in June and EGEE was one of them.
Linux forms the backbone of Grid research and deployment in Germany,
so Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK), one of EGEE's partners, decided
to exhibit its Grid initiatives there.
FZK held hourly talks, giving an introduction to Grid computing,
the EGEE project, the AliCE Environment "AliEn" as well as other
EU projects.
Grids and Scientific Applications are a Main Feature of the TERENA Networking Conference 2004
Grids and scientific applications featured heavily in the programme of the
2004 TERENA Networking Conference in Rhodes. The annual conference
attracts hundreds of people from across the world interested in
networking.
All aspects of networking for the support of grid applications were
addressed in the various parallel sessions and issues of scalability
for the internet were frequently raised and security limitations
of the current environment(in particular large-scale deployment
issues for PKI).
New Project SEE-GRID is Launched
SEE-GRID, the South Eastern European Grid-Enabled eInfrastructure Development project, was launched on 1 May 2004. The project aims to ease the digital divide between South Eastern European countries and the rest of Europe, pave the way for future enlargement of the European Union and contribute to the stability and peace in the SEE region, an area of unrest until recently.
New EGEE Website Launched
The new EGEE website has been launched. This website replaces the old one which served as an interim site while the EGEE project was still in its start-up phase. The website is developed, maintained and hosted by TERENA.
For comments or questions please
contact the webmaster.
The First EGEE Conference Kicks Off in Ireland
The first Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe (EGEE)
conference got underway on Sunday
18 April 2004 in Cork, Ireland. More than 300 project
delegates attended many meetings and presentations about all aspects
of the project.
The conference lasted four days and the tightly packed schedule
allowed delegates to discuss the overall mission of the project,
present their progress so far and deliberate about how this computing
grid will be built and used.
European Grid Computing Changes Gear
The Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe (EGEE) project was officially launched on 1 April 2004. The EGEE project will build on the success of the EDG project and take Grid technology even further
by establishing a Grid infrastructure which is available to cientists, 24 hours-a-day.