Grid activities, achievements and new initiatives: where are we?

In collaboration with CSCS

Lugano,
April 1st and 2nd, 2004

This workshop is part of the anual workshops serie organised by the SPEEDUP Society. The 34th SPEEPUP workshop will focus on GRID initiatives in Switzerland and in Europe.
There is NO registration fee, but registration is recommended

Thursday, April 1st, 2004

1.00-1.30

Registration

1.30-1.45

Welcome by the Speedup President, Matthias Troyer

1.45-2.15

The Core Grid Network of Excellence

Thierry Priol, IRISA, Rennes France

2.15-2.45

The UK e-science program

Ron Perrott, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast

2.45-3.15

DEISA - Building a Virtual European Supercomputing Facility

Hermann Lederer, Rechenzentrum Garching der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

3.15-3.45

Coffee break

3.45-4.15

The ACI Grid project in France

Thierry Priol, IRISA, Rennes France

4.15-4.45

GRID initiatives in Italy

Domenico Laforenza, Instituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "Alessandro Faedo" (ISTI-CNR), Pisa, Italy

4.45-5.10

HP contribution to the grid: some practical examples

Mr. Denis Jean-Marc, HPTC Consultant Hewlett-Packard, Switzerland

5.15-6.00

Speedup General Assembly

Evening

Dinner

Friday, April 2nd, 2004

8.30-9.00

EUROGRID - Numerical weather forecast in a grid environment

Mauro Ballabio
CSCS, Switzerland

9.00-9.30

The Intelligent Scheduler project (ISS)

Ralf Gruber (EPFL), Pierre Kuonen (EIA-FR)

9.30-10.00

The German-Grid

Marcel Kunze, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Germany

10.00-10.30

Coffee break

10.30.11.00

Using Standards-Based Grid Services for Optimization

David Jensen, Sr. Manager, Applied Mathematics, IBM Watson

11.30-12.00

The Swiss HPCN Grid programme

Marie-Christine Sawley, CSCS, Switzerland