Nordic Grid Infrastructure - Now and in the Future

On 3-4 March 2008 NDGF hosted a workshop on "Nordic Grid Infrastructure - now and in the future" in Copenhagen. The workshop brought together Nordic stakeholders in grid infrastructure, including user communities, grid researchers, national grid initiatives, national research and education networks, funding bodies.  In addition, international experts and collaborators were invited to the workshop.

The goal of the workshop was to provide a comprehensive presentation of views on Nordic grid infrastructure, to foster open discussion among the stakeholders, and to provide input to both short-term (2-3 years) planning for NDGF and longer term strategy and plans for Nordic grid infrastructure.

Below you can find background material, a brief summary report from the conference, as well as slides from the presentations at the conference. 

Documents

The following documents provide some background for the workshop and the participants. 

• Workshop invitation (pdf)
• List of participants (pdf)
• Nordic eScience - Research, Education, and Sustainable Infrastructure Services.  A report from the Nordic Council of Ministers (pdf)
• NDGF draft report on Nordic Grid Infrastructure Strategy (pdf)
• Workshop Summary (pdf)

The Organizing committee:

The organizing committee for the workshop consisted of the following people:

• Gudmund Høst
• Olle Thylander
• Rene Buch
• Lars Fischer
• Josva Kleist
• Michael Grønager

Agenda

Below you will find the agenda for the two days of presentations and discussion, with links to the individual presentations.  See also the workshop summary.

Monday

09.30 Coffee and registration
10.00 Welcome by NDGF Chairman Gudmund Høst (pdf)

Visions
What are the visions for regional grid initiatives covering several states and how are they viewed from the out side?

10.10 Visions for an Infrastructure for Nordic e-Science - Gard Titlestad, Nordic Council of Ministers (pdf)
10.25 NORIA-net & Nordic e-Science, The Nordic eScience Initiative - Gudmund Høst (pdf)
10.40 TeraGrid - Rob Pennington, NCSA Deputy Director (pdf)
11.20 Interacting with the Nordic WLCG Tier-1 - Gilbert Poulard, ATLAS Computing
12.00 Lunch

Strategies
This session will elaborate on the strategy writing process. The Nordic resource providers as well as NDGF and NORDUnet will present their ideas for a common Nordic Grid Infrastructure Strategy.

13.00 NDGF strategy - René Buch, NDGF CEO (pdf)
13.20 Danish grid strategy - Rene Belsø, DCSC Director (pdf)
13.30 Finnish grid strategy - Kimmo Koski, CSC Director (pdf)
13.40 Norwegian grid strategy - Jacko Koster, UNINETT Sigma Director (pdf)
13.50 Swedish grid strategy - Sverker Holmgren, SNIC Director (pdf)
14.00 NORDUnet - René Buch, NORDUnet CEO (pdf)
14.20 Nordic NGIs Common Grid Strategy presentation - Jacko Koster, on behalf of the Nordic NGIs (pdf)
14.40 Coffee
15.00 Breakout discussions
16.30 Plenary presentations by breakout session chairs
17.00 Plenary discussion
17.30 End of day one

Tuesday

Research and Users
Nordic Grid researchers and current and emerging users are invited to present their ideas and need for a Nordic Grid Infrastructure.

09.00 Nordic Grid Research - Brian Vinter, Prof., University of Copenhagen (pdf)
09.40 European Spallation Source Scandinavia - Colin Carlile, Director ESSS
09.20 Bio Informatics - Steffen Möller, Ass. Prof., University og Lübeck (pdf)
10.00 High Energy Physics - Farid Ould-Saada, Prof., University of Oslo (pdf)
10.20 The Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array - John Conway, Prof., Onsala Space Obs.
10.40 Coffee

The Nordics and Europe
At European level visions and strategies are also being formed. A Nordic Grid strategy should fit well into the European visions as well

11.00 EGI - Dieter Kranzlmueller, Project Director (pdf)
11.30 e-IRG - Leif Laaksonen, e-IRG Chairman (pdf)
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Discussion and Summary, Gudmund Høst (pdf)
15.00 NDGF and NORDUnet SB Meeting
17.00 End of day two

Questions for breakout discussions

• Synergies and sharing of roles between NGIs and Nordic infrastructure.
• Who are the main stakeholders in the strategy?
• How should the users be involved?
• What is the added Nordic Value of a joint infrastructure?