CDSAGENDA V.5 EU-India Grid Kick-off Meeting

EU-India Grid Kick-off Meeting

Start Time:

18 October 2006 at 14:00

Ends On:

20 October 2006

Location:

Trieste - Italy

Venue:

AGH (Giambiagi Lecture Hall)

Organizer(s):

S. Cozzini (CNR-INFM and ICTP), A. Masoni (INFN, Cagliari) and A. Nobile (ICTP)

Description:

The principal goal of EU-IndiaGrid is to support interconnection between the most relevant European Grid infrastructure (EGEE) and the Indian Grids to build a common infrastructure available to support data processing for e-Science application areas where strong collaborations already exist between Europe and India.
Such common Grid infrastructure is intended to provide a concrete answer to specific requirements of several existing EU-India collaborative projects, characterized by very demanding computing needs. Coupled with this, the project is expected to trigger the use and development of Grids in India across a number of application areas and foster the creation of new Euro-Indian collaborations for the development of e-Science.
The project start date is the 1st October 2006.

The partners of this project are prominent actors on the European and Indian e-Infrastructures scene:
- Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN, project coordinator),
- Metaware SpA,
- Consortium GARR - the Italian Academic and Research Network (GARR),
- Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP),
- Cambridge University,
- Indian Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR, with an Institute in Mumbai and the National Centre for Biological Sciences, NCBS, in Bangalore),
- Indian Education and Research Network (ERNET),
- University of Pune,
- SAHA Institute Calcutta, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.

PLEASE NOTE: the programme is currently a draft version.

Material:

18 October 2006

Room: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall

18 October 2006

12:50
14:35

REGISTRATION

01h45'

Room: Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

14:00
14:15

Welcome session: prof. K.R.Sreenivasan ( ICTP Director)

15'

14:15
15:15

Project Presentation

01h00'

lecture_notes

A. Masoni/ S.Cozzini
EU-IndiaGrid Project Manager/ EU-IndiaGrid Technical Manager

The Project Manager will present the scope of the project and introduce the partners (organization, its mission and activities, role in the project); The Technical Manager will then provide a general overview of the objectives and technical issues of the Project

15:15
15:45

Direct EU-India network links: status and perspectives ( via Video-Conference)

30'

lecture_notes

Dai Davies
DANTE

The Speaker will introduce the status and perspectives of networking initiatives aimed to implement and operate a high-bandwidth direct network connection between Europe and India for Research and Education

15:45
16:15

coffee break

30'

16:15
16:45

EGEE2 presentation

30'

lecture_notes

Roberto Barbera on behalf of the EGEE project
University of Catania and INFN

The talk will provide an introduction to the EGEE and EGEE2 projects, with a special stress on the EGEE infrastructure and middleware

16:45
17:15

the EUChinaGRID project

30'

lecture_notes

Roberto Barbera
University of Catania and INFN

The talk will present the EUChinaGRID project, an initiative meant to interconnect and interoperate EGEE and the Chinese Grid infrastructure for Research

17:15
17:45

The GARUDA initiative

30'

lecture_notes

Subrata Chattopadhyay
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Bangalore, India

The Speaker will provide a presentation of the GARUDA initiative, including an overview of the infrastructure, middleware and applications

17:45
18:15

BELIEF Bringing Europe?s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers

30'

lecture_notes

BELIEF, funded by the EU\'s Sixth Framework Programme, is an international project to facilitate knowledge-exchange on eInfrastructures, andÿa one-stop home for public eInfrastructure document

19:00
19:00

Reception

Room: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria

19 October 2006 - Morning Session

Room: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall

19 October 2006

09:30
10:30

Partner's presentations

01h00'

Each partner will present itself and the role within the project

Cambridge presentation 05' lecture_notes
TIFR institute 05' lecture_notes	Atul Gurtu
Pune University 05' lecture_notes	Dilip Khanere
Metaware presentation 05' lecture_notes	Stephen Benians
GARR presentation 05' lecture_notes	Federica Tanlongo
INFN presentation 05' lecture_notes	Alberto Masoni
ICTP presentation 05' lecture_notes

10:30
11:00

Project Organization & management

30'

A. Masoni
INFN PM

The Project Manager will describe to the Partners the basics of the organization of the works in the EUIndiaGRID framework. He will deal with the basic administrative and financial issues (funding, cost claims, timesheets, etc) and will provide the Partners some guidelines on the subject

11:00
11:30

coffee break

30'

11:30
12:00

Project Reporting in FP6: general guidelines

30'

lecture_notes

Federica Tanlongo
GARR

The presentation is intended to provide partners, and especially those who have not previous experiences of EC-funded projects, with some general guidelines in order to correctly manage the administrative issues in the FP6 framework

12:00
12:30

Certification Authority

30'

lecture_notes

Roberto Cecchini
INFN-Firenze

A short overview about CA/RA and all the rest

12:30
13:30

lunch break

01h00'

19 October 2006 - Afternoon Session: TECHNICAL BOARD

Room: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall

19 October 2006

14:00
14:45

WP3 meeting

45'

The proposed WP leader will introduce the scope and main objectives of WP3

14:45
15:45

WP4 meeting

01h00'

lecture_notes

The proposed WP leader will introduce the scope and main objectives of WP4

15:45
16:30

WP5 meeting

45'

lecture_notes

The proposed WP leader will introduce the scope and main objectives of WP5

16:30
17:00

coffee break

30'

17:00
17:45

WP6 & WP2 meeting

45'

lecture_notes

Stephen Benians
Metaware

The proposed WP leader will introduce the scope and main objectives of WP6 and WP2

17:45
18:30

Discussion and closing

45'

20 October 2006

Room: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall

20 October 2006

09:30
09:35

Welcome and introduction

05'

09:35
09:50

Project Management and Project Office: roles and responsibilities

15'

09:50
10:20

Official appointments (proposals&voting)

30'

Appointment of the Chair of the PMB
Appointment of the deputy PM
Appointment of the Technical Manager and Deputy
Appointment of the WP Managers and Deputies
Appointment of the Activity managers

10:20
10:30

External Advisory Board

10'

10:30
11:00

coffee break

30'

11:00
11:45

Administrative issues

45'

Budget and pre-financing installments
Reporting and time sheets
Recruitment and Unfunded effort

11:45
12:30

First steps for EUIndiaGRID

45'

Milestones and deliverables for the first quarter
First actions
Future projects events