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C-DAC & CERN Collaborative Workshop on GRID and High-Speed Networking |
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Workshop Date/Location | Agenda | About the Speakers | Download Registration Form View Press Release | View Presentations Dear Friends, Many of you would know that Grid Computing is fast emerging worldwide as an area supporting Distributed Computing, aggregation of supercomputing resources, provider of collaboration tools/platforms and a platform of relevance to common enterprise data management. It is not only of great relevance to researchers and scientists but also to enterprises. Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) had identified this area as one of theme topics. Last year, Govt. of India approved a National Grid Computing initiative GARUDA, for implementation by C-DAC. Starting with the Proof of Concept (PoC) phase, it is being implemented in collaboration with ERNET. Over 40 premier institutions have joined as Grid Partners in this effort (www.garudaindia.in). GARUDA is an ambitious programme to provide teraflops of compute cycles (aggregated from different sources), large storage and National Scientific instrument facilities to enable solving problems of higher order not possible before (in science and engineering research) and address grand challenge problems of National relevance. Besides, by support to distributed computing and access to diverse multi-vendor resources (including data and software besides computing and others mentioned above), it will bring in a new paradigm in computing. CERN is the premier and globally renowed European Research Institution for Particle Physics which is leading the Large Hydron Collider (LHC) project and the associated global Grid for the Physics Community worldwide. CERN is also working on EGEE (Enabling Grids for e-Science) in which they will generalize the use of Grid to other areas of Science like Biology, Astronomy and Weather. Needless to state that World Wide Web (WWW) emerged from CERN to change the face of Internet in the ‘90s. Four renowned scientists and researchers from CERN (names enclosed) who have come for the International Conference CHEP06 at TIFR are being hosted by C-DAC for a series of Workshops, wherein reviews of Grid technologies and experiments and latest developments in the field will be shared with Garuda Partners and other Indian researchers in Grid, High Performance Networking, e-Science, e-Security and applications community. An update on Indian work, especially through PoC GARUDA, will also be shared. The Workshop and presentations will focus on different areas of research interest to develop collaborative partnership, joint research proposals for funding by European Union, etc. The third and last workshop in this series will be held at Pune on February 24, 2006. You are invited to participate in this Workshop. We expect two or more participants from your institution/organization to participate in the Workshop. Workshop Programme is attached herewith. The Registration fee for the Workshop is Rs. 500/- per person. Please send the completed registration form attached herewith along with the fee to the Workshop Registration In-charge or at the registration desk on the day of the conference. Kindly contact the workshop convener for any clarifications. Please circulate this announcement widely within your institution/organization. The date, location and contact persons of the workshops are:
C-DAC & CERN Collaborative Workshop on
GRID and High-Speed Networking Agenda:
Biographies of Speakers from CERN Wolfgang von Rüden studied physics at Mainz University
in Germany before coming to CERN in 1975 completing his studies
with a PhD. During the first part of his career, he worked in
the area of experimental physics, in particular on real-time data
acquisition systems. In 1990, he co-founded IBEX Computing, and
returned to CERN in 1992 where he introduced industrial François Flückiger, Director of the CERN School of Computing, is Technology Transfer Officer for Information Technologies at CERN and Manager of the CERN openlab for DataGrid applications. Before joining CERN in 1978, he was employed for five years by SESA in Paris.At CERN, he has been in charge of external networking for more than 12 years and held positions in infrastructure and application networking, including the management of CERN's World-Wide Web team after the departure of the Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee. He is an adviser to the European Commission, a member of the Internet Society Advisory Council and the author of the reference textbook "Understanding Networked Multimedia" as well as more than 80 articles. He has 32 years of experience in networking and information technologies. François Flückiger graduated from the Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité in 1973 and holds an MBA from the Enterprise Administration Institute in Paris in 1977. Alberto Pace is a member if the IT department at CERN
where he leads the Internet Services group providing Electronic
Mail, Central Web and Windows Desktops services for CERN. He has
more than 15 years experience in computing services, infrastructure,
software engineering, accelerator control and accelerator operation.
He graduated in Electronic Engineering from Markus Schulz, a physicist by training, has been active
in various fields of computing related to high energy physics.
He received a PhD for work related to the calibration algorithms
of the H1 tracking detector at DESY. From there he moved to CERN
to work on data acquisition and trigger systems of the OPAL detector.
After his fellowship he moved to Brookhaven National Labs to participate
in the design and implementation of the DAQ system for STAR at
the RHIC accelerator. After two years at the University Heidelberg
working on high speed trigger systems and farm based high level
triggers he moved to CERN to work on grid computing. He gained
experience in middleware integration, fabric management, deployment
and grid operations in the EDG, LCG and EGEE projects and will
now lead the software integration and testing task in the second
phase of EGEE. |
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