Bedrijvendag 2008
Slides and videos are available below. As an alternative, the slides can also be viewed via http://www.slideshare.net/vrij. Pictures of the event can be found here
On the 2nd of April 2008, Gridforum.nl organizes its yearly Business Day which is being organized in cooperation with Internet Society Nederland. Speakers are amongst others prof David De Roure and Dr. Werner Vogels (Vice President en CTO Amazon). Attending the Gridforum.nl Business Day is free, but does require registration.
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED
Registration is open to everyone.
Preceding the business day, the General Members Meeting of Gridforum.nl will be held, open to all Gridforum.nl members.
This year the Gridforum.nl Business Day will be hosted by Philips at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven (building: High Tech Campus 34). Click here for a route description and a High Tech Campus map. The program fills your day from 13:00 to 17:15, but please stay for a drink afterwards to mingle with the crowd.
Programma
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11:00 |
12:00 |
General Members Meeting |
(only for gridforum.nl members) |
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12:00 |
13:00 |
Lunch |
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13:00 |
13:15 |
Opening |
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13:15 |
14:00 |
David de Roure |
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14:00 |
14:30 |
Juergen Knobloch (CERN) |
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14:30 |
15:00 |
Pierre Guisset (CETIC) |
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15:00 |
15:15 |
Break |
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15:15 |
15:45 |
Rick Reesen |
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15:45 |
16:15 |
Alex de Landgraaf |
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16:15 |
17:00 |
Werner Vogels |
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17:00 |
17:15 |
Wrap up |
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17:15 |
18:00 |
Drinks |
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Presentations
Web 2.0 and Grid: the new e-science? (Grid re-evaluated)
Abstract will follow soon
David De Roure
(University of Southampton)
David De Roure is a Professor of Computer Science in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK, where he leads the Grid and Pervasive Computing activities. A founding member of the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, his current research interest is the application of advanced knowledge technologies to e-Science, Grid and pervasive computing. He is a pioneer of the Semantic Grid and is closely involved in UK e-Science programme activities including the CombeChem project and the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK. Within the Open Grid Forum he is e-Science Area Director and a steering group member. David has worked for many years with distributed information systems and distributed programming languages, and has also been active in the Web and hypertext communities. Website(s): Homepage David De Roure
Download the presentation of David de Roure: PDF | ODP | Powerpoint
Or watch it on video: WMV
Grids for Science in Europe - planning for sustainability
Large scale computing for science in Europe relies on grids supported by a sequence of projects co-funded by the European Union. The grid developed and operated by the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project brings together scientists and engineers from 250 institutions in 45 countries. The EGEE grid composed of more than 50,000 CPUs and 15 Petabytes of data storage has reached by now production quality.
The European Grid Initiative (EGI) Design Study (EGI_DS) which started in September 2007 with funding from the EC's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) sets out to establish a sustainable grid infrastructure in Europe. The National Grid Initiatives (NGIs) are the main foundations of EGI. The aim of EGI_DS is to study the appropriate requirements, design the functionality, and to implement a prototype structure of the EGI organization, which will take up the coordination and operation of the pan-European Grid infrastructure. The future EGI organization will constitute a key element in the European Research Area (ERA) by providing a sustainable grid infrastructure required by the whole European research community.
Juergen Knobloch
(CERN)
Jürgen Knobloch is Senior Physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). He graduated in physics at Universität Hamburg with work on particle physics experiments at DESY. At CERN he was research physicist in the experiments CDHS, ALEPH and ATLAS. In ALEPH and in ATLAS with its 2000 scientists he was nominated Computing Coordinator overseeing the software development and the computing infrastructure. Since 2000 he heads groups in CERN's IT-Department developing common software systems for the experiments at CERN including High Energy Physics applications of EGEE. In the LHC Computing Grid project he was the editor-in-chief of the LHC Computing Grid Technical Design Report published in 2005. Since 2007 he leads the CERN participation in the European Grid Initiative (EGI) Design Study.
Download the presentation of Jürgen Knobloch: PDF | ODP | Powerpoint
Or watch it on video: WMV
Business Experiments in Grid - First Results
The Business Experiments in Grid (BEinGRID) project ambitions to foster the adoption of Grid technologies in major Industrial and Business sectors through the realization of specific targeted business experiments and to set up Gridipedia, a repository of Grid solutions and industrial applications.
The presentation will focus on some of the most successful business experiments results that were run during the first phase of the project, and highlight how Grid technologies allow to set up new business models and value chains. The second phase of the project is now starting, with feeding the Gridipedia repository and running 7 new business experiments that will be built upon the outcome of the first wave.
Pierre Guisset
(CETIC)
Pierre Guisset is the managing director of CETIC, the Belgian ICT research centre specialised in applied research and technology transfer in software engineering, innovative software technologies and embedded and communication systems. Pierre is member of the Executive Board of BEinGRID and of the Executive Committee of CoreGRID, the European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies. Pierre has worked many years in the ICT Industry specialising in Computer-Aided Engineering and High Performance Computing. He was one of the founding associates of Numerical Integration Technologies NV. He is currently a strategic technology advisor of several companies.
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Or watch it on video: WMV
Virtual World technologies to manage a grid
Consolidation and virtualization of the enterprise IT resources is the first step toward optimization and simplification. IBM 3D Datacenters can extend the virtualization capability and enables customers to interact with the enterprise in an innovative new way. The 3D datacenter application places users in an immersive environment with familiar 3D datacenter structures such as servers, power equipment, and displays.
Since the 3D datacenter is a multi-user virtual world, users can effectively collaborate on elements of the datacenter together. The 3D datacenter application can be used to manage real datacenters and it can also be used as a modeling and simulation tool. The IBM Virtual Network Operations Center (VNOC) that is used in this offering was in fact designed to manage a grid.
Linking together multiple distributed resources into a common virtualized computing platform is what grid is all about right? So we can see it, and while virtual worlds are applications often deployed on a grid, are we now using a grid to manage a grid? And what if we would place business logic in the in-world models, will they become 3D information processing machines?
Rick Reesen
(IBM)
Rick Reesen is a Client IT Architect for the Utilities sector in the Netherlands who just returned from a two year assignment at the IBM Customer Center Montpellier in France, where he led several projects that, through industry related examples, extend the Montpellier showcase and demonstration capabilities with Virtual World technologies. In his enthusiasm for Web2.0 and Virtual Worlds (Metaverses), he calls himself a Metaversiast. Rick is always searching how certain technologies can provide business value, and as member of IBM's global Virtual Worlds Coordination Board, he is presenting frequently on the business, social and technology aspects of virtual worlds. Website(s): Video interview with Rick Reesen.
Download the presentation of Rick Reesen: PDF | ODP | Powerpoint
Or watch it on video: WMV
Professional usage of the VL-e/BIG GRID infrastructure; An IBM Life Science use-case and the lessons learned
The AMC has a new DNA-sequencer, with the capacity to sequence 400000 reads (with each read being a chunk of up to 300 DNA bases) in a single 7-hour run. Using a combination of adding nucleotides to each of the samples, so creating a chemical reaction, and high-resolution imaging techniques, the Roche-supplied Genome Sequencer FLX System is able to obtain a large amount of information from a DNA sample. After data analysis the obtained amount of information (the DNA sequence) is fairly limited, however as this is a relatively new technique and as geneticists are still actively improving the data analysis results it is required to store the raw image data as a backup for future processing.
The amount of raw data generated by each run is about 14GB. With 2 runs a day, the amount of data storage required is very large (10TB/year in the case of continuous usage). If the Genome Sequencer FLX System were to be able to store the data on the VL-e/Big Grid infrastructure then this would prevent a lot of extra costs and headaches for the AMC IT department.
Use Case:
Using a combination of IBM GMAS and the VL-e/Big Grid infrastructure the raw sequence data is stored off-site automatically. A researcher from within the AMC should be able to retrieve any run for running new sequencing algorithms. The interface to the data of the runs should not be changed compared to the current situation; the researcher should be able to retrieve the data directly and not require actions from the IT department.
Alex de Landgraaf
(IBM - VU University Amsterdam)
Alex de Landgraaf graduated in Artificial Intelligence in 2006 and Computer Science in 2008, both at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Over the last half year he has been working for IBM as an intern on the VL-e project, specifically on the topic of integrating grid resources and normal commercial/production environments. Next to his studies he is active in the open source community for a number of projects and he does IT consultancy and software development via Aperte. Website(s): Aperte, Morphix, Personal Website.
Download the presentation of Alex de Landgraaf: PDF
Or watch it on video: WMV
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Cloud Computing: Resources on Demand for Everyone
Grids are used to bring together many resources to construct powerful compute environments but in practise the application of Grids is still very much in the area of high-performance computing. In the past year we have seen the rise of of cloud computing as an approach to providing resources for any form of computing in a manner that makes these resources available to anyone on demand. Amazon.com is one of the pioneers of commercial cloud computing and its services are used by scientific computing as well as web-scale start-ups, by enterprise support systems as well as large scale software testers, for rendering by movie studios and as the scalibility basis for many software as a services providers. In this presentation we'll dive into the history of how Amazon came to develop these services, their reliability and scalability requirments, the different usage patterns, and the place of cloud computing in broader economic patterns.
Werner Vogels
(Amazon Web Services)
Dr. Werner Vogels is the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Amazon.com in Seattle, Washington. In charge of driving technology innovation within the company, Vogels has broad internal and external responsibilities. He is the only executive apart from Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos to speak publicly on behalf of Amazon.com. He joined Amazon in September of 2004 as the Director of Systems Research. He was named Chief Technology Officer in January of 2005 and Vice President, World-wide Architecture in March of that year.
Prior to joining Amazon.com, from 1994 until 2004, Dr. Vogels was a research scientist at the Computer Science Department of Cornell University. He mainly conducted research in scalable reliable enterprise systems. From 1999 through 2002 he also held a Vice President and Chief Technology position at Reliable Network Solutions, Inc. From 1991 through 1994 he was a senior researcher at INESC in Lisbon, Portugal. Vogels received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands with Prof. Henri Bal and Prof. Andy Tanenbaum as his advisors. He is the author of many conference and journal articles, mainly on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing systems.
Vogels maintains a technology oriented weblog named "All Things Distributed" which he started in 2001 while he was still a scientist at Cornell. It was mainly used to discuss early results of his research. After he joined Amazon.com the nature of the weblog changed to more personal with some general technology and industry writings. Website(s): All Things Distributed Weblog
Download the presentation of Werner Vogels (not available yet): PDF | ODP | Powerpoint
Or watch it on video: WMV
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