SWISS GRID DAY 2008

Registration

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The event is free of charge and open to all parties interested in Grid Computing.

Planned Agenda

  9:15 –   9:30    Welcome [pdf]

  9:30 – 10:00    Status of the Swiss National Grid Association (Peter Kunszt, CSCS) [pdf]

10:00 – 10:45    Keynote: The European Grid Initiative (Dieter Kranzlmüller, LMU München) [pdf]

10:45 – 11:15    Coffee break

11:15 – 12:15    Session on funding opportunities:

Patrick Furrer, EUResearch: EU FP7 opportunities [pdf]
Christoph Witzig, SWITCH: SWITH/AAA opportunities [pdf]
Peter Kunszt, CSCS: Swiss Nationalfonds opportunities [pdf]

12:15 – 13:30    Lunch

13:30 – 14:15    Keynote: D-Grid (Uwe Schwiegelshohn, TU Dortmund)

14:15 – 15:15    Three contributed talks:

Placi Flury, SWITCH: The Progress of the Swiss Multi-Science Computing Grid Project [pdf]
Pierre Kuonen, EIA-FR: Distributed OO Programming with POPC++ applied to Snow and Avalanche 
Josef Joller, HS: Definition and Implementation of a Workflow Language for the Grid

15:15 – 15:45    Coffee break

15:45 – 16:45    Presentations of the SwiNG Working Groups

The current SwiNG Working Groups “ATLAS” [pdf], “Proteomics” [pdf],  “Grid Workflow” [pdf] and “Campus Grid” [pdf] are each giving a 10 min presentation about their goals, members, status and future plans.

16:45 – 17:00    Closing

17:00 – 18:00    Time for internal SwiNG Working Group discussions

18:30    Dinner for all speakers with the SwiNG Executive Board and Scientific Council chair

The location of the event is close to Bern’s main train station. For details, please see http://www.bau.unibe.ch/plaene/hgexwiunis.htm and http://www.hoerraeume.unibe.ch/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=577.