OGF23 Elite Sponsors & Poster Gallery
Elite Sponsors of OGF23
EchoGRID, Bridge, EU-IndiaGrid: International partnerships on Grid are making important achievements in terms of business and scientific applications and the drive towards interoperability and standardisation. The joint stand brought together three EU projects, two focusing on China, EchoGRID and BRIDGE, and one on India, EU-IndiaGrid, to demonstrate the benefits of international co-operation in the Grid arena.
 | Leveraging extensions of EU and Chinese platforms GRIA and CNGrid/GOS, Bridge has developed three showcase scenarios using resources from both platforms. Bridge presents the interoperability approach adopted for the two platforms and two recorded demos on transcontinental workflows in Aviation and Pharmaceutical R&D. The Aviation demo shows a prototype scenario for the optimisation of the topology of an airplane wing structure. The distributed workflow includes two simulation modules and several grid services located at different sites in EU and China. The pharma demo shows a grid-based virtual screening platform for pharmaceutical R&D. This virtual screening platform is based on a variety of protein docking tools to identify potential lead candidate drugs against a number of diseases and conditions. Extensions of the platforms GRIA in EU and CNGrid/GOS in China will lead to interoperability between the two systems, where service providers have control of their offered services with full protection of IPR. This will open up new markets and knowledge resources, and strengthen international co-operation in design and engineering in the medium to long-term. |
 | EU-IndiaGrid supports interconnectivity between the EU Grid infrastructure, EGEE, and the Indian Grid infrastructures, Garuda India Grid and Department of Atomic Energy Grid. EU-IndiaGrid delivers an advanced infrastructure for scientific and industrial collaborations across the two regions, leveraging a hardware infrastructure of about 600 core processors and 50 TB of disk. The project showcases outcomes for eScience: Atmospheric and Earth Sciences, Biology, High Energy Physics, and Material Science and a recently developed grid finance application. Eu-IndiaGrid has developed a Grid-enabled tool for drug design, called BEmuSE (Bias-Exchange Metadynamics Submission Environment). BEmuse, which has been successfully tested on the EU-IndiaGrid infrastructure, is now ready to tackle key challenges in drug design, which requires the atomistic simulation of biological systems. The stand highlights the benefits delivered by this innovative tool for companies involved in computational biology, such as significantly reducing the amount of time the process takes using other techniques. EU-IndiaGrid leads the full-day session dedicated to Interoperability and Interoperation between Europe, India and Asia on Monday 2 June with a talk by EchoGRID. |
 | EchoGRID aims at developing a collaboration roadmap that identifies common areas of interest and opportunities for collaboration on Grid technologies between Europe and China. The project is identifying Grid strategic research orientations and also promoting cross-fertilisation between Grid-related projects and initiatives both in Europe and Asia. The EchoGRID roadmap and vision will establish a clear Technological and Research Agenda on which both Europe and China will collaborate. EchoGRID supports and organises Grid Plugtests with the aim of testing and improving interoperability mechanisms of Grid middleware. The project is developing synergies with EU and Chinese business and research communities to develop long-term collaborations. EchoGRID is actively engaged in grid open standards and co-leads with OGF-Europe the session on grid roadmaps and strategic research agendas on Thursday 5 June. |
European Grid Initiative - EGI - Design Study started on 1 September 2007 and is funded by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Program. The EGI Design Study project represents an effort to establish a sustainable grid infrastructure in Europe. The National Grid Initiatives (NGIs) are the main foundations of EGI. The aim of EGI Design Study 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 EGI Design Study continues until the end of 2009. The EGI Blueprint Proposal is planned be finished by September 2008, as the deadline of the EGI Proposal for the EU is expected to be sometimes in September 2009. The EGI Organisation entity should be in place and operational at the beginning of 2010. OGF23 featured a presentation about EGI and its latest status on Tuesday, 3 June, as well as the role of middleware and standardisation in EGI. Additionally, other members of the EGI Design Study project team will be present during the event at an information stand for discussions and material distribution. For more information visit the EGI web site
Poster Gallery
 | The A-ware Project (An easy Way to Access grid REsources) - has developed an innovative, commercially exploitable, high quality technology named A-WARE that gives easy access to Grid resources. The project has enhanced the EnginFrame and GridSphere Grid portals and Unicore technologies to provide a unified environment for the specification of jobs (BPMN), their management (BPEL and ESBs) and execution on Grid resources (Unicore). More information on A-ware web site |
 | CoreGRID Industrial Showcase - on June 4-5, in the Example room, the CoreGRID Industrial Showcase will demonstrate CoreGRID applications, use cases and sustainability values. The objective is to intensify the links between the CoreGRID Network of Excellence and the European ICT Industry by easing and speeding-up the Industry take-up of the CoreGRID research results. More information on CoreGRID web site |
 | Grid Computing Now! is a Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) funded by the UK Technology Strategy Board and is concerned with the development and deployment of grid computing services and applications. Our website provides a developing range of services for all sectors to help share knowledge and experience of grid computing. Grid Computing Now! is designed to engage early adopters and leaders in the technology field and to meet needs for information, understanding and support as decisions to invest in this technology are made. CGN! has strong links with major suppliers to the industry, many of which are actively engaged in our projects. GCN! is a partner of OGF-Europe. More information on GCN web site |
 | OGF-Europe, which launches at OGF23, is developing a European standardisation strategy catered to real-world user needs. OGF-Europe, an EC-funded project, aims to deliver a strong message around the need for sstandardisation bringing innovation. To achieve key goals, OGF-Europe will engage with diverse sectors across Europe to understand real-world user needs, pinpoint best practiices and actively support the implementation of standards. OGF-Europe fosters and facilitates synergies between grid and e-infrastructure projects with an emphasis on standards development and impact. The ultimate objective is to increase interoperability of applications and services. |
 | RESERVOIR - Resources and Services Virtualisation without Barriers is an European Union FP7 funded project that will enable massive scale deployment and management of complex IT services across different administrative domains, IT platforms and geographies. The Reservoir project will provide a foundation for a service-based online economy, where - using virtualisation technologies - resources and services are transparently provisioned and managed on an on-demand basis at competitive costs with high quality of service. More information on RESERVOIR web site |
 | XtreemOS - a Linux-based operating system to support virtual organisations for next generation Grids - provides for the Grid what a traditional operating system offers for a single computer: abstraction from the hardware and secure resource sharing between different users. It thus considerably eases the work of users belonging to virtual organisations by giving them the illusion of using a traditional computer, and releasing them from dealing with the complex resource management issues of a typical Grid environment. XtreemOS has been a silver member of OGF since May 2007. The first XtreemOS open source release coincides with OGF23. More information on XtreemOS web site |