National Grid Seminar Series

EGEE: current status and future plans

Dr. Fabrizio Gagliardi
Division of IT/EGE, CERN

23 September 2005 (Friday)
1600 hrs @ Auditorium
Institute for Infocomm Research
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613

Abstract

EGEE (Enabling Grids for EscienE) is a EU supported project that integrates current international, national, regional and thematic Grid efforts, in order to create a seamless Grid infrastructure for the support of the international scientific research. The infrastructure supports distributed research communities, which share common Grid computing needs and are prepared to integrate their own computing infrastructures and agree on common access policies. Several scientific disciplines as well as industry have already ported applications on the EGEE Grid infrastructure thus demonstrating the potential of Grid technology as a powerful new tool for science as well as other fields. The talk will provide an update on the status of the EGEE infrastructure and middleware, give an overview of the variety of applications already using the Grid, as well as presenting the preparations for EGEE phase II.

Biodata

Since Fabrizio Gagliardi joined CERN in 1975, after graduating in Computer Science at the University of Pisa in Italy, he has held several technical and managerial positions in this field, including:
- Leader of the European Union funded project GPMIMD2 (1993-1996). This project developed a MPP supercomputer, which was used to prototype the, by now, CERN standard Central Data Acquisition (CDR) system

- Leader of the Data Management services of the IT division (1996-1999)
- Responsible for CERN participation in the EU project Eurostore (1998 – 2000)

From January 2001 till March 2004, Fabrizio Gagliardi was the leader of the EU DataGrid project. As part of this activity, he has become one of the most active proponents of the Global Grid Forum (GGF) of which he is co-founder and now member of its International Advisory Committee.

The EGEE project (Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe) started on 1 April 2004. 70 partners from Europe and outside Europe (US, Russia, Israel) aim to build a large international Grid infrastructure to support production applications for the European Research Area and the rest of the international scientific community.

His activity is not limited to Europe. Since March 2001, he is member of the External Advisory Committee of the US NSF GriPhyN project (the largest US Grid project of this kind). He has been an IEEE member since 1982. Thanks to this broad experience, Fabrizio Gagliardi is a computing expert to the EU IST programme, and in that role reviewer of EU projects and members of working groups on Grid technology and distributed computing. Fabrizio Gagliardi is often invited as key note speaker to major international computing events. He is author and co-author of several publications on the subject of distributed and Grid computing.

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This seminar series is organized by the National Grid Office located at 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613.

Admission is Free. All are Welcome.
Please email to Miss Vasugi (email: vasu@ngp.org.sg) to register a place by 1000 hours on 22 September 2005.