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Industry Forum Newsletter - Editorial
The European Commission has invested in and
widely supported the development of Grids for
both business and scientific research. This major
investment in Grids and related technologies will
help generate a vibrant computing sector in
Europe, leading to the creation of new skills, new
jobs, and new opportunities across the region.
With much of the ground work in place, the key
question is how best to capitalise on these new
opportunities by enabling technology transfer from
R&D projects into commercial services and
products. This issues Special Report is dedicated
to Knowledge Transfer in the UK, an article written
by Alex Efimov from the Science & Technology
Facilities Council (STFC) with a contribution from
Ian Osborne from Intellect UK. The first feature
tells the story of Imense Ltd, a small start-up fromCambridge (UK) and its connections with EGEE,
GridPP & the STFC.
Our Year in Review, EGEE on the Road in 2007,
looks at a sample of events supported by the
Industry Forum, including Industry Days and the
EGEE07 Business Track.
Outreach to business has focused on the benefits
of Grid technology across different vertical
markets and for companies of all sizes. The
Industry Day in Greece explored how Grids can
enable SMEs with emphasis both on possible
applications and the paths to adoption.
Grid not only plays a key role in enabling the
pharmaceutical industry, but also offers huge
potential for health care systems. These
opportunities were explored during the Industry
Day in Bratislava (Slovak Republic) and the
Business Track within EGEE07. The year
concluded with an Industry Day in Paris targeting
the financial services sector.
Dont miss our hightlights on EGEEs BusinessAssociates Programme with six companies now
engaged in joint collaboration work with the
project.
Stephanie Parker, Chair of EGEE Industry Forum
Feature: The Imense Story
Special Report: Technology Transfer The UKs Strategy
EGEE on the Road in 2007 Business Track at EGEE07
Industry Days: Enabling SMEs, Thessaloniki (GR); Pharmaceutical and BiomedicalChallenges, Bratislava (SK) New Architectures for Finance, Paris (FR)
Highlights on EGEE Business Associates
Upcoming Industry Events
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product. That is where our partnership with
the particle physics Grid came in.
Spread across 17 sites, the UK particle
physics Grid (GridPP) has been built to
analyse the petabytes of data expected from
Europes newest particle accelerator, the
Large Hadron Collider, located at CERN,
Switzerland. But its 8000 computers have
also been shared with other researchers,
from geophysicists to biologists.
Sinclair attended a meeting arranged by
STFC about Grid opportunities for industry,
and realised that Grid technology could be
the answer to Imenses problem. Image
analysis is a naturally parallel process that fits
perfectly with the capabilities of the Grid used
by STFC scientists to process data in particle
physics.
Professor Andy Parker, Director of the e-
Science Centre, University of Cambridge led
the particle physics team working with
Imense, Our team helped Imense develop
their software to run on the Grid using a tool
called Ganga, and supported them as they
analysed three million images. We also dealt
with issues such as security and working with
Grid managers at other universities, who
were very helpful. It went very smoothly andwas fascinating to see the company start-up
process in action.
Imense have now reaped the rewards of their
Grid experience, with an investment of more
than 500,000 to help them bring a product or
service to market in the coming months. Dr
Sinclair says that the Grid played a major role
in this, Our work with the Grid has let us
demonstrate that our software can handle
millions of images, at a time when we were a
small company and could not supply the
computing power needed ourselves. This in
turn impressed the investors we spoke to,
and led to funding for our company. Imense
plans to use the open source Grid
technologies from the particle physics domain
in its commercial product.
Imense's work with the Cambridge e-Science
Centre was funded through an STFC mini-
PIPSS award. PIPSS is a knowledge transfer
scheme that supports the development of
effective, long-term collaborations between
UK Universities, research bodies and
industry.
The Imense Demo at the EGEE 3rd User
Forum showcases the technology and efforts
to make it easier to install Grid software like
gLite on commercially owned computing
clusters.
GridPP
GridPP is a collaboration of twenty UK
universities and research institutes, building
and operating a computing Grid for particle
physics. It is funded by the STFC, withadditional associated funding from HEFCE,
SHEFC and the EU.
Alex Efimov, UK CERN Knowledge Exchange
Advisor, STFC, UK
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Special Report The UKs Strategy for Technology Transfer
If knowledge created by scientists is to beuseful, it has to be applied to the areas of life
where it can make a difference. This is called
knowledge transfer. The Governments vision
is that the UK should be one of the most
attractive locations in the world for science
and innovation, being a key knowledge hub in
the global economy, with a reputation not
only for outstanding scientific and technicaldiscovery, but also a world leader at turning
that knowledge into new products and
services.
As major investors in research and
postgraduate training, Research Councils
play a key role in achieving this ambition.
These Councils support the excellent
research needed to generate new knowledge,
train highly skilled people, and work in
partnership with business and a wide range
of users to drive successful exploitation of
research outputs. This ultimately delivers
benefits for the UK in terms of new goods and
services and other less direct benefits.
Technology transfer is a process with many
layers and one of the many responsibilities of
the Department for Innovation, Universities
and Skills (DIUS) with UK Research Councils
playing an important hands-on role indelivering technology transfer in their sectors.
The DIUS brings together functions from the
former Department of Trade and Industry,
including responsibilities for science and
innovation, with further and higher education
and skills, previously part of the Department
for Education and Skills. A key part of the
Science and Technology Facilities Council(STFC) mission is to ensure that its
investment in major facilities in the UK and
overseas and peer reviewed funding within
UK universities, has a positive impact on the
UK's economy through innovation. To meet
this challenge the STFC will ensure that
knowledge generated from its facilities,
including CERN, research and technology
programmes and interactions with universities
and academic partners will be transferred to
the wider economy for enhanced productivity
and economic growth.
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The STFC KITE Club gives a single identityto the Councils technology development and
business and partnership activities, providing
opportunities to network, identify new
partnerships, share best practices and
explore enterprise. The Council also supports
a wide range of schemes and activities to
encourage commercialisation and enterprise
within its research community and facilities.
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CLIK is the technology exploitation company
of the Science and Technology Facilities
Council. Entirely owned by the Council, CLIK
successfully manages commercial activities
through spin-outs, licensing and trading.
The KITE Club and CLIK work closely on
various projects, including Grid, with key
processes for Technology Transfer focusing
on:
Strategic Partnerships
Partnership Brokering
Spin-outs
Licensing
The STFC has various funding schemes and
opportunities to support its technology
transfer activities, such as:
Discipline Hoppers
Innovative Technology Fund Awards
DIUS Technology Programme
Enterprise Fellowships Follow on Fund
Rainbow Seed Fund
Partnership Schemes
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
Research in Industry Funding
One of the most successful frameworks for
technology transfer is a collaborative
partnership between industry and academia.
However, developing collaboration between
an industrial company and an academic
group takes time and resources. The Council
supports a range of schemes and initiatives
to provide for studentships, fellowships and
research grants to assist in the development
of a culture of enterprise and knowledge
transfer and the movement of staff from the
Council supported academic groups to
industry, including links to the Technology
Development Programme.
PIPSS is a knowledge transfer scheme that
supports the development of effective, long
term collaborations between UK Universities,
CERN, ESO (European Southern
Observatory), ESA (European Space
Agency), UK industry and research sector
organisations, with the aim of:
Promoting co-ordinated technology
development within the Council
programme and with other partners.
Encouraging researchers to become
aware of the possibilities for exploitation.
Raising awareness in industry and other
research sectors of the technological
strengths and opportunities afforded by
the Council's science. Fostering collaboration between UK
companies and the research community.
The STFC ensures the UK retains its leading
place on the world stage by delivering world-
class science; accessing and hosting
international facilities; developing innovativetechnologies; and increasing the socio-
economic impact of its research through
effective knowledge exchange partnerships.
More information on STFC funding schemes
is available here .
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Alex Efimov leads the brokering work for
STFCs Knowledge Exchange Service.
Companies wishing to know more should
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email Julia Maddock , STFC Press Officer and
Alex Efimov, UK CERN Knowledge Exchange
Advisor, STFC
Why you need Grid & How to do it!EGEE & STFC Business Day
The Business Day taking place on 21 May
2008 in London, UK showcases the benefits
of Grid computing through a series of user
case studies from the creative media
industry, oil & gas, financial services,
pharmaceuticals and more.SMEs, large enterprises and public sector
organisations will see how Grids are adding
value: getting more things done quickly and
making the best use of available resources.
Talks will guide new users through the steps
to adoption and best practices. For more info,
email Trust-IT .
Knowledge Transfer Networks (KTNs)
The Department of Innovation, Universities
and Skills (DIUS) also maintains a portfolio of
Knowledge Transfer Networks (KTNs) and
Collaborative R&D Projects which investigate
further the potential for government,
academia and industry to learn from each
other. The Grid Computing Now! KTN was
established in 2005 and since then it has built
up a registered membership of nearly 1000
members with about 60% coming from
Industry, the rest from Academia and
Government.
The KTN provides access to background
information, useful links, edited news
coverage and a portfolio of user case studies
developed by KTN in house technical
journalists with the users themselves. The
KTN also offers technical events and has
been running a Webinar programme for the
past 18 months which has featured many key
areas of interest to its membership base.
These webinars are available for download
from the website and are proving a very
popular resource. Having built these
foundations the KTN team are now becoming
engaged in user adoption discussions,
ranging from orchestrating the development
of common application programming
interfaces for the Financial Services industry
through the introduction of new computing,
simulation and modelling techniques for
transport planning and management
applications. This happens in collaboration
with sister KTNs specialising in the area of
Intelligent Transport and Industrial
Mathematics.
The KTN is also leading the charge on
software licensing for virtual environments,
working with the UK Federation Against
Software Theft (FAST), to bring the software
supply and monitoring industry together to
face this new challenge. Finally, the KTNworks closely with the Collaborative R&D
Projects, usually an industrial-academic
initiative, to help highlight their work and
results to the KTN membership and beyond.
The website contains more details of the KTN
and its work.
Ian Osborne, Intellect UK
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EGEE07 Business Track
The Business
Track at
EGEE'07 in
Budapest in
October 2007
took a close look at enabling technology
transfer and the adoption of OS Grid
technologies by the commercial sector. The
Business Track helped EGEE identify newopportunities across vertical markets and a
set of user studies showing companies how
to get on the right path towards adoption.
Discussions also brought to light success
metrics for gauging the industrial impact of
Grid technologies across different sectors,
and offered some feasible solutions to
common barriers.
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EGEE Business Associates
Bob Jones, project director of EGEE, opened
the Business Track, illustrating how
companies can come in and deploy services
on EGEE's Grid infrastructure and easily set
up applications through tools like the GILDA
test-bed. Dr Jones also announced three new
Business Associates (EBAs): Avanade,Excelian and Hitachi (Sophia Antipolis).
Philipss Research and EBAs Avanade,
Excelian, GridwiseTech, and Platform
demonstrated how they are working with
EGEE to enhance gLite, tailor it to the
requirements of future inter-enterprise Grids,
and ensure compatibility with other
architectures and tools in support of EGEEs
strategy for the spin-off of its technologies to
business and industry.
Adoption Case Studies
One of the EU's goals is to strengthen the
"innovation capacity" of SMEs as the
backbone of the European economy and
increase their development of new
technology based products and services.
New opportunities for business throughEuropes e-infrastructures were highlighted
by Kyriakos Baxevanidis from the European
Commission, Research Infrastructure Unit.
Connected with this was the spotlight on
know-how transfer, gauging readiness for the
commercial sector and supporting the
technology chain. Examples of how EGEE is
enabling businesses and start-ups includeImense Ltd (UK); HP's Tycoon project; and
the COMETA initiative, which collaborates
with Oracle and Microsoft, among other
companies. The adoption of gLite in one of
BEinGRIDs Business Experiments for the oil
and gas industry through the work of
CCGVeritas, a leading geophysical company,
was also explored.Opportunities Across Verticals
Gaming is an industry where technology is
moving fast with interesting openings for
interactive media and media convergence.
Darkworks, a French SME and partner of the
Edutain@Grid project, explained why Grid
adoption opportunities are ripe and how it can
help develop these new products and
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services and bring them to market more
rapidly. The main survival rule for the
telecommunications industry is investment in
cutting-edge technologies, which highlights
new openings for Grid. Exis-IT, Greece,
offered a case study demonstrating why this
sector offers a good testing ground by
tackling some of the main drivers for
adoption.
The session on Pharamecuticals and
Healthcare showcased the achievements of
both EGEE's WISDOM (Wide in silico
Docking on Malaria) and Heath-e-Child
projects, bringing tangible benefits in terms of
speeding up the drug discovery process,
reducing costs, enhancing the quality of care,
and enabling scientists and doctors to use the
new tools easily and effectively.
Challenges Ahead
Top-level challenges for industrial groups,
such as collaboration, Grid on heterogeneous
environments, dynamic VOs, security, trust,
SLA, Grid licensing, networking issues
(firewalls, etc.), were explored in the final
session.
NICE, one of the first companies to join the
EBA programme, played a key role in this
session, showing how to tackle sometechnical barriers and highlighting obstacles
like the human factors associated with uptake
of new IT and the transition to new business
models.
The MathWorks Inc. is keyed to tackling
some of the major licensing barriers like
global licensing and academic versus
commercial communities, and is working with
EGEE on solving key issues related to
specific project goals. More good news from
EGEE regarded recent improvements to
security with the project providing tried and
tested restricted access to data and
applications and security evaluations under
way. Robert Harakaly, leader of EGEEs
Focus Group offering support for commercial
adoption, outlined the Groups work within the
Industry Committee and offered possible
solutions to key barriers.
Synergies with the SIMDAT project & NESSI
brought further value-add to the Business
Track. GRIA, OS middleware developed by IT
Innovation (UK), is now being widely used by
industry to help them exploit the benefits of
the Grid and service-oriented infrastructures
for inter-domain collaboration.
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The SIMDAT presentations showed how
GRIA's specific focus on industrial
requirements has ensured that the
infrastructure is suited for commercial
adoption and how GRIA is being used to
support extended enterprise collaboration
and service provision in different sectors.
Presentations were made by BAE Systems,
ElsagDatamat, MSC Software, and NEC
Europe. A final presentation from IT
Innovation showed how GRIA has been
developed to address barriers to adoption by
focusing on governance policies and the
value exchange.
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The talk by the technology platform NESSI, or
Networked European Services & Software
Initiative, highlighted how the enlargement of
the EU and the changing nature of trade with
the rest of the world places a strong
emphasis on a multicultural approach to
business. Additionally, tangible and intangible
assets resulting from EU-funded R&D
projects must reach industry and be used by
companies.
NESSI can connect eInfrastructures with
industrial users. Companies can contribute to
the sustainability of eInfrastructures in
different ways and use them to improve
performance, and gain efficiency,
effectiveness and competitive advantage.
eInfrastructures could be part of the
ecosystem that NESSI is determined to
create. The resultant self-sustained network
could operate in a cost-effective way
producing even profit and following a kaizen
approach without the umbrella of the
European Commission.
EGEE Industry Forum
Sy Holsinger, Trust-IT Services Ltd.
Stephanie Parker, Trust-IT Services Ltd.
Paris showcases new Architectures for Finance: EGEE Industry Day
The Paris Industry Day in November 2007
put the spotlight on
new architectures for
financial services,
bringing together 110
players from the
sector to explore the
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convergence of Grid,virtualisation, web services and service
oriented architectures, major issues for both
business and science.
The event illustrated how these new
architectures can help lay the foundations for
flexible service oriented infrastructures,
bringing significant advantages and increasing
the potential for innovation, making them a
strategic challenge for the sector.
The Industry Day was jointly supported by
BEinGRID and EGEE-II and organised by
Europlace, the Finance Innovation
Competitivity Cluster, and Ecole Centrale
Paris (ECP).
EGEE-II was represented by Gabriel
Zaquine, BT France, leader of the Industry
Task Force. Zaquines talk illustrated how
EGEE is attracting interest from numerous
business sectors, outlining the support
mechanisms designed both to facilitate win-
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win collaborative work with the project and
foster adoption of its Grid technology. Two
EGEE Business Associates, Excelian and
Platform Computing, shared their expertise
with the audience. Gilles Tourpe from
Platform Computing outlined Fabric-based
Computing - Grid 2.0, with particular
reference to integrating data, computation
and the politics involved.
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Dr Adam Vile, Excelian, centred his talk on
Data Caching: Dealing with data -
Overcoming the challenges of large scale
data distribution in near real time
environments. Vile said Excelian are keen to
support events like the Paris Industry Day
which represent a coming together of industry
and research in order to share experiences of
Grid and related technologies. Exploring
common challenges across both the finance
and research communities will, I am sure,
lead to mutual empathy, key discoveries on
both sides and hopefully future collaborations
that will be of mutual benefit.Santi Ristol, ATOS Origin (Spain), highlighted
the goals of the BEinGRID project and its
range of business experiments with the Grid.
Italo Epicoco, SPACI, discussed on-line Grid
services for financial institutions and the
implementation of gLite in Portfolio
Management.
The Business Experiment in Risk
Management in Finance ( BE11 ) tackles a
Grid solution in the financial sector. Financial
institutions face computational time and
resource challenges in the risk analysis of
investment portfolios. These real-time
financial algorithms, which use stock market
and trading desk data, impose real-time
processing constraints which are a major
challenge for the Grid.
Opening addresses by Edouard-Franois De
Lencquesaing, Europlace, and Christian
Saguez, ECP, set the scene for expert-led
talks with the morning session dedicated to
new architectures, which was co-chaired by
Eric Horesnyi, from BT and Prof. Saguez.
Talks were delivered by ATOS Origin (Spain);
Microsoft; AXA; SUN Microsystems;
DATASYNAPSE; GRIDSYSTEMS and t
GRIDTRUST.
The afternoon session focused on finance
applications and was co-chaired by Jrme
Brun, ATOS Origin Paris and Edouard-Franois de Lencquesaing, Europlace.
Presentaitons were made by BNP-Paribas;
ING and Reuters.
Hlne Huard, Ecole Centrale Paris
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Grids Enabling SMEs EGEE Industry Day
EGEE &
SEEGRID2 joined
forces with
Technolopolis Business Park SA & Innovation
Pole in Thessaloniki, Macedonia (Greece) in
September 2007 to explore Grid adoption by
SMEs and pinpoint potential Grid-supported
business applications by asssessing the
market strengths of the ICT landscape.
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Kyriakos Baxevanidis, Research
Infrastructure Unit, EC, emphasised the
potential of Grids for SMEs, the backbone of
Europes economy, faciliating know-how
across the EU and new products and
services that could lead to business growth.
Services that could be offered by open
architecture platforms include legacysoftware, software interoperability,
functionality, and environmental applications
for crisis management. Research challenges
for business Grid applications were also
evaluated with players from both communities
offering suggestions on driving forward future
technological developments.
Business leaders are most interested in thetangible benefits, such as reducing costs,
RoI, offering better services and products
rather than the technicalities involved. The
talk by Exis-IT representative, Serafim
Kotrotsos, highlighted how even partial
adoption of Grid technology can
drammatically reduce costs and solve
scalability issues. Top tips to businesses
included exploiting unused computational
capacity for Grid applications and focusing on
specific bottlenecks in order to generate
signficant business value. Specific examples
focused on the telecommunications industry
with a case study on improved billing
systems, demonstrating how operatorsprovide a great test bed for Grid applications.
Vendor perspectives came from Microsoft
and other players, highlighting alternative
trends for Grid adoption with players citing
Cloud computing, Web 2.0 and how Amazon
is selling unused infrastructure while keeping
complete control of resources.
The Industry Day concluded with aninteractive panel discussion that underscored
the importance of a hands-on approach,
focus on tangible benefits through user
studies across verticals, showcasing
solutions to technical and non-technical
barriers, and circulating training feasibility
surveys to potential beneficiaries from the
commercial sector.
Dr Eng Fotis Karayannis, GRNET
Ognjen Prnjat, SEEGRID
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Grids for Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Challenges: EGEE Industry Day
Medical Imaging, Bio-
informatics, and Drug
Discovery are major
users of the EGEE
infrastructure,
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highlighting the benefits of applications and
initiatives supported by EGEEs Grid
technology. Medical Imaging enables virtual
biopsies for cancer diagnosis avoiding
invasive surgical procedures, improving
quality-of-lie for patients and helping reduce
the cost of medical treatment. Bio-informatics
applications range from portals enabling
users in areas like protein sequence analysis
and management of biological data. EGEEs
drug discovery project, WISDOM, has
demonstrated the advantages of Grid-
enabled virtual screening for neglected and
emerging diseases like malaria and the bird
flu.
The Industry Day in Bratislava in Spetember
2007 explored the increasing interest in Grids
in the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
sector, showcasing EGEEs current
achievements with particular reference to thesucess of WISDOM through a talk and live
demo.
WISDOM has successfully faced the
challenges posed by neglected diseases,
which lack R&D, and emerging diseases,
which require very rapid response time.
WISDOM has demonstrated that in silico drug
discovery opens up new perspectives to
speed it up and reduce costs. WISDOM is
now ready to address industrial requirements
with plans to broaden tests to other diseases.
The Health-e-Child project offered another
success story conected with EGEEs
technology. The Health-e-Child Grid-based
biomedical platform for paediatrics provides
tools that improve the quality of care and
reduce its costs while hiding the complexity of
Grid from the end-users.
According to the 451 GARS Report, hospitals
are natural adopters of the Grid because of
their need to share data and tackle specific
challenges around storage and medical
images. The Grid could ultimately provide the
backbone for electronic health records and
new medical infrastructures. Attendants at the
industry Day included representatives from
healthcare as well as government decision-
makers. Representatives from the Slovak
Ministry of Health and National Health
Information Centre outlined the countrys e-
Health strategy and challenges regarding
Electronic Health Records (EHR), such as
developing a commonly agreed information
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model for recording patient data and the need
for internationally accepted standards.
The interactive discussion offered
pharmaceutical and biomedical companies,
medical researchers, informatics and policy-
makers an opportunity to evaluate new tools
and technologies and explore future
collaborations with the project.
The Industry Day was hosted by EGEE
partner, Institute of Informatics, Slovak
Academy of Science and supported by the
Ministry of Health.
Jolana Sebestyenova,
Slovak Academy of Science
Highlights on EGEE Business Associates
Avanade brings expertise on .Net
Technologies to fully exploit gLite on
Windows machines, a critical factor for any
enterprise ready software, bringing significant
market openings for EGEE. Avanades
adoption of gLite is expected to increase
gLite visibility on real-case mission-critical
projects outside the academic community.
The EGEE-Avanade collaboration will
additionally enhance gLites evaluation by
companies as gLite standards move in the
right direction towards interoperabilitychallenges and through the integration of .Net
Support into gLite.
Excelian is a high-profile commercial
organisation with in-house expertise of Grid
and HPC; complete understanding of the
financial services sector; and existing
relations with commercial vendors and client
network. Excelian will assist EGEE in
assesing the challenges facing businesses
today and help shape EGEEs technologies
and market strategy to ensure that they are
more relevant to business needs and
challenges. Excelian is working with EGEE tocreate new opportunities for the project to
grow and develop valuable tools and skills
and define a winning market exploitation
strategy for outreach to different vertical
markets by ensuring interaction between
EGEE & key decision-makers.
Hitachi Sophia Antipolis Laboratory
(HSAL), France is engaging in joint
collaboration work with EGEE to integrate
gLite data management with INCA
middleware, enabling contribution to the
scientific community and bringing in a
valuable mechanism for handling huge
amounts of data. Additionally, the EBA
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programme will assist Hitachi in its direct
interaction with organisations dealing with
huge data quantities on a daily basis through
targeted knowledge and experience
exchanges.
GridwiseTech is a Grid consulting firm,
providing portals to the EGEE infrastructure
that integrates EGEE products with the IT
infrastructure of major enterprises.
GridwiseTech work with EGEE on joint
dissemination to the commercial sector to
increase uptake of EGEE technologies and
played a key role in the adoption of gLite by
Philips Research through the installation of a
cluster connected to DutchGrid to understand
and investigate the technology with access
via gLite and UNICORE.
GridwiseTech recently published a
Whitepaper , Implementing a High
Performance Service Oriented Architecture,
provides unbiased expert advice when
integrating an SOA with Objectivity/DB, as an
example of data management system.
NICE develops its EnginFrame and GENIUS
Grid Portal to make them compatible with theEGEE middleware gLite and has always been
a strong supporter of the EGEE project. The
EnginFrame Grid portal tackles the problems
& requirements for a particular operating
system running on the client. The user can
therefore interact with the Grid from
everywhere and with everything: a Java
compliant web browser is only required.
NICE, EGEE 3 rd User Forum, Clermont-
Ferrand (France), 12 February 2008 -
Demo/Poster on the EnginFrame-GENIUS
Grid Portal and VOMS Proxy creation
showing how the EnginFrame Grid portal
enables a user to interact with files on the UI,
submit & monitor jobs to the Grid and
manage data and job output inside the VO
belongs to.
Platform Computing , a leading systems
infrastructure software company, is working
with EGEE to improve the gLite interface and
exploitation of advanced LSF features, co-
ordinate testing efforts and improveddocumentation. Collaboration work is
expected to lead to significant enhancements
of the capabilities for EGEE, users, new user
groups, resource providers, and compute-
and data-centres. Joint collaboration is
expected to bring standards-based LSF-CE
leading to EGEE performance boost; new job
types and policies.If you would like to work with the EGEE
project on technical issues, please contact
Stephanie Parker , Trust-IT Services Ltd.
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EGEE Business Associate Snapshot
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Upcoming Events with Business Focus
FebruarySIMDAT Training Workshops on Industrial Adoption of Grids - GRIA SOA Workshop , IT
Innovation Centre, Southampton, 5 February 2008. Workshop focus: use of Grids by business.
Workshop is free but places are limited.
3 rd EGEE User Forum , Clermont-Ferrand, France, 11-14 February 2008
Demo Session on 12/02/2008 features Imense Ltd ; NICE ; EGEE Bio-informatics programme ;
WISDOM , Health-e-Child .
OGF22 , Cambridge, MA, 25-29 February 2008 - Programme Highlights
March
Global Reseach Library GRL2020 , Tirrenia, Pisa, Italy, 26-27 March 2008
May
SIMDAT Training Workshops on Industrial Adoption of Grids - GRIA SOA Workshop , IT
Innovation Centre, Southampton, 13 May 2008.
EGEE Business Day , London, UK, 21 May 2008 supported by the STFC
Why you need Grid & How to do it!
Creative Media, Energy, Financial Services, Pharmaceuticals
Platform Global Conference 2008 , Santa Clara, California May 19-21, 2008
PGC08 brings together Platform customers, high performance computing enthusiasts, business
partners, media and analysts from around the world. Electronics, Automotive, Aerospace, Oil and
Gas, Life Sciences, Financial Services, Government and Education.
June
OGF23 , Barcelona, Spain, 2-6 June 2008
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BEinGRID Industry Event , 3-5 June 2008 within OGF23
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