The Danish Center for Grid Computing (DCGC) was established in 2003 aiming at (1) doing research into grid computing and (2) increasin the use of Grid Computing in the Danish research communities an industry. We propose a half-day special event covering the use experiences and research activities of DCGC including liv demonstrations of production and experimental Grid software. The special event will have the following outline:
Session 1: Introduction to Danish Grid Activities
An introduction to the goals and structure DCGC focusing on how to extend the knowledge of and the user base of grid computing. To this end DCGC is working closely with a set of advanced users (called Core Collaborators) willing to adapt computations to experimental Grid software. Furthermore, DCGC has been active in establishing an industrial forum (called Danish Grid Forum) for academic and industrial contacts that wish to participate in the exchange of ideas concerning the use of Grid technology.
Session 2: User Cases
This session will describe problems experienced by scientists
migrating large computations to the ARC Grid middleware and their
possible solutions. The session will draw on the experiences
collected from four user cases in the areas of:
- High energy physics
- Astrophysics
- Bioinformatics
- Chemistry
Session 3: Advanced Research
The research done within the framework of DCGC is oriented towards
experimental verification using running prototypes. The research
part of the event covers recent advances in the following areas:
- Security including large scale intrusion detection and scalable
authorization
- Advanced setup, configuration, and dynamic reorganization of
running applications
- Automatic monitoring and control of Grid jobs
- Experiences with Distributed Shared Memory on a 10 Gbit wide
area Grid testbed
Session 4: Demonstrations
The special event concludes with a series of demonstrations
including example user cases, dynamic reorganization of running
applications, and monitoring of Grid jobs.
