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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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Back round Information
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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

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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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EGEE Newsletter Feb 08

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Transcript of EGEE Newsletter Feb 08