Day 3: 14 December 2016
9h30-13h00: Workflow management & system preservation
Designation: Euclid Science Ground Segment Scientist, Head of the star formation and interstellar medium group (LFEMI) at SAp.
Bio: Currently a member of the Euclid Mission Consortium, coordinating the science aspects of the data processing system, Marc Sauvage has spent most of his career around space astrophysical missions. He was part of the ISOCAM team, exploiting a mid-infrared camera on-board the ISO satellite, and was the instrument scientist for the PACS imaging bolometer array on the Herschel satellite. His expertise revolves around the specifics of the organisation of a ground segment for a space science experiment, while scientifically he has been most active in the field of star formation and the interstellar medium of galaxies.
Email: marc.sauvage@cea.fr
Website: http://irfu.cea.fr/Sap/index.php; http://www.euclid-ec.org
Designation: Computing engineer at LUPM, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier, CNRS/IN2P3
Bio:With a background of particle physicist, Dr Luisa's current expertise are in the field of the distributed computing applied to physics/astrophysics experiments. In particular, she had been involved in the operations of the CC-IN2P3 WLCG Tier1, while today she is coordinating the exploitation of the grid for CTA. Finally, she is also developer of the DIRAC 'interware' for the distributed computing.
Email: arrabito@in2p3.fr
Website: http://www.lupm.univ-montp2.fr/
Bio:With a background of particle physicist, Dr Luisa's current expertise are in the field of the distributed computing applied to physics/astrophysics experiments. In particular, she had been involved in the operations of the CC-IN2P3 WLCG Tier1, while today she is coordinating the exploitation of the grid for CTA. Finally, she is also developer of the DIRAC 'interware' for the distributed computing.
Email: arrabito@in2p3.fr
Website: http://www.lupm.univ-montp2.fr/
Designation: Director of Technology, INFN
Bio: Davide Salomoni is Director of Technology (Dirigente Tecnologo) at the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). He leads the Software Development and Distributed Systems department at CNAF (Bologna, Italy), the INFN National Center dedicated to research and development on IT technologies, and has more than 25 years of international experience in private and public environments related to distributed computing and communication technologies. He is the Project Coordinator of the 26-partners EC-funded INDIGO-DataCloud project (https://www.indigo-datacloud.eu).
Email: davide.salomoni@cnaf.infn.it Website: https://www.indigo-datacloud.eu
Designation: General manager of the Physics Institute and Erlangen Centre of Astroparticle Physics at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Bio:Computing and software coordinator of the KM3NeT collaboration, general manager of the Physics Institute and Erlangen Centre of Astroparticle Physics at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Email: kay.graf@fau.de
Website: http://www.km3net.org
Name: Dr Ana Juan Ferrer
Designation: Head of NG Cloud Lab, Atos – Research and Innovation.
Bio: Ana Juan Ferrer is Head of Lab of NG Cloud Lab, group which focuses its research on Cloud and Edge Computing technologies. Ana currently acts as Cluster leader for the E2 Software & Services, Cloud Computing Unit “Inter-cloud Challenges, Expectations and Issues” cluster, which agglutinates collaboration of fifteen related projects. Ana also participates in the Atos Scientific Community, a network of some 100 members whose aim is to guide company strategy at the highest level in relation to innovation. In this forum, Ana leads the working group on Cloud Computing continuum, aiming to identify and materialise opportunities for Atos in advanced cloud models such as Edge Computing and multi-cloud hybrid models.
Email: ana.juanf@atos.net
Website: www.atos.net
Name: Dr Robert Jones
Designation: CERN IT Department
Bio: Bob Jones is a leader of the Helix Nebula initiative (http://www.helix-nebula.eu/), a public private partnership to explore the use of commercial cloud services for science applications. He is the coordinator for the HNSciCloud Horizon 2020 Pre-Commercial Procurement project (http://www.hnscicloud.eu/) which is procuring innovative cloud services to establish a cloud platform the European research community. HNSciCloud builds on the results of the Procurement Innovation for Cloud Service in Europe (PICSE http://www.picse.eu/) project that raised awareness of procurement of cloud services for the public sector. Bob also participates in the EIROforum IT Working Group (http://www.eiroforum.org/) and is the editor of the recently published series of e-infrastructure documents (http://zenodo.org/record/7592). Bob was until recently the head of the CERN openlab project (openlab.cern.ch) which is a unique public-private partnership between CERN and leading ICT companies. Its mission is to accelerate the development of cutting-edge solutions to be used by the worldwide Large Hadron Collider (LHC) community. His experience in the distributed computing arena includes mandates as the technical director and then project director of the EGEE projects (2004-2010) which led to the creation of EGI (http://www.egi.eu/).
Email: Robert.Jones@cern.ch
Website: http://www.helix-nebula.eu/
Name: Dr Manuel Delfino
Designation: Director of the Port d’Informació Científica (PIC).
Bio: Manuel Delfino is Full Professor of Physics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain and Director of the Port d'Informació Científica (PIC) in Barcelona. He holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering and Physics, an M.S. in Physics and a Ph.D. in Physics with a minor in Computer Science, all from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Prof. Delfino has a distinguished career in applying novel data processing techniques in support of scientific research. He served as Leader of the Information Technology Division of CERN between 1999 and 2002. In 2003 he became Director of PIC, an innovative center focused on providing solutions for data-intensive scientific computing of large global scientific experiments.
Prof. Delfino is a member of the IceCube Scientific Computing Advisory Panel and the CC-IN2P3 External Advisory Panel, and chaired the 2012-2013 External Review of Computing for Advanced Virgo.
Website: http://www.pic.es/
14h00-18h00: Interoperability Session: How to efficiently handle heterogeneous architectures (on distributed data centers)
Bio:Computing and software coordinator of the KM3NeT collaboration, general manager of the Physics Institute and Erlangen Centre of Astroparticle Physics at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Email: kay.graf@fau.de
Website: http://www.km3net.org
Designation: Head of NG Cloud Lab, Atos – Research and Innovation.
Bio: Ana Juan Ferrer is Head of Lab of NG Cloud Lab, group which focuses its research on Cloud and Edge Computing technologies. Ana currently acts as Cluster leader for the E2 Software & Services, Cloud Computing Unit “Inter-cloud Challenges, Expectations and Issues” cluster, which agglutinates collaboration of fifteen related projects. Ana also participates in the Atos Scientific Community, a network of some 100 members whose aim is to guide company strategy at the highest level in relation to innovation. In this forum, Ana leads the working group on Cloud Computing continuum, aiming to identify and materialise opportunities for Atos in advanced cloud models such as Edge Computing and multi-cloud hybrid models.
Email: ana.juanf@atos.net
Website: www.atos.net
Designation: CERN IT Department
Bio: Bob Jones is a leader of the Helix Nebula initiative (http://www.helix-nebula.eu/), a public private partnership to explore the use of commercial cloud services for science applications. He is the coordinator for the HNSciCloud Horizon 2020 Pre-Commercial Procurement project (http://www.hnscicloud.eu/) which is procuring innovative cloud services to establish a cloud platform the European research community. HNSciCloud builds on the results of the Procurement Innovation for Cloud Service in Europe (PICSE http://www.picse.eu/) project that raised awareness of procurement of cloud services for the public sector. Bob also participates in the EIROforum IT Working Group (http://www.eiroforum.org/) and is the editor of the recently published series of e-infrastructure documents (http://zenodo.org/record/7592). Bob was until recently the head of the CERN openlab project (openlab.cern.ch) which is a unique public-private partnership between CERN and leading ICT companies. Its mission is to accelerate the development of cutting-edge solutions to be used by the worldwide Large Hadron Collider (LHC) community. His experience in the distributed computing arena includes mandates as the technical director and then project director of the EGEE projects (2004-2010) which led to the creation of EGI (http://www.egi.eu/).
Email: Robert.Jones@cern.ch
Website: http://www.helix-nebula.eu/
Designation: Director of the Port d’Informació Científica (PIC).
Bio: Manuel Delfino is Full Professor of Physics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain and Director of the Port d'Informació Científica (PIC) in Barcelona. He holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering and Physics, an M.S. in Physics and a Ph.D. in Physics with a minor in Computer Science, all from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Prof. Delfino has a distinguished career in applying novel data processing techniques in support of scientific research. He served as Leader of the Information Technology Division of CERN between 1999 and 2002. In 2003 he became Director of PIC, an innovative center focused on providing solutions for data-intensive scientific computing of large global scientific experiments.
Prof. Delfino is a member of the IceCube Scientific Computing Advisory Panel and the CC-IN2P3 External Advisory Panel, and chaired the 2012-2013 External Review of Computing for Advanced Virgo.
Email: delfino@pic.es
Website: http://www.pic.es/
14h00-18h00: Interoperability Session: How to efficiently handle heterogeneous architectures (on distributed data centers)
Designation:
Bio: Michele Punturo is the coordinator of the astro-particle activities (INFN-Gruppo 2) in the Perugia unit of INFN. He is in charge of the several large-scale European projects such as FP7-ITN project "GraWIToN", an Initial Training Network involving European research institutions, Universities and private companies, and the FP7-IRSES project ELiTES, supporting the exchange of scientists between Europe and Japan, focused on technologies for Gravitational Wave Detectors Member of the Gravitational Wave International Committee (GWIC). He has been the scientific Coordinator of the FP7-Capacities "Einstein Telescope" Design Study from 2008 to 2011. He is now the head of the Virgo Data Analysis Software group.
Email: michele.punturo@pg.infn.it
Website:
Designation: LIGO Laboratory, Caltech
Bio: Peter Couvares is responsible for distributed computing research and engineering in support of the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) Scientific Collaboration.
Email: peter.couvares@ligo.org
Website: www.ligo.org
Designation: Business Development Manager HPC, NVIDIA
Bio: Piero Altoè is responsible of the HPC segment in Italy at NVIDIA and he brings more than 8 years of experience in computational chemistry. he is author of 30 papers published on international scientific journals. He joined the NVIDIA in 2016. Piero Altoè achieved his Ph.D. in 2007 at Università di Bologna focusing his attention on the development and applications of hybrid quantum and molecular mechanics methods. Since 2002 he is involved in high performance computing activities related to software development and system administration.
Email: paltoe@nvidia.com
Website: www.nvidia.com
Designation: Padova University & INAF
Bio: Professor in General Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of PadovaPI of the GPU Research Center at the University of Padova, Associated to the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF)
Email: denis.bastieri@gmail.com
Website: www.unipd.it
Designation: IT Specialist - HPC and Software Defined Storage, IBM
Bio: Giorgio Richelli has been involved in HPC, working for multiple vendors, since the early 80s. His expertise includes porting and tuning codes, designing environments and infrastructures both from the compute and storage standpoint.
Email: giorgio_richelli@it.ibm.com
Website: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/it/power/hardware/hpc.html
Name: Dr. Daniele Gregori
Designation: E4
Bio: Daniele Gregori is the Scientific Coordinator of E4 Computer Engineering and he currently deals withHPC systems development, configuration and automation. He worked at INFN Bologna for 3 years in collaboration with LHCb, for 7 years at INFN-CNAF Tier1 computing centre and he is author of more than 40 papers published in scientific and technical journals. He achieved his Ph.D. in Physics at Università di Bologna, focusing his attention on LHCb Control and Monitoring System.
Email: Daniele.Gregori@e4company.com
Website: http://www.e4company.com/
