Converging Components, Services, SLA+QoS for Effective Utilities over Network Infrastructure

While the meeting does not belong to the series of EC-organised concertation meetings, it is expected to attract participation from EC-funded projects from Unit INFSO/D3 (Software & Service Architectures and Infrastructures) and Unit INFSO/F3 (GÉANT & e-Infrastructure). The key objective of the EU project technical concertation meeting is to stimulate cooperation and knowledge exchange between all members of EU projects related to Components, Services, and Utilities for Grid and large scale IT systems. This meeting shall give strong visibility to participating projects, and also help to achieve dissemination and concertation objectives.
Components are the building blocks for composable and reusable software, allowing  building flexible services in a cost-effective manner. Moreover, applications are turned into services with the capacity to scale-up to match Service Level Agreement. In this way, Quality of Services can be enforced, opening the way to real utilities where resources are added or relinquished upon application demand.
We are aiming at gathering the key projects identified as capable of bringing a key contribution to the services and IT utility challenge. We are focusing on recent projects and especially the new wave of projects accepted from the FP 7 Call 1. The early stage of those projects hold the potential of strong synergies if we identify early the complementarities and possible interactions.
As an outcome of the workshop, we would like to produce a report identifying for each project the potential key contributions in term of software, and symmetrically the potential expertise/software that could be used from other projects. 

• 9:00 Opening Session
  
  Introduction, Denis Caromel, INRIA-UNSA-CNRS, Patricia Ho-Hune, ERCIM
  
  Welcome Address from the European Commission
         Jorge Gasós
         European Commission
         Information Society and Media Directorate General
         Software & Service Architectures and Infrastructures Unit
         EC INFSO SSA&I

• 9:30 Services
  Chair: Cédric Dalmasso, INRIA
  • SOA4ALL: A Web for billions of Services
    Speaker: Santi Ristol, ATOS
  • SLA@SOI: Empowering the Service Economy with SLA-aware Infrastructures  
    Speaker: Gregor Berginc, XLAB & Tariq Ellahi, SAP
  • IRMOS: Interactive Realtime Multimedia Applications on Service Oriented Infrastructures
    Speaker: Theodora Varvarigou, Dimos Kyriazis, ICCS/NTUA
     
• 10:45 Networking Coffee
   
• 11:15 Virtualization of Resources/Infrastructure
  Chair: Klaus Pohl, University Duisburg-Essen
  • Reservoir: Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers
    Speaker: Philipp Drum, Sun Microsystems
  • DEPLOY: Industrial deployment of system engineering methods providing high dependability and productivity
    Speaker: Alexander Romanovsky, University of Newcastle
  • ADMIRE: Advanced Data Mining for Heterogeneous Distributed resources
    Speaker: Amy Krause, The University of Edinburgh
  • g-Eclipse: GUI and toolkit for accessing Grids and Clouds: gLite, GRIA and Amazon Websevices
    Speaker: Ariel Garcia, KIT
     
• 13:00 Lunch
   
• 14:00 Virtualization of Resources/Infrastructure (Continuation)
  Chair: Vladimir Getov, Westminster University
  • S-Cube: The Software Services and Systems Network
    Speaker: Klaus Pohl, University Duisburg-Essen
  • STREAM: Scalable Autonomic Streaming Middleware for Real-time Processing of Massive Data Flow
    Speaker: Ricardo Jimenez-Peris, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
  • QosCosGrid: Solutions for Quasi-Opportunistic Supercomputers
    Speaker: Guillaume Mecheneau & Bernhard Schott, Platform
  • XTreemOS: Enabling Linux for the Grid
    Speaker: Ana Oprescu, Vrije University
     
• 15:40 Standards and Standardization
  Chair: Alexander Romanovsky, University of Newcastle
  
  • GridCOMP: An Advanced Component Platform for an Effective Invisible Grid
    Speaker: Denis Caromel, INRIA

• 16:00 Networking Coffee
   
• 16:30 Standards and Standardization (Continuation)
  Chair: Alexander Romanovsky, University of Newcastle
  • EDGeS: Enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science
    Speaker: Robert Lovas, Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems, MTA SZTAKI and Ad Emmen, AlmereGrid
  • ETSI:  ETSI and TC Grid - Exploiting Research via Standards
               Research and Standardisation in Europe
    Speaker: Mike Fisher, BT and Laurent Vreck & Patrick Guillemin, ETSI

• 17:20 Special Session: NESSI-Grid SRA and NEXOF-RA
  Chair: Eric Madelaine, INRIA
  
  • NESSI-Grid: Overview of the NESSI-Grid SRA
    Speaker:  Ricardo Jiménez Peris, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
  • The NESSI-Grid SRA: an Open Process that involved the Grid Community
    Speaker:  Juan A. Caceres, Telefónica
  • NEXOF-RA: Delivering components for the future Internet of Services:
    the NEXOF-RA project
    Speaker:  Mike Fisher, BT and Juanjo Hierro, Telefónica

• 18:50 Panel: Open discussion between presenters
  Chair: Denis Caromel, INRIA-UNSA-CNRS

• 19:15 End of meeting