DEISA-GÉANT2-NREN Workshop

München, Airport, Municon Conference Centre, 4 July 2005

Participants

Attendee list

Agenda

10:30 Welcome
10:40 DEISA and DEISA requirements

• DEISA motivations and goals  (Victor Alessandrini)
• DEISA applications, network requirements and caveats (Ralph Niederberger)
• Proposal for DEISA network infrastructure (Ralph Niederberger)

11:10 NRENs and DEISA sites (appr. 5 minutes each)

• RedIRIS (Esther Robles)
• BSC (Sergi Girona)
• Nordunet/Funet (Lars Fischer)
• CSC (Juha Oinonen)
• RENATER (Dany Vandromme)
• IDRIS (Laure-Amélie Couturié)
• DFN (Martin Wilhelm)
• FZJ (Olaf Mextorf)
• HLRS (Peter Haas)
• LRZ (Victor Apostolescu)
• RZG (Klaus Desinger)
• GARR (Enzo Valente)
• CINECA (Mauro Morsiani)
• SurfNET (Erik Jan Bos)
• SARA (Jules Wolfrat)
• UKERNA (David Salmon)
• ECMWF (Tony Bakker)
• EPCC (Jeremy Nowell)
• HPC-X (Mike W. Brown)

13:00 Lunch Break

14:00 GÉANT structure, future GN2 offerings

• The GEANT2 Project (Hans Döbbeling) (appr. 10 min)
• An overlay network for DEISA (Maarten Buchli) (appr. 40 min)

15:00 Open Discussion

• Putting pieces together. What will be the future DEISA network infrastructure?
• Transmission only or TDM
• Backup lines
• Border switches/router
• TeraGrid collaboration (communication, SC2005 demo, link tests)
• Security considerations
• Financial issues (MoU, associated partnership, dissemination …)

16:30 Workplan

17:00 End of meeting