Dissemination and exploitation. SHIELD partners have a strong interest in disseminating and exploiting project results. For this reason they have already planned an effective and realistic industrial and academic dissemination and exploitation plan. This project will give opportunity to industries and SMEs to acquire know-how and the possibility to exploit results to introduce new commercial products, identify new possible application scenarios of SPD technologies, contribute to regulatory bodies with an effective services and technology architecture proposal. Moreover, they are interested in contributing to standards as described in Section 4.3. Next sections provide a complete overview of the SHIELD consortium plans in terms of exploitation, dissemination and patents.
Dissemination and exploitation. The innovative character of the Project requires a systematic distribution of information and acquired knowledge through a variety of routes to potential users or beneficiaries. Planned dissemination methods include written information, electronic media and person-to-person contact. Potential users and customer groups outside the CrossGrid consortium will be identified and their needs and requirements should be considered in the development of the Project. In this way a catalogue of intensive computing applications and institutions potentially involved in Grid exploitation will be created. Potential users will get assistance, information and ideas from the CrossGrid Consortium through the dissemination task leader. We have already started to establish close contacts with other European and international Grid projects.
Dissemination and exploitation. The Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET is the leading unit in the field of high performance computing and networking. The mission of ACC is to offer access to computational facilities and network services for universities and research institutes, as well as serve as the centre of competence in this field and promote new developments in efficient exploitation of computers and computer networks. Since 1999, ACC is taking a very active part in the development of the Polish cluster of SGI computers and this experience will be used in establishing the national Grid network in Poland. On the other hand, participation in the CrossGrid project will be a very important factor for this activity. The ACC will promote Grid computing among the Polish scientific community. The ACC staff members have started to take part in the Grid Forum and this will be a natural opportunity to disseminate results of the CrossGrid. ACC is also going to work with partners from software companies and industrial research centres (e.g. Motorola and ABB divisions in Cracow). The daily promotion of the CrossGrid activity will go through the ACC web page dedicated to this project, where we plan to put information about the project objectives, participants, results obtained with international testbeds, as well as multimedia presentations. XXX has already decided to organise each year the Cracow Grid Workshop to bring together people from Poland and Central Europe interested in the development and application of Grid technologies; the first event of this series was held on November 5 – 6, 2001 (xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xx/cgw01). The Grid technology is already included in the advanced courses for students of computer science at the University of Mining and Metallurgy. In the last two years, about ten MSc theses were related to Grid computing and this activity will be continued in the following years. About ten MSc and six PhD students from the Institute of Computer Science (which closely collaborates with ACC) will be involved in the CrossGrid Project. At ACC, research is performed in an entirely open way and the methods and software developed are available to the scientific community. Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw (AC2)
Dissemination and exploitation. The Polish Data Grid Consortium has been established in 2001. It includes seven Polish institutions (four physics institutes/universities - including INP Krakow, and three computing centers). The Consortium has been established largely due to the initiative of the INP Krakow. Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx (of INP Krakow) has been asked to lead the Consortium. Most partners of the Consortium are participating in the CrossGrid project, therefore it is natural that CrossGrid activity will play an essential role in the Consortium operations. Members of the Consortium are the partners in the POLGRID proposal, which has been submitted to the Polish State Committee for Scientific Research in spring 2001, proposing the development of GRID computing across a broad scientific community in Poland and awaiting final discussions and decisions. Experience with the CrossGrid will be transferred to the POLGRID project, if approved. Until now, the INP Krakow has been involved in the large international collaboration around the LHC experiments at CERN Geneva, SLD experiments in Fermilab, USA, and Belle experiments at KEK, Japan - all of them working intensively on GRID projects for physics. In these experiments, the INP personnel is involved in "on-line" filtering of data and data analysis, working hand-to-hand with other laboratories. One of the tasks (subtasks) of the CrossGrid project will perform the study of the use of GRID technologies in "on- line" filtering of physics data. We believe that, if successful, GRID technology could help substantially to reduce the size of local computing farms, necessary for "interactive" data processing. Actually, the INP staff is participating in the GRID meetings of the physics community at CERN and elsewhere. Some members participate in the Global Grid Forums (e.g. Amsterdam). The Web address of INP is xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx.xx/. and the CrossGrid project will be presented on its Web pages. INP will not develop its own testbed, however the testbed installed at Cyfronet will be used extensively. INP will develop the task (sub-task) of using the GRID for "on-line" filtering of the physics data which will be tested using the Cyfronet testbed. INP Krakow is interested in promoting GRID technology, as it provides opportunities for future scientific computing. In November 2000, we organized a one day workshop attended by four people from CERN DataGrid and about 20-30 people from INP Krakow, the Krakow Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, INS Warsaw, IC...
Dissemination and exploitation. DATAMAT is already strongly involved in the Grid activities at a continental level, being one the three industrial partners of DataGrid and being the prime contractor of SpaceGrid, a large project on application of Grid technology to the space field (earth observation, solar terrestrial physics, spacecraft engineering, space science), funded by the European Space Agency. For this reason, DATAMAT is already actively participating in Global Grid Forums and is, in particular, within the steering committee of the DataGrid Industry and Research Forum. Further than those specific events, generally involving at most Grid-aware organisations, DATAMAT is also, for the time being, actively promoting Grid towards the general public through the following means: • press conferences / articles on national newspapers, either on its own or in conjunction with the main Italian scientific institutions involved in the Grid (namely INFN and CNR); • a specific brochure on rationale behind DATAMAT commitment in GRID projects (including DataGrid, SpaceGrid - on going - and CrossGrid - under negotiation), which has been printed and distributed at recent GGF3 and at the last press conference DATAMAT is also planning to have a specific section of its web site devoted to Grid related projects, in particular, once it has achieved significant results from its internal investment project. In conclusion, DATAMAT will disseminate CrossGrid-related information through the same means and events, making it complementary to the already on going involvement in the other projects. Trinity College Dublin (AC14)
Dissemination and exploitation. The Department of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin will establish a testbed node for CrossGrid and will actively promote CrossGrid within the Grid-Ireland community, in which TCD is a founding partner. CrossGrid will greatly enhance the national grid activities, both systemically and in its international dimension. TCD will also participate in the development of the monitoring facilities that will support application-level performance evaluation. These nicely complement the non-invasive trace tools and databases that TCD has been developing over several years, and substantively extend the work in system-level monitoring that TCD is involved in within DataGrid. TCD will publish its results via the normal journal, conference, workshop and web channels, but will also introduce relevant material into undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CR15)
Dissemination and exploitation. Researchers from the UAB participating in the CrossGrid project belong mainly to two groups: the High Energy Physics Institute (IFAE) and the Computer Architecture and Operating Systems (CAOS) group. The IFAE group is the coordinator of Spanish HEP groups participating in the DataGrid project. They are involved in the testbed workpackage and, as a consequence, they will work in the deployment of a national grid network linked to the european DataGrid network. The CAOS group has been collaborating in scheduling problems since 1999 with the researchers of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) that are responsible for the Condor system. The computing resources of the CAOS Condor pool are planned to be linked in the near future with the Condor pool of the UWM, which has more than 700 machines. Further discussions will be undertaken to link the Spanish HEP grid with the UWM Condor pool in order to establish an international grid of sites that use the Condor system. On the other hand, both the IFAE and the CAOS groups, have submitted a proposal to the Catalan regional government to create a network of groups interested in distributed computing. The network will focus mainly on the dissemination of issues related to distributed computing and, eventually, will facilitate access to existing grid environments deployed by members of the network. UAB groups are involved in the testbed workpackage and will participate in the framework of HEP applications. Members of the CAOS group are currently participating in the discussions of the Scheduling Group of the Grid Forum. CrossGrid activities relating to scheduling will be disseminated to this discussion group as long as results of the CrossGrid consortium are produced. A common CrossGrid web page will be set up by the IFAE and the CAOS groups. This page will be linked to other particular pages from both groups and will also be linked to institutional web pages of the UAB devoted to dissemination of research projects that are carried out by UAB groups. A CrossGrid presentation could also be included in a newsletter of the UAB (named l'Autonoma) that is published every month and is addressed to the university community. Finally, the CAOS group will include references to the CrossGrid project in some of their graduate courses devoted to parallel and distributed computing. Some X.Xx. and Ph.D. students (two or three) are also planned to be involved in CrossGrid activities. In particular, they will work in scheduling topi...
Dissemination and exploitation. The Institute of Nuclear Physics of NCSR Demokritos is placing special emphasis on the dissemination of the results and the technological know-how and experience acquired in the context of the CrossGrid project. To this respect, the following actions will be implemented: • Organization of seminars on Grid technologies, tools and applications. These will be scheduled within the current program of seminars and advanced courses which the Institute is offering to postgraduate students and young researchers in the field of High Energy Physics. • Demonstration of the capabilities of the Grid network to interested parties in the Greek scientific community. The multi-disciplinary character of NCSR ‘Demokritos’, as well as that of the National Technical University of Athens and the University of Athens (both sub-contactors within CrossGrid) will facilitate communication with scientists and researchers in other scientific fields (e.g. biology, chemistry, computer science, meteorology etc). • Presentation of our results and experience at national and international scientific conferences and fora, as well as through publication of these results in international scientific journals. • In collaboration with the General Secretariat of Science and Technology of the Greek Ministry of Development, the INP will organize a daily presentation with the participation of leading authorities in the field of Grid technology. The aim will be to expose the Greek scientific community, as well as the private technological sector, to the capabilities of Grid-related technologies and applications. It is our belief, that these actions will greatly contribute towards the exposition and dissemination of our results and experience to interested parties and potential users of Grid technologies in Greece. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AC19)
Dissemination and exploitation. The Physics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki will play an active role in establishing collaboration with a number of departments and divisions with strong interests to benefit from the outcome of the CrossGrid project. In particular, the Computer Science Department is interested in the development of databases and visualisation in medical applications. Therefore they have a direct interest in the various WP’s of the project. The Department of Biology is active on DNA mapping. The Division of Environmental Physics is interested in handling large volumes of meteorological and atmospheric data. The Division of Astrophysics is also dealing with large volumes of data and are potential users of the testbed that will be developed by the HEP group within the context of the project. In close collaboration with the University and, in particular, with the Department of Computing of the Polytechnic School of X.X.Xx. is the Technological Park of Thessaloniki, which is a collaboration of various software and network-specialized companies with the University and a number of young researchers and graduate students. Some companies involved in the Technological Park are Intrasoft, Datalogic, Sigular etc. The prospects of the CrossGrid project will be presented to the above interested departments and companies and discussed via local workshops, newsletters and appropriately formulated web pages. The usual way is short - one day long - workshops, closely spaced in time - three to six months apart - where working groups will present results and get feedback from the companies and the various research groups. In appropriate web pages, which will be developed under the project, highlights from all the WP’s of the CrossGrid project will be regularly presented and updated and the various communication tools will be accessible for trying and feedback. Finally, interesting results on applications will appear regularly in magazines and monthly journals of the University and the Research Committee like: ANALECTA, POLYMICHANOS, PHENOMENON etc. Last but not least, the above mentioned divisions and departments have common projects with other Balkan countries like Turkey, Bulgaria, Rumania etc, with exchange of researchers and organization of common workshops and conferences on computing and networking. The aim is to establish contacts with these countries, participating in the above activities in order to develop ties with the CrossGrid project and the Research Inst...
Dissemination and exploitation. University of Vienna (UNIVIE) Organic connection of project intermediate results and respective communication with societal ac- tors and end users are import part of agile project management principles. Therefore, both F2F (once a year) and 2-3 virtual seminars per year and especially societal actor related workshops (annually) will be arranged to get this feedback. Scrum-methodology will be used to guide the whole project and the individual sub-teams. Chat-forums, sub-project targeted wikis and Twitter techniques will be developed to support the real-time agile project management principles. We focus especially to optimization of efficient and high quality management structures such that the management related bureaucracy - burden could be minimized but the effect of quality supporting feedback structures could be maximized. This work package will also manage the general public promotion of the results and benefits of the system to facilitate its adoption in real life. The respec- tive dissemination processes will be researched, developed and realized together with local health authorities is all the participating countries of this study. This gives also some more perspectives of how the message of preventive care could be clearly convoyed in different cultures. 2013 2014 2015 2016
