D4Science at OGF23

OGF OGF23, one of the largest and most important events held this year, featured an extensive community program for those interested in learning about Grid and distributed computing technologies. This event, held in Barcelona (2-6 June 2008), was organised in various sessions ranging from "Cloud Computing" to sessions dedicated to "Standards and Research Groups". Three keynote speeches were given: (i) Les Robertson (leading the LHC Computing Grid Project), (ii) Mario Campolargo (Acting Director in the European Commission, DG INFSO/F "Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures" and Head of Unit "GÉANT & e-Infrastructure”), and (iii) Werner Vogels (Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com).

The D4Science Project Director (Donatella Castelli) and the Technical Director (Pasquale Pagano) participated in the "Digital Repositories - Interoperability Using Grid Technologies" session by presenting the D4Science vision and outcomes.

Donatella Castelli gave a talk entitled "Natural Resource Science: Environmental Monitoring and Fisheries and Aquaculture Resource Management". She presented case studies from specific domains focusing on the D4Science solutions to key challenges and user requirements.
Pasquale Pagano presented the "gCube: A Framework for Controlled Sharing of Data, Services, and Computing Storage Resources" and gave insight into data, services and computing sharing, and storage resources using gCube, i.e. key horizontal issues in e-Infrastructures.

This session (held on the 5 June) concluded with a special roundtable discussion in which key researchers and practitioners reviewed the findings and recommendations for common standards and interoperability.

The Open Grid Forum (OGF) is a community of users, developers, and vendors leading the global standardisation effort for grid computing and applied distributed computing. The OGF community consists of thousands of individuals in industry and research, representing over 400 organisations in more than 50 countries. For more information: http://www.ogf.org

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