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26IntegrationActivitiesThe aim ofintegrationactivities is toestablish durablemechanisms andinfrastructures forfostering sustainableintegration and restructuringof theNetwork’s research.▼Sergei GorlatchIntegration Leader, University of MünsterThe main objective of the integration activities is toestablish durable mechanisms and infrastructure forfostering the sustainable integration and re-structuringof the Network’s research, and to contribute to theseamless collaboration and dissemination of the workwithin the Network of Excellence. Numerous activitiesare organised and implemented, which will contributeto a high degree of sustainable integration betweenthe partners, with the ultimate goal of overcoming thecurrent fragmentation of Grid research.Co-ordination of thescientific annual roadmapAn annual roadmap has been drawn upfor the six research areas (Institutes)contributing to the CoreGRID JointResearch Programme. The ScientificAnnual Roadmap is intended to beused as a single gateway to thedifferent Institutes’ roadmaps, includinga high-level scientific positioning of thewhole Network within the context of theGrid research landscape. The roadmapis developed in close cooperationwith the Scientific Advisory Board andIndustrial Advisory Board of CoreGRID.The deliverable produced for theScientific Annual Roadmap isavailable on the CoreGRID website:http://www.coregrid.net/Institutes/Co-ordinatedapproach to prepareproject proposalsThis task within the integrationactivities provides support tomembers willing to participate inprojects or programmes partiallyfunded by national, bilateral ormultilateral agencies, leading tobetter integration. The Networkidentified among its members thesuitable contact points to collectinformation on national Gridinitiatives that could generate projectproposals. The same activity wasconducted at the European level bythe project co-ordinator. Fundingsources have been identified anddescribed on a private website. Sofar, several research and developmentprojects initiated by CoreGRIDpartners have been accepted andfunded by the European commission:GridComp, SelfMan, XtreemOS,EchoGrid, Grid test and Bridge.Internal collaborationand disseminationThe CoreGRID internal collaborationand dissemination is managed througha dedicated collaborative tool, namelythe BSCW server regularly maintainedand upgraded by the system manager.This source of information is obviouslyconfidential and thus only availablefor the Network participants inorder to share data and documentsrelated to the Network activities. Inaddition, it provides the partners withthe latest management documentsand project archives. More than240 users are registered and sharedocuments independently of thespecific computer systems they use.
Regular integrationworkshopsOne of the Network’s objectiveshas been to set up a regular, highqualityworkshop for the participantsof CoreGRID from all Institutes. TheCoreGRID Integration Workshop2006 was held in Krakow, Poland,on October 19-20, 2006 at the IFJPAN, attracting 89 participants. Thebest papers were selected by meansof an external reviewing procedureand were published in a Springervolume of the CoreGRID series.The final CoreGRID IntegrationWorkshop 2008 took place inHeraklion, Crete, Greece, on April2-4, 2008, hosted by the Instituteof Computer Science ICS-FORTH,Hellas. The programme featured43 presentations on collaborativework between CoreGRID partners, ofwhich 21 were regular papers and22 were poster presentations. Inaddition, invited talks were givenby Prof. Yannis Ioannidis, Prof. EwaDeelman, and Christos Nikolaou.Sixty-seven participants werealready committed to participatebefore the early registrationdeadline on February, 15 2008.As in previous years, the workshopproceedings will be published at thebeginning of the workshop. The nextstep will be the second review of thebest papers which will be publishedin the final Springer volume.The figure displays the CoreGRIDInstitutes arranged on a circle,showing joint papers submitted to theworkshop in cooperation by severalpartners as lines between them.Grid testbedsThe CoreGRID testbed activities aimat providing researchers with supportto access Grid testbeds maintainedand operated in collaboration withCoreGRID partners. The databasestoring information on experience,policies and best-practice reportsincludes data about testbeds bothon national and European level,which are available for CoreGRIDresearchers. In addition to the DutchDAS and the French Grid 5000, theresearchers can now access the PolishCLUSTERIX, the German VIOLA andthe European PHOSPHORUS testbed,as well as all experiments madeusing these testbeds. A number ofsuccessful experiments have beenconducted using resources of theDAS and Grid’5000 jointly. Experiencereports can be downloaded from thetestbed web pages on the privatecollaborative tool at https://bscw.ercim.org/bscw/bscw.cgi/62053The figure above displays thecurrent topology of the opticalnetwork connections related to theEuropean PHOSPHORUS project.Moreover, a grid testbed based onGlobus Toolkit 4 and UNICORE 6was installed on top of this opticalnetwork. Several CoreGRID partnerscontribute to the PHOSPHOROUSproject and the testbed, whichis thus open for CoreGRIDexperiments. These experimentsespecially contributed towards theQoS of the underlying network.Common understandingof trust and securityThe Trust and Security activityin CoreGRID runs as a horizontalintegration activity related to all theresearch areas studied within theNetwork. It ensures that the Networkparticipants are aware of the useof trust and security technologiesin modern grid environments. EachCoreGRID Institute includes researchgroups focusing on integration workin this area. In 2007, this activityorganised Grid-STP 2007, the FirstInternational Workshop on Security,Trust and Privacy in Grid Systems.Other results are expected through theparticipation in the CoreGRID mobilityprogramme (Fellowship Programmeand Research Exchange Programme)targeted specifically at Grid security.Another important outcome results fromthe joint CoreGRID white paper on thecurrent state of the art of Grid security.In addition, numerous CoreGRIDtechnical reports, presentationsat international conferences andpublication in journals on this topicwere gathered. Central to this activityis the Internet-based CoreGRID Trustand Security Portal, which serves asa communication forum on Grid trustand security and provides informationabout tools, projects, research groups,publications and events. As a way ofillustration, the figure on the left showsa fragment of the security requirementsfor a Grid data management systemusing the KAOS goal-orientedrequirements-engineering methodology(spin-off FP6 project GridTrust).27AnnualReport2007
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