NA3 Open Meeting

Friday 24 Sept 2004, 09:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

Karlsruhe, Germany

David Fergusson

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this meeting is to review NA3 progress, plan for the future and share experiences. The meeting has specific goals of jointly arriving at decisions and action plans in a number of areas to be discussed in small breakout groups. The areas currently identified are -

• Planning. The next training and execution plans.
• Liaison between NA3 and JRA1, JRA3, SA1, NA2 and NA4. Areas to be covered include: a grid training platform; training needs; timing of middleware and production service changes; interface between NA3 and other activities.
• Training Materials - the Repository and Quality Assurance.
• E-Learning - identifying directions.

It is expected that participants will arrive in Karlsruhe on the evening of 23rd September.
We will be arranging a meeting place for those who would like to meet up informally for a meal on that evening.
We intend to end the meeting in time for participants to catch return flights on the evening of 24th September.

REGISTRATION is open from now until 20th September.
Registration is being managed by the UK National e-Science Centre, via registration web page.

VENUE LOCATION Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe ("Research Centre Karlsruhe"),Institute for Scientific Computing, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany.

FURTHER DETAILS
This page gives details of travel to Karlsruhe, and hotels. Participants are asked to book their own accommodation.

ANY PROBLEMS with local arrangements, contact Ruediger Berlich, Tel. +49 (0)7247 825678.

09:00 → 09:05 Welcome

Speaker: Rudiger Berlich (Forschungszentrum, Karlsruhe)

09:05 → 09:30 NA3 Overview

Speaker: David Fergusson (National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh)

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09:30 → 10:30 Federations

A representative of each federation will give a brief presentation on the NA3 activities within that federation.

Speaker: Malcolm Atkinson (National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh)

10:30 → 10:45 Introduction to Working Groups

The leader of each working group will highlight the issues to be discussed by the group and the outcomes to be acheived.

Speaker: Dave Berry (National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh)

10:45 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Working Group Meetings

Parallel Sessions -

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Working Group Meetings

Parallel sessons of the working groups, to formulate issues and commit to action points.

15:00 → 15:30 Plenary Session

5 minute presentations from each working group.

Speaker: Malcolm Atkinson (National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh)

15:30 → 15:45 Coffee

15:45 → 16:30 Plenary Session continued

General Discussion.

16:30 → 16:40 Closing Remarks

Speaker: Malcolm Atkinson and David Fergusson (National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh)