The UNICORE Forum e.V. is an organizational member of the Open Grid Forum (OGF).

Forschungszentrum Jülich is a member of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).

UNICORE is part of the European Middleware Initiative.

UNICORE and Supercomputing Workshop 2009

Date and location

The UNICORE and Supercomputing Workshop 2009 takes place on March 18, 2009 at the new headquarter of the German Weatherservice (Deutscher Wetterdienst, DWD) in Offenbach near Frankfurt (Main), Germany.

Objective

The objective of the workshop is to present and demonstrate interesting results of UNICORE usage in Supercomputing to major stakeholders in Supercomputing from Germany and Europe as well as to members of the UNICORE Forum.

Programme

14:00 - 14:05	Geerd-Rüdiger Hoffmann (DWD) Welcome
14:05 - 14:35	Achim Streit (Forschungszentrum Jülich - Jülich Supercomputing Center) UNICORE 6 - A European Grid Technology PDF
14:35 - 15:10	Stefan Zasada (University College London) Using the HemeLB parallel Lattice-Boltzmann code on multiple interoperable e-Science infrastructures PDF
15:10 - 15:45	Martin Hofmann-Apitius (Fraunhofer SCAI and University of Bonn) UNICORE, Supercomputing and Life Sciences PDF
15:45 - 16:05	Terry Sloan (University of Edinburgh - EPCC) The DEISA Life-Science Portal based on UNICORE 6 PDF
Coffee Break
16:20 - 16:55	Jörg Schumacher (TU Ilmenau) Supercomputing studies in turbulent dry and moist convection PDF
16:55 - 17:30	Xavier Delaruelle (CEA/DAM) Integration of UNICORE 6 at CEA PDF
17:30 - 18:00	Alfred Geiger (T-Systems SfR) Service-Concepts for industrial HPC PDF
Closure of the workshop

Programme as PDF

In the morning from 11:00-13:00 the UNICORE Forum e.V. will hold its biannual general meeting. Participation is for members only.

Snacks by will be served for lunch between 13:00 and 14:00.

The day closes with a dinner reception after the workshop.

Travel information

More information on how to get to DWD can be found here.

DWD is easily reachable by public transport from Frankfurt/Main airport within 26 minutes by train and approx. 10 minutes walking. From the regional train station within Frankfurt airport take either line S8 towards "Offenbach (Main) Ost" or line S9 towards "Hanau Hbf". Exit at stop "Offenbach (Main) Ledermuseum" and use the map to walk to DWD.

Registration

Please use the registration form to register for the workshop.