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SIENA Netwroking Session @ ICT2010
Distributed Computing, which encompasses technologies like clouds, grids and Web 2.0, is key to driving forward innovation in enterprise, government and research. With interoperable standards in place ens-user communities would have at their disposal more resources, freedom of choice and reduced vendor lock-in. Interoperability would enable e-Infrastructure providers to ensure the easier deployment and management of software distributions. SIENA is technically co-ordinated by OGF.eeig, with the aim of driving forward interoperability standards with European priorities firmly in mind.
In synergy with another European project dedicated to future internet research, SIENA co-hosted a Networking Session at ICT2010, Europe's largest event on Information & Communitication Technologies (ICT) on Monday 27 September at the Expo Brussels. The Session, entitled Standards for e-Infrastructures & Future Internet Research brought together major stakeholders from the distributed computing, standards and policy arena.
Expressions of Interest
The following people have posted expressions of interest on the ICT2010 web pages dedicated to the SIENA Networking Session.
Ignacio BLANQUER, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Application porting will strongly be affected by the availability of standards. Application developers can be reluctant to adapt their components to a specific platform if there is not a guaranteed support, at least in the medium term. By reducing the cost of migrating applications from one platform to another, this issue is reduced. From the VENUS-C user scenario activity, we want to demonstrate the suitability of commercial and public Cloud platforms for research, and therefore we share the interest in this topic.
Götz BRASCHE, European Microsoft Innovation Center, Germany
Definitely a very valuable session - especially with a view to the emerging paradigm of data intensive science. Without doubt, researchers heavily benefit form open cloud computing technologies and interoperability with other existing and emerging infrastructures such as Grids and the future Internet. Moreover, this session will facilitate networking and alignment between the DCI projecs cofunded by the EC such as VENUS-C.
Elisa MORON LOPEZ, ISOTROL, Spain
Definitely a very valuable session.
Patrick GUILLEMIN, European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), France
ETSI TC CLOUD is pleased to support this event.
Arne BERRE, SINTEF, Norway
The ENVISION project is working with an update for the ISO 19119 standard on a generic services architecture and e-Infrastructure applied for spatial/environmental services, www.envision-project.eu.
The FP7 SHAPE and REMICS projects have just concluded the SoaML standard for service modeling in OMG, we are now looking into CloudML/PIM4Cloud.
Laurent SCIBOZ. HES-SO University of Applied Sciences Switzerland
Looking forward to join and see future collaboration.
Michael SCHEMBRI, Paragon Europe, Malta
we would like to know more about your project proposals since we are looking for partners.
Silvana MUSCELLA, Trust-IT Services Ltd, UK
This session acts as a build up on the discussions which will take place at the first SIENA roadmapping event to take place on 27th October in conjunction with OGF30. Don't miss these two important events which will have a number of SDOs, DCI projects and experts from enterprise and eScience driving forward talks to help align the global standardization of distributed computing infrastructures and emerging cloud computing.
Nicholas FERGUSON, Trust-IT Services LTD, UK
This networking session is an important initial step forward for the SIENA project. By working closely with standardisation and interoperability initiatives, the SIENA project is supporting standards and interoperability throughout European research infrastructures. Increasing the collaboration of FP7 and ESFRI projects with standards bodies carries those outcomes to the EGI initiative and the DCI community, a main target of support for the project. The development of the DCI roadmap through the SIENA project comes in a timely manner to support the Digital Agenda for Europe.
Daniele LEZZI, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
As researcher at an HPC center and participant in DCI projects, I believe that open standards implementations are necessary for the heterogeneous integration of HPC solutions enabling interoperability and accelerating adoption. The role of the SIENA project for the development of the DCI roadmap is of primary importance at EU level to demonstrate the adoption and evolution of interoperable e-Infrastructures through the coordination of the different DCIs players and the reinforcement of the open standards message.
