NorduGrid Collaboration's Special Event Track 
at the EGC2005, Amseterdam, 15 February 2005
http://genias.biz/egc2005/



Session 1 (14:00 - 16:00) Grid Computing with ARC middleware
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1, Welcome and Introduction (Balazs Konya Lund University, 5 min)
	Some history, NorduGrid Collaboration, ARC middleware, 
	ARC philosophy, positioning ARC in the Ocean of the Grids


2, The Advanced Resource Connector (ARC) in a nutshell (Oxana Smirnova CERN/Lund University, 10 min)
        Architecture, components, functionality, features, software distribution


3, ARC from the SYSADMIN's perpective (Balazs Konya, 10 min) 
	technical details of a non-intrusive Grid-layer


4, ARC from the USER'S	perspective: ARC clients, user interfaces

 4a, Command-line client (Mattias Ellert Uppsala University, 10 min)
	ng* commands, XRSL language, UI library, GUI developments

 4b, ARC-based Application portal (Jonas Lindemann Lund University, 15 min)

 4c, Advanced resource brokering on ARC (Erik Elmroth Umea University 15 min)

 4d, Unicore Client interface to ARC (Csaba Anderlik Parallab Bergen, 10 min)


5, ARC customers: ARC-based national Grid deployments, the ARC user community
   and ARC-based R&D
 
 5a, Panoramic view of ARC usage in Europe (Balazs Konya 20 min) 
      Swegrid, NorGrid, Finnish M-Grid, Eesti Grid, Slovenia, Slovakia,
      Danish Production Grid*
      
 5b, Large scale production with ARC (Oxana Smirnova, 15 min)
	The HEP Atlas community 

 5c, Enforcing resource allocations with the SweGrid Accounting System 
     (SGAS)(Peter Gardfjäll Umea University, 15 min)
 
 

* The Danish Grid activities will be presented separately during
a Monday afternoon Special Even Track
http://www.genias.biz/egc2005/vmp/articles/Schedule/ST-20050108-8-28-42.html
http://www.genias.biz/egc2005/vmp/articles/Schedule/ST-20050108-8-31-58.html




Session 2 (16:30 - 18:00) Live demonstrations
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-What is running on an ARC server: ARC services (Balazs Konya, 10 min)

-ARC client setup in five minutes (Balazs Konya, Oxana Smirnova, 5 min)

-Tour on the Grid: The Grid monitor (Oxana Smirnova, 15 min)

-ARC grid job description: XRSL templates (Oxana Smirnova, 10 min)

-Understanding an ARC grid job: job submission, job control, 
 handling input/output (Mattias Ellert, 15 min)
 
-Resource selection, brokering with ARC (Mattias Ellert, 5 min)

-Grid Portals based on ARC, GUIs  (Jonas?, Csaba?, Balazs, 15 min) 

-Grid Video Recorder (Balazs Konya, 5 min)