Call for participation: SDCD 2012: Supporting Science with Cloud Computing in Bern

The Swiss Distributed Computing Day is an annual meeting of users and providers of distributed computing technologies. This year’s theme is “Supporting Science with Cloud Computing” and it will be held on

November 19 2012 at the University of Bern.

The event is free of charge and the registration deadline is November 15th.

Date: November 19, 2012
Location: University of Bern, Kuppelraum, Hochschulstrasse 4, Bern
Registration: the event is free of charge, deadline November 15th (limited space, early registration recommended): Information/registration »

OPENING
9:45 – 10:15 Registration/Coffee
10:15 – 10:30 Welcome and Introduction [FMI/SwiNG: Dean Flanders]

SESSION 1: Science
10:30 – 11:00 Geology Studies Using Grid Resources [UZH: Stephan Gruber]
11:00 – 11:30 Human Brain Simulation Project [EPFL: Thomas Heinis]
11:30 – 12:00 The EcoCloud Project [EPFL: Anne Wiggins]

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

SESSION 2: Cloud Architecture
13:00 – 13:30 Academic Compute Cloud Project at ETH [ETH/SystemsX: Peter Kunszt]
13:30 – 14:00 From Bare-Metal to Cloud [ZHAW/ICClab: Andrew Edmonds]
14:00 – 14:30 Review of CERN Data Center Infrastructure [CERN: Gavin McCance]

SESSION 3: Research Cloud Consortiums
14:30 – 15:00 Big Science in the Public Clouds: Watching ATLAS proton collisions at CloudSigma [CloudSigma: Michael Higgins]
15:00 – 15:30 Supporting Research with Flexible Computational Resources [University Oxford: David Wallom]
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 16:30 The iPlant Collaborative: Science in the Cloud for Plant Biology [University of Arizona/iPlant: Edwin Skidmore]

CLOSING
16:30 – 17:00 Tiny Particle within Huge Data [ETH: Christoph Grab]
17:00 – 18:00 Roundtable discussion: Cloud Strategies and thoughts for Researchers in Switzerland