Institute of Informatics Slovak Academy of Sciences EGEE II NA2 activities Ladislav Hluchý Peter Kurdel Miroslav Dobrucký Jolana Sebestyénová Institute of Informatics Slovak Academy of Sciences Bratislava Slovakia sebestyenova@savba.sk http://www.ui.sav.sk Prague, November 27 – 28, 2007

NA2 activities Web portals NA2.5 User relations and websites EGEE SK web portal http://www.ui.sav.sk/egee/ VVT web portal http://www.ui.sav.sk/vvt/ Translations NA2.3 Production of promotional material News Releases translations (Avian Flu,Singing Volcanoes, WISDOM, …) Info sheets translations (Industry Involved, GILDA, gLITE, Applications on EGEE, ...) EGEE conferences and other actions propagation (Invitations for media, poster A0 “IISAS in EGEE” pdf , download http://www.ui.sav.sk/media/EGEEposterIISAS.jpg , …) NA2.A.7 Dissemination Publications in conference proceedings and journals NA2.A.6 EGEE II publications (journal papers, ..) Presentations for Slovak Scientists NA2.A.7 Dissemination Conferences organization accompanied by grid tutorials NA2.6 Events organisation and attendance EADC 2006 Bratislava Oct 16-17, 2006 http://conference.ui.sav.sk/eadc2006/ GCCP 2006 Bratislava Nov 27-29, 2006 http://conference.ui.sav.sk/gccp2006/ GCCP 2007 Bratislava Oct 22-23, 2007 http://conference.ui.sav.sk/gccp2007/ Industry Day organization http://www.ui.sav.sk/egee/BratislavaDay/ NA2.2 Industrial and gov. relations Slovak Media articles in journals and newspapers, interviews in TV and radio NA2.1 Media relations Plans and problems Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

EGEE SK Web Portal The Slovak EGEE information portal created in the frame of the EGEE project in Slovakia provides grid related (especially EGEE grid related) information to users from all communities (science, education, industry, and developers). http://www.ui.sav.sk/egee/ Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

EGEE SK Web Portal Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

EGEE SK Web Portal Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

VVT Web Portal The aim of VVT information portal of SAS is to provide information about possibilities to use high performance computing available for the research and scientific workers of Slovak academy of sciences. At the time, SAS does not dispose of any supercomputer, and it aims to use supercomputers abroad until National supercomputer centre will be created. Another possibility is to use computer clusters connected in grid infrastructure, such as EGEE. Research workers of SAS can acquire access to high-performance clusters in Europe by membership in virtual organizations. http://www.ui.sav.sk/vvt Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

VVT Web Portal Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

VVT Web Portal Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

VVT Web Portal VVT information portal of SAS gives comprehensive information about computing possibilities. For beginner users, the VVT portal provides flash animation of personal certificate requirement demonstration and flash animation of importing personal certificate into a browser in GENIUS–GILDA environment, … VVT information portal also brings actual information about related events, e.g. conferences, workshops, seminars, courses, etc. and news releases related to grids. Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

VVT Web Portal Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

Publications and presentations Publications in Conference Proceedings and Journals: An Accession to Distributed Modelling and Simulation of Systems in Grid Infrastructure, ECI’2006, Herľany, Sept 20-22 Distributed Modelling and Simulation for collaborative E-science in Grid Infrastructure, 2nd WSEAS Int Symp on GRID COMPUTING, Lisbon, Sept 22-24, 2006 About Knowledge Management and Distributed Computing for collaborative E-science in Grid Infrastructure, WSEAS Trans. on COMPUTERS Flood application on the EGEE grid, Journal of Grid Computing, To appear Presentations for Slovak Scientists: KIT Commission for IT of SAS on September 5, 2006 Info Day of Computing Center of SAS on September 12, 2006 Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

EADC 2006 International Conference on Environmental Applications and Distributed Computing HPCN Environmental Modelling and Simulation Usage of Knowledge and Semantics in Environmental Applications Environmental Risk Assessment Grid and Cluster Computing Bratislava, October 16-17, 2006 http://conference.ui.sav.sk/eadc2006/ Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

GCCP 2006 2nd International Workshop on Grid Computing for Complex Problems Grid and Cluster Computing High Performance Distributed Computing and Large Scale Simulation Use of Knowledge and Semantics in Grid and Cluster Computing Intelligent and Knowledge oriented Technologies (in the conjunction with WIKT2006) Associate action: to create national Grid initiative "Making the Grid accessible for electronic science in Slovakia - Sprístupnenie Gridu pre elektronickú vedu na Slovensku", which will help to improve the e-science in Slovakia through the creation of virtual organizations for individual science branches. The workshop's aim was to join Grid specialists with complex application users. Bratislava, November 27-29, 2006 http://conference.ui.sav.sk/gccp2006/ Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

GCCP 2007 3nd International Workshop on Grid Computing for Complex Problems Bratislava, October 22-23, 2007 http://conference.ui.sav.sk/gccp2007/ Grid and Service-oriented Computing Distributed Computing and Large Scale Applications Distributed and Large Scale Data Access and Management Research Infrastructures National and International Grid Projects Use of Knowledge and Semantics in Distributed Computing Special Session: Environmental Applications and Distributed Computing Associate action: Grid Tutorials and Courses for EGEE II Infrastructure Users. Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

GCCP 2007 - tutorial Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

Industry Day Grid for Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Challenges Industry Day Bratislava, September 19, 2007 Grid for Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Challenges Venue: Hotel SOREA, Kráľovské údolie 6, Bratislava, Slovakia Sponsor: Support Partner: Minister of Health Service of SR Recruitment for the ID targets: National and global pharmaceutical and biotech firms Medical research institutions Representatives from nationally located hospitals Government decision and policy-makers Informatics http://www.eu-egee.org/bratislavaday http://www.ui.sav.sk/egee/BratislavaDay Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

Industry Day Grid for Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Challenges Industry Day Bratislava, September 19, 2007 Grid for Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Challenges The first part of the event focused on: Introduction to EGEE’s Programme for Industry EGEE’s gLite Middleware Current EGEE Developments in Bio-Informatics EGEE's Drug Discovery Initiative, WISDOM-II & Live Demo Health-e-Child: gLite Adoption Case Study The second part of the agenda revolved around the Slovak e-Health National Strategy, including the creation and usage of Electronic Health Records (also in an international context). Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

Industry Day Grid for Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Challenges Industry Day Bratislava, September 19, 2007 Grid for Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Challenges Total number of participants: 63 ID participants statistics: Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

Industry Day WISDOM demo Industry Day Bratislava, September 19, 2007 Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

Industry Day Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

EGEE in Slovak Media Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

EGEE in Slovak Media Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

EGEE in Slovak Media Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

EGEE in Slovak Media WWW.MFS.SK SEPTEMBER 2006 24 SK Ústav informatiky Slovenskej akadémie vied (ÚI SAV) sa tento rok na jar podieľal na rýchlom vyhľadaní zlúčenín schopných blokovať činnosť jedného z enzýmov na povrchu chrípkového vírusu vtáčej chrípky H5N1. A nebol to prvý ani jediný prínos tohto pracoviska pre chod gigantického svetového laboratória, ktoré prostredníctvom gridových technológií umožňuje vedcom na celom svete pracovať naraz na obrovskom množstve počítačov. Ústav informatiky je už dlhoročnou renomovanou súčasťou celosvetovej gridovej infraštruktúry. A hoci aj pre tento ústav platí, že doma nik nie je prorokom, vo svete má cveng nielen vo vedeckých kruhoch, ale aj v priemyselnej, biomedicínskej či ekologicko-ekonomickej praxi. Pozornosť mu venujú aj zahraničné médiá, elektronické nevynímajúc. ÚI SAV je totiž súčasťou celosvetového virtuálneho pracoviska, ktoré umožňuje používateľom gridových technológií využívať obrovskú výpočtovú kapacitu veľkého množstva počítačových pracovísk. Okrem toho, že záujemcom o služby vie na riešenie ich úloh zabezpečiť optimálny prístup, manažuje ich tak, aby využili gridové technológie, ktoré sú pre nich najefektívnejšie a najekonomickejšie. V projekte EGEE je napríklad certifikačnou autoritou pre celé Slovensko jeden z pracovníkov UI SAV. Používateľ gridových technológií, ktorý ešte nie je na takej úrovni, že by sa mohol stať súčasťou ozajstnej virtuálnej organizácie, kde sa riešia závažné úlohy, sa môže prihlásiť do VOCE, testovacej Virtuálnej organizácie centrálnej Európy. Pomôcť mu pritom môže práve ÚI SAV. Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

EGEE in Slovak Media Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

EGEE in Slovak Media EGEE in the Slovak television TA3 on July 28, 2006 Do hľadania účinného lieku proti vtáčej chrípke sa zapojili aj vedci zo Slovenskej akadémie vied – konkrétne Ústav informatiky. Ten spolupracoval na rýchlom vyhľadaní zlúčenín, ktoré by dokázali zablokovať činnosť jedného z enzýmov na povrchu vírusu H5N1. Svojimi počítačmi ústav prispel do vytvorenia veľkého počítačového prostredia, v ktorom sa zadaná úloha riešila. http://www.ui.sav.sk/media/EGEEnaTA3.avi Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

Industry Day - Dissemination & Outreach to Press & Media ID Bratislava Grid for Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Challenges Stephanie Parker prepared interview with Viera Rusnakova for IF newsletter An interview with IISAS director Ladislav Hluchý for Slovak radio Devin – program “Solarium” on research, science and technology achievements – where information on IISAS activities, as well as on ID was given on August 22, 13:00 – 13:30 http://www.ui.sav.sk/media/SolariumAug22.mp3 ID Information on SAS webpage http://www.sav.sk/index.php?lang=sk&charset=&doc=services-news&news_no=1561 Information sent to Slovak press office TASR on 14.9.2007 Title: “Informačný deň pre elektronické zdravotníctvo” – invitation for media Newspaper SME 19.9.2007 Title: “V Bratislave je dnes Informačný deň pre elektronické zdravotníctvo” http://www.sme.sk/c/3493584/V-Bratislave-je-dnes-Informacny-den-pre-elektronicke-zdravotnictvo.html Newspaper SME 26.9.2007 Title: “Ústav informatiky SAV sa zapojil do tvorby národných gridových iniciatív EÚ” http://www.sme.sk/c/3505369/Ustav-informatiky-SAV-sa-zapojil-do-tvorby-narodnych-gridovych-iniciativ-EU.html Journal “Health care news” (in Slovak: Zdravotnícke noviny) on 27.9.2007 Title: “Nový poradca a informátor v znalostnej medicíne” http://www.ui.sav.sk/media/ZN_2007-9-27.pdf Newspaper “Hospodárske noviny” 5.10.2007 Title: “Využitie počítačového gridu” http://www.ui.sav.sk/media/HN_2007-10-5.pdf An interview with IISAS director Ladislav Hluchý for Slovak radio Devin – program “Solarium” – info on ID and EGEE biomedical applications on Oct 17, http://www.ui.sav.sk/media/SolariumOkt17.mp3 Journal “Eurobiznis” 10/2007 Title: “Grid vo farmácii a v biomedicíne” http://www.ui.sav.sk/media/EurobiznisOkt2007.pdf One more article has been prepared for Journal “Health care news” (in Slovak: Zdravotnícke noviny) – in print Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

EGEE in Slovak Media EGEE in the Slovak radio Devin on Aug 22, 2007 An interview with IISAS director Ladislav Hluchý for Slovak radio Devin – program “Solarium” on research, science and technology achievements – where information on IISAS activities, as well as on ID was given on August 22, 13:00 – 13:30. http://www.ui.sav.sk/media/SolariumAug22.mp3 Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

EGEE in Slovak Media Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

EGEE in Slovak Media Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

EGEE in Slovak Media Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

EGEE in Slovak Media Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

EGEE in Slovak Media EGEE in the Slovak radio Devin on Oct 17, 2007 An interview with IISAS director Ladislav Hluchý for Slovak radio Devin – program “Solarium” on research, science and technology achievements – where information on ID and EGEE biomedical applications was given on October 17, 13:00 – 13:30 http://www.ui.sav.sk/media/SolariumOkt17.mp3 Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

EGEE in Slovak Media Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007

Plans and problems Grid for Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Challenges Industry Day Bratislava, September 19, 2007 Grid for Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Challenges can be considered a successful event in that it has gained interest not only of the targeted audience from pharmaceutical and biomedical companies, hospitals, medical research and universities and informatics, but also of the governmental decision and policy makers. In short time, we will organize a meeting with a possible future industry partner interested in medical imaging - PET Centrum BIONT, a.s. (private biomedical firm). Another promising contact is from the field of chemical terrorism prevention and elimination of consequences of chemical and biological attack on the population. Discussions on possible future collaboration with National Health Information Centre of the Slovak Republic are going on. IISAS is preparing a proposition of a national grid infrastructure project, in which partners from different application areas will be included. Some of the most perspective application areas seem to be bioinformatics, eHealth, etc. More detailed information on standards used in medical imaging and their accessibility and usage in EGEE infrastructure would be helpful for us in these activities. Prague, November 27 - 28, 2007