EGEE-II INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks NA2 in Bulgaria SEE Federation Aneta Karaivanova, Rayna Georgieva and Krassimir Georgiev IPP-BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI NA2 Partner Review, November 2007, Prague 2 About IPP The Institute for Parallel Processing of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Center of Excellence) has a leading position among the scientific institutions in Bulgaria in: Computer Science Scientific Computations Parallel and Grid Computing Linguistic Modeling Communications and Control Participation in the EGEE 2 activities: SA1, NA2, NA3, NA4

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI NA2 Partner Review, November 2007, Prague 3 Major NA2 contribution National Grid Day – January International scientific grid workshops:  “Computational Grid and Large-Scale Problems” in the framework of 6 th int. conf. LSSC’07, June 2007, Sozopol, Bulgaria (publications in Springer LNCS)  “Network and Grid Infrastructures” in the framework of 3 rd Balkan Conference on Informatics, September 2007, Sofia, Bulgaria Industry events –Exhibitor at the annual national IT exhibition BAIT EXPO, November 2006, International EXPO Center, Sofia –Follow-up events: 3 seminars for SMEs, publications 25 EGEE presentations at various: international scientific conferences (6), international scientific(2) and national workshops (1), governmental (4) and industry events (5), grid seminars organized within BAS (5), and other events

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI NA2 Partner Review, November 2007, Prague 4 Opening of the National Grid and Communication Center at IPP-BAS Opening of the National Grid and Communication Center by the Chairman of the State Agency for Information Technology and Communications Mr. Plamen Vachkov Presentation by academician Kiril Boyanov, director of IPP-BAS Production of Press release 10 publications about this event BG04-ACAD has low-latency Myrinet interconnect for all 80 CPUs – unique resource for special MPI jobs (on the picture)

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI NA2 Partner Review, November 2007, Prague 5 Computational Grid and Large Scale Problems 6th Int. Conf. LSSC’07, June 2007, Sozopol, Bulgaria a good way to present grid applications with high scientific impact in front of a broad scientific audience Selected papers published in Springer LNCS – a series with impact factor

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI NA2 Partner Review, November 2007, Prague 6 Media Relations News Releases –Produced – 4 –Translated - 15 Press Cuttings –National daily newspapers – 2 –Weekly newspapers – 9 –On-line media - 6 –Information Bulletin of BAS (in Bulgarian) – 4 –EGEE Newsletter - 1 Interviews – 2 radio interviews Scientific Publications –Springer LNCS – 3 –Journal "Avtomatica i Informatica" (in Bulgarian), distributed at the International Fair - Plovdiv (the fair has the largest ground in Southeastern Europe) – 2 –Conference Proceedings -3

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI NA2 Partner Review, November 2007, Prague 7 Events National events organized by IPP-BAS as a NA2 partner –Academia-related events  Special session: "Bulgarian Involvement in the EU Grid Initiatives" in the framework of the 6th Int. conf. on NMA, August 20-24, 2006, Borovets, Bulgaria  Seminar at the Institute of Microbiology, April 5, 2007  Seminar at IPP-BAS (participants from Technical University – Sofia, May 21, 2007  Seminar at the Bioinformatics section of the Bulgarian Union of Mathematicians, June 2007  7 dissemination/training events in the period November 2006 – June 2007 –Industry-related events  Exhibitor at the National IT exhibition 2006; Seminar “Grid technologies and grid applications. Bulgarian participation in the EU Grid initiatives” within the framework of BAIT EXPO 2006, November 2006, Inter EXPO Center, Sofia, Bulgaria  Presentations at the Microsoft IT Innovation Days 2007, and at 2 events organized by the State Agency of Information Technology and Communications

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI NA2 Partner Review, November 2007, Prague 8 Events EGEE-2 promotion with materials –XII International Conference on Probability, Statistics and Data Analysis, June 18-23, 2006, Sozopol, Bulgaria –NATO workshop, June, 2006, Borovets, Bulgaria –John Vincent Atanassof International Symposium on Modern Computing, October 4-6, 2006, Sofia, Bulgaria – 6 th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computations, June 2007, Sozopol, Bulgaria –3 rd Balkan conference in Informatics, BCI'07, International Workshop on Network and Grid Infrastructures, September 27-29, 2007, Sofia, Bulgaria

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI NA2 Partner Review, November 2007, Prague 9 List of Events EGEE-2 presentations at national and international forums –Meeting of the General Assembly of the BAS, January 29, 2007 –7FP Launching conference, organised by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, , 2007, Sofia, Bulgaria –“Innovation Days: Innovations and IT”, organized by Microsoft- Bulgaria, February 12, 2007, Sofia, Bulgaria –Workshop “Bridging academia and industry for successful technology-enhanced learning ” organized within the framework of European Day of the Entrepreneur 2006, November 7- 8, 2006, Inter EXPO Center, Sofia, Bulgaria –“BG induction to GRID Computing and EGEE project” within the NA3 project activities, November 28-29, 2006, IPP-BAS –“Introduction to Grid Computing, EGEE and Bulgarian Grid Initiatives” within the NA3 project activities, March 22, 2007, IPP- BAS –BIS-21++ Information Days, March 26-28, 2007, September

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI NA2 Partner Review, November 2007, Prague 10 List of Events EGEE-2 presentations at national and international forums –Opening of the National Grid and Communication center at IPP- BAS, May 14, 2007 –Conference “European Integration, youth of Bulgaria and IT”, organized by State Agency on ICT, BAS, Military Academy, May 18, 2007 –Workshop “Methodological Support to Force Transformation” (in the framework of the First International Conference “Using Models and Simulations in Support of Force Transformation”), June 27-29, 2007, Sofia, Bulgaria –Jubilee International Conference “New Trends in Mathematics and Informatics”, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – BAS, July 6 - 8, 2007, Sofia, Bulgaria –XXI International Symposium on Nuclear Electronics & Computing (NEC 2007), September 10-17, 2007, Varna, Bulgaria –Workshop “e-business - key factor for the growth of a competitive SME sector ” organized by the State Agency for ITC, Sofia, October 12, 2007 –NATO RTO MSG-049 meeting, November 8, 2007, IPP-BAS

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI NA2 Partner Review, November 2007, Prague 11 Production of promotional material Production of own materials –Press Releases - 4 –Information sheets - 2 –Brochures – 1 (in preparation) Translations –Press Releases - 15 –Information sheets - 25 –Other (articles from iSGTW, and related grid projects) - 7

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI NA2 Partner Review, November 2007, Prague 12 Local websites Major sections –NGI - 2 pages –Introduction to the Grid – 9 pages –Information about Grid Projects (EGEE-2, SEE-GRID2) - 7 pages –Local information - 7 pages –Helpdesk - 6 pages –Grid café - 24 pages –EGEE documents (inf. sheets, PR) –Announcements - 1 page Average number of visitors per month –590 hits, 206 unique (for the last six months, Google Analytics)‏ What are visitors interested mostly in: –Home page of the Bulgarian Grid Portal –Press corner –Helpdesk –Information materials –Gridcafe

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI NA2 Partner Review, November 2007, Prague 13 Targeted Dissemination for Industry Local approach –Participation at the annual national IT exhibition BAIT EXPO (November 2006) –Presentations at Industry targeted seminars and workshops:  November 2006, BAIT Expo Seminar “Grid technologies and grid applications. Bulgarian participation in the EU Grid initiatives”, Sofia  November 2006, Workshop “Bridging academia and industry for successful technology-enhanced learning“, International EXPO Center, Sofia  February 2007, Innovation Days, organized by Microsoft-Bulgaria “Innovation and IT”, Sofia  May 2007, Conference “European Integration, youth of Bulgaria and IT”, organized by State Agency on ICT, BAS and Military Academy  October 2007, Workshop “e-business - key factor for the growth of a competitive SME sector ” organized by the State Agency for ITC, Sofia National Industry Day – January 2008, jointly organized by IPP-BAS and State Agency for ITC

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI NA2 Partner Review, November 2007, Prague 14 Participation at National IT Exhibition BAIT EXPO, November 2006, IEC, Sofia, Bulgaria –One week exhibition –Online demo –EGEE materials –Seminar presentation –Visits of governmental representatives

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI NA2 Partner Review, November 2007, Prague 15 Plans for Q8 All Activity meeting in Sofia, January 2007 Brochure in Bulgarian (already in preparation) to be distributed at the National Grid Day, January 2008 Closing seminar in March 2008 Current work: updating translations, media relations, presentationswww.grid.bas.bg

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI NA2 Partner Review, November 2007, Prague 16 Our experience The key for successful work: close collaboration between all EGEE team members (all activities) Our strategy to expand the user community –Periodic workshops –Special EGEE sessions at major international conferences held in Bulgaria. Presentations and distribution of information materials. –Presentations by invitation at interested institutions in Bulgaria Keeping the policy makers and the society as a whole informed about current grid achievements (through publications, presentations, papers, materials distribution)