EGEE-II INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks NA2 in Romania SEE Federation Adrian Vataman ICI Bucharest

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI NA2 Partner Review, November 2007, Prague 2 The Romanian Consortium The Romanian JRU (RoGrid Consortium): –National Institute for Research and development in Informatics (ICI) – consortium coordinator, EGEE contractor –Members:  University of Bucharest (UB)  University Politehnica of Bucharest (UPB)  National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN)  National Institute for Aerospace Research (INCAS)  Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (UTCN)  Western University of Timisoara (WUT)

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI NA2 Partner Review, November 2007, Prague 3 Events Organized national/international events –International ICFA Workshop on GRID Activities within Large Scale International Collaborations October 2006, Sinaia –Using Grid and Multimedia Resources – 15 February 2007, Bucharest –Workshop on GRID Computing (part of 2007 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and processing) September 2007, Cluj-Napoca –NIHAM - distributed computing system - past, present and future,30 July 2007, Bucharest –A series of seminars related to the applications of the Grid in the numerical simulation of earthquakes in Vrancea region

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI NA2 Partner Review, November 2007, Prague 4 Using Grid and Multimedia Resources at ICI Bucharest Over 40 participants from industry, academic community and local and central administration Presentation of the EGEE II project Presentation of Grid applications and Grid systems facilities for the users

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI NA2 Partner Review, November 2007, Prague 5 Events (2) EGEE II presentations at national/international events –4 training events  UPB GridInitiative 2006 & 2007  GridTDT: Grid training days in Timisoara, 7-8 Dec 2007  Introduction to Grid technologies, Bucharest, 8 Nov 2006  Scheduler of the week - 1st Edition, April - June 2007 –6 national/international conferences  5th International Balkan School in Nuclear Physics, 7-14 Sept  LINUX for GRID environment, 22/09/2006  EXPERT PANEL -Integrated Network and Application QoS for GRID Applications, 1/8/2006  RoEduNet Conference, 01/06/ /06/06  SYNASC Conference, 26/09/ /09/06  GEO welcomes FP7, 15/09/2006

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI NA2 Partner Review, November 2007, Prague 6 Publications and presentations 8 Publications in Conference Proceedings and Journals (ICC 2007 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, Cluj- Napoca, 2007; 16th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science, Bucharest, Romania, May 2007; EGU General Assembly Vienna, 2007;) 10 Presentations at different national and international events related to Grid activities and applications ( The IEEE Region 8 Eurocon 2007 Conference, Warsaw, Poland; ISPDC 2007, 6th International Symposium on parallel and Distributed Computing, Hagenberg, Austria; Workshop on Grid Computing, Cluj; GridCAD Workshop on Grid Computing Applications Development, Timisoara; OTM 2007, Grid computing, high-performAnce and Distributed Applications (GADA'07), Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal; Carpathian Summer School of Physics; ICFA Digital Devide Workshop;) Promotion with materials –Posters, info sheets

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI NA2 Partner Review, November 2007, Prague 7 Media Relations & Promotional Material 2 interviews related to the Grid activities in Romania and the Romanian JRU, both referencing EGEE 3 translated information sheets iSGTW Newsletter - regular distribution since March 2007

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI NA2 Partner Review, November 2007, Prague 8 Local website Local website of the Romanian consortium - Major sections –Consortium information –EGEE-2 information –Related projects information (SEE-Grid) –Info sheets (eng and ro) –Newsletter subscription –List of past and future events –News and press releases An average of 145 of visitors per month Mostly interested in: –Events, RoGrid Consortium, EGEE project, Related projects

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI NA2 Partner Review, November 2007, Prague 9 Conclusions Problems –Difficulties in involving industry in NA2 events –Lack of interest from mainstream or specialized media (newspapers, magazines, etc) Future plans –attracting more partners to the consortium –focus on promoting applications to the scientific community and industry