1. BiG Grid Communities Update
PDP Groepsoverleg
28 April 2010

2. BiG Grid community: LOFAR
Status: Service challenges are ongoing, in which detector-to-archive tests are done
Should become operational in June
FZ Jülich also joined ; they have a 1 PB tape backend using dCache

3. BiG Grid community: MPI/SURFnet
Status:
First version of SLCS & SURFnet Online CA deployed
Possible future in CLARIN

4. BiG Grid community: eNMR
Status:
> 90% of their jobs run on BiG Grid
Happily running jobs at Nikhef and HTC

5. BiG Grid community: TU Delft - Carole
Status:
First real application of WS-VLAM workflows
Pilot phase completed, ready for production

6. BiG Grid community: VL-eMed
Status:
Further development of vBrowser/vlet
MOTEUR workflow engine setup is being re-engineered
Grid engineer co-located at AMC: Mark Santcroos

7. BiG Grid community: LGI
Leiden Grid Initiative:
Pilot job framework with plugins for local clusters and super computers
Web interface & Command-line
Glite plugin being developed
Test server running at Nikhef

8. BiG Grid community: Social Sciences
DANS: Data Archiving and Network Services
Ongoing: Grid backend for FEDORA
Fixity service
VKS: Virtual Knowledge Studio
First Social Sciences contact!
Pilot project to process Wikipedia history file
CLARIN: Common LANguages Resources and technology Infrastructure
FP7 programme
Several Dutch linguistics institutes involved

9. Other BiG Grid communities: Status
Cell Tomography:
3D Electron microscopy
5 phase work-package
Interesting #1: Porting of algorithms to GPU cluster
Interesting #2: archiving of data
InfraWatch:
Bridge “Hollandse Brug” covered in sensors
Lots of interest in collecting and processing the sensor output

10. Other BiG Grid projects: jGridstart
Status:
Launched for production
Some 60 certificates have been requested/renewed using jGridstart
Poster presented at EGEE User Forum in Uppsala

11. Other BiG Grid projects: Robot Certs
Deployed for six projects:
SCIAgrid / KNMI
eNMR
Erasmus Grid Office
LGI (Leiden Grid Initiative)
VLeMed
DAF (Proteomics Data Analysis Framework)