1. www.eu-datagrid.org 5th EDG Conference, Budapest 4th of September 2002 The DataGrid Industry and Research Forum European Union

2. www.eu-datagrid.org 5th EDG Conference, Budapest 4th of September 2002 Industry and Research Forum The DataGrid Industry and Research Forum is an initiative undertaken in the framework of the dissemination plan of the European DataGrid project, with the aim of accelerating the adoption of the DataGrid and Grid technologies in eScience and eBusiness. European Union

3. www.eu-datagrid.org 5th EDG Conference, Budapest 4th of September 2002 The Goals –divulge the project experience to move the knowledge of the DataGrid from e-Science to e- Business –stimulate demand and pre-competitive development of DataGrid enabled products and related services –enabling research and industrial members to produce proposals for research projects

4. www.eu-datagrid.org 5th EDG Conference, Budapest 4th of September 2002 Members of the Forum More than 190 subscribers (July 2002) From tens of countries More than 50% are industry representatives

5. www.eu-datagrid.org 5th EDG Conference, Budapest 4th of September 2002 Forum Activities Promote and organise open events Perform Live Demonstrations Foster the discussion through mailing lists Newsletter and publications

6. www.eu-datagrid.org 5th EDG Conference, Budapest 4th of September 2002 I&R Forum: Events March (Amsterdam): the Kick Off October (Frascati): put people together March2002 (Paris): first demos Prestigious speakers and more than 200 people attended the I&R Forum event in Paris

7. www.eu-datagrid.org 5th EDG Conference, Budapest 4th of September 2002 Demonstration programme Live Demonstrations of the DataGrid results EDG5 Budapest, 4 Sep 2002 iGrid2002 Amsterdam, 24-26 Sep IST2002 Exhibition, Copenaghen, 4-6 Nov European Research 2002 Bruxelles 11-13 Nov SuperComputing 2002 Baltimora 16-22 Nov

8. www.eu-datagrid.org 5th EDG Conference, Budapest 4th of September 2002 On going initiatives On line demonstration: “The Grid for Dissemination” Towards a European Middleware Initiative: joining and coordinating the efforts

9. www.eu-datagrid.org 5th EDG Conference, Budapest 4th of September 2002 Towards an EU middleware initiative The CrossGrid project is another large EU project DataGrid develops middleware that will be used by CrossGrid CrossGrid is the proof that the results of the DataGrid will be developed and supported beyond the end of the project CrossGrid initiated its own Industry Forum

10. www.eu-datagrid.org 5th EDG Conference, Budapest 4th of September 2002 CrossGrid and DataGrid are joining their Dissemination efforts

11. www.eu-datagrid.org 5th EDG Conference, Budapest 4th of September 2002 On line demonstration The DataGrid middleware is in production: it is the time to give the possibility to “try” Public access to the DataGrid services through a simple web based interface The I&R Forum subscribers will have the possibility of launching their own jobs and applications A Grid for Dissemination

12. www.eu-datagrid.org 5th EDG Conference, Budapest 4th of September 2002 Sponsor programme Industrial sponsors give a contribution to the dissemination activity I&R Forum Sponsors IBM – Italy Future Space - Italy SUN MicroSystem – Italy DataGrid Industrial Partners

13. www.eu-datagrid.org 5th EDG Conference, Budapest 4th of September 2002 How to subscribe The participation to the DataGrid I&R Forum is open to all interested parties The participation is simply subject to the acceptance of the I&R Forum charter It can be expressed by filling the subscription form published on the DataGrid Web Site

14. www.eu-datagrid.org 5th EDG Conference, Budapest 4th of September 2002 How to contact us Project Management Office CERN - Switzerland 1211 Geneva 23 Project Manager: Fabrizio Gagliardi CERN-IT Project Dissemination Office CNR – CED Italy P.le Aldo Moro, 7 00185 Rome Contact Name: Susanna Tosi e-mail:s.tosi@cedrc.cnr.it Tel: +39.06.44933205 Industry and Research Forum INFN-Sezione di Padova, Italy Via Marzolo, 8 35131 Padova Contact Name: Mirco Mazzucato e-mail: mazzucato@padova.infn.it