NA2 Education , Training , Dissemination and Outreach

BalticGrid-II Project

1The BalticGrid-II 2nd AHM, Riga, 12th May 2009

NA2Education, Training,

Dissemination and OutreachRobert Pajak, Zofia MosurskaRobert Pajak, Zofia Mosurska

IFJ PAN, Krakow, PolandIFJ PAN, Krakow, Poland


Content

Report on NA2 activities performed in months 7-12NA2 plans for months 13-18 for months 19-24

CollaborationBG-II web siteMetrics of dissemination activitiesConclusions


Report on NA2 activities performed in months 7-12


Events Project materials were presented during ICT’08 conference, in Lyon (25-27

November 2008)– the BELIEF-II project members were managing the common “BELIEF-II: Global

e-Infrastructure” booth during the event, where - among others - the BalticGrid-II materials (including the movie) were presented


GEANT2 EGEE-III

EELA 2 6CHOICE

6DEPLOY

EU-IndiaGrid EUAsiaGrid

GLOBAL

GridTalk

BELIEF-II booth

BalticGrid-II

SEE-GRID-SCI


Events Participation in the 4th EGEE User Forum / OGF25, in Catania (2-6.03.2009)


“CoPS - The Complex Comparison of Protein Structures supported by grid” - managed by Bartek Palak and Edgars Znots

“The Synthetic spectra modeling under GRIDCOM interface” - managed by Grazina Tautvaisiene and Sarunas Mikolaitis

BG-II project stand (with a poster, brochures, pens, calendars and a movie)

two BG-II demo stands


Events Participation in the 4th EGEE User Forum / OGF25, in Catania, Italy (2-6

March 2009) (cont’d)– a talk titled “The Migrating Desktop - Framework for Grid Applications” given– two BG-II posters presented:

“NWChem package as promising grid application for nanodesign” “The step-by step computation of the energy flow and geo-massif fracture”.


by Ihar Miklashevichby Yana Douhaya



Events BG-II members were present with talks also at other events, e.g.:

– II Congress of Belarusian physicists, Minsk, Belarus, November 2008– The 10th international conference “Information society 2008: e-business, innovations and

export encouragement”, Vilnius, Lithuania, November 2008– 14th Word Lithuanian Symposium on Arts and Sciences, Lemont, USA, November 2008– Information seminar on development of the international scientific and technical cooperation

with EU in sphere of information and communication technologies, Minsk, Belarus, December 2008

– IBM seminar about HPC, Riga, Latvia, December 2008– All-hands meeting of Latvian Academic Network developers, Riga, Latvia, January 2009– Network for Aquatic Remote Sensing (NordAquaRemS) Kick-off meeting, Helsinki, Finland,

January 2009– Information day: FP 7 Specific Programme „Science research facilities“, Vilnius, Lithuania,

January 2009– Dynamic and Technological Problems of Mechanics of Continuum and Structure XV

International Symposium ,Yaropolets, Moscow, February, 2009– Seminar about novel technologies, Ventspils, Latvia, February 2009– 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, New York, USA, March/April 2009– Immersive Education Initiative London Summit, London, England, April 2009



Materials Several new technical brochures were elaborated by BG-

II partners. The brochures were dedicated to: – BG-II application ITER - prepared in January 2009– SA2, SA3 and JRA1 activities - prepared in February 2009– Gridcom tool - prepared in February 2009– BG-II application SYNSTPEC - prepared in March 2009– SA1 activity – prepared in April 2009


Materials (cont’d) the updated general BG-II

brochure (April 2009)


the Customer Feedback Form (April 2009)



Materials (cont’d) Promos

– The updated version of the BG-II movie was prepared in February 2009 (available online at: http://www.balticgrid.eu/Downloads/Presentations/)

– The BG-II calendars with the Project logo, web site address and some images of BG-II applications - produced in February 2009

http://www.balticgrid.eu/Downloads/Presentations/


Materials (cont’d) Other:

– Two interviews at demo stands made during the EGEE UF / OGF25 in Catania:

“See inside the stars” – during which Sarunas Mikolaitis presented SYNTSPEC “Comparing protein structure using a computer grid” – during which Edgars Znots

explained "CoPS" - the Complex Comparison of Protein Structures

Available at: http://www.balticgrid.eu/Downloads/Press_and_Media/


http://www.balticgrid.eu/Downloads/Press_and_Media/



Web sites moving the content of the BalticGrid-II main web site to a

new server - finished in November 2008 preparation of Project local web pages at Partners’

institutions - finished in December 2008

Deliverables Dissemination Report (P12) – describes and summarizes

many various activities carried out by NA2 leader and by all Partners - elaborated in April 2009


NA2 Plans


NA2 plans for months 13-18

Events Grid Open Day and 2nd AHM in May 2009, in Riga – is being held now Summer School to be organized on 29 June – 3 July 2009, in Vilnius

– program elaborated– web site prepared– registration of participants started

Participation in the EGEE’09 conference in Barcelona (21-25 September 2009)

Co-organization of (and participation in) other conferences, like NDTCS-2009 (22-26 June 2009, in Vilnius), CGW’09 (12-14 October 2009, in Krakow)

Materials BG-II USB pen drives to be ready in May 2009 – distributed during the 2nd

AHM (and to be distributed among the Summer School participants) Elaboration of the third issue of the BG-II movie – late Autumn 2009

Deliverables DNA2.4 Dissemination Roadmap (revision) (P14) – to be ready in the end of

June 2009


NA2 plans for months 19-24

Events BG-II Scientific Conference in November 2009 3rd AHM (P21) to be organized in January 2010 – place TBD (Estonia or

Poland)Materials Elaboration of the new BG-II brochures and posters

Deliverables DNA2.5 E-learning resources in virtual environment – to be ready in the end

of December 2009 (P20) DNA2.6 Final plan for the use and dissemination of foreground – to be ready

in the end of April 2010 (P24)


Participation in external events - plans

All Project Partners are encouraged to actively participate in various Grid related events and to promote the Project and its results through: presentations, exhibitions and demonstrations.

Examples EGEE conferences and user forums, Cracow Grid Workshops and other events organized by the Project

partners, Open Grid Forums, Grid Concertation Meetings, etc.


Collaboration


Collaboration

NA2 collaborates with:EGEE-III active participation in the EGEE User Forum in Catania, Italy, in March 2 - 6,

2009 with a Project stand, two demos, two posters and a talk, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the BalticGrid-II and

EGEE project was signed by Ake Edlund and Bob Jones (the EGEE Project Director) on 4th March 2009, in Catania, Italy, during EGEE UF/OGF25– This document details how BalticGrid-II will interact with EGEE on an

infrastructure and application level as the European grid community moves towards the European Grid Initiative.

BELIEF-II the Memorandum of Usage (MoU) was signed with this project in October

2008, the BG-II materials are uploaded to the BELIEF-II Digital Library, the BG-II disseminative materials were presented at the common booth

maintained by BELIEF-II during the ICT in Lyon, in November 2008.


Collaboration

BG-II also collaborates with:UNICORE In March 2009 the BG-II PD Ake Edlund signed the MoU with UNICORE.

The document defines the ways of cooperation between the two projects, in line with the interoperability tasks w r t UNICORE.

Nordugrid On 7 April 2009 the BG-II PD Ake Edlund signed the MoU with Nordugrid

project. The document defines the frames of cooperation between the two projects, in line with the interoperability tasks w r t ARC.


BG-II web site


BalticGrid-II web site

The Project web site (www.balticgrid.eu) comprises:public part,internal (managerial) part – with contents available only after log in. Please send an email to [email protected] if: you don’t have an account on the BG-II portal yet or your password doesn’t work.

mailto:[email protected]


BalticGrid-II web site

Contribution to the public part of the BG-II web site by all Partners and ALs

Please contribute to the development of the web site by: providing information and documentation, providing suggestions of news and upcoming events, updating the Activities sections with new information.

All Partners’ institutions – please keep your local web pages up-to-date with most actual information concerning the Project


Metrics of dissemination activities


Metrics of dissemination activities

Planned for P01-P12 Done in P01-P12

Number of AHMs organized (including kick-off meeting) 2 2

Number of Grid Open Days organized 2 2

Number of seminars organized (at least 1 organized per 6 months by each Partner in BS and Belarus) 18 25

Number of tutorials organized (at least 1 in each BS and Belarus for a year) At least 4 5

Number of summer schools organized 0 0

Number of scientific conferences organized 0 2

Number of published scientific papers 7 29

Number of presentations (talks) given 30 66

Number of brochures and leaflets prepared 5 12

Number of posters prepared 3 15

Fullfilment after 1st year


ConclusionsThe months 7-12 involved many dissemination activitiesWhat we achieved: we were present and visible at several grid events (e.g. ICT’08, EGEE UF in

Catania) – thanks to the NA2 team and other members of BG-II many presentations on BG-II were given and many scientific papers were

published several interviews were recorded and presented on Gridcast web site BG-II members gave also a few radio interviews and participated in several TV

programs devoted to IT / Grid / BG-II matters several types of disseminative materials were prepared and distributed (or

presented) at grid events and internally a press conference was organized in Minsk (in March 2009) to cover the state

and the prospects of grid and supercomputer technologies in Belarus and abroad

What is needed: more seminars (especially in Belarus) and tutorials would be welcome the same effort from all Partners and ALs during the 2nd year of the Project


NA2 internal meeting

We invite all NA2 contact persons (and other people interested in dissemination activities) to participate in

the NA2 meeting tomorrow: 9:00- 10:30


Thank you

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