Technical Session 1 - Workshop: The challenges of Grids and NRENs I

Afternoon Coffee Break

Technical Session 2 - Workshop: The challenges of Grids and NRENs II

Gala Dinner

Opening Session

Morning Coffee Break

Technical Session 4 - Autonomic Grid Framework

Lunch Break

Technical Session 5 - Grid and Network Co-Management

Afternoon Coffee Break

Panel Session 1 - Making Sense of Grid on IP Control Plane

Technical Session 1 - Workshop: The challenges of Grids and NRENs I
Chair Victor Reijs, HEAnet, Ireland
Room: Herbert Suite

The interworking between Grids and networks
Brian Coghlan, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland

The Provision of Point to Point Circuits for Grid Users over the Irish National Education and Research Networks
Eoin Kenny, HEAnet, Ireland

Optical IP Switching – A Responsive Solution for Grid Interconnect
Donal O’Mahony, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland
Marco Ruffini, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland

Afternoon Coffee Break

Technical Session 2 - Workshop: The challenges of Grids and NRENs II
Chair Victor Reijs, HEAnet, Ireland
Room: Herbert Suite

European View on Advanced Network Services for Grids
Anand Patil, DANTE, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Grids and Customer Empowered Networks OSS Vendor Perspective
Michal Przybylski, Comarch AS, Poland

Discussion: How bridge the gap between user expectations and present/future service provisionings?
Victor Reijs, HEAnet, Ireland

Gala Dinner

Opening Session
Room: Parklane Suite
Keynote: Business of IP: Challenges and Benefits
Monique Jeanne Morrow
Distinguished Consulting Engineer, Cisco Systems and VP, IPSphere Forum

Morning Coffee Break

Technical Session 4 - Autonomic Grid Framework
Chair Huaiguo Fu, Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), Ireland
Room: Parklane Suite

Impact of Network Availability on Data Grid Replication Schemes
Ernest Sithole, University of Ulster, United Kingdom
Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, United Kingdom
Sally McClean, University of Ulster, United Kingdom

On the Need for Autonomic Connection Management to Speed up WSRF-Enabled Web Service Calls
Michael Welzl, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
Muhammad Murtaza Yousaf, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
Alex Villazon, Universität Innsbruck, Austria

AGrid: A Two-Tier Architecture for Grid Resource Management Middleware
Yoav Levy, Technion, Israel
Yitzhak Birk, Technion, Israel

Lunch Break

Technical Session 5 - Grid and Network Co-Management
Chair Horst Dumcke, Cisco Systems, France
Room: Parklane Suite

G-lambda: An Interface for Bandwidth Reservation from Applications and Middleware
Tomohiro Kudoh, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Michiaki Hayashi, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan
Akira Hirano, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan
Shuichi Okamoto, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Atsuko Takefusa, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Takahiro Miyamoto, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan
Yukio Tsukishima, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan
Tomohiro Otani, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Hidemoto Nakada, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Hideaki Tanaka, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan
Atsushi Taniguchi, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan
Yasunori Sameshima, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan

Factoring Network Management and Network Virtualization into Grid
Masum Z. Hasan, Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA, USA
Nino Vidovic, Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA, USA

Afternoon Coffee Break

Panel Session 1 - Making Sense of Grid on IP Control Plane
Chair Wayne Clark, Cisco Systems, USA
Room: Parklane Suite

Panel member: Nicola Ciulli, Nextworks s.r.l., Pisa, Italy

Panel member: Michael Welzl, Universität Innsbruck, Austria

Panel member: Rama Ati, Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA, USA