5th EGEE User Forum

The User Forum is a key annual event organised by the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project. The forum provides an important opportunity to scientific communities exploiting distributed infrastructure technologies, to present their work, discuss technology usage with colleagues, and learn about advances in middleware and application services.

The 5th EGEE User Forum will take place on 12-15 April 2010 in Uppsala, Sweden. The event is organized in collaboration with the European Grid Initiative (EGI) and the Nordic DataGrid Facility (NDGF), and will be hosted by the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC), the Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science (UPPMAX) and PDC - Center for High Performance Computing at KTH. This year the User Forum marks the end of the EGEE series of projects and the transition to a sustainable European e-Infrastructure model led by EGI, the European Grid Initiative. UF5 will help pave the ground for this transition by expanding its focus to cover a broader scope of European e-infrastructures and distributed computing technologies, providing the opportunity for the first time to all the relevant users community to meet, interact and collaborate.

The scientific programme consists of daily plenary sessions featuring distinguished keynote speakers, followed by parallel sessions focusing on e-Infrastructure use within the various user disciplines, and also on specific supporting technologies. Sessions for demonstrations and posters will augment the oral programme, and provide a key element of the forum.

The programme committee invites abstracts for contributions in one of following general topics:

• Planned or on-going scientific work and results obtained using distributed computing technologies,
• Data-intensive and data-oriented distributed applications,
• Experiences from application porting and deployment of existing software in distributed computing environments,
• Software services exploiting and/or extending grid middleware (gLite, ARC, UNICORE etc),
• Programming environments,
• End-user environments, scientific gateways and portal technologies,
• Emerging technologies within the European distributed computing infrastructures (cloud, virtualization etc),
• National and international activities and collaborations for share and exploitation of e-Infrastructures,
• Support services and tools for user communities.

Contributions may be offered the possibility of either an oral presentation, a poster or a demonstration. The Programme Committee will assume responsibility for assigning proposed contributions to the various parts of the event. The demonstrations can follow any of the above topics and must have a strong requirement for a visual or interactive presentation. Contributors should make sure that enough people will register and attend the User Forum in order for the demonstration to be manned continuously during one of the two dedicated demo sessions planned for Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon.

Important Dates:
Abstract submission opening date: 20th of October
Deadline for abstract submission: 7th of December
Notification of acceptance: 15th of January

More information
EGEE project home page: www.eu-egee.org
UF5 official web site: http://egee-uf5.eu-egee.org

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIR
Vangelis Floros, GRNET (efloros(at)grnet.gr)

LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE CONTACT
Erwin Laure, PDC/KTH (erwinl(at)pdc.kth.se)