Programme

9.00-10.30

Opening Plenary
Hall 1 Session chair: Sæþór L. Jónsson, University of Iceland

• Welcome address (Kimmo Koski, CSC)

• Keynote: Why Hybrid Networks (Ron Johnson, University of Washington and Pacific Wave)

Network track

Applications track

Grid track

11.00-12.30

Measurement and Monitoring
Hall 1 Session chair: Steen Pedersen, DTU

• 10G wirespeed monitoring (Olav Kvittem, UNINETT)

• Multidomain monitoring infrastructures (Jon Kåre Hellan, UNINETT)

• Tools and processes for an NREN NOC (Stefan Liström, NUNOC)

Networked Storage Service
Luolamies Session chair: Magnus Strømdal, UNINETT

• Storage as a service (Jan Meijer, UNINETT)

• Personal data recovery (Anders Vinger, University of Oslo)

Grid Security
Auditorium Session chair: Ivan Degtyarenko, CSC

• EGEE Security Middleware: Present and Future (Christoph Witzig, SWITCH)

• EGEE Security Middleware: Present and Future (Mika Silander, CERN)

• Personal data recovery (Weizhong Qiang, University of Oslo)

14.00-15.30

Reliability and Performance
Hall 1 Session chair: Juha Oinonen, CSC/Funet

• A Dependability Case of Funet core network (Pirkko Kuusela, Technical Research Centre of Finland)

• Contract-Oriented Software Development for Internet Services (Anders P. Ravn, Aalborg University)

• Tales from the PERT (Simon Leinen, SWITCH)

AAI federations and applications
Luolamies Session chair: Petter Kongshaug, UNINETT

• Federations management "the mess" (Mikael Linden, CSC)

• simpleSAMLphp - complex AAI-protocols made simple (Andreas Solberg, UNINETT)

• Privacy and Pseudonymity in Identity Federations (Leif Johansson, University of Stockholm)

Grid and storage
Auditorium Session chair: David Cameron, Nordic DataGrid Facility and Oslo University

• The LHC data flow (Mattias Wadenstein, NDGF and University of Umeå)

• Norstore - national storage for eScience and HPC (Jacko Koster, UNINETT)

• The Taiga Storage System (Henrik Thostrup Jensen, Aalborg University)

16.00-17.30

Growing Pains
Hall 1 Session chair: Peter Villemoes, NORDUnet

• Who gets the last IPv4 address, and what then? (Ole Trøan, independent consultant)

• State of the Internet and challenges ahead (Olivier Martin, ICT Consulting)

Grid Operation and Management
Auditorium Session chair: Michael Gindonis, CSC

• The NDGF experience (Leif Nixon, NDGF and University of Linköping)

• Paryavekshanam- Status Monitoring tool for Indian Grid Garuda (Karuna P, C-DAC)

17.30-

Bus transportation to
City of Espoo Welcome Reception

9.00-10.30

Plenary Session
Hall 1 Session chair: Janne Kanner, CSC/Funet

• The Cloud... the Future of Grid Computing? (Steven Newhouse, Microsoft)

• The Future of Federations and Networked Applications (Ingrid Melve, UNINETT)

Network track

Applications track

Grid track

11.00-12.30

Mobile Internet
Auditorium Session chair: Lars Fischer, NORDUnet

• Adaptive Multimedia Streaming (Ian Marsh, SICS)

• Mobile Internet Services for Online Support of Agricultural Machinery (Liisa Pesonen, MTT Agrifood Research Finland)

• What NRENs also can do (Vidar Faltinsen, UNINETT)

Collaboration and LMS
Luolamies Session chair: Ingrid Melve, UNINETT

• PRIMA - Privacy in the Making (Sakari Tamminen, Helsinki University of Technology)

• Federating your LMS (Aleksander Pettersen, Fronter)

• Swiss (Inter-)National Learning Object Repository (Martin Sutter, SWITCH)

The Future of Grid
Hall 1 Session chair: Oxana Smirnova, University of Lund

• EGEE-III / EGI - Future European grid landscape (Pekka Lehtovuori, CSC)

• The Future of GRIDs - a European Perspective (Keith Jeffery, UK Science & Technology Facilities Council)

14.00-15.30

Optical NREN Experiences, Practices, and Tools
Auditorium Session chair: Tomas Liljebergh, SUNET

• Scheduling, Reconfiguration & Virtualization service: the introduction path for grid networking (Dominique Verchere, Bell Labs France)

• Operational Management of Ligthpaths (Ronald van der Pol, SARA)

• Building the UNINETT Optical Network (Kurosh Bozorgebrahimi, UNINETT)

High Bandwidth Applications I
Hall 1 Session chair: Jacqueline Brown, University of Washington

• eVLBI Networking Challenges (Paul Boven, JIVE)

• LHC Optical Private Network Experiences (David Foster, CERN)

Current Grid Infrastructures
Luolamies Session chair: Josva Kleist, NDGF

• SveGrid (Sverker Holmgren, University of Uppsala)

• NORDUnet2008.Kunze.ppt (Marcel Kunze, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe)

• Industrial Grids (Thomas Rueter, IBM)

16.00-17.30

Future Aspects of NREN Infrastructure
Auditorium Session chair: Börje Josefsson, SUNET

• The MANTICORE Project: Providing Users with a Virtualized IP Network Service (Eduard Grasa, i2CAT)

• NORDUnet update (Rene Buch, NORDUnet)

• IP core technology. Transport and routing beyond 40Gbit/s (Peter Löthberg)

High Bandwidth Applications II
Hall 1 Session chair: Jerry Sobieski, NORDUnet

• CINEGRID (Laurin Herr, Pacific Interface)

• Global Streaming of 4k Digital Cinema (Kunitake Kaneko, Keio University)

Grid Applications
Luolamies Session chair: Brian Vinter, University of Copenhagen

• MDRs, HMMs and Biogrid - A Bioinformatician's Experiences (Joel Hedlund, Linköping University)

• NDGF CO2-Grid (Olli Tourunen, NDGF and CSC)

• CMS experiment data transfers: moving Petabytes (Jukka Klem, CERN)

19.00-

Conference dinner
Helsinki city center (please see details on bus transportation)

Network track

Grid track

9.00-10.30

User Mobility
Hall 1 Session Chair: Hans Wallberg, SUNET

• eduroam as a managed European service (Miroslav Milinovich, GN2 SA5)

• RadSec - A better RADIUS protocol (Stig Venaas, UNINETT)

• NordicHIP (Andrei Gurtov, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology)

Recent Results

Luolamies Session chair: Magnus Strømdal, UNINETT

• Storage Benchmarking Cookbook (Stijn Eeckhaut, University of Ghent)

• Danish Fiber Update (Martin Beck, Uni-C)

Grid Middleware Performance
Auditorium Session chair: Gudmund Høst, Norvegian Research Council

• Innovative services and tools for NorduGrid (Jon Kerr Nilsen, University of Oslo)

• Resource consumption profile and performance benchmark study of ARC classic and early prototype of ARC1 (Marek Kocan, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University)

• Minimum Intrusion Grid (Brian Vinter, University of Copenhagen)

11.00-12.30

Closing Plenary
Hall 1 Session chair: Rene Buch, NORDUnet

• GEANT3 - European R&E Networking after 2008 (Vasilis Maglaris, NREN PC)

• Farewell from Finland (Janne Kanner, CSC/Funet)

• 25th NORDUnet conference (Steen Pedersen, Forskningsnettet)