Please redistribute Regards, Steven ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Steven Newhouse <steven.newhouse@egi.eu> Date: 24 February 2011 11:56 Subject: Towards a European wide federated virtualised infrastructure To: "Representatives of FP7 technology projects within the EGI ecosystem." <dci-projects@mailman.egi.eu> Dear Colleagues, Apologies for multiple postings... but do feel free to redistribute this call for interest. Over the last decade through the EDG, EGEE and the EGI-InSPIRE projects Europe has build a federated production infrastructure build on exposing specific compute, data and other resources for supporting international research collaborations. These user communities are now seeing the flexibility offered through virtualisation technology for infrastructure, platform and software (as a Service) and are frequently asking for similar capabilities to be offered through EGI. Within Europe there are a large number of activities (projects & meetings) addressing the potential of virtualisation technology and its deliver as clouds. The adoption and migration to virtualisation technology within EGI will be the main theme of the EGI Technical Forum in Lyon September 19-23rd 2011. To build on the discussions taking place at CloudScape III (http://www.sienainitiative.eu/StaticPage/Cloudscape.aspx), at the EGI User Forum (http://uf2011.egi.eu) and other meetings I would like to hold a dedicated workshop to start planning out EGI's response to these new technologies and the way we wish to deliver them to meet the needs of the diverse user communities we wish to support. A draft workshop CFP has been created http://go.egi.eu/jngxd along with a Doodle to use to measure favourable dates across the community. Please provide your feedback as to the scope, goals and duration of the workshop as recorded on the wiki page. Using your EGI SSO account you should be able to login and edit this page directly if you so wish. The date of the meeting and its location (probably Amsterdam) will be confirmed the week of the 7th March 2011. Please contact me directly if you have any specific concerns. Regards, Steven -- Steven Newhouse EGI-InSPIRE Project Director EGI.eu Director Tel: +31 20 592 2286 Mob: +31 6 3037 2845 -- Steven Newhouse EGI-InSPIRE Project Director EGI.eu Director Tel: +31 20 592 2286 Mob: +31 6 3037 2845