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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: EGI User Virtualisation Workshop 12-13th May 2011 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:58:21 +0200 From: Steven Newhouse steven.newhouse@egi.eu To: Representatives of FP7 technology projects within the EGI ecosystem. dci-projects@mailman.egi.eu, cloud-discuss@mailman.egi.eu, EGI InSPIRE collaboration board inspire-cb@mailman.egi.eu, EGI.eu Council council@mailman.egi.eu, inspire-cb-observers@mailman.egi.eu, Technology Coordination Board (TCB) discussions tcb-discuss@mailman.egi.eu CC: EGI-InSPIRE Project Management Board inspire-pmb@mailman.egi.eu, "EGI.eu Executive Board" executive-board@mailman.egi.eu

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The EGI User Virtualisation Workshop in Amsterdam 12-13th May 2011 (http://go.egi.eu/uvw1) now has an updated and more detailed agenda on the website as a result of reflections at recent meetings. Please register by Friday 6th May 2011 so we can plan attendance.

In addition we are asking for participation from:

* Potential Users of virtualised resources: How do you expect to consume these interfaces? How do your plans match the 6 basic scenarios presented here - http://go.egi.eu/uvw1-scenarios? Do you have additional usage scenarios? If you would like to present how your needs will match these scenarios and how they may go beyond these please email michel.drescher@egi.eu. A template will be available in the next few days to help structure your presentation for the Thursday morning session.

* Potential providers of resources & technology: The primary goal of the workshop is to accelerate the deployment and adoption of virtualised resources to provide a more flexible and responsive computing environment for our end-users. In the Friday afternoon session (after we have consolidated requirements and issues) we would like to give you the opportunity to say what you are planning to deploy/develop that could help meet the identified scenarios. We are not after prepared presentations but speakers willing to respond to issues raised during the workshop - even that morning! Please email michel.drescher@egi.eu if you are willing to do this so we can schedule responses.

* Technical breakout sessions on the management interfaces, accounting, monitoring and information that is needed around virtualised resources. Volunteers to lead these sessions on the Thursday afternoon and to report back on the discussions on the Friday morning are requested. These breakouts will address what are the common interfaces or standards currently available in these areas? What is the maturity of the existing implementations? What issues need to be resolved before wider deployment or adoption.

I look forward to seeing you all in Amsterdam in two weeks time for a productive and active workshop.

Regards,

Steven