Presentation

The EELA (E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America) project aims to build a digital bridge between the existing e-Infrastructure initiatives that are in process of consolidation in Europe and those that are emerging in Latin America, throughout the creation of a collaborative network that will share an interoperable Grid infrastructure to support the development and test of advanced applications.

The first EELA Conference will be held in Santiago of Chile on September 4 & 5 2006 (Santa María University, Santiago venue).

The First EELA Conference will develop around four thematic areas, each addressed by a different session:

♦ Collaboration with other Grid Projects
Collaboration and cooperation among Grid Infrastructure Projects is of vital importance to ensure global acceptation of common policies and wide adoption of standards. Many Projects will come to present their experiences in running grid infrastructures and a final panel will summarize the results and identify common patterns and actions.

♦ Status of EELA activities
EELA is carried out with the combined action of three activity work packages, each addressing different aspects of a Grid e-Infrastructure. Their status and results will be shown.

♦ Grid Communities and Applications
Large grid e-Infrastructures make sense and can have long term future only if communities of people from different disciplines are interested in using them to run their applications. A session will be devoted to listen to emerging communities and interesting applications in Latin America.

♦ Status of RedCLARA and perspectives for the future
Grid infrastructures unavoidably rely on the underlying high speed networks. The last session of the First EELA Conference will make the point on the status of RedCLARA and its long term sustainability after the end of the ALICE Project."