ACADEMIA

• Mobility of researchers in e-Science between Spain and Portugal will become effective in July. The financing of joint projects will be decided at the summit Hispano-Lusa September.
• In late 2010, the fiber optic network between Spain and Portugal will be completed, said the Ministry of Science and Innovation.
• CESGA one of the most active participants IBERGRID, hosts the Supercomputing Conference, Thursday 27.
• More than 150 technologists and researchers in computing these days in Braga debate on the future of these technologies.

Under the theme "Bridging the Gap Between Science and European and Iberian-America" IBERGRID'2010 launched today its fourth edition in the University of Minho, in Braga, bringing together more than 150 computer experts. The "Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference" born in 2007, under the bilateral agreement for Science and Technology between the governments of Spain and Portugal, as its main objective as a forum for discussion of progress in the development of the infrastructure network , technologies and applications in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America, promoting the building of a structure common Ibérica e-Science to encourage cooperation in the fields of grid computing and the super-computer.

GEOGRAPHICAL MOBILITY IN e-SCIENCE
Following the Plenary Session was the most anticipated announcement, the commitment of mobility of researchers between Spain and Portugal. Gaspar Barreira, President do LIP (Laboratory of Experimental Instrumentação and Particle Physics Lisbon) made the announcement: "This morning we received confirmation from the ministries of both countries, that the notice of researchers Mobility Program for e-Projects Science will be open from 1 to 21 July. " This Protocol Mobility means the possibility of stays in both countries' students and teachers in short periods of 2-4 weeks to develop specific actions and projects, previously agreed. In the words of Javier García Tobío, Managing Director of CESGA and one of the promoters of the conference since its inception, "The network aims to create space IBERGRID Iberico research only. The machines are already interconnected and so far only exchanged IBERGRID machinery services; from now also exchange knowledge through people. "

HISPANO-Lusos JOINT PROJECTS
Also in September there will be a Luso-Spanish summit which will sign the protocol calls for funding for joint projects in 2011 with funds from both countries, also announced Barreira.


In this regard, the Minister of Science and Higher Education of Portugal, Mariano Gago, said yesterday during the opening session that "Portugal has provided in their budgets the necessary funds, for their part, to complete projects IBERGRID." Gago stressed the importance of

IBEGRID to create a strong enough community in the Iberian Peninsula European Grid project, adding that "depends on shared Grid supercomputing resources and therefore it is necessary that the scientific communities work together. A lot of work to technical and scientific nature requires not only agreements on paper, but engineers and technicians who work together throughout the years, developing applications and security protocols. "

For his part, José Manuel Fernández Labastida, representing the Minister for Science, Cristina Garmendia, said that while European countries have various speeds in the creation of the National Grid Initiatives, "the example that cooperation between Spain and Portugal their common effort is a major European initiatives, "adding that" the following is to comply with previous agreements made at previous meetings and joint projects with Portuguese and Spanish researchers. That is the challenge for the next year. " Labastida also ensured that at the end of 2010 the optical fiber network for scientific and technological join Spain and Portugal, will be completed and operational. The interconnection of these networks is made possible by the cooperation of the Xunta de Galicia, which involved providing infrastructures for the "Science and Tecnoloxía Rede de Galicia", managed by the CESGA.

MODEL IN EUROPE
The inaugural session, held yesterday afternoon at the University of Minho, attended by Mariano Gago (Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education), José Manuel Fernández Labastida (Director General of Research and Management of the National Plan for R & D + i of Spain, Mario Campolargo (Director of Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures of DG INFSO, EU), António Cunha (Rector of the University of Minho), Luís Magalhães (Chairman of the Agency for the Knowledge Society, UMIC) and Vicente Hernandez (Scientific Coordinator of the Spanish Network for e-Science).

According to Mario Campolargo, European Commission, the work done between the Portuguese and Spanish communities in the Grid field, reflected in IBERGRID Initiative, "is seen in Europe as a role model for collaboration and sharing of human resources and infrastructure . Campolargo also stressed the strategic importance of both countries to Europe on their ability to collaborate with Latin America and Grid initiatives aimed at the continent (EELA, etc.).

CESGA PARTICIPATION
Portal Portal Metrics and Accounting, two developments created in the CESGA Middleware for EGEE and Grid currently used in the LHC at CERN, will also be presented at this conference, among other projects.

The Coordinator of the Spanish Inicative National Grid, and represented Spain at the Council of EGI.eu, Isabel Campos Plasencia highlighted the important work of technicians and researchers CESGA, noting that "development is a very hard working and poor visibility while building, but now, once finished, all the centers in Europe are consulted every day Portal and the Accounting Metrics, and it also gives visibility to all the work of Spain in the Grid. When to see what is running, this is the place. It is a very useful tool and a branch of work with a great future. "

The Supercomputing Center of Galicia, CESGA, is one of the organizers and most active participants in this conference, with more than six papers and the organization of the Second Conference on Supercomputing, an HPC Workshop born of IBERGRID but independent. It becomes an analysis of the "state of the art" of supercomputing Spanish. So on Thursday, 27 of them participate in all national supercomputing centers in two sessions: one in the center to speak of access policies and developments of the last year and another user for which each school will be presented by the challenges and most emblematic projects undertaken in the past year.

IBERGRID continues at the Universidade do Minho until next May 28.

More information:
http://www.ibergrid.eu/2010/
info2010@ibergrid.eu.