Welcome and Introduction
Serge Petiton, Director of the Executive Board of ORAP

The making of the European HPC infrastructure needs a user's Forum!
Maria Ramalho, European Commission, DG INFSO Unit F3 : "GEANT and e-Infrastructure". Transparents
Update on PRACE Project
Dietmar Erwin, Jülich Forschungszentrum. Transparents

Databases and System Input-Output
System Input-Output, performance aspects
Guy Chesnot, SGI France. Transparents
The ECMWF MARS system: experience with managing a multi Petabytes archive
Baudouin Raoult , ECMWF, U.K. Transparents

Massive Data Distribution
Presentation of project ICARE and european prospectives in this field
Jacques Descloitre - Jean-Marc Nicolas, Université de Lille 1. Transparents
Building a Global Data Federation for Climate Change Science: The Earth System Grid and International Partners
Don Middleton, NCAR, USA. Transparents
The LHC date processing challenge
Jean-Pierre Meyer, CEA DSM/IRFU. Transparents

Conclusion
Jean-Claude André, Chairman ORAP Scientific Council



