[[PageOutline]]

= Federation Tool Support  =

== Schedule ==

Tuesday, 9:00am-11.00am

== Session Leaders ==
{{{
#!html
<table  cellspacing=0  style="border:2px solid gray;">

<tr align='center'>
<td> <a href="http://www.geni.net/?page_id=2080"><img src="http://www.geni.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/mbrinn.jpg" height='120px'/></a></td>
</tr>
<tr align='center'  style="border:1px solid gray;">
<td  style="border:1px solid gray;">Marshall Brinn<br/>GENI Project Office</td>
</tr>
</table>
}}}


== Agenda / Details ==
The goal of this session is to discuss recent efforts to build federations between GENI and other research resource testbeds. The session will highlight tools, services and frameworks to enable such federations or to use such federations.

The following speakers are expected to present for around 30 minutes at this session:

Brecht Vermeulen: GENI-EU Federation 
Aki Nakao: Federation lifecycle
Serge Fdida: MySlice
Vasilis Maglaris: NOVI

We will have a panel discussion at the end with any time remaining.

== Pre-Requisites ==

None