[apps-rg] Notes from the APPS-RG meeting at GGF14

[Thilo Kielmann]

APPS-RG session at GGF14, 29/06/2005, 18:00-19:30, room Regent 1

session chair: Tom Hinke
note taker: Thilo Kielmann


Agenda:
- Welcome, opening, IPR issues
- Feedback on APPS workshop
- Discussion of future APPS workshops
- Presentation:
  Identifying and Fostering Applications on a Multipurpose Grid
  Mary Fran Yafchak, Southeastern Universities Research Association
  and Art Vandenberg, Georgia State University
- Open microphone round (general discussion):
  "Current issues of grid application developing and deployment?"
- Adjourn


Opening:

Tom Hinke gives a brief introduction to APPS-RG 
(using highlights from the charter)


Feedback on the APPS workshop

Tom Hinke shows the list of presented papers, the overall scope,
and those papers invited for journal invitation in the Journal of Grid
Computing


Feedback by the audience:
- the workshop was perceived well
- Possibly, there should be (even) more time for discussion next time(s).
- Maybe have draft slides(?) available online beforehand, point people to look
  into to prepare themselves for the dicussion.
- Publish discussion topic/questions beforehand to the speakers
- Ask presenters to give context (small/large systems, numbers of
  job/files, staffing, costs, ...)


Discussion of future APPS workshops (e.g., ggf15)

topic search:

- industry apps
    contacting industry apps:
    enterprise research group
    sponsors, Steve Crumb (ggf operations)
    ggf15 pc

- managing large scale operations

- from early adopters to mainstream use

- measuring the benefits from grid-enabling

- 'eye opening applications' from various (not just industry) apps?

No final decision on a workshop topic for ggf15 has been taken
yet. This needs to be discussed and decided via the mailing list
ASAP.

comments/suggestions:
- don't forget to forward results to GGF WG's
- use GGF closing panel, but also penetrate GGF groups (mailing lists)

Presentation:
"Identifying and Fostering Applications on a Multipurpose Grid"
Mary Fran Yafchak and Art Vandenberg
(the slides are available on the www:
http://www.cs.vu.nl/ggf/apps-rg/meetings/ggf14-general.html)

Discussion on how getting users/apps onto SURAgrid (and others)
- allow users to do something that they cannot do otherwise

Open microphone:

Tom Hinke invited all people in the room to briefly identify
themselves and their work, goals, and open problems w.r.t. Grids.
After this round of identification, Tom Hinke closes the meeting
because the time is up. However, almost all participants keep
discussing informally in small groups.