[CCGT] PROPOSAL: Science Gateway Portal Workshop at GGF-14

[Charlie Catlett]

Friends-

I realize that the process for proposing a GGF workshop is that the 
proposal must be submitted in time for the GROC to review at the GGF 
meeting immediately preceeding the one at which you wish to hold the 
workshop.  But with all of the structural changes in GGF it seems 
reasonable to me that we consider a late proposal.

Sebastien Goasguen (sebgoa at purdue.edu), Dennis Gannon 
(gannon at cs.indiana.edu) and Nancy Wilkins-Diehr (wilkinsn at sdsc.edu) 
have been running an intense set of interviews of TeraGrid science 
gateway projects over the past month.  Working with a small team of 
folks from multiple institutions they are planning to have a draft 
report at the end of this month.  The report is largely going to be 
an analysis of common requirements for portal access to grid 
resources (but it is a bit more broad than that).  During the first 
week of April there is a TeraGrid internal All-Hands meeting at which 
this team will hold discussions with a much larger group of people, 
including individuals from the 10 or so projects that they 
interviewed individually.

I would like to propose an all-day workshop at GGF-14 where this same 
team brings together the groups that they have been talking to as 
well as others who are working on putting grid resources "behind" 
portals.  The objective would be to explore further the notion of a 
common approach to allowing interactions between portals and grid 
resources.  The goal of such a common approach would be that a 
science team that develops a portal for their community could readily 
"plug in" resources from multiple Grids at the back end of their 
portal.

I would like to have this team begin to plan such a workshop, ideally 
holding some planning sessions during the first week of April while 
they are together at the TeraGrid all-hands meeting.

In addition, I would like to ask the GGF steering group folks who are 
plugged into the relevant communities to suggest others who this 
group ought to be talking with about this workshop.  For instance, I 
know the eScience programme in the UK has some work in this area and 
I suspect that there is similar work happening in Japan.

Thanks-
CeC