From david.wallom at bristol.ac.uk Wed Jun 29 17:09:09 2005 From: david.wallom at bristol.ac.uk (David Wallom) Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 23:09:09 +0100 Subject: [communities] Contact Message-ID: <20050629222537.9FC5612AE0@mailbouncer.mcs.anl.gov> Hello, Ideas for possible funders talks: JISC & Research Councils UK? Publicity through going out to communities rather than make them come to us. Suggestion for keynotes: Ric Collins, United Devices. General purpose grid software developers. David ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. David Wallom Operations Director Centre for e-Research Bristol Rm 4.56 H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory Tyndall Avenue Bristol BS8 1TL Tel +44 (0)117 928 8769 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.ogf.org/pipermail/communities/attachments/20050629/f682dc58/attachment.html From lfm at psc.edu Thu Jun 30 13:09:05 2005 From: lfm at psc.edu (Laura F McGinnis) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:09:05 -0400 Subject: [communities] Campus Grids Workshop at GGF15 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20050630135954.00c58dc8@pscuxb.psc.edu> Because I've been asked the same thing more than twice over the past few days, I thought I'd put out the summary of where I believe the "Campus Grids Workshop" planning is at this point. For many of you, this should not be news, but for others, I'm hoping it's at least a common starting point to discussion. PGS-RG (Production Grid Services) looking to sponsor a full day of case studies from campus grid sites, describing their grid. Harvard (Jay Sircar) has offered to host this workshop on their campus, probably on Sunday, 1-October. The cases that will be presented should discuss how the grid came about, how they got funding and executive buy-in/support, what it's used for, etc. We want to give each speaker a good chunk of time to present their grid, but we're pretty open about how they define "campus". This leaves us open to include enterprise and commercial grids, if they can demonstrate a campus-type persepctive (rather than special-purpose only grids). The full-day timeframe should give each grid 30-45 minutes to present their case study. To follow up, then, we'd like to host a series of panels at GGF15, to talk about commonalities across the grids - formation methodologies, recruiting applications, best/common practices, lessons learned & pitfalls, etc. The pre-GGF workshop talks should be pretty parallel; the panels at GGF would then cut across all of the grids, but addressing different issues in more detail. We want to get a good cross-section not only of presentations, but also of participants, so part of the workshop planning will have to include outreach to campuses what might to traditionally attend GGF meetings. I believe that this is current state of planning and expectations for this workshop. PGS-RG will be posting this to the mailing list either tomorrow or (more likely) early next week. Can we continue the discussion there (pgs-rg at gridforum.org), or is there another venue that would be more appropriate/effective? thx LM ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Laura F. McGinnis, Project Coordinator Data & Information Resource Services Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center email: lfm at psc.edu 4400 Fifth Avenue, # 409D voice: 412-268-5642 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 fax: 412-268-8200 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++