[communities] Campus Grids Workshop at GGF15

[Laura F McGinnis]

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


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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
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