Proposed Workshop at GGF

[Julie Wulf-Knoerzer]

Hi Ian,
I have scheduled this workshop for Monday, June 27th, from 1:00p - 
5:00p.  I have summarized your proposal on our website 
<http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_next_schedule.htm> - please let me know if 
this is okay with you.  If you are maintaining a website with further 
information, please feel free to give me the URL and I will see that it is 
linked on our website.
I will keep you posted with further logistical details as they become 
available.  In the meantime, please let me know if you have questions.
Regards,
Julie

At 12:13 AM 5/6/2005 -0500, Ian Foster wrote:
>A)     Workshop Title
>
>Globus Toolkit Version 4: Status and Experiences
>
>
>B)     Proposed workshop organizer names and affiliations (possibly incl. 
>review committee for type 2). Be sure to identify yourself if you are a 
>chair of an existing RG/WG.
>
>Organizers: Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago
>I may recruit a co-organizer or two, but I haven't done so yet!
>
>
>C)     RG/WG that will be involved (including potential RG/WGs as well as 
>RG/WGs up for approval). If you are proposing a workshop without being a 
>full RG, please provide a separate RG submission info, including candidate 
>RG name, charter, area, chairs, BOF descriptions, etc.
>
>This workshop will be coordinated with the OGSA-WG.
>
>
>D)     Scope and Content (a paragraph or two of the workshop description 
>to be put on the program.
>
>Globus Toolkit version 4 (GT4), released on April 30 2005, represents a 
>significant advance over earlier GT versions in terms of software quality, 
>functionality, and standards conformance. This workshop will provide an 
>opportunity for people not only to learn about GT4 but also to hear from 
>groups working with it. Presentations at the workshop will focus in 
>particular on experiences implementing and using the standards that 
>underlie GT4 and that in many cases form the basis for ongoing discussions 
>in OGSA-related working groups: the discussions of practical experiences 
>with Web services standards in particular may provide a useful 
>counterpoint to the often academic debates concerning the pros and cons of 
>different approaches. The discussion of GT4 experiences should also be 
>relevant to RGs concerned with Grid applications.
>
>Additional details on GT4: Quality has been a major emphasis during the 18 
>month development period and in particular the 6 month alpa-beta period, 
>in which over 150 people participated. Functionality includes not only the 
>GridFTP data movement service, GRAM job submission and management service, 
>Reliable File Transfer service, Replica Location Service, Community 
>Authorization Service, OGSA Data Access and Integration, and MyProxy 
>services included in previous releases (although with 
>multiple-order-of-magnitude improvements in scalability in several cases) 
>but also new services such as a Workspace Management service (for dynamic 
>accounts), Data Replication Service, Grid Teleoperation Control Protocol 
>service, and an expanded set of Monitoring and Discovery services. In 
>terms of standards conformance, GT4 provides probably the most 
>full-featured implementation of Web services security available anywhere; 
>a full-featured GridFTP implementation; and support for the WS Resource 
>Framework and WS-Notification specifications in C, Java, and Python containers.
>
>
>
>E)      Potential speakers for type one (invited) and possibly two 
>workshops. Any additional info are welcome including the title of the 
>talk, their abstract, etc. In fact the proposed program may be put here.
>
>We propose a workshop of invited talks, as follows:
>
>GT4 Introduction (90 mins) -- largely Globus Alliance members
>         Overview (30 mins)
>         Implementation of Web Services Standards (15)
>         Performance (15)
>         Future directions (15)
>         Related Tools (15)
>Early Experiences with GT4 (90 mins) -- members of the Globus user community
>         China Grid (15)
>         GridCast, Belfast (15)
>         Intel (15)
>         Condor-G and GriPhyN (15)
>         Discussion (30)
>
>
>F)      Past History of hosting a similar workshop inside or outside GGF.
>
>I co-organized the Designing and Building Grid Services workshop, and have 
>organized other meetings.
>
>
>G)     Duration of workshop half day (2-3 slots incl. Breaks) or whole day 
>(4-5 slots)
>
>Half day: 2 x 90 mins
>
>H)     Estimated # of participants (if possible)
>
>100
>
>I)        Publication Plans --- please indicate if you have plan to 
>publish the workshop result with a certain publisher. If left out we will 
>assume that the workshop product will be a GGF Informational Document.
>
>We will prepare a brief report summarizing the content of the workshop and 
>discussion.

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