From accounts at amazon.com Mon Nov 7 08:54:33 2005 From: accounts at amazon.com (accounts at amazon.com) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 23:54:33 +0900 Subject: [communities] Urgent Fraud Prevention Group Notice Message-ID: <.AAA-notification-02260,4365.1129564323-bdb-1204.vdc.amazon.com>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.ogf.org/pipermail/communities/attachments/20051107/8a3d1459/attachment.htm From catlett at mcs.anl.gov Tue Nov 8 14:37:25 2005 From: catlett at mcs.anl.gov (catlett at mcs.anl.gov) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:37:25 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511082037.jA8KbPi22964@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: Charlie Catlett affiliation: Univ of Chicago / ANL / TeraGrid email: catlett at mcs.anl.gov proposed_title: Grid Interoperation Now session_type: workshop proposed_duration: full day target_audience: managers, technical experts, users num_attendees: 100 abstract: Operational grids are a reality today. Interoperation between operational grids, however, is still a tedious, manual effort. Many production grid projects are having pairwise discussions about how to support applications that wish to use resources in multiple grid projects, for example supporting workflow with a database in Grid A and a computer in Grid B. This workshop is aimed at bringing together technical decision-makers from production grid projects in order to organize a set of 4 to 6 target areas where agreement on existing approaches, taking advantage of operational experience, can enable routine interoperation. These approaches will be geared toward current solutions with a goal of production interoperation services in these areas by the end of 2006. synopsis: Goals- Following planning meetings between several grid projects who are actively pursuing interoperation, we expect to organize the workshop around a specific set of 4-6 target areas of interoperation (e.g. job description language, information services, auth*, etc.) We will flesh these out further at the workshop and organize into working groups with charters, milestones and schedules aimed at specific grid interoperation deliverables and working services by the end of 2006. Our objective will be to have 2 co-chairs for each group and to recruit technical participants from at least 6 operational grid projects for each of the groups. Outline/Schedule (*DRAFT* to be finalized at planning meeting in January 2006) Session 1: - Vision and Overview- Making Interoperation Happen Today - Overview of application scenarios from real life, illustrating interop area needs Session 2: Finding and Accessing Resources - Information Services - Authentication and Authorization Session 3: Computing - Job Submission and Execution - Data movement Session 4: Specific Plans and Wrap-up - Overview of Roadmap for each area, identification of leaders - Next steps Marketing and Outreach Plans This workshop is aimed at bringing together people who wish to invest time and resources in making interoperation real for their grid infrastructures. We will contact leaders from projects running production grids worldwide, ideally utilizing GGF mailing lists. We will also recruit applicaiton leaders who can participate and guide the efforts. tech_requirements: Dialin capability would be useful. Standard laptop projection capabilities prereq_participants: Participants should be (a) involved in operating or supporting a production grid and/or (b) involved in using one or more production grids. This workshop is not aimed at identifying future standards or developing plans for future standards. The workshop will look at working solutions that are proven today and can offer the potential for specific interoperation services within 2006. The work will be useful to standards developers, software developers, architects and pundits but this workshop is aimed at standards users, software users, and people who build and operate grids with their own hands. advertise_suggestion: From foster at mcs.anl.gov Wed Nov 9 00:21:21 2005 From: foster at mcs.anl.gov (foster at mcs.anl.gov) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 00:21:21 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511090621.jA96LL512369@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: Ian Foster affiliation: Argonne Nat Lab & U.Chicago email: foster at mcs.anl.gov proposed_title: GT4 Status and Experiences session_type: Presentations proposed_duration: 90 minutes target_audience: Anyone interested in Grid technology num_attendees: 100 abstract: Globus Toolkit version 4 (GT4), released in April 2005, represents a significant advance over earlier GT versions in terms of software quality, functionality, and standards conformance. This BOF will provide an opportunity to learn about GT4, hear from early adopters, and provide feedback on future directions. synopsis: 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 BOF will provide an opportunity to learn about GT4, hear from early adopters, and provide feedback on future directions. GT4 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 but also new services such as a Workspace Management service (for dynamic accounts), Data Replication Service, Grid Teleoperation Control Protocol service, and additional Monitoring and Discovery services. GT4 provides a full-featured implementation of Web services security and support for the WS Resource Framework and WS-Notification specifications in C, Java, and Python containers. New since the GT4 release is a new community development process, hosted at http://dev.globus.org, that allows for community contributions and governance. Preliminary schedule (I haven\'t contacted speakers yet): 1) GT4 synposis and features (30 minutes): Ian Foster 2) User experiences a) caBIG Cancer Bioinformatics Grid: TBD b) Applications at the Belfast eScience center: TBD c) China Grid: TBD 3) Discussion NOTE: We ran a similar BOF at GGF14 and it was VERY successful. We would like to hold it again to report on the significant progress that has occurred since then, to provide this information to a European audience, and to introduce our new community development process. tech_requirements: None. prereq_participants: Curiousity concerning Grid technology. advertise_suggestion: Email to announce at globus.org, GGF announce list, publicity on GridToday and similar European newsletters. From dder at ecs.soton.ac.uk Fri Nov 11 19:46:36 2005 From: dder at ecs.soton.ac.uk (dder at ecs.soton.ac.uk) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:46:36 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511120146.jAC1kaF16024@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: David De Roure affiliation: University of Southampton email: dder at ecs.soton.ac.uk proposed_title: Semantic Grid Workshop session_type: workshop proposed_duration: full day target_audience: technical experts num_attendees: 50 abstract: This is the 3rd GGF Semantic Grid workshop, and the first in Europe. The workshop will feature presentations from projects which have been exploring various aspects of the Semantic Grid. It is intended as an opportunity for the Semantic Grid community to meet and to inform GGF on the latest developments in Semantic Grid R&D, and also to act as an introduction to those who are interested in finding out more about the Semantic Grid. There will also be a discussion of future directions and priorities. synopsis: Session goals: To provide a forum for the Semantic Grid community to meet and to inform GGF on the latest developments in Semantic Grid R&D To act as an introduction to those who are interested in finding out more about the Semantic Grid To facilitate a discussion about future direction for Semantic Grid in GGF tech_requirements: prereq_participants: The workshop will assume that participants are aware of Grid computing and have heard of RDF or Semantic Web. It will commence with a \"Semantic Grid 101\" so that newcomers are in a position to follow the day. advertise_suggestion: The activity will be advertised via the Semantic Grid mailing list and other GGF lists. We will also advertise it through the Grid technologies unit of the European commission. From wwwtrans at mcs.anl.gov Thu Nov 17 17:56:56 2005 From: wwwtrans at mcs.anl.gov (MCS Webmaster) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:56:56 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511172356.jAHNuuU14770@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: affiliation: email: proposed_title: session_type: proposed_duration: target_audience: num_attendees: abstract: synopsis: tech_requirements: prereq_participants: advertise_suggestion: From mark.henley at twobirds.com Fri Nov 18 06:55:43 2005 From: mark.henley at twobirds.com (mark.henley at twobirds.com) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 06:55:43 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511181255.jAICthO27031@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: Mark Henley affiliation: Senior Associate, Bird & Bird email: mark.henley at twobirds.com proposed_title: Contracting for Grids session_type: Workshop proposed_duration: 60 mins target_audience: Managers and users num_attendees: Not known abstract: This workshop will explore the unique problems that contracts managers and lawyers face when drafting contracts for grid solutions. It will look at licensing, data security, requirements and solutions documents, service levels and other legal/commercial areas where the grid demands creative and innovative thinking and will consider how these issues might be solved. synopsis: IT lawyers and contract managers must recognise that grid solutions raise unique problems for the drafting of commercial contracts. For example, portable code and on-demand scaling create difficulties for traditional licensing models. Processing across different administrative domains creates issues with traditional service level definitions. The workshop would seek to raise awareness of these problems and start a debate on how they might be resolved within the context of a commercial contract. The goal in the longer term would be to establish a community where grid providers, customers, and specialist lawyers could work towards establishing a common legal framework that suits all parties and can be easily adapted for different varieties of grid solution. This should lower the barriers to grid providers and customers entering into balanced and workable commercial deals. tech_requirements: None prereq_participants: Commercial background and/or contracts experience advertise_suggestion: From cdabrowski at nist.gov Fri Nov 18 15:39:22 2005 From: cdabrowski at nist.gov (cdabrowski at nist.gov) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:39:22 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511182139.jAILdML09340@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: Christopher Dabrowski affiliation: National Institute of Standards and Technology email: cdabrowski at nist.gov proposed_title: Workshop on Reliability and Robustness in Grid Computing Systems session_type: Individual presentations proposed_duration: One-half day (afternoon, possibly extending to the evening) target_audience: Technical experts, users, managers num_attendees: 30-50 abstract: Grid computing systems based on emerging Web Service and Grid standards will need to achieve levels of reliability and robustness necessary for enterprise applications in industry and science. This workshop will seek to bring together researchers and engineers whose organizations are actively addressing these concerns to share experiences and describe their research. Of particular interest will be methods and techniques that allow systems that use web-service and grid standards to detect and overcome failures in order to provide a level of reliability and robustness needed for industrial and scientific purposes. synopsis: If Web Service and Grid standards are to achieve widespread success in commercial and scientific sectors, systems based on these specifications will need to achieve levels of reliability and robustness necessary for enterprise applications in industry and science. The inherent complexity of grid computing systems poses formidable challenges to detecting and overcoming failures to achieve the required level of reliability. Three considerations are of special concern. First, the scale of grid computing systems is expected to grow dramatically as grid technology transitions to industrial use. Second, as operational grids scale, there is the possibility that unexpected interactions will occur among components that result in unpredicted emergent and possibly chaotic behaviors. Finally, grids are likely to be subjected to volatile and uncertain conditions brought about by accidental outages and external attack. These three factors can potentially endanger or severely degrade the effectiveness of operational grids in everyday use. Goal: The goal of the workshop will be bring together researchers and engineers from industry and academe whose organizations are actively addressing these concerns to share experiences and inform each other of their work in this area. Promoting information exchange can be generally expected to benefit ongoing grid reliability work as a whole. Moreover, despite the practical importance of this work, there are relatively few researchers working on grid reliability in comparison to other areas of grid work. They are quite possibly isolated and unaware of each other. The workshop will hopefully attract new experts to participate in the Research Group in Reliability and Robustness in Grid Computing Systems that is currently in the process of formation. Similarly, the workshop can serve to attract participation in other GGF Working Groups that are concerned with reliability issues. Workshop discussions also will serve as input to the program of work for the research group and ult! imately to developing recommendations for how Web Services and Grid Standards can be progressed to ensure reliable grid applications. Content and Organization: The workshop should be an afternoon session beginning at 2:00 PM and running until the end of the day (or later, if there are a sufficient number of participants). The call statement (see http://xw2k.sdct.nist.gov/chrisd/ResearchGroup.htm) will request that interested parties provide informal presentations of up to 20 minutes on work being done within their organizations on grid reliability and related areas. The presentations will be informative and intended to allow meeting participants to learn of each other?s work. We will request that all presentations be in PowerPoint (or similar media) and that presenters agree that their presentations be posted on a GGF website. The content of the workshop will be the presentations themselves. It would be appropriate to reserve time for short question and answer periods after each presentation and at the end of the session. Special topics of interest will be: ? Terminology of reliability, dependability, and robustness for grid systems. ? Technologies supporting reliability, dependability, and robustness in grid systems. ? Strategies used by grid manufacturers (software vendors, service providers, etc.) and service consumers for improving reliability (such as checkpointing, work-around techniques, and recovery methods). ? User experiences (in business and academic communities) with grid reliability. ? Grid monitoring (of failure and system performance). ? Interactions between grid software and other network software during failure detection and recovery (multilayer recovery) Additional topics may be suggested. A program committee will be formed to review submissions, with notice of acceptance by January 20, 2006. The call statement specifies that presentations will be chosen on the basis of available time and the extent to which their content overlaps with the charter of the GGF Research Group on Reliability and Robustness (available at URL above). Prospective presenters will be requested to submit a one-page abstract describing the topic of their presentations (by January 10, 2006). Once submissions are received, it may be appropriate to subdivide the workshop topically and post an outline. Marketing and Outreach: If approved, we would request that the workshop be advertised through channels available to GGF and, of course, be posted as part of the GGF16 schedule. The workshop will also be advertised through channels available to NIST. In addition, NIST is creating an unofficial website for the Research Group on Reliability and Robustness (pending its approval by GGF) that will post a notice of the workshop. Preliminary Schedule: The deadline for submitting one-page abstracts will be January 10, 2006. Notice of acceptance will be provided by January 20. The workshop will be held February 13-17 at GGF16 in Athens. Please note: I am sending the workshop call statment to you separately for reference purposes tech_requirements: None. prereq_participants: None, GGF attendees. advertise_suggestion: See synopsis. I am sending the workshop call statment to you separately for reference purposes From christopher.dabrowski at nist.gov Fri Nov 18 15:49:59 2005 From: christopher.dabrowski at nist.gov (Christopher Dabrowski) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:49:59 -0500 Subject: [communities] Submission to Community Program Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20051118164531.01042008@mailserver.nist.gov> Hello, I wish to add the attached document to my submission requesting a workshop Workshop on Reliability and Robustness in Grid Computing Systems to be held at GGF16. It is intended to be part of the synopsis. Sincerely, Chris Dabrowski -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This workshop will provide an opportunity for people both to learn about GT4 and to hear from groups working with it. We will also present the latest features incorporated into the GT4 source repository, the Globus roadmap outlining plans for future developments, and the new GlobDev community development process. synopsis: This community event will include five major sections: 1) GT4 Overview and Status (~45 minutes) 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-Notificati! on specifications in C, Java, and Python containers. 2) GT4 User Experiences (~60-90 minutes) I propose to invite ~6 participants if the event is scheduled. The following are the sorts of people I am considering: * NIH\'s caBIG Cancer Bioinformatics Grid * China Grid * UK Belfast eScience Center * TeraGrid * NAREGI * OGSA-DAI User * Univa 3) GT4 Roadmap Presesentation and Discusion (~30 minutes) We will present at GGF16 the first release of what is intended to be a regularly updated \"Globus Roadmap\", which we intend as a mechanism for both communicating Globus developer plans to the Globus user community and soliciting feedback from that community. 4) GlobDev Community Development Process (~15 minutes) We are establishing a new Globus community development process, described at http://dev.globus.org. We will present this process at this meeting and solicit feedback from the audience. 5) General discussion (~30 minutes) tech_requirements: prereq_participants: The different talks will cover a range of material. Some will go into deep technical details, but in general we just expect general knowledge of, and interest in, Grid. advertise_suggestion: Globus.org. GridToday. Primeur (sp?) in Europe. From gcf at grids.ucs.indiana.edu Fri Nov 18 16:35:48 2005 From: gcf at grids.ucs.indiana.edu (Geoffrey Fox) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:35:48 -0500 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission In-Reply-To: <200511182221.jAIMLtI10147@delta.mcs.anl.gov> References: <200511182221.jAIMLtI10147@delta.mcs.anl.gov> Message-ID: <437E5744.10505@grids.ucs.indiana.edu> Thank you I understand this replaces original submission foster at mcs.anl.gov wrote: >proposers_name: Ian Foster > >affiliation: Argonne Nat Lab & U.Chicago > >email: foster at mcs.anl.gov > >proposed_title: GT4 Status and Experiences > >session_type: Talks + Panel > >proposed_duration: 180 minutes > >target_audience: Anyone interested in Grid technology > >num_attendees: 50-100 > >abstract: Globus Toolkit version 4 (GT4) 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 both to learn about GT4 and to hear from groups working with it. We will also present the latest features incorporated into the GT4 source repository, the Globus roadmap outlining plans for future developments, and the new GlobDev community development process. > >synopsis: This community event will include five major sections: > >1) GT4 Overview and Status (~45 minutes) > >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-Notificati! >on specifications in C, Java, and Python containers. > > >2) GT4 User Experiences (~60-90 minutes) > >I propose to invite ~6 participants if the event is scheduled. The following are the sorts of people I am considering: > >* NIH\'s caBIG Cancer Bioinformatics Grid >* China Grid >* UK Belfast eScience Center >* TeraGrid >* NAREGI >* OGSA-DAI User >* Univa > >3) GT4 Roadmap Presesentation and Discusion (~30 minutes) > >We will present at GGF16 the first release of what is intended to be a regularly updated \"Globus Roadmap\", which we intend as a mechanism for both communicating Globus developer plans to the Globus user community and soliciting feedback from that community. > >4) GlobDev Community Development Process (~15 minutes) > >We are establishing a new Globus community development process, described at http://dev.globus.org. We will present this process at this meeting and solicit feedback from the audience. > >5) General discussion (~30 minutes) > > > >tech_requirements: > >prereq_participants: The different talks will cover a range of material. Some will go into deep technical details, but in general we just expect general knowledge of, and interest in, Grid. > > >advertise_suggestion: Globus.org. >GridToday. >Primeur (sp?) in Europe. > > > > > -- : : Geoffrey Fox gcf at indiana.edu FAX 8128567972 http://www.infomall.org : Phones Cell 812-219-4643 Home 8123239196 Lab 8128567977 From foster at mcs.anl.gov Fri Nov 18 16:38:47 2005 From: foster at mcs.anl.gov (Ian Foster) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:38:47 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission In-Reply-To: <437E5744.10505@grids.ucs.indiana.edu> References: <200511182221.jAIMLtI10147@delta.mcs.anl.gov> <200511182221.jAIMLtI10147@delta.mcs.anl.gov> Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20051118163748.02d1f7c0@pop.mcs.anl.gov> yes, that's right. There's a lot to cover. I need to leave Thursday, so Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday would be ideal. (I'm not sure when these get organized.) At 05:35 PM 11/18/2005 -0500, Geoffrey Fox wrote: >Thank you >I understand this replaces original submission > >foster at mcs.anl.gov wrote: > >>proposers_name: Ian Foster >>affiliation: Argonne Nat Lab & U.Chicago >>email: foster at mcs.anl.gov >>proposed_title: GT4 Status and Experiences >>session_type: Talks + Panel >>proposed_duration: 180 minutes >>target_audience: Anyone interested in Grid technology >>num_attendees: 50-100 >>abstract: Globus Toolkit version 4 (GT4) 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 both to learn about GT4 and to hear from groups working with it. >>We will also present the latest features incorporated into the GT4 source >>repository, the Globus roadmap outlining plans for future developments, >>and the new GlobDev community development process. >>synopsis: This community event will include five major sections: >> >>1) GT4 Overview and Status (~45 minutes) >> >>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-Notificati! >>on specifications in C, Java, and Python containers. >> >> >>2) GT4 User Experiences (~60-90 minutes) >> >>I propose to invite ~6 participants if the event is scheduled. The >>following are the sorts of people I am considering: >> >>* NIH\'s caBIG Cancer Bioinformatics Grid >>* China Grid >>* UK Belfast eScience Center >>* TeraGrid >>* NAREGI >>* OGSA-DAI User >>* Univa >> >>3) GT4 Roadmap Presesentation and Discusion (~30 minutes) >> >>We will present at GGF16 the first release of what is intended to be a >>regularly updated \"Globus Roadmap\", which we intend as a mechanism for >>both communicating Globus developer plans to the Globus user community >>and soliciting feedback from that community. >> >>4) GlobDev Community Development Process (~15 minutes) >> >>We are establishing a new Globus community development process, described >>at http://dev.globus.org. We will present this process at this meeting >>and solicit feedback from the audience. >> >>5) General discussion (~30 minutes) >> >> >>tech_requirements: >> >>prereq_participants: The different talks will cover a range of material. >>Some will go into deep technical details, but in general we just expect >>general knowledge of, and interest in, Grid. >> >>advertise_suggestion: Globus.org. >>GridToday. >>Primeur (sp?) in Europe. >> >> >> > >-- >: >: Geoffrey Fox gcf at indiana.edu FAX 8128567972 http://www.infomall.org >: Phones Cell 812-219-4643 Home 8123239196 Lab 8128567977 > _______________________________________________________________ Ian Foster www.mcs.anl.gov/~foster Math & Computer Science Div. Dept of Computer Science Argonne National Laboratory The University of Chicago Argonne, IL 60439, U.S.A. Chicago, IL 60637, U.S.A. Tel: 630 252 4619 Fax: 630 252 1997 Globus Alliance, www.globus.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The goal is to speed the delivery of innovative approaches for the prevention and treatment of cancer. The approach is to leverage existing technologies for the standardization of data representation and semantics coupled with common data integration architecture. As part of this effort, NCICB has developed and deployed a prototype grid caGrid 0.5 (https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/workspaces/Architecture/caGrid/) that enables the building of an open, multi-institutional data sharing, annotation, and analysis environment. The session will briefly describe the program, current development plans and the architecture decisisions taken by the team. synopsis: tech_requirements: prereq_participants: None advertise_suggestion: From Peter.Mason at carat.com Mon Nov 21 13:31:18 2005 From: Peter.Mason at carat.com (Peter Mason) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:31:18 -0500 Subject: [communities] Global Grid Forum - Athens 2006 Message-ID: Hello- Not sure if you are the right person to contact, but I just wanted to send a quick note to check on the speaker selection process. I submitted Martin Curley of Intel Corporation a while back and wanted to see if you had any initial questions or if you needed any additional information at this point. If you are not the right contact, could you let me know who is? I hope this e-mail finds you well and you had a great weekend. Thanks! - Peter Peter L. 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Julie Wulf-Knoerzer GGF At 02:31 PM 11/21/2005 -0500, Peter Mason wrote: >Hello- > >Not sure if you are the right person to contact, but I just wanted to send >a quick note to check on the speaker selection process. I submitted Martin >Curley of Intel Corporation a while back and wanted to see if you had any >initial questions or if you needed any additional information at this point. > >If you are not the right contact, could you let me know who is? > >I hope this e-mail finds you well and you had a great weekend. > >Thanks! > >- Peter > >[communities] Global Grid Forum.gif > >Peter L. Mason >Account Executive >Carat Brand Experience >617.449.4169 >www.caratcalendar.com +++++++++++++++++++ Julie Wulf-Knoerzer Manager of Community Development Global Grid Forum wulf at ggf.org ph. 630/252-7163 fax 630/252-4466 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: [communities] Global Grid Forum.gif Type: image/gif Size: 3639 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.ogf.org/pipermail/communities/attachments/20051121/fa8d1fb8/attachment.gif From wenbo.mao at hp.com Tue Nov 22 05:37:42 2005 From: wenbo.mao at hp.com (wenbo.mao at hp.com) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:37:42 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511221137.jAMBbgW10565@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: Wenbo Mao affiliation: HP Labs, China email: wenbo.mao at hp.com proposed_title: Auditable Grid Authorization from Trusted Computing session_type: Presentation + Demo proposed_duration: 90 mins target_audience: Users and technical experts num_attendees: 100 abstract: Current Grid security solution, Grid Security Infrastructure, includes a Grid VO authorization mechanism called GridMap. A system administrator at a Grid resource provider (RP) maintains a GridMap file for users in a VO. The GridMap file maps between VO policy and the RP local policy for correct resource utilizations by the VO members. While GridMap files are of great importance in terms of mission-criticalness, integrity and in some cases confidentiality, GSI does not provide protection on these files against the system administrators, and only provide a weak protection against other adversaries. Trusted Computing, which is an industrial standard technology for platform security, uses a tamper-protection hardware module as an in-platform agent to protect system security. In this talk and an accompanying proof-of-concept demo show we manifest how TC provides an effective, practical yet cryptographically strong protection on the GridMap mechanism, against not only usual adversaries, but also the system administrator in that all actions of an administrator maintaining GridMap files will be documented in an undeniable manner. synopsis: tech_requirements: prereq_participants: advertise_suggestion: From ali at epcc.ed.ac.uk Wed Nov 23 10:50:39 2005 From: ali at epcc.ed.ac.uk (ali at epcc.ed.ac.uk) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:50:39 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511231650.jANGodU06841@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: Ali Anjomshoaa affiliation: EPCC, University of Edinburgh email: ali at epcc.ed.ac.uk proposed_title: JSDL Workshop session_type: Workshop - series of presentations by current JSDL users proposed_duration: half-day (afternoon pref.) target_audience: Grid Implementors (technical experts and managers) num_attendees: 100 abstract: This half-day workshop is aimed at Grid implementors, technical experts, managers and strategists. The goal of the workshop is to allow current users of the JSDL specification to present their work, describing the architecture of their middleware and motivations for the use of JSDL in their systems. The hope is that this in turn will allow newcomers an insight into how JSDL might be used within their projects and infrastructures. In addition, we will use the session to obtain feedback from those already using JSDL and other potential users in order to improve the JSDL specification and schema. synopsis: tech_requirements: None. prereq_participants: - Basic knowledge of computational job management environments. - Basic knowledge of the motivation behind Grids. - Basic knowledge of Java, XML & XML Schema, and Web Services. advertise_suggestion: - General GGF mailing lists. - Compute Area mailing lists. - GGF16 participant lists. From ali at epcc.ed.ac.uk Wed Nov 23 10:53:08 2005 From: ali at epcc.ed.ac.uk (ali at epcc.ed.ac.uk) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:53:08 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511231653.jANGr8006878@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: Ali Anjomshoaa affiliation: EPCC, University of Edinburgh email: ali at epcc.ed.ac.uk proposed_title: JSDL Tutorial session_type: Tutorial - series of presentations by JSDL authors and users proposed_duration: half-day (morning pref.) target_audience: Grid Implementors (technical experts) num_attendees: 100 abstract: This half-day tutorial is aimed at Grid implementors, mainly technical experts. The goal of the tutorial is to teach Grid implementors how the JSDL specification is to be used and recommended ways to extend the specification for specific use-cases, e.g. parallel environments, Web service invocations, etc. synopsis: tech_requirements: None. prereq_participants: - Good knowledge of computational job management environments. - Knowledge of the motivation behind Grids. - Knowledge of Java, XML & XML Schema, and Web Services. advertise_suggestion: - General GGF mailing lists. - Compute Area mailing lists. - GGF16 participant lists. From wwwtrans at mcs.anl.gov Wed Nov 23 14:24:41 2005 From: wwwtrans at mcs.anl.gov (MCS Webmaster) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:24:41 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511232024.jANKOfw10315@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: affiliation: email: proposed_title: session_type: proposed_duration: target_audience: num_attendees: abstract: synopsis: tech_requirements: prereq_participants: advertise_suggestion: From ckotso at grnet.gr Thu Nov 24 09:30:02 2005 From: ckotso at grnet.gr (ckotso at grnet.gr) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:30:02 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511241530.jAOFU2h28554@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: Costas Kotsokalis affiliation: GRNET email: ckotso at grnet.gr proposed_title: Networking Enhancements for Grid Computing session_type: Workshop proposed_duration: 90 mins target_audience: Networking world num_attendees: abstract: This workshop will try to bring together major networking initiatives worldwide, to share experiences and ideas on the networking infrastructures that facilitate grids. Different technologies that have been implemented will be presented, also pointing out connections to GGF work (NM-WG, GRAAP-WG, GHPN-RG, others). synopsis: The issue of integrating networking technologies with the grid and providing networking facilities to advance grids is of great interest amongst national and international NREN projects. The problems that stem from these requirements are complex and require the establishment of synergies and the development of standards. The workshop will bring together technologists from the networking world to discuss individual or other efforts in this context, including the implementations of GGF recommendations or other work. Four major projects have been invited: 1) GEANT/GN2 (Speaker: Afrodite Sevasti) 2) Canarie (Speech confirmed, Speaker TBD) 3) Internet2 (Speech confirmed, Speaker TBD) 4) VIOLA (Speaker: Peter Kaufmann) There is ongoing email discussion with the GHPN-RG chair and others to explore cooperation possibilities and extend to areas such as provider networks (Telco-CG focus), with the corresponding duration extension. tech_requirements: prereq_participants: advertise_suggestion: From ckotso at grnet.gr Thu Nov 24 10:03:19 2005 From: ckotso at grnet.gr (ckotso at grnet.gr) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:03:19 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511241603.jAOG3J328969@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: Costas Kotsokalis affiliation: GRNET email: ckotso at grnet.gr proposed_title: \"Production Grids\" plenaries/panel session_type: Plenaries / Panel proposed_duration: Monday & Tuesday mornings target_audience: All participants num_attendees: All participants abstract: The Production Grids theme for the plenaries and the corresponsing panel discussion will attempt to showcase the approach of different major Production Grids projects, to the issue of operations. Focus is on eScience grids without this being absolutely restrictive. synopsis: The key issues identified for the presentations and the panel discussion are: - architecture - security - monitoring and acoounting - operational and user support - fabric and software management - applications After the invitations that have been sent out, the schedule is the following: * Monday, 08:30-10:00 & 10:30-12:00 - GRNET Opening (P. Tsanakas, GRNET, BoD Chairman) - GGF Opening (Mark Linesch, GGF, Chair) - EC Keynote (Speaker TBD) - Sponsors (Up to 30-40 minutes, non-marketing) - EGEE (Ian Bird) - OSG (Dane Skow) - HellasGrid (Nectarios Koziris) * Tuesday > 08:30-10:00 - GT4 / Other (Ian Foster) - Asia-Pacific (Yoshio Tanaka) - NorduGrid (Balazs Konya) - Grid.it (Speaker TDB) > 10:30 - 12:00 - SEE-GRID, EUMedGrid, EUChinaGrid (Ognjen Prnjat) - Production Grids panel Ongoing discussion about synergy with a \"Grid interoperability\" workshop is being conducted. GRNET\'s suggestion is for this workshop to take place on Monday afternoon and Tuesday afternoon. This way, the panel discussion can be used to bring everyone together and jointly discuss production & interoperability issues, then continue the discussion on Tuesday afternoon. tech_requirements: prereq_participants: advertise_suggestion: From rob.procter at ncess.ac.uk Thu Nov 24 15:15:50 2005 From: rob.procter at ncess.ac.uk (rob.procter at ncess.ac.uk) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 15:15:50 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511242115.jAOLFoK20430@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: Rob Procter, Christine Borgman, Geof Bowker, Marina Jirotka, Gary Olson, Cherri Pancake, Tom Rodden, mc schraefel affiliation: National Centre for e-Social Science email: rob.procter at ncess.ac.uk proposed_title: Usability challenges for Grid infrastructure and tools session_type: Workshop proposed_duration: Full day target_audience: Usability experts, grid users, administrators, developers num_attendees: 30+ abstract: The workshop is the latest in a series of events on the theme of usability of Grid middleware and tools that have been organised over the past two years by the proposers. The outputs from this workshop will feed into plans for follow-on workshops at other relevant conferences. The aim is to draw on participants? experiences as users, developers or administrators of grid middleware and tools in order to identify and begin to explore usability challenges for grids, and build on this over a series of workshops. synopsis: The Grid is a global project in technological innovation whose aim is nothing less than to bring about a radical transformation in research practices. The Grid vision is of data and information intensive, large-scale, distributed, dynamic and inter-disciplinary research collaborations. As the focus moves from concept demonstrators to generic middleware and tools supporting real user communities, and experiences of pilot projects are absorbed and analysed, important challenges for Grid usability are beginning to emerge: ? How do we maximise and deliver the potential of grids to support new forms of scientific community? ? How do we exploit grids to support researchers? expertise, new research methods and new forms of knowledge production? ? How can we use grids to provide multiple perspectives on data ? perspectives relevant to the research, business, policy and educational communities? ? What methodologies are best suited to evaluate grids and to feed this back to guide design and development? ? How do we re-design grid middleware and tools developed in pilot projects for specific users for re-use within a wider user community? ? How do we make generic grid middleware and tools configurable so as to meet the needs of diverse administrator and user communities? This workshop seeks, within the context of the GGF conference, to engage the GGF community in the articulation of emerging cyberinfrastructure usability challenges and solutions. Preparations for the workshop will commence with the CfP and the creation of a wiki (blog) to support the building of a record of pre- and post-workshop activities and of the event itself. Participation will be based on submitted papers but a number of key experts will be targeted as part of the call. Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop committee and accepted submissions will be made available on the workshop wiki. Pre-workshop, participants will be invited to comment on submissions, refine and group themes, define research challenges, etc. We will use simple, universally available tools such as IM to support these activities. The workshop itself will begin with presentations of three or four position statements selected from accepted submissions. These will be followed by a plenary discussion on usability topics arising from participants? experience of contributing to the pre-workshop activities, focusing on what worked and what didn?t, and on examining the reasons. Two breakout sessions will then be held. The first will focus around selected usability topics, followed by report back and discussion of findings. These will be used to seed the second round of breakout sessions which will focus on requirements for collaboration support. The workshop will close with a summary of the findings and their distillation into a GGF research agenda for usable grids. tech_requirements: Availability of an Access Grid would be an advantage but is not essential. Data projector, flip charts. prereq_participants: Experience as a usability researcher, grid user, administrator or developer. advertise_suggestion: GGF mailing lists, US and UK grid-related mailing lists. From dfmac at nesc.ac.uk Tue Nov 29 06:38:00 2005 From: dfmac at nesc.ac.uk (dfmac at nesc.ac.uk) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:38:00 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511291238.jATCc0P12859@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: David Fergusson affiliation: NeSC, UK email: dfmac at nesc.ac.uk proposed_title: Grid Education and Training workshop session_type: Workshop proposed_duration: 3hrs: 90 minutes Education and 90 minutes Training target_audience: Educators, Managers, technical experts and users. Those interested in grid training and education num_attendees: 30 - 40 abstract: In order to develop the culture and prepare graduates for productive engagement with e-Infrastructure an active grid education program is proposed. This will benefit from shared resources, international agreements and broad intellectual engagement. The workshop will stimulate these and plan their continuation. To encourage new and continuing engagement among the many groups potentially able to exploit e-Infrastructure appropriate and timely training is required. None of the individual grid initiatives have sufficient resources to meet these requirements completely and the only possible approach is coordination and cooperation between the projects in this arena. The second part of the workshop will provide a forum for developing such coordination and cooperation within the grid community. We expect to produce the first in a series of reports on these subject. There are a pair of 90 minute sessions as there is interplay between education and training. synopsis: The ERA and other governmental groupings are investing heavily to establish e-Infrastructure to stimulate our industries, improve the lives of citizens, accelerate research and gain international competitive advantage. Realising this expectation depends on the development of a richly diverse, well-informed, creative community who will adroitly exploit e-Infrastructure. Without the cultivation of improved skills and knowledge in the communities exploiting and providing e Infrastructure, the potential benefits and advantages of a European e-Infrastructure will not be fully realised. This will require catalysing the creation of the necessary educational infrastructure. It will need the establishment of a world-wide exchange of ideas and educational material to radically accelerate innovative and effective Grid Education. By grid education we mean not only education in the use of the Grid, but also the use of the Grid in education. We use the term ?Grid? in a very br! oad sense, to represent any distributed computing technology, working practices and policies that will enable the provision of e Infrastructure. Good education in rapidly advancing scientific, medical, engineering and technical domains is particularly labour intensive. It must draw on the skills and knowledge of the small community of pioneers already intensively engaged in advancing e-Infrastructure. The only way in which this can be achieved is by stimulating the coordination and cooperation in training and education by these groups. The ICEAGE project as a catalyst The ICEAGE project will officially start on 1st March 2006. The leaders of this project will contribute to the workshop and bring in their network of collaborators to stimulate the workshop. We therefore present the current thinking in the ICEAGE project as a starting position for the workshop. ICEAGE will form an international forum, The International Collaboration to Extend and Advance Grid Education forum. This will bring together a world-wide consortium of experts to expand and advance grid education. Building on experience in EGEE the project will establish public shared infrastructure to help students, self-paced learners and educators obtain and develop Advanced Grid Education. We add the prefix advanced to indicate that we are focused on the technologies that are most likely to contribute to sustained, large-scale, multi-purpose e Infrastructures. ICEAGE will also develop understanding of the potential of grids in a wide range of application areas, alerting citizens to creative opportunities and business potential. This will lead to the inclusion of social, ethical and economic issues. Education itself should be a domain for such creativity. ICEAGE will, therefore, show how education can use e Infrastructure. ICEAGE will deliver an annual programme of education events, including International Summer Schools in Grid Computing. The legacy of ICEAGE will be universities throughout Europe adapting their courses to develop technological expertise needed for e Infrastructures and stimulating their graduates to lead the exploitation of e Infrastructure in many disciplines. The first session will start with a presentation on what is needed to develop international collaboration in grid education based on ICEAGE. This will be followed with a number of short talks about educational challenges and approaches, predominately from those already engaged in the field of grid education. This will be followed by an open discussion to identify priorities and to test whether there is a willingness to work on these in the context of GGF. If a consensus can be established we will seek commitment from volunteers to carry the work forward, with ICAGE support. The second session will be immediately initiated by drawing on the experiences of EGEE training and other EU projects. We will draw in other contributions on grid training from North America, Australia, Asia & the rest of Europe. Again we will conclude with a prioritisation of issues and recruiting a contingent to address them in the GGF context. tech_requirements: None prereq_participants: None advertise_suggestion: Advertising through email lists for projects with a significant training or education component. Advertise on web sites of EGEE, ICEAGE and related projects. From dfmac at nesc.ac.uk Tue Nov 29 06:39:00 2005 From: dfmac at nesc.ac.uk (dfmac at nesc.ac.uk) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:39:00 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511291239.jATCd0m12882@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: David Fergusson affiliation: NeSC, UK email: dfmac at nesc.ac.uk proposed_title: Grid Education and Training workshop session_type: Workshop proposed_duration: 3hrs: 90 minutes Education and 90 minutes Training target_audience: Educators, Managers, technical experts and users. Those interested in grid training and education num_attendees: 30 - 40 abstract: In order to develop the culture and prepare graduates for productive engagement with e-Infrastructure an active grid education program is proposed. This will benefit from shared resources, international agreements and broad intellectual engagement. The workshop will stimulate these and plan their continuation. To encourage new and continuing engagement among the many groups potentially able to exploit e-Infrastructure appropriate and timely training is required. None of the individual grid initiatives have sufficient resources to meet these requirements completely and the only possible approach is coordination and cooperation between the projects in this arena. The second part of the workshop will provide a forum for developing such coordination and cooperation within the grid community. We expect to produce the first in a series of reports on these subject. There are a pair of 90 minute sessions as there is interplay between education and training. synopsis: The ERA and other governmental groupings are investing heavily to establish e-Infrastructure to stimulate our industries, improve the lives of citizens, accelerate research and gain international competitive advantage. Realising this expectation depends on the development of a richly diverse, well-informed, creative community who will adroitly exploit e-Infrastructure. Without the cultivation of improved skills and knowledge in the communities exploiting and providing e Infrastructure, the potential benefits and advantages of a European e-Infrastructure will not be fully realised. This will require catalysing the creation of the necessary educational infrastructure. It will need the establishment of a world-wide exchange of ideas and educational material to radically accelerate innovative and effective Grid Education. By grid education we mean not only education in the use of the Grid, but also the use of the Grid in education. We use the term ?Grid? in a very br! oad sense, to represent any distributed computing technology, working practices and policies that will enable the provision of e Infrastructure. Good education in rapidly advancing scientific, medical, engineering and technical domains is particularly labour intensive. It must draw on the skills and knowledge of the small community of pioneers already intensively engaged in advancing e-Infrastructure. The only way in which this can be achieved is by stimulating the coordination and cooperation in training and education by these groups. The ICEAGE project as a catalyst The ICEAGE project will officially start on 1st March 2006. The leaders of this project will contribute to the workshop and bring in their network of collaborators to stimulate the workshop. We therefore present the current thinking in the ICEAGE project as a starting position for the workshop. ICEAGE will form an international forum, The International Collaboration to Extend and Advance Grid Education forum. This will bring together a world-wide consortium of experts to expand and advance grid education. Building on experience in EGEE the project will establish public shared infrastructure to help students, self-paced learners and educators obtain and develop Advanced Grid Education. We add the prefix advanced to indicate that we are focused on the technologies that are most likely to contribute to sustained, large-scale, multi-purpose e Infrastructures. ICEAGE will also develop understanding of the potential of grids in a wide range of application areas, alerting citizens to creative opportunities and business potential. This will lead to the inclusion of social, ethical and economic issues. Education itself should be a domain for such creativity. ICEAGE will, therefore, show how education can use e Infrastructure. ICEAGE will deliver an annual programme of education events, including International Summer Schools in Grid Computing. The legacy of ICEAGE will be universities throughout Europe adapting their courses to develop technological expertise needed for e Infrastructures and stimulating their graduates to lead the exploitation of e Infrastructure in many disciplines. The first session will start with a presentation on what is needed to develop international collaboration in grid education based on ICEAGE. This will be followed with a number of short talks about educational challenges and approaches, predominately from those already engaged in the field of grid education. This will be followed by an open discussion to identify priorities and to test whether there is a willingness to work on these in the context of GGF. If a consensus can be established we will seek commitment from volunteers to carry the work forward, with ICAGE support. The second session will be immediately initiated by drawing on the experiences of EGEE training and other EU projects. We will draw in other contributions on grid training from North America, Australia, Asia & the rest of Europe. Again we will conclude with a prioritisation of issues and recruiting a contingent to address them in the GGF context. Agenda: 1st Session Introduce ICEAGE (Malcolm Atkinson ) 10 mins Education of Minorities (Geoffry Fox) 10 mins Early Experiences with eScience MSc ( ) 10 mins Report on ISSGCs (David Fergusson) 10 mins Discussion a. Do we want to work on developing common curricula? b. Do we want to share educational material? a. Lecture notes? b. Hands on excersises? c. Tutorials and assessments? c. Do we want to have a common student access policy? d. Do we want to share t-Infrastructure? 2nd Session Report on EU training coordination (Rosia Badia) EGEE training experiences (David Fergusson) Australian training experiences (JohnO?Callaghan) Globus training experiences (Lisa Childers) Condor training experiences (Alain Roy) OGSA-DAI training experiences (Neil Chue Hong) Discussion a. Shared materials b. Co-sheduling c. t-Infrastructure d. eLearning e. integration of trianing tech_requirements: None prereq_participants: None advertise_suggestion: Advertising through email lists for projects with a significant training or education component. Advertise on web sites of EGEE, ICEAGE and related projects. From dfmac at nesc.ac.uk Tue Nov 29 06:44:12 2005 From: dfmac at nesc.ac.uk (dfmac at nesc.ac.uk) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:44:12 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511291244.jATCiCR12906@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: David Fergusson affiliation: NeSC, UK email: dfmac at nesc.ac.uk proposed_title: EGEE training session_type: tutorial proposed_duration: 3hrs target_audience: Educators, Managers, technical experts and users. Those interested in grid training and education num_attendees: 30 - 40 abstract: EGEE now provides the largest production grid infrastructure in the world. The aim of this tutorial is to provide an introduction to engaging with the EGEE infrastructure and developing applications which can be run on it. Presentations will be given outlining the scope and structure of the EGEE project, its grid operations procedures and middleware, processes for engaging with EGEE as a site or application provider. synopsis: The session goal is to provide middleware and applications developers with the information required to begin to engage with the EGEE infrastructure. This will involve an introduction to the EGEE project, it?s goals, procedures and accomplishments; procedures for engaging with its operations team as a site; an overview of the architecture of its middleware; specific information relating to particular components of the middleware; how to engage with the applications development activity of EGEE and how to develop applications to run on the infrastructure. About EGEE The EGEE project brings together experts from over 27 countries with the common aim of building on recent advances in Grid technology and developing a service Grid infrastructure which is available to scientists 24 hours-a-day. The project aims to provide researchers in academia and industry with access to major computing resources, independent of their geographic location. The EGEE project will also focus on attracting a wide range of new users to the Grid. The project will primarily concentrate on three core areas: ? The first area is to build a consistent, robust and secure Grid network that will attract additional computing resources. ? The second area is to continuously improve and maintain the middleware in order to deliver a reliable service to users. ? The third area is to attract new users from industry as well as science and ensure they receive the high standard of training and support they need. The EGEE Grid will be built on the EU Research Network G?ANT and exploit Grid expertise generated by many EU, national and international Grid projects to date. Funded by the European Commission, the EGEE project community has been divided into 12 partner federations, consisting of over 70 contractors and over 30 non-contributing participants covering a wide-range of both scientific and industrial applications. The work being carried out in the project is organised into 11 activities. Two pilot application domains have been selected to guide the implementation and certify the performance and functionality of the evolving infrastructure. One is the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid supporting physics experiments and the other is Biomedical Grids, where several communities are facing equally daunting challenges to cope with the flood of bioinformatics and healthcare data. With funding of over 30 million Euro from the European Commission, the project is one of the largest of its kind. EGEE is a two-year project conceived as part of a four-year programme, where the results of the first two years will provide the basis for assessing subsequent objectives and funding needs. Agenda: Introduction to the EGEE project and infrastructure (45 mins) Project goals, priorities and management The operations activity EGEE middleware, architecture and components (45mins) Architecture User Interface and Workload Management Information Supermarket Compute Elements Worker nodes and queues Storage Elements Replica management Metadata catalogues Information System Application development for the EGEE middleware (45 mins) tech_requirements: None prereq_participants: None advertise_suggestion: Advertising through email lists for projects. Advertise on web sites of EGEE and related projects. From bcohen at bway.net Tue Nov 29 12:56:31 2005 From: bcohen at bway.net (bcohen at bway.net) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:56:31 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511291856.jATIuVV21665@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: Robert Cohen affiliation: Economic Strategy Institute email: bcohen at bway.net proposed_title: Production Grids in the Enterprise session_type: Workshop proposed_duration: Half Day target_audience: Corporate CIOs, heads of R&D, heads of IT or product development, users and technical experts num_attendees: 50-60 abstract: Corporations are in the process of deploying production grids for R&D, design, product development and financial or risk analysis. This workshop will provide a way for enterprises to explain their experiences with early grids and the plans they have for the next year or two. It will highlight successes and point to challenges that are faced. The panels will provide an opportunity to include GGF experts working on OGSA and other standards to participate with enterprise experts when the panels will focus on standards issues. We expect to have three panels, focusing largely on EDA, telecoms, and aerospace/autos or pharmaceutical firms. synopsis: Goals: 1. Explain what enterprises have achieved with production grids and what challenges they still face. 2. Highlight significant standards that have helped or presented issues for enterprise implementation of production grids. 3. Identify ways that GGF can work more closely with enterprises and industry groups. Outline: 1. Introduction to the panel event and explanation of goals. 2. Three panels with users, possibly including selected GGF experts on OGSA. Tentative commitments have been made by France Telecom and Airbus. We expect to invite EDA grid users Nokia, ST Microelectronics, and IBM; telecom users British Telecom, Telecom Italia and T-Systems; and aerospace/auto firms BAE, EADS, Rolls Royce, DaimlerChrysler, and several auto parts suppliers. About 45 minutes per panel. 3. Discussion following each panel presentation. Discussion will be about 20-30 minutes. 4. Wrap-up with summary of panels and discussion of greater involvement of enterprise grid users with GGF. Outreach plans 1. Contact major vendors that are stakeholders in each area of interest. For instance, in EDA, IBM, Intel, Nokia, TI, and a few others have worked closely on grid deployment and will be able to suggest participants. In telecoms, members of the GGF Telecoms RG will be asked to participate or suggest panelists. In aerospace, Boeing has agreed to help find panelists from Airbus and other European aerospace firms. Engineous, a presenter at GGF15, has numerous auto industry clients in Europe, as does DataSynapse and IBM. 2. Will plan to use contacts in European firms to see if it is possible to get computer magazines to do stories on the panel discussion in Athens prior to GGF16 as a way to attract attendees. 3. Will also do outreach using previous corporate attendees at GGF meetings, especially the Brussels and Boston plenary meetings that emphasized enterprise grids. tech_requirements: A conference phone capability or a Web broadcast capability would be very helpful, if the cost is not prohibitive. prereq_participants: Ability to do good presentations. We plan to screen suggested presenters to insure that there are lively presentations. advertise_suggestion: Email lists, possibly the EGA mailing list if EGA is willing to provide access to it. Lists such as the GGF Telecom RG. From wwwtrans at mcs.anl.gov Tue Nov 29 13:47:47 2005 From: wwwtrans at mcs.anl.gov (MCS Webmaster) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:47:47 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511291947.jATJll822695@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: affiliation: email: proposed_title: session_type: proposed_duration: target_audience: num_attendees: abstract: synopsis: tech_requirements: prereq_participants: advertise_suggestion: From kielmann at cs.vu.nl Tue Nov 29 16:45:48 2005 From: kielmann at cs.vu.nl (kielmann at cs.vu.nl) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:45:48 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511292245.jATMjm926769@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: Thilo Kielmann affiliation: Vrije Universiteit email: kielmann at cs.vu.nl proposed_title: Challenges of Fundamental Grid Research session_type: workshop proposed_duration: half day target_audience: academic researchers working on Grids, grid users and software providers num_attendees: 50 abstract: After many years of technical progress, grid research has reached a crossroads. The European Network of Excellence, CoreGRID, has been established to engage in fundamental research. Likewise, many communities and projects are undertaking Grid research, such as the UK e-science program, EGEE, NAREGI, or TereGrid, to name a few. At the same time, industry is approaching the stage, where commercially viable solutions are required. The aim of our workshop is to both identify challenges and future directions of grid research, and to align it with industrial requirements, thus targeting a common understanding for a grid research agenda. synopsis: Proposers: Ramin Yahyapour University of Dortmund, Germany Thilo Kielmann Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Both proposers are members of - GGF\'s steering group - CoreGRID, the European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies Grids are already being adopted in many research projects as well as in several commercial environments. In many communities Grids are an everyday commodity, while others are investigating the utilization of Grids. While there is still need for the broader adoption and standardisation of key Grid functionalities, it has also be acknowledged that there is a further need for fundamental research in many Grid areas. The vision of a transparent, easy to use, efficient and business supporting Grid infrastructure has not yet been fulfilled. Future and next generation Grids will require more sophisticated services that improve the usability of a general Grid infrastructure for technology consumers. This workshop is dedicated to bringing together experts in Grid research to share their vision on future Grids as well as their view on the current status and on potential solutions for many of the current technology gaps. In addition, the workshop is intended to include technology stakeholders in order to express their expectations and needs for future Grid research. In the past, Grid research, as well as standardisation of technology and its proliferation to technology consumers or commercial vendors have often been considered as independent entities in the process of general Grid adoption. However, a key asset of the GGF is being a platform for bringing together different groups. This allows u unique exchange and interaction of the different parties. This workshop is set to exploit this situation by providing a discussion forum between long-term Grid researchers, the current standardization workers, and the requirements and expectations of consumers. This workshop will be organized by CoreGRID, the European Network of Excellence on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies. CoreGRID is funded by the European Commission to foster integration and exploit collaboration between 42 European research institutes working on Grid technology. The goal of the workshop is to discuss and critically reflect on current Grid research, with an emphasis on the (local) European research landscape. The workshop will consist of three major parts: (all speakers are just tentative, neither invited nor confirmed) 1. Presentation of ongoing grid research a) from the European CoreGRID network, representing its six virtual research institutes: - Knowledge and Data Management - Programming Models - System Architecture - Grid Information and Monitoring Services - Resource Management and Scheduling - Systems, Tools, and Environments b) from other regions, namely USA and Asia-Pacific, e.g.: - Common Component Architecture project (CCA) Dennis Gannon - GRIDS Center Ian Foster - NAREGI Satoshi Matsuoka 2. Presentation of standardization and industrial grid uptake: Select 2 or 3 good speakers, possibly from EGA, maybe SAP, or a TELCO have at least one GGF standards person (Dave Snelling??) 3. Closing panel: \"A Grid research agenda for 2010 and beyond\" Panelists (from the set of presenters) shall identify: - researchers: . most important research result adopted by industry . most important research result that should be adopted by industry - industry/standardization: . most important research result adopted by industry . most important open research problems that industry needs solved tech_requirements: prereq_participants: advertise_suggestion: From a.krause at epcc.ed.ac.uk Wed Nov 30 04:25:36 2005 From: a.krause at epcc.ed.ac.uk (a.krause at epcc.ed.ac.uk) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 04:25:36 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511301025.jAUAPan04290@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: Amy Krause affiliation: EPCC, The University of Edinburgh email: a.krause at epcc.ed.ac.uk proposed_title: OGSA-DAI Tutorial session_type: Tutorial proposed_duration: 3 hours target_audience: Project managers and technical architects looking for technologies to solve data access and integration problems; and developers interested in exposing data resources to the Grid num_attendees: 20 abstract: OGSA-DAI is a widely used piece of middleware used to access data sources within Grids. This tutorial will give a general introduction to OGSA-DAI presenting: o Data access and integration requirements for Grids. o How OGSA-DAI aims to satisfy some of these requirements. o An overview of the OGSA-DAI architecture. o OGSA-DAI extensibility points and how to exploit them. o Features of the current release. o How OGSA-DAI is being used in other projects. By the end of the tutorial the attendees should have a strong understanding of how OGSA-DAI works and how they may subsequently be able to use it to meet their own data access requirements within Grids. synopsis: The UK based OGSA-DAI (Open Grid Service Architecture - Data Access and Integration) project is producing middleware to access and integrate existing data resources using web services in Grid environments. OGSA-DAI is already being used by a number of large projects both within the US and UK to satisfy their data access and integration requirements. In addition to this the OGSA-DAI project is working in close collaboration with other major Grid middleware providers, such as Globus and the UK OMII, to ensure that OGSA-DAI integrates seamlessly with their products. OGSA-DAI currently supports access to data held in various types of data sources such as relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, Oracle, SQLServer), data in XML repositories (Xindice), and data in flat files (SwissProt, OMIM). These are just the officially supported databases - OGSA-DAI has also been shown to work with other databases such as eXist. The current releases are available on two platforms: OGSA-DAI WSRF 2.1 which integrates with Globus 4.0.1, and WSI 2.1 which is compatible with Axis 1.2.1, OMII 2.0 or OMII 2.1. Features of the new releases include session support, concurrent request execution and queueing of requests as well as various performance improvements. An improved client toolkit operates platform independent and enables cross-platform data delivery between OGSA-DAI services. Security is now supported on the Globus WSRF platform. Data integration capabilities are also available through OGSA-DQP (Distributed Query Processing), middleware layered on top of OGSA-DAI. DQP uses OGSA-DAI for consistent access to database metadata and to interact with databases on the Grid in order to efficiently evaluate distributed queries and process complex data-intensive requests. A new release of DQP building on OGSA-DAI WSRF/WSI 2.1 is planned for December 2005 and the tutorial will present an overview of the features of DQP. An introduction will be given to some of the underlying design principles used in OGSA-DAI, the functional capabilities of OGSA-DAI services, the architectural framework in which these currently operate and future directions. The OGSA-DAI architecture has been designed to be highly extensible as it is unlikely that all functional requirements for a given project could be met by the base distribution. These extensibility points and how they may be exploited will be presented. OGSA-DAI has released seven major distributions. After the latest release the development team has again entered into a dialogue with users and interested groups to determine their future requirements and how they are currently using OGSA-DAI. This will allow the middleware to develop in a way that attempts to take into account actual usage practice and has informed the OGSA-DAI developers as to how the software is actually being used in the field. Some of these real use cases will be shown in this presentation. For more details, please visit the project website at http://www.ogsadai.org.uk. By the end of this tutorial attendees should have: o An understanding of what some of the data access and integration requirements for applications on the Grid are and the possible solutions to achieve this. o Background knowledge of what OGSA-DAI is, what its scope is and its relationship to other Grid middleware efforts is. o Understand the OGSA-DAI architecture and how it can be extended. tech_requirements: prereq_participants: advertise_suggestion: From david.manset at cern.ch Wed Nov 30 05:17:28 2005 From: david.manset at cern.ch (david.manset at cern.ch) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:17:28 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511301117.jAUBHST05078@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: David Manset affiliation: CERN / University of the West of England (UWE) email: david.manset at cern.ch proposed_title: A Model Driven Approach for Grid Applications Engineering session_type: individual presentation proposed_duration: 30 mins target_audience: technical experts, researchers num_attendees: 30 abstract: This paper discusses the concept of model-driven software engineering applied to the Grid-based application domain. As an extension to this concept, the approach described here, attempts to combine both formal architecture-centric and model-driven paradigms. It is a commonly recognized statement that Grid systems have seldom been designed using formal techniques although from past experience such techniques have shown advantages. This paper advocates a formal engineering approach to Grid system developments in an effort to contribute to the rigorous development of Grids software architectures. This approach addresses quality of service and cross-platform developments by applying the model-driven paradigm to a formal architecture-centric engineering method. This combination benefits from a formal semantic description power in addition to model-based transformations. The result of such a novel combined concept promotes the re-use of design models and eases developme! nts in Grid computing. synopsis: The session\'s main objective is to assess the relevance of Model Driven Engineering (MDE) for Grid computing. Model driven engineering can be applied efficiently to different areas in Grids including Grid applications development, data organisation and treatment as well as job scheduling/workflow descriptions. This session would provide an example of how the model driven concept can be applied to particular development issues. As a case study, the proposed research investigation will give concrete measures of the applicability of MDE in the European MammoGrid project (www.mammogrid.com). Indeed, one of the major issues in today?s Grid engineering is that it often follows code-driven approaches. Although it has been proven from past experience that using structured engineering methods would ease the development process of any computing system and would reduce complexity, the hype of Grid computing is still encouraging ?brute-force? coding and consequently a rather unstructured engineering process. This always leads to a loss of performance, interoperability problems and generally ends in very complex systems that only dedicated and expert developers can manage. As a direct consequence the resulting source code is neither re-usable nor does it promote dynamic adaptation facilities as it should, since it is a representation of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm. As it is directly extracted from the definition of the Grid concept, Grid design should ensure cross-platform interoperability by providing ways to re-use concretely systems in a heterogen! eous context. Having no guidelines or rules in the design of a Grid-based application is a paradox since there are many existing architectural approaches for distributed computing applications which could ease the engineering process, could enable rigorous engineering methods and could promote the re-use of software components in future Grid developments. MDE appears as a concrete and relevant solution reconciling the wide variety of development processes and techniques, which could be helpful to Grids. MDE is becoming mature for taking over the next step in software engineering. tech_requirements: prereq_participants: Model Driven Software Engineering, Grid computing advertise_suggestion: From m.wilkinson at epcc.ed.ac.uk Wed Nov 30 08:33:01 2005 From: m.wilkinson at epcc.ed.ac.uk (m.wilkinson at epcc.ed.ac.uk) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:33:01 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511301433.jAUEX1007874@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: Maureen Wilkinson affiliation: NextGRID (The University of Edinburgh) email: m.wilkinson at epcc.ed.ac.uk proposed_title: Grid Architecture Experts Workshop session_type: Workshop proposed_duration: 90 mins target_audience: Primarily technical experts, users and developers from both the research and business communities. num_attendees: 50 abstract: Grid Architecture Experts Workshop - Abstract Maureen Wilkinson, NextGRID Project Developing the architecture of the next generation Grid is a key challenge facing the Grid research community. This experts? workshop, organised by the European Commission funded NextGRID Project, will discuss examples of current work in this area with a focus on: ? An overview of the OGSA Base Profile V1.0 noting NextGRID input to this work; ? The architectural vision of the NextGRID project and progress to date; ? A presentation of the architectural ideas behind the OntoGrid Project; ? Status updates from Asia. synopsis: Grid Architecture Experts Workshop ? Synopsis Maureen Wilkinson, NextGRID Project Introduction Developing the architecture of the next generation Grid is a key challenge facing the Grid research community. This experts? workshop, organised by the European Commission funded NextGRID Project, will discuss examples of current work in this area with a focus on: ? An overview of the OGSA Base Profile V1.0 noting NextGRID input to this work; ? The architectural vision of the NextGRID project and progress to date; ? A presentation of the architectural ideas behind the OntoGrid Project; ? Status updates from Asia. Pioneering projects, largely science-based, in Europe, the US and Asia have demonstrated the positive benefits afforded by current Grid technologies. This is particularly true in the health sector where some large cancer research projects are now gathering speed and will hopefully afford real benefits and breakthroughs across society. Although the Grid can be said to be delivering in a scientific context, the same is not true in the business domain. Unless the Grid can be seen to offer real benefits to business it will remain a powerful tool for science and will be largely ignored by business, except in its simplest application server and clustered computing form. In the worst case we will see a complete divergence in Grid computing between science and business. The purpose of efforts to develop the architecture of the next generation Grid is to ensure that future Grid technologies can meet everyone?s needs and that the Grid can meet its true potential. OGSA Base Profile V1.0 The OGSA WSRF (Web Services Resource Framework) Basic Profile 1.0 (aka \"WSRF Basic Profile\") describes uses of widely accepted specifications that have been found to enable interoperability. The specifications considered in this profile are, in general, those associated with the addressing, modeling and management of state. The WSRF Basic Profile combines the WS-I Basic Profile 1.1, WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0 with WS-Addressing (from W3C) and several standards from the OASIS WS Resource Framework and WS Notification Technical Committees. A full overview of the OGSA Base Profile V1.0 will be given, noting NextGRID input to this work which NextGRID has adopted as a starting point for its architecture. NextGRID?s Architectural Vision The three-year NextGRID project is unique in that it focuses almost entirely on the development of architectural designs for the next generation Grid. The broad NextGRID vision is of a networked IT infrastructure to support an unlimited range of applications and business processes throughout their lifecycle. This includes all resources ? hardware, software, data and services, available from a complex ecosystem of providers. The primary goal of NextGRID is to define the architecture that will lead to the emergence of the Next Generation Grid. This will prepare the way for the mainstream use of Grid technologies and their widespread adoption by organisations and individuals from across the business and public domains. In addition to new architectural designs, NextGRID will contribute to the key middleware components, application support mechanisms, know-how and standards that underpin the Next Generation Grid. Of course, NextGRID cannot address these objectives alone. The participants in NextGRID are the representatives of a much larger community of researchers, technology vendors, service providers and users. This workshop is an example of how the project is working with this wider community, providing critical input and thought leadership to the development of the architecture for future Grids, incorporating our results into widely accepted standards, and so encompassing a much larger body of work within our own organisations and in the community at large. The project structure, which will be described along with details of the project?s initial work, is built around the architectural design process. This process is informed by the development work, business and operational activities and application experimentation. At the end of each 6-month design cycle, the results are fed into the development activities, which focus on Grid foundations, dynamics and interactions. The consolidated outputs of the project are exploited up by its standardisation activity and the business partners in the project. A key aspect of the current NextGRID conceptual architecture is that all interactions will be governed through bipartite ?partnership? service level agreements (SLAs). NextGRID believes that SLAs should be used to build relationships between service providers and consumers, and provide the necessary information to set up the environment and components to manage the service. The SLA should outline details that are agreed by both parties, and allow for the service to be operated and monitored in accordance with the consumer requirements and in an economically sustainable manner. NextGRID?s work in this area will be discussed in detail. The Architecture Behind OntoGrid One of the greatest challenges now faced in Grid Computing regards the ability to explicitly share and deploy knowledge to be used for the development of innovative Grid infrastructure, and for Grid applications ? the Semantic Grid. To address this challenge the OntoGrid project is producing the technological infrastructure for the rapid prototyping and development of knowledge-intensive distributed open services for the Semantic Grid. Designing Grid applications that make use of a Semantic Grid requires a new and sound methodology which OntoGrid will develop. The results are aimed at developing Grid systems that optimize cross-process, cross-company and cross-industry collaboration. A principle of OntoGrid is to adopt and influence standards in Semantic Grid and Grid Computing, in particular the Open Grid Service Architecture. An overview of the OntoGrid architecture will be presented at the workshop (this is the first time that OntoGrid will have revealed their ideas in public) providing an excellent opportunity to see how this project?s work fits with other current architectural projects such as NextGRID. Architectural Design in Asia Although the Grid concept was pioneered in the US, and the EU currently runs some of the most ambitious grid projects, Asia is playing an increasingly active role. It is estimated that there are now 10 national-scale Grid projects in seven countries in Asia, in addition to a large number of smaller initiatives. Considerable work is taking place in Japan with the National Research Grid Initiative (NAREGI) led by Satoshi Matsuoka. The goal of NAREGI is to develop Grid infrastructure software for widely distributed supercomputing environments in advanced research and education. The initiative is involved in many facets of R&D, including grid software that makes up the cyber-science infrastructure for large-scale simulations at the National Institute of Informatics (NI), secure grid network environments, and nano applications in Grid environments. Similar work is also taking place in China. Workshop Format We expect that the Workshop will run for around 90 minutes. There will be various presentations from invited major Grid architecture experts including Satoshi Matsuoka and Depei Qian and the first public airing of the OntoGrid architecture. Following these various presentations there will be a moderated discussion session focusing on the issues raised and encouraging participation from all the workshop attendees. Outreach NextGRID will announce the Workshop on its website and will make the presentations widely available after the event. The following members of the NextGRID project will help to publicise the workshop through their extensive network of contacts: Mark Parsons, Francis Wray, Malcolm Atkinson, Neil Chue Hong, Mark Sawyer. tech_requirements: No special technology requirements. prereq_participants: None but participants should have an interest in grid architecture. advertise_suggestion: NextGRID will advertise the Workshop through their existing mailing lists. From d.p.kelsey at rl.ac.uk Wed Nov 30 10:30:57 2005 From: d.p.kelsey at rl.ac.uk (d.p.kelsey at rl.ac.uk) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:30:57 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511301630.jAUGUvF09863@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: David Kelsey affiliation: CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK email: d.p.kelsey at rl.ac.uk proposed_title: Grid Authorization - Interoperability here and now session_type: Workshop proposed_duration: Half-day target_audience: Technical experts and interested parties. num_attendees: 50 (hopefully more) abstract: This workshop will consider short-term (now and next two years) Grid Authorization and Policy implementations, requirements and issues. It will investigate what improvements can be made to encourage and facilitate interoperability between Grid operational infrastructures. It will also consider lessons learned from today\'s implementations for the Grid security standards activities in GGF for the longer-term future. synopsis: This is very much a draft. There has not been enough time to discuss with co-organisers. Apologies. We plan to provide a better/proper size version by 9th December. Dane Skow encouraged me to submit now to meet the deadline with this incomplete plan. The following people are currently co-organizers of this workshop. More may volunteer later. The push has come from the GGF Security Area. We would like to find some co-organizers from the application communities and Grid operations. Bob Cowles (SLAC and OSG Security co-chair) Ake Edlund (KTH and EGEE Director of Security) David Groep (NIKHEF and IGTF chair) David Kelsey (CCLRC and LCG/EGEE Joint Security Policy Group chair) Olle Mulmo (KTH and GGF Security Area Director) Dane Skow (FNAL and GGF Security Area Director) Von Welch (NCSA and Globus Alliance) The goals of the workshop are as described in the Abstract. Target audience Technical experts and interested parties. Grid security developers, Grid deployers (operational infrastructures) and Grid users (application communities) Background. Much effort has been put into the work on Grid Authentication, culminating in the successful launch at GGF15 of the International Grid Trust Federation (IGTF). The work of IGTF and its three regional Policy Management Authorities ensures that Grid Users can obtain a single electronic identity (X.509 certificate) and use this on any Grid infrastructure which has decided to use the CA\'s from IGTF. Grid Authorization is much less mature. Many large-scale application communities (VOs) are global in nature and have the need to access multiple Grid infrastructures. While Authentication is performed at the employing institute level, the Authorization (AuthZ) assertions need to be controlled at the VO level. The VO (global) policy assertions then need to be combined with local (site-level) policy specifications before an Authorization decision can be made and enforced. There is a very important requirement for interoperability in AuthZ between Grids in terms of protocols and evaluation of the AuthZ/Policy assertions so that different implementations can interwork and reach the same AuthZ decisions. Outline of the foreseen agenda. We will invite/solicit talks from current operational Grid Infrastructures and also from Application communities requiring the ability to run applications across multiple Grids. These will describe their current (and short-term future) implementations of AuthZ and policy. There may be room for Grid security developers to present their status and plans but this has been done before (e.g. at GGF15) and is not the main thrust of the workshop. A major component of the workshop is a discussion session (perhaps in the form of a panel) to investigate the lessons learned from the earlier presentations both for improving short-term interoperability and as input to longer-term standardisation. As well as copies of slides shown we plan to produce a document describing the issues identified and conclusions from the discussion. tech_requirements: None prereq_participants: Some understanding of Grid security concepts. Appreciation of requirements for Authorization and/or Policy and interoperability between Grid infrastructures advertise_suggestion: Via appropriate GGF area mail lists (e.g. security) Via targetted mails to known Grid infrastructure projects, application communities and known developers From Renee.Barzykowski at carat.com Wed Nov 30 09:35:58 2005 From: Renee.Barzykowski at carat.com (Renee.Barzykowski at carat.com) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:35:58 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511301535.jAUFZwC08721@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: Martin Curley affiliation: Agency email: Renee.Barzykowski at carat.com proposed_title: Director of ISTG Innovation at Intel Corporation session_type: Keynote, Panel proposed_duration: 1 Hour target_audience: num_attendees: abstract: Business Value of IT and how to manage a portfolio This presentation discusses an integrated approach to delivering business value from IT and addresses how multiple practices such as portfolio management and enterprise architecture practices can compliment each other to help deliver a superior return from IT. In addition a capability maturity framework for optimizing the business value of IT is explained and practical examples of architecture changes which resulted in significant value are shared. synopsis: Attendees will learn about: -Portfolio Management approaches to optimize IT value -Stages of enterprise architecture maturity -A Capability maturity model for optimizing IT value tech_requirements: None prereq_participants: None advertise_suggestion: \"How to get better value of your IT\" From pawel at gridwisetech.com Wed Nov 30 14:20:32 2005 From: pawel at gridwisetech.com (pawel at gridwisetech.com) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:20:32 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511302020.jAUKKWD24571@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: Pawel Plaszczak affiliation: GridwiseTech email: pawel at gridwisetech.com proposed_title: Grid Primer for Managers session_type: tutorial/workshop proposed_duration: 3-4 hours target_audience: managers, decision makers num_attendees: 10+? depending on GGF marketing abstract: The major threat for widespread acceptance of Grid computing is the common confusion on its meaning and lack of understanding of its value. Newcomers to the field find their way difficult because various vendors and interest groups present their own marketing pitch and a coherent vision seems to be absent. This is partly the reason why there are very few adopters of the technology. Having discussed the subject with Steve Crumb and Mark Linesh, I am re-submitting our proposal for the Grid Primer tutorial first presented at GGF14. synopsis: We propose the ?Grid Primer for Managers? workshop. This would be a management-level Grid technology tutorial, primarily focused at the newcomers to the field. The tutorial will take 3 or 4 hours and will be led by 1 or 2 instructors. It will answer the questions: ? What is Grid computing? Why and how is it useful in business? ? Where is Grid computing in relation to utility computing, on-demand, virtualization, Web services etc? ? What is Grid technology? What are its components? Is it usable? What is the state of the market? ? What does a ?Grid architecture? and ?Grid application? mean? ? What are various types of grid installations/systems? ? What are the core Grid standards and how are they important? ? Why and how should I migrate to a Grid architecture? ? Why should I grid-enable my software product, and how do I go about it? ? What are example Grid success stories? The tutorial will follow the ?learn by example? principle. We will demonstrate a working demo application with all software layers typically seen in Grid architectures. This will give the participants a chance to interact with Grid in real time through an easy portal-based user interface and experience the benefits the technology can bring. At the tutorial we will also review the solutions existing on the market and discuss examples of institutions who successfully deployed grids. The discussion on managerial issues, such as ROI and TCO calculations, team management and project planning, can appear as an interweaving thread. However, we suggest not to make this the main subject of the class. Although the class is directed mainly to decision makers, we feel that our primary mission would be to help people understand the concepts and opportunities. We think that showing a coherent message of Grid technology, backed by examples and demos, is the most promising way to go. As for the presentation itself, we will reuse in large part our material presented at the GGF14. After the tutorial we have received some constructive critics which allowed us to improve the content. The recurring suggestion was to reduce management-oriented material, while more emphasis should be put on real world examples and learning by example. We are going to follow these suggestions. About us: GridwiseTech is an independent consultant in Grid computing, offering training, management consulting and assistance with the development and integration of Grid systems. GridwiseTech was founded in 2003 by former developers of the Globus Project. I am the President of the company. Apart from leading Gridwise, I have spent the greater part of the past year working on the book ?Grid Computing: Savvy Manager?s Guide? (savvygrid.com) published by Morgan Kauffman/Elsevier in August 2005. During this time I have conducted numerous interviews and consultations with vendors, early adopters and technology experts. Since the intended audience of this work is identical with that of the proposed workshop, we are well suited to plan and prepare the content of such an event. During the past two years myself and Gridwise have conducted a number of Grid-related workshops and tutorials, lasting from 2 hours to 3 days. We have always received extremely positive feedback for our expertise, enthusiastic approach and flexibility with the audience?s needs. This included the first Grid Primer workshop, at GGF14 in Chicago with about 12 participants. The feedback was excellent. GridwiseTech is unique in the field of Grid computing for being vendor-independent. Our mission is to provide unbiased expertise on the subject which will be necessary in a workshop like this. tech_requirements: We need a projector working with both Linux and Mac, a KVM switch and reliable wireless network connectivity. We can also go without KVM and network if we choose not to present the demos. prereq_participants: General understanding of IT technologies. Tutorial is directed mainly to decision makers relatively new to Grid technology or those needing to systematize their understanding of the subject. People seriously involved in the work of GGF, especially the technology providers will not find it useful. advertise_suggestion: GGF website and email blasts, GridToday and all PR channels that GGF is using. Also, advertising in Europe through local institutions involved in organizing the event. From ctjordan at sdsc.edu Wed Nov 30 17:55:05 2005 From: ctjordan at sdsc.edu (ctjordan at sdsc.edu) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:55:05 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200511302355.jAUNt5g28394@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: Chris Jordan affiliation: San Diego Supercomputer Center email: ctjordan at sdsc.edu proposed_title: A Wide-Area Parallel Filesystem for the TeraGrid: A Case Study session_type: Presentation (two presenters) proposed_duration: 60 mins target_audience: Users/Engineers num_attendees: 50-75 abstract: TeraGrid deployed the first production, grid-enabled high performance parallel file system using 500 TB of disk and IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS). Challenges such as latency, which were overcome in the development of the deployment model are explained, with notes on the strategies taken in overcoming these challenges. The use of existing Grid technologies to enable UID-mapping between administrative domains is described in detail, along with the relationship of this work to evolving Grid standards work. The experience of pilot projects such as NVO, ENZO, and BIRN, and the production workflows enabled by the global filesystem are related. synopsis: Session Goals: After the session is completed, attendees should understand the need for wide-area, Grid-enabled filesystems, and the particular approach to the problem taken in this project. Attendees should understand the relationship of the GPFS-WAN work to the evolution of Grid standards and existing Grid technologies. Attendees who are users should understand how a Grid file system can enable new workflows, and attendees who are engineers should understand the specific technical challenges inherent in large Grid-based file system deployment. Outline: Introduction to TeraGrid Motivation - TeraGrid user needs Brief Introduction to GPFS Previous work on Grid file systems at SDSC Security Requirements Performance Requirements Reliability Requirements Initial Hardware Resources and Configuration Cluster Authentication and Authorization User Identification and UID-mapping GSI-based UID-mapping Special Considerations for Grid File System design Metadata and Management servers Data Replication Options Final Hardware Configuration Network Performance Issues OS-Specific and GPFS Network tuning Local and Remote performance benchmarks Network Reliability Issues Pilot User Projects - BIRN and NVO Overview of BIRN/lddmm characteristics Overview of NVO/2MASS characteristics ENZO use of GPFS-WAN BIRN use of GPFS-WAN 2MASS use of GPFS-WAN Multi-site task workflows GPFS-WAN and Grid Standards Access mechanisms/Interface issues Policies for Grid File Systems GFS WG/RNS OGSA Data WG Challenges for Grid File System Standards Summary - Achievements and Goals GPFS-WAN as a Production Grid Resource User Adventures Future Work tech_requirements: None prereq_participants: Basic knowledge of parallel file system concepts and the Globus Toolkit security layer will be helpful. advertise_suggestion: The work described is relevant to the OGSA-Data, GFS, GSM, and ByteIO working groups, at least, and each of these WG mailing lists should be informed of the presentation, should it be accepted. TeraGrid news items and mailing lists could also be used to inform interested individuals of the presentation. From pkovatch at sdsc.edu Wed Nov 30 19:06:52 2005 From: pkovatch at sdsc.edu (pkovatch at sdsc.edu) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:06:52 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200512010106.jB116qK29100@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: Patricia Kovatch affiliation: San Diego Supercomputer Center email: pkovatch at sdsc.edu proposed_title: eraGrid\'s Terabyte Moving Machines session_type: Tutorial proposed_duration: Half Day target_audience: Anyone who is interesting in learning how to build a robust, high performance data num_attendees: 30 abstract: Sharing Terabyte-sized data sets across the geographically distributed resources of the TeraGrid posed certain challenges. Using standards- based grid tools, tuning and scripting expertise along with a grid-enabled wide area file system, TeraGrid set up a rich environment for data movement. This tutorial will explain the data infrastructure, user tools, performance tuning, policy issues and future plans. It will also present case studies of applications making use of the environment. synopsis: Session Goals: Attendees will learn how to build and tune a grid with a rich data infrastructure using standards-based grid tools. Outline: The TeraGrid Project (15 mins) History Sites Compute and Instrument Resources The TeraGrid Network Application motivation Data-oriented resource map of TG Standards-based TeraGrid Data Resources and User Tools GridFTP (1 hour) GridFTP dedicated data transfer nodes GridFTP performance capabilities (multiple threads, striped) TeraGrid CoPy (tgcp) Reliable File Transfer (RFT) Other data transfer tools Batch moving of data Bandwidth delay product Performance tuning Interoperability testing Lessons Learned Grid-enabled wide area parallel file systems (GPFS, PVFS, Lustre) (1 hour) Metadata and dedicated hardware considerations Cluster authentication and authorization Grid-enabled user identification and UID/GID Mapping Bandwidth delay product Performance tuning Co-scheduling of resources Interoperability testing Lessons Learned Archival storage and data collection management (15 mins) Archival storage (Unitree, HPSS, SAMQFS, TSM, DXUL) Archival storage clients (uberftp, hsi, others) Performance tuning Data Collection Management Servers (SRB/RLS) Data Collection Management (scopy, etc.) GridFTP interface to SRB Database offerings (15 mins) Database client access User Considerations (15 mins) Common TeraGrid Software Stack (CTSS) and Environment Variables When should I use which tool or approach? Monitoring (15 mins) System Tools Diagnosing problems Monitoring Inca Test Harness Policy Issues (15 mins) Policies per site and how to use the policy command Grid-enabled wide are file systems - allocations, quotas, purging Data Allocation Committee CTSS modification procedures Case Studies/Usage Scenarios (15 mins) BIRN ENZO NVO SCEC The Future (15 mins) GridFTP Futures Grid-enabled wide area parallel file system enhancements Off-site backups for disaster recovery Batch transfer of data Grid Data Portals Metascheduling, co-scheduling and data workflow for data tech_requirements: None. prereq_participants: Basic understanding of grid technologies. advertise_suggestion: Email lists, web pages, word of mouth From spamidig at ncsa.uiuc.edu Wed Nov 30 20:45:23 2005 From: spamidig at ncsa.uiuc.edu (spamidig at ncsa.uiuc.edu) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:45:23 -0600 Subject: [communities] GGF Proposal Submission Message-ID: <200512010245.jB12jNj30701@delta.mcs.anl.gov> proposers_name: Sudhakar Pamidighantam affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign email: spamidig at ncsa.uiuc.edu proposed_title: GridChem a Computational Chemistry Grid session_type: Tutorial proposed_duration: Half a day target_audience: Managers, Users( Computational Chemists), Technical Experts num_attendees: 2 to 3 Presenters abstract: This tutorial will provide an overview of the organization of GridChem, a The ?Computational Chemistry Grid? (CCG) is a virtual organization that provides access to high performance computing resources for computational chemistry through a desktop client. The CCG environment is based on a three-tiered architecture that includes the client, a grid middleware server and a set of geographically distributed, high-end computational resources. This tutorial will focus on two aspects of the computational chemistry grid. 1. how to interface to the CCG using the desktop client, the user computational chemists perspective. 2. How to integrate new resources, both hardware, scientific computational applications and related services into the computational chemistry grid, the resource providers? perspective. The desktop client, called GridChem, provides a simple and intuitive interface incorporating chemistry functionality that computational chemists need to conduct their research, including pre- and post-processing tools. With its extensible interface, other popular quantum chemistry packages can be integrated. This comprehensive tutorial will cover tasks from login/authentication to post-processing and visualization. The resource management and integration involves defining the resources, hardware, applications and services and interfaces between these and implementing the integration. The resource definition, disco! very and utilization by the client will also be described. The grid services require a robust failsafe framework for production quality usability and a redundant middleware server implementation will be described. synopsis: Tutorial Goals The ?Computational Chemistry Grid? (CCG) is a virtual organization that provides access to high performance computing resources for computational chemistry through a desktop client. This organization provides community allocations of CPU time based on the available resources as well as serves existing user allocations at distributed HPC resources that are integrated into the organization using a simple web browser based interface. The CCG environment is based on a three-tiered architecture that includes a client, a grid middleware server and a set of distributed, high-end computational resources. The desktop client provides a simple and intuitive interface incorporating chemistry functionality that computational chemists need to conduct their research, including pre- and post-processing tools. Contained within the desktop client are modules for authentication via SSH, Kerberos and Globus certifi-cates, input preparation, resource discovery and selection, job submission and monitoring. Cur-rent chemistry software supported by GridChem includes Gaussian03, GAMESS, Molpro and NWChem. With its extensible interface, other popular quantum chemistry packages can be inte-grated. The goals of this tutorial are two fold 1. To engage computational chemists ( traditional/novices) to use grid resources at their fingertips 2. To engage production grid providers to collaborate in establishing application specific cyber environments for specific communities. More specifically, this tutorial would: ? Describe the Computational Chemistry Grid project and what software, hardware and personnel have been committed ? Cover, in detail, the installation, capabilities and functions of the desktop interface ? Show through use of examples the ability to submit multiple quantum chemistry applications to the computational chemistry ?Grid?. Monitor and analyze results from previously submitted jobs using job management tools in the client. ? Describe the grid services layer and middleware utilization ? Describe the Resource database and discovery technologies and new resource in-tegration requirements ? Provide user management tools description including, allocation, consulting and usage reporting capabilities Relevency and currency of computational chemistry grids The field of computational chemistry has had an extensive impact in the areas of drug design, materials science, environment chemistry and chemical engineering. Currently, due to the fun-damental nature of matter several other faculties such as mechanical engineers and geologists and atmospheric scientists are resorting to computing properties of matter of interest at a molecu-lar level and the need for resources and for cyber environments has increased tremendously. It is also one of the largest consumers of CPU cycles among local, regional state and national supercomputer centers. The Computational Chemistry Grid offers this community a desktop interface to diverse computational resources, relieving the scientists of much of the burden of interfacing to these complex systems and managing job submission and data management. In addition, the resources available through the Computational Chemistry Grid combined together can provide computational power far beyond what rese! arch chemists have at their own individual organizations. General Description Of Tutorial Content The tutorial is comprised of material organized into sections, based on the first level of the out-line given later in this document. Printable versions of the material will be available, as well as electronic versions of all sample input/output files. The material will cover both organizational overview topics as well as step-by-step description of using the desktop client. Fully explained exercises and all supporting files will be provided to highlight key concepts or procedures with GridChem. Part1. Description of Client Demonstration or Exercises User Computational Chemist?s Perspective We propose to offer hands on exercises with tutorial attendants to reinforce concepts and capa-bilities covered in this tutorial. The tutorial presenters will work closely with the attendees to cover the following exercise topics: 1. Client Software Installation 2. Authenticating 3. Building Jobs a. General Visualization Interface b. Gaussian 03 Graphical Interface 4. Submitting jobs a. To Specific Compute Resources b. To General Computational Chemistry Grid Through The Condor Interface 5. Post-Processing Results Since a key component of GridChem is the desktop client application that is the interface to the Computational Chemistry Grid, people who sign up for the workshop will be encouraged to bring their personal laptops to the tutorial so that they will leave the tutorial with the software in-stalled on their laptop. Some demo allocations will be available for the audience to try some of the functionality if network connectivity is available. Detailed Outline I. Computational Chemistry Grid Overview a. Partner Institutions b. Desktop Client c. Middleware Services ( See Part 2 also) d. Computational Resources e. Data Storage Resources II. Software Installation a. System Requirements b. Client Installation And Execution III. Authentication/Authorization And Allocations a. Policies i. Access ii. Authentication b. Allocation Process IV. Interface Fundamentals a. Authentication b. Creating And Submitting Jobs c. Managing Jobs d. Post-Processing Results V. Chemistry Applications a. Gaussian 03, Gamess, Molpro, Nwchem b. Aces Ii, Q-Chem VI. Pre-Processor/Molecule Builder a. Graphical Interface For Gaussian 03 b. Nanocad VII. Job Manager a. Submitting Jobs b. Monitoring Jobs c. Retrieving Job Logs And Output VIII. Post Processing/Visualization a. Viewing Application Output Files b. Nanocad Molecular Editor IX. Technical Support a. On-Line Training Material i. User Syntax Checking ii. Explanation Of Package Features b. Technical Support System i. Scope Of Technical Support ii. PCS Trouble Ticket System This component may take 2/3 of the time and the rest of the 1/3 will be used for part 2 detailed below. Part2. Description of Resource and Grid Management. Resource providers Perspective X. Resource Definitions XI. Resource discovery and presentation XII. Scientific Application Grid Resource Interfaces XIII. Resource Integration XIV. Automated job submissions XV. Middleware server organization, redundancy failover mechanisms XVI. Application deployment and maintenance XVII. Storage requirements XVIII. Community allocations and security XIX. Current Status And Future Directions A. Current Status and utilization a. Users and their experience b. Initial lessons in collaboration and distributed/Grid production c. Application and System issues d. Bugs and Error notifications B. Planned Activities a. Middleware upgrades and Web services b. Metascheduling and optimization c. Benchmarking of scientific applications d. Reporting to Funding Agencies e. Interactions with other virtual organizations Outreach Activities: Computational Chemistry Grid started with a team (EOTS) dedicated to providing education, outreach, training and services. This team is engaged in providing documentation, tutorials and posters, presentations and workshops. We have already delivered a tutorial, an Access Grid demonstration and workshop at Supercomputing 2005 conference. We have presented our ex-periences in previous GGF conference and disseminated at American Chemical Society and CCGrid conferences. Access Grid events were advertised locally to computational chemistry community at all participating sites. Several national and international resource provides have noticed and shown interest in collaborations at various levels. We are currently working on gen-erating a draft memorandum of understanding to use in such collaborations. Schedule : CCG has just entered a friendly user period and slowly we are encouraging some early adapters to use the resources. Several traditional users have been granted allocations. We will plan to go to full production early in 2006 and gradually improve the seamlessness of Grid Usability and expand the resources and application pool including post processing tools and provide reusable data from existing applications in others. tech_requirements: Access Grid will be useful to widen the audience, Good network connectivity is required live demonstration. prereq_participants: The first part of the tutorial will require familiarity with computational chemistry. Particularly the G03 GUI part will require some familiarity with the G03 application. advertise_suggestion: AccessGrid Scheduling/Announcements ( in case AG session is available). Communicating with local computational chemists and those among the attendees. Production application Grid providers and Science gateways provides need to be specifically contacted. Supercomputer centers which are potential resource providers will have to be intimated of the event.