[communities] GGF Proposal Submission

[foster at 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.