[gridrel-rg] Meeting of the Reliability and Robustness Research Group at OGF21

[Christopher Dabrowski]

Dear all,

On October 17, there was a meeting of the Reliability and Robustness Research
Group at OGF21.  At this meeting we reviewed the draft OGF informational
document titled Reliability in Grid Computing Systems, which is intended to be
the primary output of the RG. The draft summarizes the state of current 
work on
Grid system reliability and describes requirements for capabilities needed 
to ensure
high levels of reliability in current and future large-scale grid systems. 
The draft is
based on work presented at two earlier workshops (GGF16 in Athens and OGF19 in
Chapel Hill) and includes a substantial amount of additional work that many 
of us have
identified as being relevant.

At this point, the informational document is scheduled for finalization by 
February of
next year. A shorter version of the document is planned for submission to a 
special issue
of a journal publication dedicated to OGF work--by the end of this year. 
Since the time frame
is short, we request that you provide comments/review of the posted draft 
informational
document by November 2. (To obtain a copy, please see below).

At the meeting, different sections of the document were discussed. Matti 
Hiltunen
volunteered to propose revisions to the deflations section and possibly 
portions of the
introduction. Dominic Battre also agreed to provide a relevant reference 
for the document,
which he has kindly provided. If anyone else has comments and/or 
contributions, they
would be most welcome.

The draft and copy of a powerpoint presentation given at the meeting are 
posted on the
RG grid forge web site* or can be obtained upon request.

Sincerely,
Chris Dabrowski.

*Please see https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/projects/gridrel-rg. For the 
draft informational document,
go to section labeled "documents". For the presentation go to "Meeting 
Materials."


Christopher Dabrowski
National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8970
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8970
Phone: +1 301 975-3249
FAX:      +1 301 948-6213
cdabrowski at nist.gov 
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