[GRIDRPC-WG] OGF applications group page

[Hidemoto Nakada]

Joel and Guy,

Thank you so much for inserting the session!

see you at Oxford soon!
--
  HIDEMOTO NAKADA, Ph.D, AIST, Japan



On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Hidemoto Nakada <hide-nakada at aist.go.jp> wrote:
> Joel and Guy,
>
> thank you for your hard work for OGF34.
>
> we (GridRPC WG) thought that we requested GridRPC group session
> on Tuesday by the attached e-mail, but it did not appear in the schedule.
>
> Could you please add it on the schedule? Fortunately,
> Tuesday morning, which is convenient for us, seminar room seems
> to be available.
>
> thank you in advance.
>
> --
>   HIDEMOTO NAKADA, GridRPC Working Group.
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Eddy Caron <Eddy.Caron at ens-lyon.fr>
> Date: Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 6:27 AM
> Subject: Re: OGF applications group page
> To: "Daniel S. Katz" <dsk at ci.uchicago.edu>
> Cc: Peter Tröger <peter at troeger.eu>, Andre Merzky <andre at merzky.net>,
> Wolfgang Ziegler <wolfgang.ziegler at scai.fraunhofer.de>, Joel Replogle
> <replogle at ogf.org>, Hidemoto Nakada <hide-nakada at aist.go.jp>
>
>
> Dear Daniel and Joel,
>
> The current text of the Grid-RPC is outdated. I will sent a some
> upgrade as soon as possible.
>
> About the next session it could be fruitful to give more information.
> Is it possible to have a session on Tuesday ?
>
> Text for the next Grid-RPC session :
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Join the next Grid-RPC session and come with your data management use case ...
>
> In september 2011, the Open Grid Forum standardized the document "Data
> Management API within the GridRPC" [1] which discribes an optional API
> that extends the GridRPC standard [2]. Used in a GridRPC middleware,
> it provides a minimal set of functions to handle a large set of data
> operations among which: movements, replications, migrations, data
> prefetch and persistency.
>
> After a few remarks on the GridRPC DM API, we'll present a basic
> implementation that we have integrated in two different middleware,
>  respectively DIET [3] and NINF [4]. We have conducted several experiments,
> showing very high benefits that a Grid user can expect 1) in terms of
> resource usage
> compared to the current GridRPC context since useless transfers are
> avoided; 2) in terms of reducing the completion time of an application
> to obtain results the soonest (data can be prefetched and replicated,
> hence letting calculus to be submitted really soon in a workflow
> analysis in addition to the possible overlap between computations and
> communications); 3) in terms of code portability, since we show with
> these examples that at last the same GridRPC code can be compiled and
> executed within two different GridRPC middleware which implements the
> GridRPC data management API; 4) finally we thus obtain middleware
> interoperability without any explicit glue as generally done like in
> [5]: we show as a proof of concept that resources dispatched across
> different administrative domains can be used altogether without the
> underlying distributed data management systems having any knowledge of
> the workflow and/or computing resources: computational servers of DIET
> and NINF transparently collaborate to the same calculus by sharing
> GridRPC data!
>
> [1] Y. Caniou, E. Caron, G. Le Mahec and Hidemoto Nakada, "Data
> Management API within the GridRPC", June 2011, Open Grid Forum
> standard GFD-R-P.186.
>
> [2] H. Nakada, S. Matsuoka, K. Seymour, J.J. Dongarra, C. Lee and
> H. Casanova, "A GridRPC Model and API for End-User Applications", June
> 2007, Open Grid Forum standard GFD-R.052.
>
> [3] E. Caron and F. Desprez, "DIET: A Scalable Toolbox to Build
> Network Enabled Servers on the Grid", International Journal of High
> Performance Computing Applications, 2006.
>
> [4] Y. Tanaka, H. Nakada, S. Sekiguchi, T. Suzumura and S. Matsuoka,
> "Ninf-G: A Reference Implementation of {RPC}-based Programming
> Middleware for Grid Computing", Journal of Grid Computing, 2003.
>
> [5] Y. Suzuki, N. Kushida, N. Teshima, K. Nakajima, A. Nishida and
> N. Nakajima, "Interoperation between Atomic Energy Grid Infrastructure
> (AEGIS) and Other Grids", in High Performance Computing on Vector
> Systems 2008, Chap. 3, Roller, S.; Benkert, K.; Galle, M.; Bez, W.;
> Kobayashi, H.; Hirayama, T. (Eds.), 2009.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Eddy Caron. Mcf HDR ENS Lyon
>
> ENS Lyon - LIP - Projet GRAAL/Avalon
>
> 46 Allee d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France
>
> E-Mail : Eddy.Caron at ens-lyon.fr
>
> [ Tel : 04.72.72.80.04 ][ Web page : http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/~ecaron ]
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Le 24 janv. 2012 à 17:52, Daniel S. Katz a écrit :
>
> Hi Peter, Eddy, and Andre,
>
> Can you take a quick look at
> http://www.ogf.org/gf/group_info/areasgroups.php?area_id=5 and see
> what is out of date and what needs to be changed?
>
> Please email Joel the changes that should be made, and copy Wolfgang and me.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
> --
> Daniel S. Katz
> University of Chicago
> (773) 834-7186 (voice)
> (773) 834-6818 (fax)
> d.katz at ieee.org or dsk at ci.uchicago.edu
> http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/~dsk/