[pgs-rg] Campus Grids Workshop Proposal - Last Call

[Laura F McGinnis]

I need to hear back from the PGS-RG and Communities group that there is 
active support for doing this workshop at GGF15. So far I have only had 
feedback from Geoffrey. I have incorporated his comments into the revised 
version, which is posted on the PGS-RG website and given below in plaintext.

I need confirmation from David, Judith and Jay that you are available to 
serve with me on the organizing committee. We also need volunteers to help 
with submission reviews, when the time comes.

Also, Jay, can you confirm that Harvard will be able to host this as a full 
day workshop for 50-100 people on Sunday, October 2, please?

If we need a conference call to discuss this before it's submitted, please 
let us know on the mailing list and I'll set something up.

thx
LM

PS - I will be on vacation from August 8-19. It would be helpful if this 
could be resolved before I go, since the first call for GGF15 registration 
has already gone out.

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GGF15 Workshop Proposal:  Campus Grids

Workshop Description: PGS-RG (Production Grid Services) is looking to 
sponsor a full day of case studies from campus grid sites, describing their 
grids. Harvard (Jay Sircar) has offered to host this workshop on their 
campus, probably on Sunday, 2-October.  The cases that will be presented 
should discuss how the grid came about, how they got funding and executive 
buy-in/support, what it's used for, etc. We want to give each speaker a 
good block of time to present their grid, but we're pretty open about how 
the presenters define "campus". This leaves us open to include enterprise 
and commercial grids, if they can demonstrate a campus-type perspective 
(rather than special-purpose only grids). The full-day timeframe should 
give each grid 30-45 minutes to present their case study.

To follow up, then, we'd like to host a series of panels at GGF15, to talk 
about commonalities across the grids - formation methodologies, recruiting 
applications, best/common practices, lessons learned & pitfalls, etc. The 
pre-GGF workshop talks should be pretty parallel; the panels at GGF would 
then cut across all of the grids, but addressing different issues in more 
detail.

We want to get a good cross-section not only of presentations, but also of 
participants, so part of the workshop planning will have to include 
outreach to campuses that might not traditionally attend GGF meetings.

a) When you want meeting and how long: We are proposing a full-day workshop 
on Sunday, 2 October 2005, the day before GGF15 opens. To facilitate 
logistics, Jay Sircar of Harvard University has offered to host the 
workshop on Harvard's campus. This is close enough to the GGF venue that 
hotels and transportation should not be adversely complicated. We would 
request that GGF arrange for the conference rate at the hotels to include 
Saturday 1-October and Sunday, 2-October, to accommodate workshop participants.

b) How we or you advertise/estimate of interest: The calls for submissions 
and participation should be extended to all GGF members as well as sites 
involved in providing campus grids to their populations. We anticipate 
50-100 attendees, based on past workshop experiences and the initial 
interest expressed for this topic.

c) Related meetings: In addition to the workshop prior to the opening of 
GGF, we would like to present a summary of the workshop at GGF and host a 
series of open discussions, for workshop participants to discuss in more 
detail specific aspects of providing production-quality campus grids.

d) Publication: The presentations and followup discussions will be 
summarized into a GGF informational document. A summary web page will be 
made available on the PGS-RG website, including
1)      Metadata about meeting (abstract etc.)
2)      Presentations
3)      Links to useful resources
4)      Comments on discussions



e) Workshop Committee:
         Laura McGinnis, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Co-chair 
PGS-RG  lfm at psc.edu
Judith Utley, Old Dominion University, Co-chair PGS-RG  jputley at earthlink.net
David Wallom, Bristol University, Co-chair PGS-RG  david.wallom at bristol.ac.uk
Jay Sircar, Harvard University  jsircar at harvard.edu






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Laura F. McGinnis, Project Coordinator
Data & Information Resource Services
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center                      email: lfm at psc.edu
4400 Fifth Avenue, # 409D                                  voice: 412-268-5642
Pittsburgh, PA  15213                                           fax: 
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