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

[Judith Utley]

Laura F McGinnis wrote:

> 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.

Yes. I expect to work on this workshop as needed.

-- Judith

>
> 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
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> 412-268-5642
> Pittsburgh, PA  15213                                           fax: 
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Judith Utley
jputley at earthlink.net
757.868.8345