[PGS-RG] Licensing Roundtable at SC06

[David Wallom]

Hello Laura,

We had the Matlab people at the UK e-Science All Hands meeting and they were
very keen to participate.

The additional question I would have is:

Flexibility of licensing, ie how can currently held licenses be used within
Grids?

Cheers

David


On 26/9/06 17:18, "Laura F McGinnis" <lfm at psc.edu> wrote:

> At the last few GGF meetings, we have discussed setting up a dialogue with
> vendors to talk about licensing issues for software on grids. At GGF18 in
> Washington, DC, we agreed that we would try to set something up at SC06,
> since that gives us the best opportunity for connecting with the vendors.
> 
> To make this happen we need answers to the following questions:
> 
> 1) What specific questions to we have for the vendors? This will let us
> formulate a Call for Participants, to send to relevant vendors. Please add
> more questions to the list.
> Licensing models?
> License/access management?
> Site licenses, esp in virtual organizations
> 
> 2) What packages/licenses are of particular concern? These are the vendors
> we want to invite to participate. If there are more, please add to the list.
> Also, if you have particular contacts with any of these vendors or packages,
> please pass that information to us so the invitations can get to (hopefully)
> the right people. If there are people in your organization who are better
> equipped to identify packages & vendors, please pass this to them.
> Gaussian
> Amber
> Oracle
> PBS (and various schedulers)
> MatLab, Mathematica
> 
> 3) Who can host the discussion and where? The following affiliated
> organizations have exhibit space reserved at SC06:
> TeraGrid: Booth #223, 10ft by 10ft (affiliation through Laura)
> Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center: Booth #1049, 30'x30' (affiliation
> through Laura)
> UK e-Science Programme: Booth # 2234, 40'x40' (affiliation through
> David?)
> I am also checking to see if OGF will have its own space or will be using
> space at Argonne (Booth #1925). If there is anyone else who has booth space
> and would be interested in hosting the discussion, please let me know. I
> think we'd like to keep this in the exhibit hall, so that the vendors don't
> need to wander too far from their booths.
> 
> I would like to get the Call for Participation out to the vendors by
> mid-October, so they can plan to participate. I will also need to reserve
> booth time at PSC by 1-November, if that's where we're going to hold this.
> So please get back to me and/or the list quickly.
> 
> Thanks!
> LM
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