[PGS-RG] Licensing Roundtable at SC06

[Steven Newhouse]

The UK e-Science stand is planning to host a series of talks and 
discussions in the 'theater' space. Dave Berry (cc'ed) is running the 
stand and will be able to discuss slots etc.

Steven

> 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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