[PGS-RG] Licensing Roundtable at SC06

[Laura F. McGinnis]

That would be great. PSC won't have the space available.

thx
LM

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Steven Newhouse wrote:

> 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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