[RUS-WG] Session on Aggregate/Summary Usage Record? [Fwd: [wg-all] OGF23 Call for Participation]

Sat Mar 22 04:03:49 CDT 2008

Dear UR-WG members!

(I put the RUS-WG mailing list in CC since the argument is interesting for
both).

Quite some time ago Xiaoyu proposed an aggregate/summary usage record
format that might be interesting for all those that need to treat usage
statistics (which should be the case in most Grid
projects/infrastructures). This would, as we already discussed, be also
very interesting for the RUS specification.

I think it would be a good idea to have a UR-WG session dedicated to this
aggregate usage record (or summary usage record, that would be one of the
things to decide) to present the current proposal, discuss it and get some
initial work done towards a draft specification for public comments. What
do you think about this idea?
It would be best to have a dedicated session on that because there will be
quite some work to do and another session for the single-job UR format can
additionally be held. Both of them should officially be held by the UR-WG,
but I'm sure the RUS-WG members, being interested, will help.

Let me know what you think.

Cheers,
Rosario.

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Subject: [wg-all] OGF23 Call for Participation
From:    "Steve Crumb" <scrumb at ogf.org>
Date:    Mon, March 10, 2008 3:24 pm
To:      scrumb at ogf.org
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Apologies to any who receive multiple copies of this call.

OGF23/OGF-Europe Call for Participation

Session proposals are being accepted through 11 April, 2008 for OGF23,
OGF-Europe's first international event, co-hosted by the Barcelona
Supercomputing Center (http://www.bsc.es/) in Barcelona, Spain, June 2-6,
2008.  OGF Event Programs seek to strengthen existing industrial and
eScience communities within OGF, provide a forum to foster new relationships
and collaborations based on common interests, and develop best practices and
technical specifications related to distributed systems and grids. With the
launch of the EU-funded, OGF-Europe project (http://www.ogfeurope.eu),
topic-specific community outreach seminars emphasizing best practices,
workshops analyzing grid user requirements, and tutorials transferring
practical skills will take place as part of this event.  Additionally, the
BEinGRID project ( <http://www.beingrid.com/> http://www.beingrid.com) will
co-locate its Industry Days event where updates and demonstrations of
eighteen business experiments with grids will be presented.  More details on
the call for participation and an online submission form may be found at:
<http://ogf.org/OGF23/cfp.php> http://ogf.org/OGF23/cfp.php.

In addition to OGF's chartered groups and Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions,
the Program Committee is soliciting proposals for content that support its
mission of accelerating grid adoption in both research and industry. While
the Program Committee will consider all proposed content related to grid
technology and usage, they are particularly seeking content related to the
following topics:

OGF Specification Adoption
OGF23 will continue OGF's emphasis on grid specification adoption with a
multi-session track showcasing implementations of OGF specifications.
Demonstrations and implementation experiences are encouraged as part of
these sessions.

Digital Repositories
Under the remit of the OGF-Europe project, funded by the European
Commission, OGF-Europe will hold a Community Outreach Seminar that explores
how digital repositories in research, government, and commercial settings
are successful leveraging grid technologies and infrastructures.

Data Management in a Grid Environment
As a follow-up to the full-day workshop held at OGF22 on data movement and
management, OGF is soliciting further proposals for sessions that discuss
practical approaches and best practices around managing data in either an
eScience or a commercial setting.

Best Practices
In addition to developing grid specifications that lead to interoperable
grid software, OGF also produces Best Practice documents that define a
particular challenge found in deploying or managing grids and grid
applications and then suggest a functional solution (e.g., practice) that
solves the identified challenge.

Related Community Content
As with traditional OGF event programs, the OGF23 Program Committee welcomes
submissions of all types (case studies, technology updates, panels,
tutorials, etc.). Individuals or organizations proposing workshops will
contribute to a publishable "Post-Event report" compiled by OGF-Europe and
distributed to major stakeholders giving an overview summary report of the
outcomes and findings of the workshop.  In addition to the explicit
solicitations above, additional topics of interest include but are not
limited to:

*	Achieving scalability and availability in a grid environment
*	Application development/deployment in a grid environment
*	Earth modeling and geospatial applications using grids
*	High Performance Technical Computing and grids
*	Virtualization, cloud computing, and grids
*	Exploiting grid technologies for inter-organizational collaborations

*	Simplifying management complexity of grids
*	Small-medium enterprise (SME) adoption of grids
*	Technology Enhanced Learning & Virtual Learning Tools
*	Digital Content & Digital Rights Management - Applications &
Technologies
*	Medical applications using grids
*	Telecommunications & Optical Networks
*	Networked and Virtual Organizations
*	Collaborative Working Environments
*	Transportation & grids
*	Energy & grids

Tutorials
OGF and OGF-Europe is soliciting proposals for multiple half-day or full-day
tutorials, which differ from workshops and other community content in that
they are extremely hands-on activities with a clear expectation of knowledge
and skill transfer. Tutorial topics may include: developing grid services;
deploying grid tools; building grid applications; managing grid
infrastructures; and other topics where skills can be taught and transferred
to tutorial participants. Tutorials may also be targeted to decision makers
such as managers or architects exploring grid technologies for the first
time. In this case, a tutorial may include overviews of benefits, costs of
deployment, timeframes and manpower requirements, and other useful
information for organizations wishing to leverage grids.

Online Submission Site ( <http://ogf.org/OGF23/cfp.php>
http://ogf.org/OGF23/cfp.php) is available from 10 March through 11 April,
2008.  The Call for Participation submission deadline is 11 April, 2008.
Notifications will be sent by 21 April, 2008.

Program Committee

Wolfgang Gentzsch (Chair), D-Grid, DE

Kento Aida, National Institute of Informatics JP
Robert Fogel, Intel, US

Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, US
Fabrizio Gagliardi, Microsoft, US
Matti Heikkurinen, Emergence Tech, The e-Infrastructures Reflection Group
Support Programme 2 , FI

Rajkumar Buyya, U of Melbourne, AU

Domenico Laforenza, Italian National Research Council, Institute of
Information Science and Technology, IT
Erwin Laure, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Enabling
Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE), CH

Sarah Pearce, Queen Mary University London, GridTalk, UK
Morris Riedel, Forschungszentrum-Juelich, DE
Bruno Schulze, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing - LNCC, BR

Yoshio Tanaka, National Institute for Industrial Science and Technology
(AIST), JP
Lee Hing Yan, NGO (National Grid Office) Singapore

For OGF23 Registration and Lodging information please visit:
http://www.ogf.org/OGF23.

Steve Crumb
Executive Director, Open Grid Forum
scrumb at ogf.org
+1 312-895-5931 (office)
+1 630-915-3324 (cell)

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