[SEM-GRD] GCE 07 Workshop Announcement

[Marlon Pierce]

Dear all--

Below please find the announcement for this year's GCE workshop.  I would appreciate everyone's assistance with promotion of this event, so please forward this to your colleagues and to other appropriate email lists. 


----------------------------------

GCE WORKSHOP FOR SUPERCOMPUTING 2007

The Grid Computing Environments (GCE) workshop, now in its third year, provides the science gateway community with a dedicated forum for presenting new research, development, and deployment efforts.  We welcome paper submissions on all topics related to science portal development.  As in previous years, the workshop format will be presentations of peer-reviewed short papers.  

The workshop website is http://www.collab-ogce.org/gce07/index.php/Main_Page.

WORKSHOP FOCUS: GATEWAYS AND WEB 2.0

Scientific portals and gateways have emerged as an important components of many large-scale scientific computing and Grid projects. They provide Web based access interfaces to secure Grid resources, services, applications, tools, and collaboration services for communities of scientists. In most cases access is enabled through a Web browser without the need to download or install specialized software or worry about network and firewall issues. As a result, the science application user is insulated from the complex details and infrastructure needed to operate an application on the Grid. 

Gateways and Cyberinfrastructure will be heavily influenced by the so-called Web 2.0 trends in Internet computing.  Ajax, JSON, folksonomies, social networking, mash-ups, REST, RSS/Atom feeds, and other developments run parallel to much that has occurred in the Gateway community.  It is timely to examine these approaches, the impact that they will have on the next generation of Gateways, and the limits of these approaches.  The GCE workshop thus strongly encourages the submission of relevant papers.


TOPICS OF INTEREST	

GCE 2007 topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    * Integration of Web 2.0 technologies with science gateways.
    * Grid Portals and Gateways Deployments (including User Portals, Application Portals, Science Gateways, Education Portals, User interface/usability studies).
    * Design and architecture of Grid portals, portal containers, and gateways
    * Tools and frameworks that make developing Grid Portals and gateways easier.
    * Portal security models and solutions.
    * Middleware solutions in support of scientific portals and Gateways including Web Services; Grid technologies; Databases; Workflows; WSRP and other standards;
    * Interaction with Commodity and Commercial tools such as Perl, Python, Matlab, and Mathematica.
    * Interaction with Desktop applications. 
    * Summary papers that review a number of useful tools.