[ur-wg] CFP: Workshop on Grid Applications at GGF14

[Laura F. McGinnis]

Workshop on Grid Applications: from Early Adopters to Mainstream Users
In conjunction with GGF14, (June 26-29, Chicago, USA)

Jointly organized by:
GGF Application Developers and Users Research Group (APPS-RG) & Production
Grid Management Research Group (PGM-RG)

Workshop Organizers:
Thomas Hinke (NASA AMES, USA), Thilo Kielmann (Vrije Universiteit,
Amsterdam, Netherlands), Laura McGinnis (PSC, USA) & David Wallom (Bristol
University, UK)

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Call for Papers:

In this workshop, we aim at experience with bridging the gap between early
adopters of grids and the more mainstream use of grid technology.
Currently, grids are mostly on the early adopter side of the gap, asking
for the move to the more mainstream users. For fostering mature production
environments, incentives by application users are vital. We are seeking
experience from early adoptors who would like to become mainstream users,
from mainstream users who would like to use grids, from those who already
do, and from middleware developers and system operators in charge of
providing working grid environments to user communities. We are seeking
contributions on the following topics:

- user experience with early-adoptor and/or mainstream grid applications
- management approaches for production-quality grid environments
- techniques for robust (fault tolerant) grid applications and middleware
- software tools for automatic testing and signaling of error conditions

Our focus is on hands-on experience with existing grid environments,
focusing on bridging the gap between early adoption and production use.
For the workshop presentations, we are seeking papers on the subjects
described above. Papers should be typeset in a single-column format, in
12pt font, for letter or A4 sized paper. Papers should not exceed 10
pages. Shorter papers are welcome. Submission format is PDF.

Please submit your paper to David Wallom, by email to
david.wallom at bristol.ac.uk, marked as GGF-14 Grid Applications workshop
submission.

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Publication: All accepted submissions will be published as a GGF
Informational Document. We will invite the most promising submissions for
a journal special issue in a high-quality journal covering Grid computing.
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Important Dates: Paper submission: May 05, 2005
Notification of acceptance: May 23, 2005
Workshop: June 26-29, 2005(exact date T.B.D.)

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Laura F. McGinnis, Project Coordinator
Data & Information Resource Services
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center                      email: lfm at psc.edu
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Pittsburgh, PA  15213                                  fax: 412-268-5832
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