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[wg-all] Mailing List Changes
by Andre Merzky 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

Sorry for duplicates ------------------------------------------------------------ As of yesterday, all GGF/OGF mailing lists are migrated to the ogf domain. They are now managed by mailman, the web interface is available at http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo With that migration, all list can be now reached via <list>@ogf.org The old @ggf.org addresses will be available for some time, but are bound to disappear eventually - please start using the ogf addresses! A number of lists have changed their names: ggf-it --> ogf-it ggf-office --> ogf-office ggf-proc-wg --> ogf-proc-wg ggf-sponsors --> ogf-sponsors ggf-tutorials --> ogf-tutorials ggf-compute --> ogf-compute ggflistowners --> ogflistowners ggfstudentmembers --> ogfstudentmembers Postings to the old list names get forwarded to the new ones. With the migration we have also been able to fix the archives - you may have noticed that list archiving stopped sometime in mid June. Well, now its working again, and all mails from June to now have been added to the archive. The list archives can be found at: http://www.ogf.org/archives/<list> If you are an list administrator, and would like to receive the list admin password, please contact postmaster(a)ogf.org. In general, however, we tried to map the old majordomo settings to the mailman settings, in terms of privacy etc, so no or little changes should be required from your side. The spam avoidance policy has been changed to some extent, and is somewhat stricter than before. Please let us know if you experience any trouble with that. On all questions in respect to mailing lists, or mails in general, please contact postmaster(a)ogf.org. Best regards, Andre. -- "So much time, so little to do..." -- Garfield -- wg-all mailing list wg-all(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/wg-all

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[wg-all] Mailing List Changes
by Andre Merzky 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

As of yesterday, all GGF/OGF mailing lists are migrated to the ogf domain. They are now managed by mailman, the web interface is available at http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo With that migration, all list can be now reached via <list>@ogf.org The old @ggf.org addresses will be available for some time, but are bound to disappear eventually - please start using the ogf addresses! A number of lists have changed their names: ggf-it --> ogf-it ggf-office --> ogf-office ggf-proc-wg --> ogf-proc-wg ggf-sponsors --> ogf-sponsors ggf-tutorials --> ogf-tutorials ggf-compute --> ogf-compute ggflistowners --> ogflistowners ggfstudentmembers --> ogfstudentmembers Postings to the old list names get forwarded to the new ones. With the migration we have also been able to fix the archives - you may have noticed that list archiving stopped sometime in mid June. Well, now its working again, and all mails from June to now have been added to the archive. The list archives can be found at: http://www.ogf.org/archives/<list> If you are an list administrator, and would like to receive the list admin password, please contact postmaster(a)ogf.org. In general, however, we tried to map the old majordomo settings to the mailman settings, in terms of privacy etc, so no or little changes should be required from your side. The spam avoidance policy has been changed to some extent, and is somewhat stricter than before. Please let us know if you experience any trouble with that. On all questions in respect to mailing lists, or mails in general, please contact postmaster(a)ogf.org. Best regards, Andre. -- "So much time, so little to do..." -- Garfield -- wg-all mailing list wg-all(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/wg-all

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Fwd (dk@gup.jku.at): REMINDER: AppsAreaWorkshop @ GGF17
by Thilo Kielmann 10 May '06

10 May '06

----- Forwarded message from Dieter Kranzlmueller <dk(a)gup.jku.at> ----- > X-Original-To: kielmann@localhost > Delivered-To: kielmann(a)localhost.cs.vu.nl > From: "Dieter Kranzlmueller" <dk(a)gup.jku.at> > To: "Steven Newhouse" <s.newhouse(a)omii.ac.uk>, > "Thilo Kielmann" <kielmann(a)cs.vu.nl>, > "Craig Lee" <craig(a)rushg.aero.org> > Cc: "Shantenu Jha" <s.jha(a)ucl.ac.uk>, > "Andre Merzky" <merzky(a)cs.vu.nl> > Subject: REMINDER: AppsAreaWorkshop @ GGF17 > Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 09:51:10 +0200 > > > Dear GGF Colleagues, > > please find attached some last minute information about our Applications > Workshop at GGF17. I hope, you are happy with the contents. Please help > me distribute it to the respective interested parties. In the meantime, I > will update the information on the webpage. > > Regards, > Dieter > > GGF-17 Applications Workshop > (Tokyo, Japan) > > "Bridging the Divide: > Community Application Requirements Driving Standards Development" > > Session 1: "Current Status - Development of Standard APIs" > Chair: Steven Newhouse > > Thursday, May 11, 2006, 09:00-10:30 G409 > > * Welcome, Motivation & Goals (Steven Newhouse) [10 min] > * DRMAA - Distributed Resource Mgnt App API (Andre Merzky) [20 min] > * GridRPC - Grid Remote Procedure Call (Hidemoto Nakada) [20 min] > * SAGA - Simple API for Grid Applications (Thilo Kielmann) [20 min] > * Discussion [20 min] > > Session 2: "Consuming Standards - Current Uses and Future Requirements" > Chair: Dieter Kranzlmüller > > Thursday, May 11, 2006, 11:00-12:30 G409 > > * Summary of Session 1 and Intro to Session 2 (Dieter Kranzlmüller) [10 > min] > * Astronomical Grid Community (Reagan Moore) [20 min] > * NAREGI - National Research Grid Initiative (Mutsumi Aoyagi) [20 min] > * Grid Application Integration (Chris Smith) [20 min] > * Discussion [20 min] > > Session Summary: > > This workshop will provide a showcase of standards and community activity > within GGF by bringing together groups in three different areas > (Standards Applications, Community Industry Applications & Community > Research Applications). Through a series of presentations we will show > the current state of the standards activity and critically the current > barriers to pervasive adoption as perceived by the consuming user > community. Finally, a panel session will help to define areas of > collaboration and potentially new areas for standards development. > > Session Description: > > GGF has an active standards and community areas focusing on engagement > with application developers and tool builders in research and industry. > For these separate areas to work effectively we need to build a > relationship where the APIs being developed within the standards area are > relevant to the research and industry consumers, and in turn the > application and tool builders are communicating to the standards area > their requirements in terms of stable defined interfaces. > > With the greater emphasis on GGF's redefined standards and community > functions, and the factorization of the standards area into having an > 'umbrella' research group to drive the coordinated development of a set > of consistent APIs across several working groups, there is a need to > establish the communication links between the standards and community > areas for Applications. > > This workshop, hopefully the first of many, will start to establish the > communication links and provide a showcase as to the current state of the > standards development and the current priorities for application and tool > development in industry and research. In addition, it will provide a > general dissemination mechanism of activity to developers and users (both > critical consumers in terms of achieving pervasive grid adoption) and the > wider GGF community as to activity in the standards and community areas. > > Session Leaders: > Dieter Kranzlmueller, Steven Newhouse, Thilo Kielmann, Craig Lee ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Thilo Kielmann http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/

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Proceedings from GGF14 workshop published!
by Thilo Kielmann 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Dear all, I am pleased to announce that the proceedings from the workshop held at GGF14 has now been published as a GGF document, namely GFD.68. Please see: http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final Thanks a lot to all who have contributed! Regards, Thilo -- Thilo Kielmann http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/

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Fwd (Francoise.Baude@sophia.inria.fr): HPDC workshop on Grid experimental platforms
by Thilo Kielmann 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

For those of us dealing with testbeds. Thilo EXPGRID - Experimental Grid testbeds for the assessment of large-scale distributed applications and tools http://www-sop.inria.fr/caiman/personnel/Stephane.Lanteri/hpdc-15/expgrid.h… A workshop to be held in conjunction with the 15th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-15) June 19-23 2006, Paris Grids raise a large number of research issues in topics like networking (protocols, communication layers, performance evaluation, etc.), middleware (control, scheduling, fault-tolerance, management, etc.), programming (paradigms, languages and environments, etc.) and applications (parallel and distributed numerical and non-numerical algorithms, large-scale simulations, performance evaluation, etc) for which, in addition to theory, simulators and emulators, there is a strong need for large-scale testbeds where real life experimental conditions hold. Grid'5000 (https://www.grid5000.fr/) is a research effort for building a large scale nation wide infrastructure for Grid research. The objective is to provide the community of Grid researchers a testbed allowing experiments in all the software layers between the network protocols up to the applications: network protocols, operating systems, middleware, runtime, algorithms and applications. The Grid'5000 project aims at building a highly reconfigurable, controlable and monitorable experimental Grid platform gathering 9 sites geographically distributed in France, interconnected by a 1 to 10 Gb/s dedicated network, featuring a total of 5000 CPUs. This high collaborative research effort is funded by the French ministry of Education and Research, INRIA, CNRS, the Universities of all sites and some regional councils. The objectives of this workshop are the following: a) to present the latest results of large-scale experiments conducted on experimental Grid testbeds worldwide and on the Grid'5000 platform. b) to promote the exchange of ideas, informations and novel developments concerning experimental Grid testbeds worldwide. Topics of interest to this workshop include (but are not limited to): - communication protocols and libraries for the Grid, - performance modelling, simulation, and prediction, - scheduling and distribution middleware, - resource management middleware, - fault-tolerance middleware, - global computing/P2P middleware, - programming languages and environments, - parallel and distributed numerical and non-numerical algorithms, - large-scale applications. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: February 28th, 2006 (extended abstract) Notification of acceptance: March 17th, 2006 Final Manuscript due: April 10th, 2006 Workshop: June 20th, 2006 PUBLICATION: all accepted papers will be published on a CD edited by IEEE. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submissions are accepted only electronically, in PDF format. Authors are required to submit an extended abstract (4 pages IEEE style) before submitting the full paper. Submission will be handled through the main HPDC web site. Submitted full papers must conform to IEEE conference style and should not exceed 8 pages. Information for authors and reference style files are available at: http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html. All papers, which will be reviewed by the program commitee. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Stéphane Lanteri (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France) Raymond Namyst (LABRi, Bordeaux, France) Olivier Richard (ID-IMAG, Montbonnot Saint Martin, France) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Franck Cappello (INRIA Futurs and LRI, France) Michel Dayde (IRIT-ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France) Frédéric Desprez (INRIA and LIP, Rhône-Alpes, Lyon, France) Emmanuel Jeannot (INRIA/LORIA, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France) Yvon Jegou (INRIA/IRISA, Rennes, France) Thilo Kielmann (Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands) Stéphane Lanteri (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France) Nouredine Melab (LIFL, Lille, France) Raymond Namyst (LABRi, Bordeaux, France) Brigitte Plateau, (ID-IMAG, Montbonnot Saint Martin, France) Thierry Priol (INRIA/IRISA, Rennes, France) Olivier Richard (ID-IMAG, Montbonnot Saint Martin, France) Dany Vandromme (Renater, France) Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA and LIP, Rhône-Alpes, Lyon, France) FURTHER INFORMATION For further information please contact: Stephane.Lanteri(a)inria.fr -- Thilo Kielmann http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/

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End User support Grid workshop in Paris
by Thilo Kielmann 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

This event might be of interest for our group member. With kind regards, Thilo Kielmann Grid-Enabling Legacy Applications and Supporting End Users Workshop (GELA) within the framework of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing HPDC'15 Paris, France June 19-23, 2006 The workshop will present existing solutions for gridifying legacy code applications, and for supporting the development and usage of Grid applications. It will bring together Grid researchers, current and perspective users. Researchers will present the available Grid solutions, while users will demonstrate existing Grid applications and define their requirements towards their Grid applications. The workshop aims to reach user communities, which do not have even basic knowledge in Grid computing presenting both developers' and users' views on the Grid. The goals of the workshop are: " To gather information about existing solutions for gridifying legacy applications, " To present existing high-level Grid user environments, " To identify the key application requirements and scenarios towards the Grid, " To provide a forum for exchanging the ideas between the Grid application users, application developers and Grid developers, " To broaden the Grid community by encouraging new users to use the Grid technologies. The workshop is seeking papers and poster presentations from different areas of Grid computing, especially those concerned with applications. Suggested topics for papers and posters include, but are not limited to, the following: " Gridifying legacy code applications, " High-level Grid user environments, " Application requirements towards to Grid and its infrastructure, " .Experience in both, converting existing applications and designing new applications to run on the Grid. PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit technical papers up to 10 pages to the workshop web site: http://www.cpc.ac.uk/gemlca/hpdc-gela/submit using the IEEE 8 1/2 x 11 CS format. Appropriate style files can be found at: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/Format.pdf. Papers that exceed this length will be rejected. These papers should be written to be self-contained and to provide the technical substance required for the Program Committee to evaluate the paper's contribution. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another conference or a journal, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the review process. PUBLICATION Papers presented at the workshop will appear in the HPDC workshop proceedings CD published by IEEE Computer Society Press and given to all participants at the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES Full Papers Submission: February 13, 2006 Notice of Acceptance: March 06, 2006 Final Manuscript Due: April 08, 2006 Workshop June 20, 2006 -- Thilo Kielmann http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/

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ggf14 workshop proceedings in public comments period
by Thilo Kielmann 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

Dear all, the proceedings of our workshop held at GGF14 on Grid Applications: from Early Adopters to Mainstream Users now is in the public comment period for becoming a GGF informational document. Please check this out at http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?public_comment and submit your comment (even if it is just "OK") as each GGF document requires some people commenting on it before it can be published. Thanks to all for helped getting this far! Thilo -- Thilo Kielmann http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/

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Final comments, please: GGF14 workshop proceedings
by Thilo Keilmann 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

Thanks to David's efforts, I now managed to compile a proceedings for our GGF14 workshop on Grid Applications: from Early Adopters to Mainstream Users Due to the size of the file (5.5MB) I have provided it at: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/ggf14-ws-proceedings.pdf This is the call for final comments: By the end of next week (on Nov 04), I will forward the proceedings to GGF's editor pipeline. All helpful comments are welcome before that date. With kind regards, Thilo Kielmann PS: David and Laura, could you please announce this within the PGS community, too? Thanks! -- Thilo Kielmann http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/

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RE: [saga-rg] SAGA use case document: comments needed! (this week)
by Shantenu Jha 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Tomasz, Agreed, there appears to be a problem with the version that the GGF Editors provided. We'll get that sorted soon with GGF folk. But in the meantime, I've provided a link from the SAGA Wiki at: http://wiki.cct.lsu.edu/saga/space/start to an *exactly* similar version as submitted to GGF. HTH, Shantenu > There is something wrong with the document posted on > http://www.ggf.org/Public_Comment_Docs/Documents/Sep-2005/draft-ggf-saga-use > -cases.pdf > > Starting on page 37, it is blank all the way to page 199. Apparently the > conversion to pdf failed. > > Tomasz > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-saga-rg(a)ggf.org [mailto:owner-saga-rg@ggf.org] On Behalf Of Ed > Seidel > Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 8:30 AM > To: Thilo Kielmann > Cc: apps-rg(a)ggf.org; saga-rg(a)ggf.org > Subject: Re: [saga-rg] SAGA use case document: comments needed! (this week) > > I'd like to encourage people to take this seriously and spend a > little time on it. In my opinion, it is among the very important > activities going on in GGF. SAGA specifically aims to support the > developers of scientific applications, so it is very important to get > as much feedback as possible from apps groups. We hope to develop > APIs that are so compelling, that they will be available to and > adopted by application developers everywhere. As SAGA has now turned > into a Working Group, it is now developing what should turn out to be > a standard. > > Please take some time to look at this, and give feedback on use cases > so we can make this work well. > > Best, > Ed > > > On Oct 24, 2005, at 6:26 AM, Thilo Kielmann wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > the SAGA-RG has its use case document up for public comment, ending > > oct 30. > > > > So far, there are 0 comments! :-( > > > > I hereby urge everybody to have a look and comment, even if the > > comment is just > > trivially in favour... > > > > > > Thanks for your help, > > > > > > Thilo > > -- > > Thilo Kielmann http://www.cs.vu.nl/ > > ~kielmann/ > > > > > > > -- Shantenu Jha, Research Fellow Centre for Computational Science http://www.realitygrid.org University College London (UCL) PGP Key ID 0x78F823E6 s dot jha at ucl dot ac dot uk +44 (0) 20-7679-5300

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Fwd (Ed Seidel <eseidel@cct.lsu.edu>) Re: [saga-rg] SAGA use case document: comments needed! (this week)
by Thilo Kielmann 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

> From: Ed Seidel <eseidel(a)cct.lsu.edu> > Subject: Re: [saga-rg] SAGA use case document: comments needed! (this week) > Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 08:30:19 -0500 > To: Thilo Kielmann <kielmann(a)cs.vu.nl> > X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) > X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at mailbouncer.mcs.anl.gov > > I'd like to encourage people to take this seriously and spend a > little time on it. In my opinion, it is among the very important > activities going on in GGF. SAGA specifically aims to support the > developers of scientific applications, so it is very important to get > as much feedback as possible from apps groups. We hope to develop > APIs that are so compelling, that they will be available to and > adopted by application developers everywhere. As SAGA has now turned > into a Working Group, it is now developing what should turn out to be > a standard. > > Please take some time to look at this, and give feedback on use cases > so we can make this work well. > > Best, > Ed -- Thilo Kielmann http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/

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