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[null,"INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATION",null,"Users, technical experts",null,"caGrid-Interoperable Infrastructure for cancer research ","The session will briefly describe the program, current development plans and the architecture decisisions taken by the team.","The cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid, or caBIG, is a voluntary network or grid connecting individuals and institutions to enable the sharing of data and tools, creating a World Wide Web of cancer research (https://cabig.nci.nih.gov). The goal is to speed the delivery of innovative approaches for the prevention and treatment of cancer. The approach is to leverage existing technologies for the standardization of data representation and semantics coupled with common data integration architecture","SUBMITTED",null,"(Krishnakant) Avinash Shanbhag  shanbhak@mail.nih.gov",null,"30 minutes",null,"NO"]
[null,"INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATION / DEMO",null,"Users, technical experts",null,"Auditable Grid Authorization from Trusted Computing ",null,"Current Grid security solution, Grid Security Infrastructure, includes a Grid VO authorization mechanism called GridMap. A system administrator at a Grid resource provider (RP) maintains a GridMap file for users in a VO. The GridMap file  maps between VO policy and the RP local policy for correct resource utilizations by the VO members. While GridMap files are of great importance in terms of mission-criticalness, integrity and in some cases confidentiality, GSI does not provide protection on these files against the system administrators, and only provide a weak protection against other adversaries.     Trusted Computing, which is an industrial standard technology for platform security, uses a tamper-protection hardware module as an in-platform agent to protect system security. In this talk and an accompanying proof-of-concept demo show we manifest how TC provides an effective, practical yet cryptographically strong protection on the GridMap mechanism, against not only usual adversaries, but also the system administrator in that all actions of an administrator maintaining GridMap files will be documented in an undeniable manner","SUBMITTED",null,"Wenbo Mao wenbo.mao@hp.com",null,"90 minutes",null,"NO"]
[null,"PANEL",{"$nulls":3},"Defining Grid",null,null,"SUBMITTED",null,"Frederica Darema",null,"90 minutes",null,"NO"]
[null,"TALKS/PANEL",null,"Anyone interested in Grid technology ",null,"GT4 Status and Experiences ","5 major sessions related to GT4:  GT4 Overview and Status (~45 minutes), User Experiences, GT4 Roadmap Presesentation and Discusion (~30 minutes), GlobDev Community Development Process (~15 minutes), General discussion (~30 minutes)","Globus Toolkit version 4 (GT4) represents a significant advance over earlier GT versions in terms of software quality, functionality, and standards conformance. This workshop will provide an opportunity for people both to learn about GT4 and to hear from groups working with it. We will also present the latest features incorporated into the GT4 source repository, the Globus roadmap outlining plans for future developments, and the new GlobDev community development process. ","SUBMITTED",null,"Ian Foster foster@mcs.anl.gov",null,"180 minutes",null,"NO","Tuesday or Wednesday afternoon"]
[null,"WORKSHOP","MAJOR GRID PROJECTS","managers, technical experts, users",null,"Grid Interoperation Now","Goals- Following planning meetings between several grid projects who are actively pursuing interoperation, we expect to organize the workshop around a specific set of 4-6 target areas of interoperation (e.g. job description language, information services, auth*, etc.)  We will flesh these out further at the workshop and organize into working groups with charters, milestones and schedules aimed at specific grid  interoperation deliverables and working services by the end of 2006.  Our objective will be to have 2 co-chairs for each group and to recruit technical participants from at least 6 operational grid projects for each of the groups.","Operational grids are a reality today.  Interoperation between operational grids, however, is still a tedious, manual effort.  Many production grid projects are having pairwise discussions about how to support applications that wish to use resources in multiple grid projects, for example supporting workflow with a database in Grid A and a computer in Grid B.  This workshop is aimed at bringing together technical decision-makers from production grid projects in order to organize a set of 4 to 6 target areas where agreement on existing approaches, taking advantage of operational experience, can enable routine interoperation.  These approaches will be geared toward current solutions with a goal of production interoperation services in these areas by the end of 2006. ","SUBMITTED","Charlie Catlett catlett@mcs.anl.gov","Charlie Catlett",null,"full-day",null,"NO","Prefer earlier in the week"]
[null,"WORKSHOP",null,"technical experts",null,"Semantic Grid Workshop","Goals- To provide a forum for the Semantic Grid community to meet and to inform GGF on the latest developments in Semantic Grid R&D .  *To act as an introduction to those who are interested in finding out more about the Semantic Grid *To facilitate a discussion about future direction for Semantic Grid in GGF","This is the 3rd GGF Semantic Grid workshop, and the first in Europe.  The workshop will feature presentations from projects which have been exploring various aspects of the Semantic Grid.  It is intended as an opportunity for the Semantic Grid community to meet and to inform GGF on the latest developments in Semantic Grid R&D, and also to act as an introduction to those who are interested in finding out more about the Semantic Grid.  There will also be a discussion of future directions and priorities.","SUBMITTED","David De Roure dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk","David De Roure",null,"full-day",null,"NO"]
[null,"WORKSHOP","INDUSTRY APPS","Managers and users",null,"Contracting for Grids","IT lawyers and contract managers must recognise that grid solutions raise unique problems for the drafting of commercial contracts.  For example, portable code and on-demand scaling create difficulties for traditional licensing models.  Processing across different administrative domains creates issues with traditional service level definitions.  The workshop would seek to raise awareness of these problems and start a debate on how they might be resolved within the context of a commercial contract.  The goal in the longer term would be to establish a community where grid providers, customers, and specialist lawyers could work towards establishing a common legal framework that suits all parties and can be easily adapted for different varieties of grid solution.  This should lower the barriers to grid providers and customers entering into balanced and workable commercial deals.","This workshop will explore the unique problems that contracts managers and lawyers face when drafting contracts for grid solutions.  It will look at licensing, data security, requirements and solutions documents, service levels and other legal/commercial areas where the grid demands creative and innovative thinking and will consider how these issues might be solved.","SUBMITTED",null,"Mark Henley mark.henley@twobirds.com",null,60,null,"NO"]
[null,"PANEL",{"$nulls":3},"Open Source and Grid"]
[null,"WORKSHOP",null,"Technical experts, users, managers ",null,"Workshop on Reliability and Robustness in Grid Computing Systems ","The goal of the workshop will be bring together researchers and engineers from industry and academe whose organizations are actively addressing these concerns to share experiences and inform each other of their work in this area. Promoting information exchange can be generally expected to benefit ongoing grid reliability work as a whole. Moreover, despite the practical importance of this work, there are relatively few researchers working on grid reliability in comparison to other areas of grid work. They are quite possibly isolated and unaware of each other. The workshop will hopefully attract new experts to participate in the Research Group in Reliability and Robustness in Grid Computing Systems that is currently in the process of formation. Similarly, the workshop can serve to attract participation in other GGF Working Groups that are concerned with reliability issues. Workshop discussions also will serve as input to the program of work for the research group and imately to developing recommendations for how Web Services and Grid Standards can be progressed to ensure reliable grid applications. ","If Web Service and Grid standards are to achieve widespread success in commercial and scientific sectors, systems based on these specifications will need to achieve levels of reliability and robustness necessary for enterprise applications in industry and science.  The inherent complexity of grid computing systems poses formidable challenges to detecting and overcoming failures to achieve the required level of reliability. Three considerations are of special concern. First, the scale of grid computing systems is expected to grow dramatically as grid technology transitions to industrial use. Second, as operational grids scale, there is the possibility that unexpected interactions will occur among components that result in unpredicted emergent and possibly chaotic behaviors.   Finally, grids are likely to be subjected to volatile and uncertain conditions brought about by accidental outages and external attack. These three factors can potentially endanger or severely degrade the effectiveness of operational grids in everyday use."]
[null,"BOF",{"$nulls":3},"Policy aspects of Grid infrastructures",null,"Early projects have created awareness with respect to Grid technologies and their potential. Nonetheless, the development of grids (and eScience) can be considered as a work in progress. A great deal of work has been carried out at the technological forefront to standardize access to shared resources (e.g., OGSA, WSRF), as well as towards developing standard-based middleware. Apart from a wide range of technical issues, resource sharing entails a host of policy issues. As Grids mature and proliferate, there is a pressing demand for creating policy frameworks enabling the shared use of distributed electronic resources for grid computing, storage and networking. Even though the policy component is a prerequisite for sophisticated large scale resource sharing, it is still a major missing piece in state of the art Grid infrastructures.  More work on policy aspects (and other topics)\n-Grid policy frameworks paradigms\n-Acceptable Usage Policies for VOs and Grid sites\n-Policies for global resource sharing\n-Economic models for resource sharing\n-User Support Models","PROPOSED",null,null,"Fotis Karayannis, GRNET, fkara@grnet.gr"]
[null,"BRIEFING",{"$nulls":3},"MCNC Best Practices",null,null,"PROPOSED",null,"Wolfgang G."]
[null,"PANEL",{"$nulls":3},"Production Grids","Panel summarizing Tuesday plenary",null,"PROPOSED",null,"Constantinos A. Kotsokalis <ckotso@grnet.gr>","Constantinos A. Kotsokalis <ckotso@grnet.gr>","90 minutes",null,"NO"]
[{"$nulls":5},"TeraGrid Best Practices",null,null,"PROPOSED","Charlie Catlett catlett@mcs.anl.gov"]
[{"$nulls":5},"CERN",null,null,"PROPOSED","Major Grid Projects"]
[{"$nulls":5},"EDG",null,null,"PROPOSED","Major Grid Projects"]
[{"$nulls":5},"UK eScience",null,null,"PROPOSED","Major Grid Projects"]
[{"$nulls":5},"Germany D-Grid",null,null,"PROPOSED","Major Grid Projects"]
[{"$nulls":5},"pan-European Grid Initiatives",null,null,"PROPOSED","Major Grid Projects","Wolfgang B."]
[{"$nulls":5},"Japan Business Grid Computing",null,null,"PROPOSED","Major Grid Projects"]
[{"$nulls":5},"Grid Futures",null,null,"PROPOSED"]
[{"$nulls":5},"Grid 101 (or Grid for Dummies)",null,null,"PROPOSED","Community Affairs"]
[{"$nulls":5},"Globus 101",null,null,"PROPOSED","Community Affairs"]
[{"$nulls":5},"EII",null,null,"PROPOSED",null,"Andrew Grimshaw"]
[{"$nulls":5},"Grids in Finance",null,null,"PROPOSED","Industrial Applications",null,"Graeme Burnett graeme.burnett@enhypersolutions.com",null,null,"NO"]
[{"$nulls":5},"Networking enhancements in Grids",null,null,"PROPOSED","Bob Cohen/Franco Travostino","Constantinos A. Kotsokalis <ckotso@grnet.gr>","Constantinos A. Kotsokalis <ckotso@grnet.gr>"]
[{"$nulls":5},"Supercomputing",null,null,"PROPOSED",null,"Constantinos A. Kotsokalis <ckotso@grnet.gr>","Constantinos A. Kotsokalis <ckotso@grnet.gr>",null,null,"NO"]
[{"$nulls":5},"Building Grids in the Enterprise",{"$nulls":3},"Industrial Applications"]
[{"$nulls":5},"Solution Profiles(?)",{"$nulls":3},"Industrial Applications","Vendor"]
[{"$nulls":5},"The Grid Market(?)",{"$nulls":3},"Industrial Applications","Analyst"]
[null,null,"INDUSTRY APPS",null,null,"Telco",{"$nulls":3},"Industrial Applications","Cohen, Lee"]
[null,null,"INDUSTRY APPS",null,null,"FSI",{"$nulls":3},"Industrial Applications","Cohen, Lee"]
[null,null,"INDUSTRY APPS",null,null,"Pharma",{"$nulls":3},"Industrial Applications","Cohen, Lee"]
[{"$nulls":5},"The Stds Landscape",{"$nulls":4},"Snelling? Grimshaw?"]
[{"$nulls":5},"EU Requirements"]
[{"$nulls":5},"Vendor Economic Factors",{"$nulls":3},"Industrial Applications"]
[{"$nulls":5},"GGF Roadmap",{"$nulls":4},"Snelling?"]