Excellent... I really like the concept of science gateway portals and would like to learn more - I could imagine an entire section of Google dedicated to finding and accessing these types of portals sometime in the future (not predicting, just imagining). Dennis, Charlie, can you work on a 1-page proposal and schedule as a topic with Steve at an upcoming GFSG con-call? Mark -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Gannon [mailto:gannon@cs.indiana.edu] Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 2:41 PM To: Charlie Catlett Cc: craig@rushg.aero.org; matsu@is.titech.ac.jp; gcf@cs.indiana.edu; wilkinsn@sdsc.edu; Goasguen, Sebastien; gannon@indiana.edu; Linesch, Mark; ccgt@ggf.org Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Science Gateway Portal Workshop at GGF-14 i think this is a very good idea. also the portal working group is kicking back into action at ggf, so they would also be iterested in participating. dennis On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Charlie Catlett wrote:

Friends-

I realize that the process for proposing a GGF workshop is that the proposal must be submitted in time for the GROC to review at the GGF meeting immediately preceeding the one at which you wish to hold the workshop. But with all of the structural changes in GGF it seems reasonable to me that we consider a late proposal.

Sebastien Goasguen (sebgoa@purdue.edu), Dennis Gannon (gannon@cs.indiana.edu) and Nancy Wilkins-Diehr (wilkinsn@sdsc.edu) have been running an intense set of interviews of TeraGrid science gateway projects over the past month. Working with a small team of folks from multiple institutions they are planning to have a draft report at the end of this month. The report is largely going to be an

analysis of common requirements for portal access to grid resources (but it is a bit more broad than that). During the first week of April there is a TeraGrid internal All-Hands meeting at which this team will hold discussions with a much larger group of people, including individuals from the 10 or so projects that they interviewed

individually.

I would like to propose an all-day workshop at GGF-14 where this same team brings together the groups that they have been talking to as well

as others who are working on putting grid resources "behind" portals.

The objective would be to explore further the notion of a common approach to allowing interactions between portals and grid resources.

The goal of such a common approach would be that a science team that develops a portal for their community could readily "plug in" resources from multiple Grids at the back end of their portal.

I would like to have this team begin to plan such a workshop, ideally holding some planning sessions during the first week of April while they are together at the TeraGrid all-hands meeting.

In addition, I would like to ask the GGF steering group folks who are plugged into the relevant communities to suggest others who this group

ought to be talking with about this workshop. For instance, I know the eScience programme in the UK has some work in this area and I suspect that there is similar work happening in Japan.

Thanks- CeC