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CFP 2nd DIALOGUE workshop: Application-Driven Issues in Data Grids
by neil p chue hong 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Apologies for crossposting CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - SECOND DIALOGUE WORKSHOP Second DIALOGUE Workshop: Applications-Driven Issues in Data Grids February 9 & 10, 2006 eScience Institute National eScience Centre 15 South College Street Edinburgh, UK. As more and more applications move towards distributed storage and processing solutions, new and interesting issues arise. Applications must handle varying, sometimes extremely large data sizes and increasingly complex data models. These applications also often must allow fine grained access control. Applications areas - from engineering to basic biomedical research to clinical research - share common challenges and encounter domain specific issues regarding the storage, management, and processing of requirements in a data grid environment. Future data grid middleware solutions will need to be able to deal with these issues in generalizable, globally applicable ways. Call For Participation The DIALOGUE workshops aim to bring together researchers and developers to create a framework that composes a range of complementary technologies and research efforts in order to make these readily available to researchers and scientific organizations world-wide. Presentations and discussions at the second DIALOGUE workshop will cover applications scenarios that identify what is required from data services in the short to medium term (1-3 years), and the obstacles preventing the achievement of their data integration goals. Presentations may discuss how such issues can be generalized and abstracted so that they can be addressed by existing grid middleware and/or may propose potential middleware approaches to address these issues. In particular, at this workshop we are interested in presentations addressing the following topics: - High level data access and integration use cases -- use of data abstractions in applications -- use of data integration in application workflows -- use of data transport in applications and data integration - Integration of diverse data resources -- schema integration, evolution and management -- data mediation services -- alternative data resources (e.g. web based data sources, streams, map data, files) -- distributed queries - Data provenance -- services for generating and maintaining provenance information -- requirements for minimal sets of provenance information Presentation abstracts (<1000 words) should be submitted to dialogue(a)datagrids.org by 15 January 2006. For event registration please visit: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/636/ For more details about DIALOGUE including presentations from the previous workshop please visit: http://www.datagrids.org/ Programme Committee * Co-Chair, Malcolm Atkinson (NeSC) * Co-Chair, Joel Saltz (OSU) * Member, Pinar Alper (University of Manchester) * Member, Chaitan Baru (SDSC) * Member, Peter Brezany (University of Vienna) * Member, Shannon Hastings (OSU) * Member, Neil Chue Hong (EPCC) * Member, Jason Novotny (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) * Member, Beth Plale (Indiana University) -- Neil P Chue Hong | T: [+44] (0)131 650 5957 Project Manager, EPCC | F: [+44] (0)131 650 6555 Rm 2409, JCMB, Mayfield Rd. | E: N.ChueHong(a)epcc.ed.ac.uk Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK | W: http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk BT MeetMe: http://tinyurl.com/8mwhd - Code: 14712935# "A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death - in a word, emotion." - Sam Fuller

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AHM05 CFP: Data Integration in e-Science.
by neil p chue hong 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Please forward to colleagues who may be interested. Second Call for Papers for an AHM 2005 mini-workshop on: +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | Data Integration in e-Science: what does the Grid give us? | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ Fourth UK All Hands Meeting (AHM), 20th - 22nd September 2005, East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham. For more details see: http://www.allhands.org.uk/ Abstract Submission Deadline: 1st April. Workshop Coordinator: Neil Chue Hong (N.ChueHong(a)epcc.ed.ac.uk) Scope and Content ----------------- The Grid provides us with the ability to create a vastly different model of data integration allowing support for dynamic, late-binding access to distributed, heterogeneous data resources. However the opportunities to exploit these new methods of data integration also produce many issues and open questions. This workshop brings together e-Science projects working on solving data integration problems using Grid techniques and technologies. It aims to present and disseminate the current status of grid data integration and allow the identification of common issues and gaps. In particular, it aims to: o Present the problems of data integration met in different domains. o Present and exchange solutions developed. o Facilitate future integration efforts by identifying issues common to data integration. Issues to be considered by contributors to this mini-workshop are: o What are the common patterns in data integration? o What are the current challenges to data integration? o What are the main architectural issues to providing seamless data integration? o How do the emerging set of Web Services / Semantic Web standards assist the needs of distributed data management and integration? o What requirements do we have on metadata to support data integration o What tools and technologies are still required to make data integration work? o Does the Grid provide a fundamentally different model of access to distributed data? The expected audience are all those working on projects which involve data integration, especially those seeking to identify potential solutions and issues in the current and short-term versions of grid middleware. Presentations should be up to 20 minutes including time for questions and answers. Submission of Abstracts ----------------------- Abstract and paper submissions will be subject to the same reviewing procedure as regular AHM papers. When submitting papers to the AHM you will be asked to submit their paper as either a regular AHM paper, or for consideration for a specific workshop. Clearly you should ask to be considered for the data integration mini workshop. High quality workshop papers that are judged to be unsuitable for the workshop to which they are submitted will automatically be considered as regular papers. To submit abstracts/papers to this mini-workshop please go to the submissions page at the AHM web site at: http://www.allhands.org.uk/submissions/

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OGSA-DAI R5.0 released
by neil p chue hong 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

OGSA-DAI Release 5.0 ==================== Data Access and Integration for the Grid ---------------------------------------- We are pleased to announce that the new release of the OGSA-DAI software (in source and binary distributions) is available: * Direct from the project website: http://www.ogsadai.org.uk/downloads/ This release builds on the functionality of previous OGSA-DAI releases and is built on the Globus Toolkit 3.2.1. Highlights: * OGSA-DAI now supports indexing, reading and full-text searching across files using the Apache Lucene text search engine library. * New command line and graphical wizards have been provided to simplify the process of installation, testing and configuration of OGSA-DAI. * OGSA-DAI now supports per-activity configuration, defined in the activity configuration file. * The Grid Data Transport port type now includes a getNBlocks operation, allowing GDT clients to specify the number of blocks to be returned in a single SOAP message. * A new Notification activity has been added that produces a notification message when the output stream of an activity has completed or commenced. * A new XMLBulkLoad activity has been added that enables the bulk loading of documents into an XML database such as Apache Xindice. * Documentation has been reviewed and revised in light of the new architecture of OGSA-DAI. See http://www.ogsadai.org.uk/docs/R5/doc/ogsi/ReleaseNotes.html for more information on the new features in this release. The distribution includes updated GridDataService, GridDataServiceFactory and DAIServiceGroupRegistry components, as well as example clients. These allow you to connect to MySQL, DB2, Oracle, Postgres, SQL Server and XIndice databases, as well as indexed text files. They have been tested on Windows 2000/XP, Redhat Linux 9 and Solaris 8/9. If you are currently running OGSA-DAI R4.0 you may wish to read our guide on upgrading to OGSA-DAI R5.0: http://www.ogsadai.org.uk/docs/R5/doc/ogsi/Upgrade.html Support is provided by the OGSA-DAI team at: support(a)ogsadai.org.uk or http://www.ogsadai.org.uk/support/ A users mailing list is available at users(a)ogsadai.org.uk We welcome all comments, and especially examples of usage or suggestions for improvements or features. Many thanks for trying our software. ++ The OGSA-DAI team -- The OGSA-DAI Project @ http://www.ogsadai.org.uk Queries and Support: support(a)ogsadai.org.uk A UK eScience Grid Core Programme Project

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