Live from the iGrid 2005 floor --- where I sense a remarkable buzz around Grid Network Services --- I transmit the Agenda for the upcoming GGF meeting. See you in a week!


Grid High Performance Networking Research Group (GHPN-RG), Wed October 2:00-3:30, Stuart room.

Agenda
  
 1.      Agenda Bashing.

 2.      Overview of GHPN and the drafts underway. Progress against milestones [15']
 
 3.       An update on Grid Network Services, presented by Admela Jukan  [20']
https://forge.gridforum.org/docman2/ViewProperties.php?group_id=53&category_id=750&document_content_id=3833
 
 4.       Liaison with the Global Lambda Integrated Facility, presented by Gigi Karmous-Edwards  [20']
GNSs are central to the efforts of the GLIF community

 5.       Short presentations      `                         [30']

• Considerations on architecture and implementation of GMPLS-based services for grid applicatons, a joint effort by AIST, KDDI R&D Labs and NTT, presented by Michiaki Hayashi, KDDIlabs
• MAking Grid Middleware network-Aware (MAGMA), presented by Hagen Woesner, Create-Net

In addition to the regular GHPN program, I want to call your attention to two events of relevance to this community:

• a 60' lecture on Provisioning & Managing a Switching Infrastructure as a Grid Resource, by Yaron Haviv, Voltaire, scheduled for Wednesday October 5th 6:00pm as part of the Community Program;
• the 2nd IEEE/Create-Net GridNets 2005 workshop on October 6-7 in Boston ( http://gridnets.org/2005/). GridNets is a forum for peer-reviewed research papers on networks for Grid applications. This event is NOT associated with GGF. Same city but different venue, different dates (albeit adjacent dates), and different admission fee structure.

-franco