Hi GIN team, this year has been very successful for our group and again I would like to thank all of you working within the GIN group to make this happen! Our efforts have been even reported in the OGF newsletter and GridToday and I'm quite confident that (if funding for our projects will be continued) we can reach this high productivity also next year. In the meanwhile I'm compiling a journal paper about our contribution over X-MAS, it will be soon circulated for review. As a first step for next year I just requested (after discussions with John Ehrig) a session about the specification adoption within all the GIN efforts leading hopefully to fruitfully discussions with the specification folks to include our lessons learned. A request snapshot can be found on GridForge: http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14985?nav=1 Finally, I wish you a merry Christmas! Your Secretary, Morris ------------------------------------------------------------ Morris Riedel SW - Engineer Distributed Systems and Grid Computing Division Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) Forschungszentrum Juelich Wilhelm-Johnen-Str. 1 D - 52425 Juelich Germany Email: m.riedel@fz-juelich.de Info: http://www.fz-juelich.de/jsc/JSCPeople/riedel Phone: +49 2461 61 - 3651 Fax: +49 2461 61 - 6656 Skype: MorrisRiedel "We work to better ourselves, and the rest of humanity" Sitz der Gesellschaft: Jülich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Düren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrats: MinDirig'in Bärbel Brumme-Bothe Vorstand: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem (Vorsitzender), Dr. Ulrich Krafft (stellv. Vorsitzender)