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GGF14 Deadlines approaching
by Steve Crumb 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

1. GGF14 Hotel Reservations 2. GGF14 Registration 3. Introduction to Grids Tutorial ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. GGF's special room rates at the Westin have been extended until Sunday, June 19th. Please note that the government rate rooms are sold out but our GGF discounted rooms are still available. Lodging information can be found at http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_next_lodging.htm. Book today, time is running out! 2. GGF14 Registration Register for GGF14 today! Full registration prices end on June 21st. Over 80 group sessions have been scheduled as well as a robust, community-oriented track with topics like: - Network-Centric Operations - Education Communities and the Grid - Applying Grid Computing Research to Commercial Information Retrieval Applications - Space-Related Grid Applications - Semantic Grids and the Agents Community - Supporting New Grid Communities - "Why, how and when to invest in working with GGF"- Improving Interaction between Grid Standards and Projects Community Workshop - Grid Applications: From Early Adopters to Mainstream Users - Healthcare Security and Privacy: Is GGF doing enough to meet the needs of the Healthcare Industry? - Globus Toolkit Version 4: Status and Experiences Community Workshop - Science Gateways: Common Community Interfaces to Grid Resources You can find a link to the online schedule at: http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_next_schedule.htm. 3. Introduction to Grids Tutorial One of the program highlights of GGF14 is a "Grid Primer for Managers" to be presented by GridWise Technologies on Monday, June 27, from 1:00-5:00 pm. This half-day management-level Grid technology tutorial is primarily focused on the newcomers to the Grid industry. This tutorial will answer the questions: - What is Grid computing? Why and how is it useful in business? - What is Grid technology? Is it usable? What is the state of the market? - What does a Grid architecture and Grid application mean? - Why and how should I migrate to a Grid architecture? - Why should I grid-enable my software product, and how do I go about it? - What are the solutions existing on the market, and how do I choose among them? Participation in this tutorial requires separate registration and carries a $90 fee. You may either add this tutorial to your existing registration for GGF14 or may register for the tutorial separately. To register, please visit: http://www.regonline.com/eventinfo.asp?EventId=23544 Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb(a)ggf.org

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GGF14 Updates
by Steve Crumb 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

1. GGF14 Registration 2. GGF14 Hotel Reservations 3. Grid Primer for Managers Tutorial ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. GGF14 Registration Registration for GGF14 in Chicago, June 27-30 at the Westin Michigan Avenue, continues to be open. Over 80 group sessions have been scheduled as well as a robust, community-oriented track with topics like: - Network-Centric Operations - Education Communities and the Grid - Applying Grid Computing Research to Commercial Information Retrieval Applications - Space-Related Grid Applications - Semantic Grids and the Agents Community - Supporting New Grid Communities - "Why, how and when to invest in working with GGF"- Improving Interaction between Grid Standards and Projects Community Workshop - Grid Applications: From Early Adopters to Mainstream Users - Healthcare Security and Privacy: Is GGF doing enough to meet the needs of the Healthcare Industry? - Globus Toolkit Version 4: Status and Experiences Community Workshop - Science Gateways: Common Community Interfaces to Grid Resources For more information on the GGF14 schedule, please visit http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_next_schedule.htm. 2. GGF's special room rates at the Westin have been extended until Sunday, June 12th. Be sure to book your hotel room today! Lodging information can be found at http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_next_lodging.htm. 3. Grid Primer for Managers Tutorial One of the program highlights of GGF14 is a "Grid Primer for Managers" to be presented by GridWise Technologies on Monday, June 27, from 1:00-5:00 pm. This half-day management-level Grid technology tutorial is primarily focused on the newcomers to the Grid industry. No technical experience is necessary to attend the tutorial, however some general background in information technology is preferred. The workshop will consist of presentations on the characteristics of a grid, examples of existing solutions and installations, and live demonstrations of Grid products. This tutorial will answer the questions: - What is Grid computing? Why and how is it useful in business? - What is Grid technology? Is it usable? What is the state of the market? - What does a Grid architecture and Grid application mean? - Why and how should I migrate to a Grid architecture? - Why should I grid-enable my software product, and how do I go about it? - What are the solutions existing on the market, and how do I choose among them? Participation in this tutorial requires separate registration and carries a $90 fee. You may either add this tutorial to your existing registration for GGF14 or may register for the tutorial separately. To register, please visit: http://www.regonline.com/eventinfo.asp?EventId=23544 Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb(a)ggf.org

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GGF14 Updates
by Steve Crumb 10 May '05

10 May '05

Global Grid Forum's next event, GGF14, will be held at the Westin Michigan Avenue hotel in downtown Chicago from 27-30 June, 2005. Please note the Monday (27 June) start. Registration (open now) and housing details can be accessed via http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_next.htm. In addition to Working Group, Research Group and Birds of a Feather sessions to be held from Tuesday through Thursday afternoon, the GGF14 schedule will contain a diverse set of workshops, presentations and panels on the Community Program Track from Monday to Wednesday. The goal of this community track is to build new and strengthen existing communities of interest in GGF. GGF14 Preliminary Program highlights include--- * Workshop on Grid Applications: from Early Adopters to Mainstream Users Jointly organized by: GGF Application Developers and Users Research Group (APPS-RG) GGF Production Grid Management Research Group (PGM-RG) * Healthcare Security and Privacy: Is GGF Doing enough to meet the needs of the Healthcare industry? Workshop organized by the Life Sciences Grid Research Group (LSG-RG). * Why, How and When to Invest in Working with GGF - Improving Interaction Between Grid Standards and Projects (Community Workshop organized by the NextGRID Project) * Globus Toolkit Version 4: Status and Experiences (Community Workshop organized by the Globus Alliance) * Practical Grids demo/overview - WSDM (Community track demonstration and overview) * Science Gateways: Common Community Interfaces to Grid Resources (Community Workshop organized by the TeraGrid Project) * A "Grid Primer for Managers" offered by Gridwise Technologies (Tutorial) GGF14 Plenary sessions include --- * Opening Plenary (Tuesday, 28 June, 9:00am) * GGF Town Hall Lunch (Wednesday, 29 June, 12:30pm) * GGF14 Closing Plenary (Thursday, 30 June, 1:30pm). Stay tuned to www.ggf.org for a complete preliminary program and for additional information about key standards milestones being reached at GGF14. This event has something for everyone, from the beginner to the seasoned grid technologist. Register today (http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_next.htm) for reduced rates. For more information, contact registration(a)ggf.org. Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb(a)ggf.org

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May GGF eNewsletter
by Steve Crumb 02 May '05

02 May '05

GGF eNewsletter May 2005 1. New Groups Approved 2. GGF14 3. Telco Focus Session at Supercomm 4. GGF Operating Model Enhancements 5. Spring Grid Connections Newsletter 6. NOMCOM Update 1. New Groups Approved Two new groups have been approved by the Grid Forum Steering Group (GFSG). First, the OGSA-D-WG was formed to develop the data architecture associated with OGSA. Spawned from the OGSA-WG Data design team, Dave Berry (National eScience Center, UK) and Allen Luniewski (IBM) will co-chair this new working group. The email list is ogsa-d-wg(a)ggf.org and the GridForge project will be available soon: http://forge.ggf.org/projects/ogsa-d-wg. Second, the ByteIO-WG was formed to define a Web Service interface for reading and writing sequences of bytes into various sources and destinations. Also spawned from the OGSA-WG Data design team, Mark Morgan (University of Virginia) and Neil Chue Hong (EPCC, University of Edinburgh) will co-chair this new working group. The email list is byteio-wg(a)ggf.org and the GridForge project will be available soon: http://forge.ggf.org/projects/byteio-wg. 2. GGF14 June 26-29, 2005 are the dates for GGF14 in Chicago, IL, USA. Registration will open on May 3 for this standards and community oriented event. The call for participation for workshops is open until May 6 and for community-oriented talks, May 11 (see http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF14/GGF14.htm) Plan now to attend. 3. Telco Focus at Supercomm 2005 GGF will continue its focus on grid technologies and their impact on the Telecommunication industry with a focus session during the upcoming Supercomm 2005 (Chicago, June 6-9). The Monday, June 6, session will feature representatives from numerous regional and national telco operators and vendors. Details of the meeting and the agenda will be made available soon on the GGF website (www.ggf.org) For more information, contact communities(a)ggf.org. 4. GGF Operating Model Enhancements Introduced by Mark Linesch at GGF13 in Seoul, the GFSG has recommended a set of enhancements to the current GGF operating model. A document describing these recommendations is available for download at: http://www.ggf.org/documents/Drafts/GGF_Prop_Op_Model.pdf Comments are welcome and can be sent directly to Mark at linesch(a)ggf.org. 5. Spring Grid Connections In the Spring edition of the Grid Connections newsletter (attached), Mark Linesch, David Snelling, and Geoffrey Fox discuss the Standards and Community aspects of the GGF mission. 6. NOMCOM Update The Global Grid Forum (GGF) Nominations Committee is soliciting nominations for the open positions on the Grid Forum Steering Group (GFSG). You can read the details at http://www.gridforum.org/nomcom. A unique opportunity exists now to become part of the new leadership team of GGF during 2005. In addition to continuing our important standards efforts, we are working to strengthen and expand communities of interest in GGF. Also, we are introducing new opportunities for leadership in the GGF operations. Please consider who you would like to see in the GGF leadership and send nominations to nomcom(a)ggf.org. Self nominations are also encouraged. The deadline is Friday, May 20, 2005. Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb(a)ggf.org

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Nominations for Grid Forum Steering Group
by Stacey Giannese 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Nominations for Grid Forum Steering Group The Global Grid Forum (GGF) Nominations Committee (NOMCOM) is soliciting nominations for the open positions on the Grid Forum Steering Group (GFSG). You can submit your candidate nominations to nomcom(a)ggf.org or to any of the NOMCOM members listed below. Self-nominations are accepted. The deadline for nominations is midnight Friday, May 20, 2005 UTC. GGF's mission is to "Lead the pervasive adoption of grid computing for research and industry". The key themes of the GGF mission are to enable "Pervasive Adoption", for both "Research and Industry" through "Standards" development and the continued build-out of our international "Community" supported by effective "Operations". In order to achieve this mission, GGF is being asked to step up to a new level of leadership. A unique opportunity exits now to become part of the new leadership team of GGF during 2005. The following GFSG positions are open: Standards Function: . Vice Chair Standards . Area Director (AD) Infrastructure . AD Compute . AD Applications . AD Standards Liaison Community Function: . Vice chair Communities . AD Research Applications . AD Industrial Applications . AD Grid Operations . AD Technology Innovators . AD Major Grid Projects . AD Community Affairs Operations Function: . AD Marketing . AD Events . AD Finance . AD Sponsorship . AD Information Technology These positions arise from the proposed new GGF management structure. The current draft titled "Global Grid Forum - Changes to GGF Operating Model" can be found on GridForge. The proposed structure and the open positions have to be reviewed by the membership and finally approved by GFSG. Candidates should be flexible to assume different positions in the Steering Group to meet the strategic needs of GGF Terms begin upon the announcement of selections at GGF15 (in the fall) and are usually for three years. So that, in a normal year, 1/3 of the GFSG terms would be expected to expire. However, due to the restructuring there are many more positions open this year. In order to retain the 1/3 expiration ratio some positions filled this year will be open for one or two years only. It is possible that not all of positions will need to be filled, due to the creation or elimination of positions by the GFSG, resignations, transfers, etc. The following members of GFSG have terms that expire this year: Peter Clarke, AD Data Cees DeLaat, AD Peer to Peer Bill Nitzberg, AD Scheduling and Resource Management Ken Klingenstein, AL Dennis Gannon, AL Charlie Catlett, previous Chair To make a nomination, send an email to nomcom(a)ggf.org or contact anyone of the members of the nominating committee below. We also welcome your views on the effectiveness of a position, including past performance of incumbents. ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED TO NOMCOM WILL BE KEPT IN CONFIDENCE AND WILL BE USED ONLY DURING DELIBERATIONS OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE. Many NOMCOM members will be at GGF13. We welcome your nominations or views at that time. NOMCOM 2005 Committee members are: Jill Arnold <jillar(a)internet2.edu> Karlo Berket <kberket(a)lbl.gov> Robert Cowles <rdc(a)slac.stanford.edu> Dan Gunter <dkgunter(a)lbl.gov> Tomasz Haupt <haupt(a)CAVS.MsState.Edu> Darcy Quesnel <darcy.quesnel(a)canarie.ca> Volker Rohleder <vrohlede(a)de.ibm.com> Thomas Soddemann <Thomas.Soddemann(a)rzg.mpg.de> Sven van den Berghe <Sven.vandenBerghe(a)uk.fujitsu.com> Wolfgang Ziegler Wolfgang.Ziegler(a)scai.fraunhofer.de NOMCOM 2005 non-voting members Dietmar Erwin <d.erwin(a)fz-juelich.de> (Chair) Beth Plale <plale(a)cs.indiana.edu> (previous Chair) David Martin <martinde(a)us.ibm.com> (GFSG liaison) Dietmar Erwin NOMCOM chair 2005 ****************************** Stacey Giannese Manager of Standard Activities Global Grid Forum (Phone) 630-252-6444 (Cell) 708-935-2951 (Fax) 630-252-4466

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Registration Deadline Tomorrow March 4th
by Stacey Giannese 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

One day left to register for GGF13 at discounted rate! Don't miss your opportunity to take part in over 58 WG/RG Sessions, BoFs, Workshops and Tutorials. An informative regional plenary program will provide the latest on grid activities in Asia-Pacific and global collaboration. Don't pass up this opportunity to network with your peers in Seoul, Korea. Register now at www.ggf.org. Stacey Giannese Manager of Standard Activities Global Grid Forum (Phone) 630-252-6444 (Cell) 708-935-2951 (Fax) 630-252-4466

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Registration Deadline March 4th
by Stacey Giannese 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Last week to register for GGF13 at discounted rate! Don't miss your opportunity to take part in over 58 WG/RG Sessions, BoFs, Workshops and Tutorials. An informative regional plenary program will provide the latest on grid activities in Asia-Pacific and global collaboration. Don't pass up this opportunity to network with your peers in Seoul, Korea. Register now at www.ggf.org. Stacey Giannese Manager of Standard Activities Global Grid Forum (Phone) 630-252-6444 (Cell) 708-935-2951 (Fax) 630-252-4466

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GGF13 Full Registration
by Stacey Giannese 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- 1. GGF13 Seoul, Korea Registration 2. GGF13 Hotel Reservations 3. GGF13 Workshops 4. GGF13 Tutorials ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- 1. Our lower cost registration period end on March 4 so please take advantage of these lower rates for GGF 13! GGF13 in Seoul, Korea, is being hosted by KISTI and the Grid Forum Korea. Workshops and tutorials begin on March 13 and additional workshops and group sessions will run from 14-16 March. A special ending plenary session on March 16 will wrap up the week's accomplishments and provide a glimpse of what can be expected at the GGF14 in Chicago, June 26-29. 2. GGF13 Hotel Reservations Limited space at the GGF13 rate is available at the conference hotel, the Lotte Hotel in Seoul. Fax your hotel reservation form directly to the Lotte today. More information can be found at http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/lodging.htm. 3. Workshops Sunday, March 13 9am-6pm - "Asia Grid Workshop" http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/Documents/GGF13_Asia_Grid_Summit.pdf - "Healthcare Applications on Grids: Moving Healthcare (Applications) onto Grids" organized by Life Science Grid WG Agenda: http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/Documents/GGF13_LSG_Workshop.pdf - "Grid Economy Workshop" Call for Papers http://www.gridforumkorea.org/gecon2005 The 2nd Workshop on Grid Economics & Business Models (GECON 2005) http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/Documents/GGF13_Call_Grid_Economy_WS.pdf Monday, March 14 10:30am-6:30pm "The Usable Grid Workshop" organized by Application Developers and Users RG http://www.cs.vu.nl/ggf/apps-rg/meetings/ggf13.html Tuesday, March 15 9am-6pm "e-Science Workshop" http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/Documents/GGF13_eScience_Workshop.pdf 4. Tutorials (Sunday, 13 March) More information is available at http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/GGF13_Tutorials_b.htm Tutorial 1 - OGSA-DAI Developers (Time: 9am-6pm) The UK-based "Open Grid Service Architecture - Data Access and Integration" (OGSA-DAI) project is producing middleware components to access and integrate data through uniform Web Services for Grid environments. This tutorial will provide an introduction to the functional capabilities of data services as seen in the current OGSA-DAI release 5.0. In particular, we will be covering two subjects of importance to developers: the activity framework and the client toolkit. Tutorial 2 - Distributed Resource Management Application API (Time: 9am-1:30pm) DRMAA tutorial will start with a short introduction to distributed and parallel processing. Differences and similarities to OpenMP, explicit threads, MPI, Globus toolkit GRAM, and other remote job submission realizations will be given. The introductory part will be followed with a brief introduction to DRMAA, its motivation and purpose. The more technical part of the presentation will cover DRMAA programming interface and DRMAA job attributes.

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GGF13 Advance Registration Extended until February 3rd
by Stacey Giannese 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- 1. GGF13 Seoul, Korea Registration Advance Registration Extended 2. GGF13 Workshops 3. GGF13 Tutorials 4. Public Comment Documents ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- 1. GGF13 Advance Registration Extended until February 3rd, 2005 GGF13 Advance Registration has been extended until February 3rd 2005!! Hosted by KISTI and GFK March 13-16, 2005 in Seoul, Korea. Regional and Global Workshops and Tutorials will be offered. Don't miss your chance to take part in these informative and exciting sessions! Visit http://www.ggf.org/default.htm>http://www.ggf.org for more details. 2. Workshops Sunday, March 13 9am-6pm - "Asia Grid Workshop" - "Healthcare Applications on Grids Moving Healthcare (Applications) onto Grids" organized by Life science Grid WG Agenda: http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/Documents/GGF13_LSG_Workshop.pdf - "Grid Economy Workshop" Call for Papers http://www.gridforumkorea.org/gecon2005 The 2nd Workshop on Grid Economics & Business Models (GECON 2005) Monday, March 14 10:30am-6:30pm "The Usable Grid Workshop" organized by Application Developers and Users RG Tuesday, March 15 9am-6pm "e-Science Workshop" 3. Tutorials (Sunday, March 13th ) More information is available at http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/GGF13_Tutorials_b.htm Tutorial 1 - OGSA-DAI Developers (Time: 9am-6pm) Tutorial 2 - Distributed Resource Management Application API (Time: 9am-1:30pm) 4. 4 Documents in Public Comment (http://www.ggf.org/Public_Comment_Docs/Public_Comment_Documents.htm) A. WS-Agreement Specification Recommendation (GRAAP-WG) Authors: A. Andrieux, K. Czajkowski, A. Dan, K. Keahey, H. Ludwig, J. Pruyne, J. Rofrano, S. Tuecke, M. Xu B. Peer-To-Peer Requirements On The Open Grid Services Architecture Framework Informational (OGSAP2P-RG) Author: K. Bhatia C. Authority Recognition Informational (ARRG-RG) Authors: P. Madsen, D. Chadwick D. GridFTP v2 Protocol Description Recommendations (GridFTP-WG) Authors: B. Allcock, I. Mandrichenko, T. Perelmutov

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GGF13 Advance Registration Ends January 21
by Stacey Giannese 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- 1. GGF13 Seoul, Korea Registration 2. GGF13 Scheduling Requests 3. GGF13 Workshops 4. GGF13 Tutorials 5. Public Comment Documents ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- 1. GGF13 Advance Registration Deadline GGF13 Advance Registration ends January 21st 2005!! Hosted by KISTI and GFK March 13-16 , 2005 Seoul, Korea. Regional and Global Workshops and Tutorials will be offered. Don't miss your chance to take part in these informative and exciting sessions! Visit http://www.ggf.org/default.htm for more details. 2. GGF13 Scheduling Requests Session Scheduling is NOW open so hurry and request your working session!! Deadline for scheduling requests is Friday, 18 February 2005. Deadline for AD Hoc/ Charter Discussion BOF's is Friday, 11 February 2005. Visit http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/WG_Chairs_Update.htm for instructions on how to schedule a session. 3. Workshops Detailed Information will be available shortly at http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/schedule.htm - "Asia Grid Workshop" - "The Usable Grid Workshop" organized by Application Developers and Users RG - "Grid Economy Workshop" Call for Papers http://www.gridforumkorea.org/gecon2005 The 2nd Workshop on Grid Economics & Business Models (GECON 2005) - "Healthcare Applications on Grids Moving Healthcare (Applications) onto Grids" organized by Life science Grid WG Agenda: http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/Documents/GGF13_LSG_Workshop.pdf - "e-Science Workshop" 4. Tutorials (Sunday, March 13th) More detailed information will be available soon at http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/schedule.htm Tutorial 1 - OGSA-DAI Tutorial 2 - Distributed Resource Management Application API 5. Public Comment Documents (http://www.ggf.org/Public_Comment_Docs/Public_Comment_Documents.htm) A. WS-Agreement Specification Recommendation (GRAAP-WG) Authors: A. Andrieux, K. Czajkowski, A. Dan, K. Keahey, H. Ludwig, J. Pruyne, J. Rofrano, S. Tuecke, M. Xu B. Peer-To-Peer Requirements On The Open Grid Services Architecture Framework Informational (OGSAP2P-RG) Author: K. Bhatia

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