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OGF20 Industry PC telcon, Friday 27th october
by Dave Berry 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

Dear PC members, Here are the details for this week's telcon. I was tasked with writing a straw man programme for the industry track, which I am attaching to this message. This is intended to be a focus for discussion; by all means feel free to tear it up and rewrite it! Date: Friday October 27th Time: 8am Pacific/ 10am Central/ 11am Eastern/ 4pm UK/ 5pm EU UK Dial: 0845 245 0224 US Dial: 1 866 838 0046 International dial: +44 145 254 2309 Passcode: 275359 Best wishes, Dave Berry Technology Lead, Grid Computing Now! National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street Edinburgh, EH8 9AA +44 131 651 4039

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Re: [ogf20pc] Dates for OGF20 Industry PC telcons?
by Dave Berry 22 Oct '06

22 Oct '06

All, It looks like this Friday, October 27th is the best bet. I will make the arrangements and mail them to the list later this week. Dave. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Berry > Sent: 15 October 2006 22:04 > To: ogf20pc(a)ogf.org > Subject: Dates for OGF20 Industry PC telcons? > > Dear industry PC members, > > Please let me know which of the following times you would be > available for a future telcon: > > Friday 27th October: 8am Pacific/ 10am Central/ 11am > Eastern/ 4pm UK/ 5pm EU > > Wednesday 1st November: 9am Pacific/ 11am Central/ Noon > Eastern/ 5pm UK/ 6pm EU > > Thursday 2nd November: 8am Pacific/ 10am Central/ 11am > Eastern/ 4pm UK/ 5pm EU > > Monday 6th November: 8am Pacific/ 10am Central/ 11am > Eastern/ 4pm UK/ 5pm EU > > Best wishes, > > Dave Berry > Technology Lead, "Grid Computing Now!" > National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street > Edinburgh, EH8 9AA Tel: +44 131 651 4039 >

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Telcon notes
by Dave Berry 18 Oct '06

18 Oct '06

All, Here are the brief notes I made from today's telcon. Dave Berry Deputy Director, Research & E-infrastructure Development National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street Edinburgh, EH8 9AA +44 131 651 4039 OGF20 Industry telcon, 18th October 2006. Dave Berry, NeSC William Fellows, 451 Group Steve Caughey, Arjuna Bob Cohen, ESI Paul Strong, Ebay Craig Lee, OGF Jim Austin, York Douglas McKinley, Metaware Hannelore Hammerle, CERN Brooklin Gore, Micron Gwen Nichols-Wight, OGF John Brooke, Manchester Paul waiting for feedback from Amazon. We intend to market the programme via many routes: BCS, NCC, regional agencies, national press, own contacts, ... Douglas commented that a lot of people attended the EGEE business track out of curiosity. They also wanted discussion of their key questions - e.g. privacy in the pharma sector. We should address the paths for adoption. What specific piece of functionality can be adopted to test the technology? e.g. flexible scheduling between machines in their own domain. Past GGFs have accessed user groups in (e.g.) Pharma, EDA, to identify what there key issues are. This work will continue. We hope that people contributing to these sessions can also give talks about use cases too. We should schedule talks about the benefits of Grid early on (e.g. Day 1) with more detailed discussion of issues later (Day 2?) Paul Strong offered to give a talk on "Your data centre is already a Grid". Including why standards matter and which tools to use. We have many Grid users in Europe we can bring into play, particularly in Engineering, Finance & Pharma. These tend to be in more specialised parts of the company; we need sessions that cover specialised Grids and general Grids. Actions: - Draft a "straw man" outline programme. - Discuss co-operation with the requirements capture activity. - Suggest possible speakers.

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FW: GRID / SOA Thermometer Survey Results
by Wolfgang Gentzsch 18 Oct '06

18 Oct '06

I thought this might be interesting. Rgds Wolfgang _____ From: Brandi Watson [mailto:Brandi@taborcommunications.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 1:12 PM To: Brandi Watson Subject: GRID / SOA Thermometer Survey Results Dear Respondent, Thank you for your response to the Grid / SOA Thermometer Survey. I have attached the survey results for your viewing so that you can see the impact that was made. Thank you for your continued support to GRIDtoday. Best Regards, Brandi Watson <><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Brandi L. Watson Administrative Assistant Tabor Communications Inc. HPCwire GRIDtoday 8445 Camino Santa Fe #101 San Diego, CA 92121 T: 858-625-0070 F: 858-625-0088 www.taborcommunications.com <blocked::http://www.taborcommunications.com> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><>

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OGF emailing list
by Douglas McKinley 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

Dear All, Dear Dave Berry, I am contacting you on behalf of the EGEE Industry Forum one of the platforms designed to give business & industry the opportunity to learn about EGEE and find out how their industrial applications can be deployed on EGEE Grid Infrastructure. I have "attended" the first PC conference call for OGF20 but I do not think I am on the mailing list yet. So I am somewhat out of the loop for now. Could you add myself and my Metaware collaborators to the mailing list to the emailing list for OGF20? They are the following: h.hanahoe(a)metaware.it s.muscella(a)metaware.it s.benians(a)metaware.it Also would you be available to speak some stage this week and give you an insight into our experience when organising the Business Track at EGEE'06; perhaps tomorrow Wednesday or Thursday morning? I look forward to working with you in the future on this event Best regards Douglas McKinley EGEE Industry Forum -- Douglas McKinley Metaware SpA via F. Turati 43/45 I-56125 Pisa (Italy) Direct Line: +39 050 3871465 Switchboard: +39 050 3871400 Fax: +39 050 3871401 ============================ www.eu-egee.org

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Thoughts on the OGF20 industry track
by Dave Berry 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

Dear PC members, I've discussed this industry track within the Grid Computing Now project and we've come up with some thoughts on the general outline of the event. These seem to be in line with what we discussed on the first telcon. I'd like to take this further on tomorrow's call, as I'm sure you will have thoughts to add. I think we need to agree on an outline at this level quickly so that we can then progress to a more detailed plan. 1. Audience. We want to target IT leaders who are potential users of Grid and related technologies. The aim is to raise awareness of what these technologies can do for business now, rather than to sell a grand vision (although that can be there in the background). 2. Marketing. We believe the industry track needs to be marketed as a separate component of the main event. We don't mean this in the way of establishing a separate annual event a la GridWorld, but the industry track should have a name of its own and people should be able to register easily for just the days of the industry track. This target audience is unlikely to be interested in the other activities of OGF20 (at least, not yet...). E.g. we could call the track "Grids Mean Business", hosted by OGF & GCN; the registration page would have "Grids Mean Business" as one option for registration (and this would register people for the relevant days of OGF20). 3. Setting the scene. We need an opening presentation (or set of presentations) that give an introduction to modern computing infrastructures (Virtualisation, SOA and Web Services, Grid), introducing the key concepts and their relationships. We should stress that we're not purist about the meaning of "Grid"'; we use whatever works to solve business problems. 4. We need a mixture of case studies and discussion panels, covering issues such as: utility computing; data centre grids; software as a service (perhaps leading to Grid markets), collaborative Grids (e.g. supply chains). These should focus on solving business problems. Ideally the case studies will cover several sectors so that we can market the event within those sectors. 5. Then we need to cover issues of scaling, leading to the challenges of truly large-scale resource managment. I look forward to hearing your suggestions and comments. Best wishes, Dave Berry Technology Lead, Grid Computing Now! National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street Edinburgh, EH8 9AA +44 131 651 4039

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Dates for OGF20 Industry PC telcons?
by Dave Berry 15 Oct '06

15 Oct '06

Dear industry PC members, Please let me know which of the following times you would be available for a future telcon: Friday 27th October: 8am Pacific/ 10am Central/ 11am Eastern/ 4pm UK/ 5pm EU Wednesday 1st November: 9am Pacific/ 11am Central/ Noon Eastern/ 5pm UK/ 6pm EU Thursday 2nd November: 8am Pacific/ 10am Central/ 11am Eastern/ 4pm UK/ 5pm EU Monday 6th November: 8am Pacific/ 10am Central/ 11am Eastern/ 4pm UK/ 5pm EU Best wishes, Dave Berry Technology Lead, "Grid Computing Now!" National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street Edinburgh, EH8 9AA Tel: +44 131 651 4039

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Re: [ogf20pc] OGF20 Industry Track telcon
by Dave Berry 15 Oct '06

15 Oct '06

I was asked to clarify which Wednesday; I meant this Wednesday coming, October 18th. I'm sorry, I can't change the time of this telcon, which was set a while ago. However, we can choose the time for the next one. I'll send out a separate message about this. Dave. -----Original Message----- From: Fogel, Robert [mailto:robert.fogel@intel.com] Sent: 13 October 2006 15:40 To: Dave Berry Cc: ogf20pc(a)ogf.org Subject: RE: [ogf20pc] OGF20 Industry Track telcon Unfortunately, this is scheduled right on top of the TSC (Tech Steering Committee) meeting. Any chance of moving earlier by 1 hour? Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: ogf20pc-bounces(a)ogf.org [mailto:ogf20pc-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of Dave Berry Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 1:19 AM To: ogf20pc(a)ogf.org Subject: [ogf20pc] OGF20 Industry Track telcon Dear PC members, Here are the details for the Industry Track telcon on Wednesday at 9am PDT / 11am CDT / 12am EDT / 5pm BST / 6pm CST: UK dial: 0845 245 0224 USA dial: 1 866 838 0046 Int'l dial: +44 145 254 2309 Passcode: 275359 Best wishes, Dave. _______________________________________________ ogf20pc mailing list ogf20pc(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf20pc

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Re: [ogf20pc] OGF20 Industry Track telcon
by Fogel, Robert 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Unfortunately, this is scheduled right on top of the TSC (Tech Steering Committee) meeting. Any chance of moving earlier by 1 hour? Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: ogf20pc-bounces(a)ogf.org [mailto:ogf20pc-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of Dave Berry Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 1:19 AM To: ogf20pc(a)ogf.org Subject: [ogf20pc] OGF20 Industry Track telcon Dear PC members, Here are the details for the Industry Track telcon on Wednesday at 9am PDT / 11am CDT / 12am EDT / 5pm BST / 6pm CST: UK dial: 0845 245 0224 USA dial: 1 866 838 0046 Int'l dial: +44 145 254 2309 Passcode: 275359 Best wishes, Dave. _______________________________________________ ogf20pc mailing list ogf20pc(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf20pc

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OGF20 Industry Track telcon
by Dave Berry 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Dear PC members, Here are the details for the Industry Track telcon on Wednesday at 9am PDT / 11am CDT / 12am EDT / 5pm BST / 6pm CST: UK dial: 0845 245 0224 USA dial: 1 866 838 0046 Int'l dial: +44 145 254 2309 Passcode: 275359 Best wishes, Dave.

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