January 2007 - ogf20pc - lists.ogf.org

conference
by Kimmo Koski 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

Dear All, Just a few more comments by email for the speaker issue following some of the conversation from the last teleconference. Since the event is in Europe, I think (even if I understood that policy related talks are less desired than other issues) it might still be a good idea to include e-IRG chairman (Leif Laaksonen) to review e-IRG policies and in addition the e-Science activities in Europe. Another interested area I mentioned in one of my previous mail was the regional grid activities in Nordic countries (NDGF, Nordic Data Grid Facility) with a possible technical talk, in case a session related to national and regional grid efforts will take place. I have exchanges mail about this with Wolfgang Gentzsch, since I understood he is planning this particular issue. I had to leave before the industry related session was finished, so here are some additional proposals for that part: - Hannelore Hammerle mentioned the EGEE Industry day related to bioinformatics held in Helsinki after IST conference. I think that event was pretty interesting and attracted moderate number of people, so including bioinformatics related session could be a good idea. Industrial companies, Novartis for example, could make an interesting talk. One additional possibility is Ernest Feydmann from Swiss biogrid. - Telecom companies have recently mentioned 'grid' more often than before in their powerpoints. They usually consider grid differently than academic, but could give some views about (mobile) applications and grids etc. For example a speaker from Nokia Research Center (software lab probably) might be suitable. If needed, I can try to find one. - EU NESSI platform considers applications and services, in which grid is mentioned time to time. I do not know how far they have reached, but a status report with presentation of planned activities (next steps) would be interesting for industry session Greetings, Kimmo ********************************************************************** Kimmo Koski Managing Director CSC, Tieteen tietotekniikan keskus (The Finnish IT center for science) P.O.Box 405 (Keilaranta 14) FI-02101 Espoo FINLAND tel +358-9-4572001 fax +358-9-4572302 Internet: Kimmo.Koski(a)csc.fi **********************************************************************

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Rolls Royce Contacts
by Robert Cohen 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

david.knott(a)rolls-royce.com is in Devon Peter Cowley worked on DAME and is the chief scientist at Rolls-Royce's research and technology division. I have another contact at Rolls Royce Germany. Bob

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Minutes and details of next telcon
by Dave Berry 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

Dear PC members, I attach my notes from last week's meeting. Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, 16th January, and will focus on suggestions for speakers. The first half of the meeting will cover the entire programme; after 30 minutes we will concentrate on suggestions for the industry/enterprise track. (If this is your particular interest, you are welcome to join the call 30 minutes in). Please send suggestions for speakers to me or to this list, especially if you are unable to attend Tuesday's call. Time: 8am PST / 10am CST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET / 2am JST / 3am Sydney International dialin: +44 145 254 2309 USA Freephone: 1 866 838 0046 UK number: 0845 245 0224 Australia Freephone: 180 010 9603 Passcode: 275359 Best wishes, Dave Berry Deputy Director, Research & E-infrastructure Development National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street Edinburgh, EH8 9AA +44 131 651 4039

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FW: Proposal of a Community Workshop for OGF20
by Wolfgang Gentzsch 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

Dave, All, Sorry, I sent this idea first to part of GFSG. This is another workshop proposal as briefly mentioned in our PC teleconf. Regards Wolfgang -----Original Message----- From: Wolfgang Gentzsch [mailto:wgentzsch@mcnc.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:41 AM To: 'Dave Berry'; gcf(a)indiana.edu Cc: 'David De Roure'; 'Dennis Gannon'; 'Satoshi Matsuoka'; 'Thilo Kielmann'; 'Hai Jin'; 'Alan Blatecky'; 'Victor Alessandrini'; 'Wolfgang Gentzsch'; 'Charlie Catlett'; 'Ken Klingenstein'; 'Beth Plale'; 'Robert Fogel'; 'Linesch, Mark'; 'Craig Lee'; 'Gwen Nichols-White'; 'Steve Crumb'; 'Julie Wulf-Knoerzer' Subject: Proposal of a Community Workshop for OGF20 Dear All, After checking with Geoffrey, I want to propose an "anchor workshop" along the lines of "Building and operating Community Grids for Production; Lessons Learnt and Recommendations" (according to Geoffrey's "Community Resource Aggregation". I told Geoffrey about my own research on major grid projects over the last 12 months, which resulted in a report on the UK e-Science Initiative, TeraGrid, Naregi, D-Grid, ChinaGrid, and EGEE. Some of you have kindly provided input, thanks! A little story is currently underway for GRIDtoday. This could be a 2-3 slot Workshop, the first 1-2 sessions with short presentation from major grid projects about their lessons learnt, and the last slot being a panel where the presenters elaborate on recommendations on how to build new community grids and/or improve existing ones. As a result, we could all 'refine' the existing report (please see attached a draft) and/or produce an official "OGF Experience and Lessons on Community Resource Aggregation" or so. We could also include the Production Grid Services RG which did Campus Grids at GGF15 but nothing thereafter. Comments/ideas are very welcome ! Best regards Wolfgang -----Original Message----- From: Dave Berry [mailto:daveb@nesc.ac.uk] Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 12:55 PM To: gcf(a)indiana.edu; Wolfgang Gentzsch Cc: David De Roure; Dennis Gannon; Satoshi Matsuoka; Thilo Kielmann; Hai Jin; Alan Blatecky; Victor Alessandrini; Wolfgang Gentzsch; Charlie Catlett; Ken Klingenstein; Beth Plale; Robert Fogel; Linesch, Mark; Craig Lee; Gwen Nichols-White; Steve Crumb; Julie Wulf-Knoerzer Subject: RE: Workshops and Software Provider Sessions at OGF20 May 2007 Regarding the software provider sessions, please could you explain the process for inviting and selecting presenters? Will we issue a CFP? I presume we should have a meeting of the PC subgroup to discuss the selection. I'm sure that the OMII-UK would like to present their middleware at an OGF - have they been invited? Fujitsu Labs Europe are strong candidates too, as are D-Grid. Turning to the workshops, would one approach be to encourage certain people to submit a proposal via the CfP, rather than to pick a topic ourselves and then look for people to run it? There is quite a lot of interest in Campus Grids in the UK at the moment. Would you like me to ask Clare Gryce or David Wallom if they'd be interested in running the CRAG workshop? I expect we'd still need someone with an international profile to reach out and encourage participation from outside the UK - is Miron likely to be interested. On the Data Management side, we can think of several people to invite. These include Peter Kunst, Erwin Laure (EGEE), Neil Chue-Hong (OGSA-DAI), Reagan Moore (SRB), Brian Lawrence (RAL), Ann Chervenak (Globus), Allen Luniewski (IBM), Chris Jordan (SDSC), Arie Shoshani (SRM), George Beckett (QCDGrid), Guy Rixon or Bob Mann (AstroGrid), Alex Szalay, someone from the GFS-WG, people from SNIA, and others. That isn't even including industrial speakers. As an alternative, I know Rich Sinnott was interested in running a HealthGrids workshop, with the support of the UK Medical Research Council. I advised him to submit a response to the CFP but if we're looking to pick a workshop in advance and this seems a suitable topic, we could ask him. Again, the more international support we have as well, the better. Best wishes, Dave. > -----Original Message----- > From: Geoffrey Fox [mailto:gcf@grids.ucs.indiana.edu] > Sent: 14 January 2007 19:39 > To: Wolfgang Gentzsch > Cc: gcf(a)indiana.edu; 'David De Roure'; 'Dennis Gannon'; > 'Satoshi Matsuoka'; 'Thilo Kielmann'; 'Hai Jin'; 'Alan > Blatecky'; 'Victor Alessandrini'; 'Wolfgang Gentzsch'; > 'Charlie Catlett'; 'Ken Klingenstein'; 'Beth Plale'; 'Robert > Fogel'; 'Linesch, Mark'; 'Craig Lee'; 'Gwen Nichols-White'; > 'Steve Crumb'; 'Julie Wulf-Knoerzer'; Dave Berry > Subject: Re: Workshops and Software Provider Sessions at > OGF20 May 2007 > > At OGF19 Monday's Semantic Web 2.0 Sessions are on the Web > http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/?event_id=6 > while I believe Ken has Tuesday under control > > For OGF20, I think we mostly importantly need 1 or 2 people > to want to > lead a workshop! I think if one does "Community Resource > Aggregation". > lessons learnt are perhaps most interesting as many want to do this? > > PS while preparing for Web 2.0 workshop, I was intrigued by > Enterprise > 2.0 (see last slide of > http://grids.ucs.indiana.edu/ptliupages/presentations/ogf19web > 20jan29-07.ppt); > it looks as though Web 2.0 will be applied to many traditional Grid > applications. > > Wolfgang Gentzsch wrote: > > Geoffrey, > > > > How is preparation for the 2 OGF19 workshops proceeding ? > > > > Concerning the OGF20 workshop on "Community Resource > Aggregation" I think we > > should find a better name for it and get clear about the > focus. The above is > > too 'expressionless' and too 'general' because aggregation > of resources into > > a virtual resource pool is what any community grid is doing > basically. What > > do we really want to offer here? Do we want to hear about > the technologies > > which assemble all available resources (but this has been > said a hundred > > times) or about the challenges and how to overcome them, or > simply about > > different strategies how to do it? Suggestions ? > > > > Or is it simply about how to build community grids, today, > with a few > > concrete examples of campus and national grids, compile > lessons learned and > > draw some conclusions/recommendations for those who want to > build community > > grids in the near future? > > > > Regards > > Wolfgang > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Geoffrey Fox [mailto:gcfpc@grids.ucs.indiana.edu] > > Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 12:36 PM > > To: David De Roure; Dennis Gannon; Satoshi Matsuoka; Thilo > Kielmann; Hai > > Jin; Alan Blatecky; Victor Alessandrini; Wolfgang Gentzsch; > Charlie Catlett; > > Ken Klingenstein; Beth Plale > > Cc: Robert Fogel; Linesch, Mark; Craig Lee; Gwen > Nichols-White; Steve Crumb; > > Julie Wulf-Knoerzer; Dave Berry > > Subject: Workshops and Software Provider Sessions at OGF20 May 2007 > > > > Workshops: > > ---------- > > We have two one-day workshops at OGF19 > > Semantic Web 2.0 > > Federated Identity > > > > We have "Commercial Web 2.0" penciled in for OGF21 > > > > We might be able to squeeze one fullish day meeting at OGF20 on the > > Monday which as it is a Bank Holiday so one should not expect strong > > local industry attendance. Looking at OGF18 notes, we suggested > > > > Community Resource Aggregation as National and Campus Grids > > (Generalize campus grids which we featured in GGF15, to more general > > "Integration" Grids) > > > > Data Management > > (This could cover SRB NGAS SRM (and other EGEE work) and in > > particular Virtual Observatory work VOSpace) > > > > However it is getting late so this will not happen unless we have a > > volunteer or two to organize one of these or another topic. > So please > > Volunteer! > > > > Software Provider Sessions > > -------------------------- > > I include current OGF19 Software Provider Sessions and a list of > > suggestions that I sent earlier on for possible OGF19 > inclusion. I got > > no response to that request so I resend as a start for > OGF20 where we > > could have upto 8 sessions. > > Please send me any comments on process or choices. I would > assume we > > should do nothing serious until after we see what happens at OGF19 > > > > > > -- > : > : Geoffrey Fox gcf(a)indiana.edu FAX 8128567972 http://www.infomall.org > : Phones Cell 812-219-4643 Home 8123239196 Lab 8128567977 > : SkypeIn 812-669-0772 with voicemail, International cell 8123910207 > >

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Possible Panel Members and Speakers
by Robert Cohen 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

Dear PC, I think some of the best speakers on what Grids are doing might come from the auto and aerospace industries. I have heard all of these people present in English at conferences during the past year. I think their presentations have been very clear and highlighted some of the more advanced ways that Grids are being used. I think in some of the cases, aerospace firms are beginning to use Grids coupled with SOAs and Product Life Cycle Management software to automate interactions with supplier networks in the design process (Volvo and Airbus are pushing this). In the auto sector, simulations are increasingly used in design, particularly to build on common platforms, but the need to manage the huge amount of analysis that is being done is putting pressures on auto firms to develop better systems to manage the results of this work and the exchange of critical data. These people include: Philippe Homsi, coordinator of the VIVACE project and head of architecture and Integration capabilities at Airbus, France Mats Lindeblad, CAE Systems Integration Specialist, Advanced Design Engineering of Volvo Aero, Sweden Jamil Appa, Group Leader, Integration Technologies, BAE Systems, Bristol Ulrich Knaust, head of computer aided methods, or Walter Wirch, CAE Methods, Audi, Ingolstadt Bob Cohen

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Correction to times: OGF20 PC meetings in the new year
by Dave Berry 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Thanks to Satoshi for pointing out that 4pm GMT is equivalent to 1am JST, although I expect this slot is probably still too late for the Japanese, Korean and Australian folks to participate. I will of course distribute a summary of decisions taken at all meetings. Here follows the corrected list of times. Dave. 9 Jan: 8am PST / 10am CST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET / 1am JST / 1am Sydney - Review of programme plan, speaker suggestions 16 Jan: 8am PST / 10am CST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET / 1am JST / 2am Sydney - Review of programme plan, speaker suggestions 23 Jan: 2pm PST / 4pm PST / 5pm EST / 10pm GMT / 11pm CET / 7am JST / 8am Sydney - Review of programme plan, speaker suggestions 30 Jan: F2F at OGF19 Proposal Submission Deadline - February 9 13 Feb: 8am PST / 10am CST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET / 1am JST / 2am Sydney - First review of workshop proposals 20 Feb: 2pm PST / 4pm PST / 5pm EST / 10pm GMT / 11pm CET / 7am JST / 8am Sydney - Second review of workshop proposals Acceptance Notification - February 23 6 Mar: 8am PST / 10am CST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET / 1am JST / 2am Sydney - Review of programme _____ From: ogf20pc-bounces(a)ogf.org [mailto:ogf20pc-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of Dave Berry Sent: 19 December 2006 17:53 To: ogf20pc(a)ogf.org Subject: [ogf20pc] OGF20 PC meetings in the new year Dear PC members, I propose the following schedule of telephone meetings for the first months of the new year. This includes the run up to the deadline for proposal submissions and the judging period. I have rather arbitrarily chosen Tuesdays as the day for these. As we have members all round the world, I have used two different time slots to give everyone a chance to join some meetings. I hope that those of us attending OGF19 can get together there. 9 Jan: 8am PST / 10am CST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET / 2am JST / 3am Sydney - Review of programme plan, speaker suggestions 16 Jan: 8am PST / 10am CST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET / 2am JST / 3am Sydney - Review of programme plan, speaker suggestions 23 Jan: 2pm PST / 4pm PST / 5pm EST / 10pm GMT / 11pm CET / 7am JST / 8am Sydney - Review of programme plan, speaker suggestions 30 Jan: F2F at OGF19? Proposal Submission Deadline - February 9 13 Feb: 8am PST / 10am CST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET / 2am JST / 3am Sydney - First review of workshop proposals 20 Feb: 2pm PST / 4pm PST / 5pm EST / 10pm GMT / 11pm CET / 7am JST / 8am Sydney - Second review of workshop proposals Acceptance Notification - February 23 6 Mar: 8am PST / 10am CST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET / 2am JST / 3am Sydney - Review of programme I will send out details of the teleconference arrangements in the new year. Best wishes, Dave Berry Deputy Director, Research & E-infrastructure Development National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street Edinburgh, EH8 9AA +44 131 651 4039

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Agenda for Tuesday's telcon
by Dave Berry 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Dear PC, Here is a draft agenda for Tuesday's telephone conference. Time: 8am PST / 10am CST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET / 2am JST / 3am Sydney International dialin: +44 145 254 2309 USA Freephone: 1 866 838 0046 UK number: 0845 245 0224 Australia Freephone: 180 010 9603 Passcode: 275359 Topics for discussion: - Review of current event outline - Speaker suggestions (encouraging people to contribute proposals) - Roles of PC sub-groups I attach a draft outline of the event. Best wishes, Dave Berry Deputy Director, Research & E-infrastructure Development National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street Edinburgh, EH8 9AA +44 131 651 4039

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FW: New Name for MICC
by Stephen M Pickles 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

The name of the venue for OGF20 is in the process of changing. See below. Stephen -----Original Message----- From: W T Hewitt [mailto:w.t.hewitt@manchester.ac.uk] Sent: 03 January 2007 15:41 To: og20fpc(a)ogf.org Subject: New Name for MICC Some of you may be aware that MICC and the adjacent complex G-MEX, both exhibition facilities were merging, to become "Manchester Central" I had this this morning from our contact at MICC: "The name Manchester Central is officially in use now and the website will be www.manchestercentral.co.uk but is not fully functioning yet." Best wishes Terry W T Hewitt Director of Research Computing Manchester Computing University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL United Kingdom t: +44 161 275 6095 e: w.t.hewitt(a)manchester.ac.uk w: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/mc

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