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.