Dear All, Unfortunately I will (again) not be able to participate in the first teleconference next Tuesday. I would like to contribute through email for the agenda point about speaker proposals. Here are some potentially interesting alternatives: 1) Leif Laaksonen (Leif.Laaksonen@csc.fi), chair of e-IRG (European e-Infrastructure Reflection Group, http://www.eirg.eu/) Here is some data from the e-IRG Web. This body is also pretty much involved in European Grid projects: "Within the e-IRG there is a strong focus on high-level policy, and the information required to define that policy rather than on technical detail. Current important issues within the e-IRG are: * e-infrastructures in FP7 * a policy for resource sharing * a registry/repository for European resources * coordination of new national and EU funding programs * better links and synergies between Europe and other regions (e.g. USA, Japan) engaged in similar activities" 2) Someone from HPC in Europe taskforce (HET) (http://www.hpcineuropetaskforce.eu/) HET is drafting a strategy for the European HPC Ecosystem with a focus in future European petaflop centers. The recommendations and strategy work will be available in the beginning of this year. Based on this work there will probably be a project for establishment of these centers later this year. I am chairing the HET work myself, but anyone from the HET members (list available: http://www.hpcineuropetaskforce.eu/members) could probably give a presentation. I actually will not be able to participate OGF20 at least not before late Wednesday 9th May due to previously agreed engagements. 3) Nordic view on grids, several possibilities: - Farid.Ould-Saada@fys.uio.no (ARC middleware development) - Gudmund Höst (gho@forskningsradet.no) is the current chair of Nordic Data Grid Facility (NDGF, http://www.ndgf.org/), which is a collaboration project for data intensive grids among Nordic countries. Another alternative is the NDGF Director Rene.Buch@ndgf.org. A technical talk about NDGF could best be given by NDGF Technical coordinator Michael Grönager (gronager@ndgf.org). If one of these three is chosen, I guess that Michael's talk could be the most interesting for OGF20-audience. - Norwegian grid could be presented by Jacko.koster@uninett.no, Swedish grid by Sverker.holmgren@it.uu.se and Finnish system by anyone from CSC (above mentioned Leif Laaksonen can also do it, or someone else - if that becomes an interesting alternative I can nominate a suitable person for this) 4) European grid projects, such as Deisa, EGEE and Geant2, are certainly already proposed before, as also the 'usual suspects' from EU Grid technologies and/or research Infrastructures, I guess... I'll be happy to provide more proposals if needed, when I will hear the results from the teleconference and see in which direction the program is shifting. Greetings and have a successful meeting, Kimmo -----Original Message----- From: ogf20pc-bounces@ogf.org [mailto:ogf20pc-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of Dave Berry Sent: 6. tammikuuta 2007 1:01 To: ogf20pc@ogf.org Subject: [ogf20pc] Agenda for Tuesday's telcon 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