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@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@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@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.

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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

Wolfgang Gentzsch wrote: the technologies

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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

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