At the last few GGF meetings, we have discussed setting up a dialogue with vendors to talk about licensing issues for software on grids. At GGF18 in Washington, DC, we agreed that we would try to set something up at SC06, since that gives us the best opportunity for connecting with the vendors. To make this happen we need answers to the following questions: 1) What specific questions to we have for the vendors? This will let us formulate a Call for Participants, to send to relevant vendors. Please add more questions to the list. Licensing models? License/access management? Site licenses, esp in virtual organizations 2) What packages/licenses are of particular concern? These are the vendors we want to invite to participate. If there are more, please add to the list. Also, if you have particular contacts with any of these vendors or packages, please pass that information to us so the invitations can get to (hopefully) the right people. If there are people in your organization who are better equipped to identify packages & vendors, please pass this to them. Gaussian Amber Oracle PBS (and various schedulers) MatLab, Mathematica 3) Who can host the discussion and where? The following affiliated organizations have exhibit space reserved at SC06: TeraGrid: Booth #223, 10ft by 10ft (affiliation through Laura) Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center: Booth #1049, 30'x30' (affiliation through Laura) UK e-Science Programme: Booth # 2234, 40'x40' (affiliation through David?) I am also checking to see if OGF will have its own space or will be using space at Argonne (Booth #1925). If there is anyone else who has booth space and would be interested in hosting the discussion, please let me know. I think we'd like to keep this in the exhibit hall, so that the vendors don't need to wander too far from their booths. I would like to get the Call for Participation out to the vendors by mid-October, so they can plan to participate. I will also need to reserve booth time at PSC by 1-November, if that's where we're going to hold this. So please get back to me and/or the list quickly. Thanks! LM ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Laura F. McGinnis, Project Coordinator Data & Information Resource Services Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center email: lfm@psc.edu 300 South Craig St, #313 phone: 412-268-5642 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 fax: 412-268-5832 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++