Workshop on Grid Applications: from Early Adopters to Mainstream Users In conjunction with GGF14, (June 26-29, Chicago, USA) Jointly organized by: GGF Application Developers and Users Research Group (APPS-RG) & Production Grid Management Research Group (PGM-RG) Workshop Organizers: Thomas Hinke (NASA AMES, USA), Thilo Kielmann (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands), Laura McGinnis (PSC, USA) & David Wallom (Bristol University, UK) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: In this workshop, we aim at experience with bridging the gap between early adopters of grids and the more mainstream use of grid technology. Currently, grids are mostly on the early adopter side of the gap, asking for the move to the more mainstream users. For fostering mature production environments, incentives by application users are vital. We are seeking experience from early adoptors who would like to become mainstream users, from mainstream users who would like to use grids, from those who already do, and from middleware developers and system operators in charge of providing working grid environments to user communities. We are seeking contributions on the following topics: - user experience with early-adoptor and/or mainstream grid applications - management approaches for production-quality grid environments - techniques for robust (fault tolerant) grid applications and middleware - software tools for automatic testing and signaling of error conditions Our focus is on hands-on experience with existing grid environments, focusing on bridging the gap between early adoption and production use. For the workshop presentations, we are seeking papers on the subjects described above. Papers should be typeset in a single-column format, in 12pt font, for letter or A4 sized paper. Papers should not exceed 10 pages. Shorter papers are welcome. Submission format is PDF. Please submit your paper to David Wallom, by email to david.wallom@bristol.ac.uk, marked as GGF-14 Grid Applications workshop submission. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Publication: All accepted submissions will be published as a GGF Informational Document. We will invite the most promising submissions for a journal special issue in a high-quality journal covering Grid computing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: Paper submission: May 05, 2005 Notification of acceptance: May 23, 2005 Workshop: June 26-29, 2005(exact date T.B.D.) -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Laura F. McGinnis, Project Coordinator Data & Information Resource Services Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center email: lfm@psc.edu 4400 Fifth Avenue, # 409D voice: 412-268-5642 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 fax: 412-268-5832 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++