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GGF14 Updates
by Steve Crumb 10 May '05

10 May '05

Global Grid Forum's next event, GGF14, will be held at the Westin Michigan Avenue hotel in downtown Chicago from 27-30 June, 2005. Please note the Monday (27 June) start. Registration (open now) and housing details can be accessed via http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_next.htm. In addition to Working Group, Research Group and Birds of a Feather sessions to be held from Tuesday through Thursday afternoon, the GGF14 schedule will contain a diverse set of workshops, presentations and panels on the Community Program Track from Monday to Wednesday. The goal of this community track is to build new and strengthen existing communities of interest in GGF. GGF14 Preliminary Program highlights include--- * Workshop on Grid Applications: from Early Adopters to Mainstream Users Jointly organized by: GGF Application Developers and Users Research Group (APPS-RG) GGF Production Grid Management Research Group (PGM-RG) * Healthcare Security and Privacy: Is GGF Doing enough to meet the needs of the Healthcare industry? Workshop organized by the Life Sciences Grid Research Group (LSG-RG). * Why, How and When to Invest in Working with GGF - Improving Interaction Between Grid Standards and Projects (Community Workshop organized by the NextGRID Project) * Globus Toolkit Version 4: Status and Experiences (Community Workshop organized by the Globus Alliance) * Practical Grids demo/overview - WSDM (Community track demonstration and overview) * Science Gateways: Common Community Interfaces to Grid Resources (Community Workshop organized by the TeraGrid Project) * A "Grid Primer for Managers" offered by Gridwise Technologies (Tutorial) GGF14 Plenary sessions include --- * Opening Plenary (Tuesday, 28 June, 9:00am) * GGF Town Hall Lunch (Wednesday, 29 June, 12:30pm) * GGF14 Closing Plenary (Thursday, 30 June, 1:30pm). Stay tuned to www.ggf.org for a complete preliminary program and for additional information about key standards milestones being reached at GGF14. This event has something for everyone, from the beginner to the seasoned grid technologist. Register today (http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_next.htm) for reduced rates. For more information, contact registration(a)ggf.org. Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb(a)ggf.org

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May GGF eNewsletter
by Steve Crumb 02 May '05

02 May '05

GGF eNewsletter May 2005 1. New Groups Approved 2. GGF14 3. Telco Focus Session at Supercomm 4. GGF Operating Model Enhancements 5. Spring Grid Connections Newsletter 6. NOMCOM Update 1. New Groups Approved Two new groups have been approved by the Grid Forum Steering Group (GFSG). First, the OGSA-D-WG was formed to develop the data architecture associated with OGSA. Spawned from the OGSA-WG Data design team, Dave Berry (National eScience Center, UK) and Allen Luniewski (IBM) will co-chair this new working group. The email list is ogsa-d-wg(a)ggf.org and the GridForge project will be available soon: http://forge.ggf.org/projects/ogsa-d-wg. Second, the ByteIO-WG was formed to define a Web Service interface for reading and writing sequences of bytes into various sources and destinations. Also spawned from the OGSA-WG Data design team, Mark Morgan (University of Virginia) and Neil Chue Hong (EPCC, University of Edinburgh) will co-chair this new working group. The email list is byteio-wg(a)ggf.org and the GridForge project will be available soon: http://forge.ggf.org/projects/byteio-wg. 2. GGF14 June 26-29, 2005 are the dates for GGF14 in Chicago, IL, USA. Registration will open on May 3 for this standards and community oriented event. The call for participation for workshops is open until May 6 and for community-oriented talks, May 11 (see http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF14/GGF14.htm) Plan now to attend. 3. Telco Focus at Supercomm 2005 GGF will continue its focus on grid technologies and their impact on the Telecommunication industry with a focus session during the upcoming Supercomm 2005 (Chicago, June 6-9). The Monday, June 6, session will feature representatives from numerous regional and national telco operators and vendors. Details of the meeting and the agenda will be made available soon on the GGF website (www.ggf.org) For more information, contact communities(a)ggf.org. 4. GGF Operating Model Enhancements Introduced by Mark Linesch at GGF13 in Seoul, the GFSG has recommended a set of enhancements to the current GGF operating model. A document describing these recommendations is available for download at: http://www.ggf.org/documents/Drafts/GGF_Prop_Op_Model.pdf Comments are welcome and can be sent directly to Mark at linesch(a)ggf.org. 5. Spring Grid Connections In the Spring edition of the Grid Connections newsletter (attached), Mark Linesch, David Snelling, and Geoffrey Fox discuss the Standards and Community aspects of the GGF mission. 6. NOMCOM Update The Global Grid Forum (GGF) Nominations Committee is soliciting nominations for the open positions on the Grid Forum Steering Group (GFSG). You can read the details at http://www.gridforum.org/nomcom. A unique opportunity exists now to become part of the new leadership team of GGF during 2005. In addition to continuing our important standards efforts, we are working to strengthen and expand communities of interest in GGF. Also, we are introducing new opportunities for leadership in the GGF operations. Please consider who you would like to see in the GGF leadership and send nominations to nomcom(a)ggf.org. Self nominations are also encouraged. The deadline is Friday, May 20, 2005. Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb(a)ggf.org

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RE: Seeking Nomination for the Grid Forum Steering Group - PLEASE FORWARD TO INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS
by Linesch, Mark 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

The Global Grid Forum (GGF) Nominations Committee is soliciting nominations for the open positions on the Grid Forum Steering Group (GFSG). You can read the details at http://www.gridforum.org/nomcom <http://www.gridforum.org/nomcom> . A unique opportunity exits now to become part of the new leadership team of GGF during 2005. The following GFSG positions are open: Standards Function: * Vice Chair Standards * Area Director (AD) Infrastructure * AD Compute * AD Applications * AD Standards Liaison Community Function: * Vice chair Communities * AD Research Applications * AD Industrial Applications * AD Grid Operations * AD Technology Innovators * AD Major Grid Projects * AD Community Affairs Operations Function: * AD Marketing * AD Events * AD Finance * AD Sponsorship * AD Information Technology This is an exciting time in the GGF. In addition to continuing our important standards efforts, we are working to strengthen and expand communities of interest in GGF. Also, we are introducing new opportunities for leadership in the GGF operations. Please consider who you would like to see in the GGF leadership and send nominations to nomcom(a)ggf.org. Self nominations are encouraged. The deadline is Friday, May 20, 2005. Thanks for your support. Mark Mark Linesch l Chairman, Global Grid Forum (GGF) l Hewlett Packard mark.linesch(a)hp.com l linesch(a)ggf.org l 281-514-0322 Tel l 281-414-7082 Cell

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GGF14 Call for Participation
by Steve Crumb 15 Apr '05

15 Apr '05

Call for Community Participation GGF14 June 26-29, 2005 Chicago, Illinois USA The primary focus of GGF14 will be the Working and Research Group sessions. Groups will focus on the continued development of shared approaches, grid specifications and best practices for grids. Several critical drafts will be discussed and advanced toward publication during this event. In addition to these group sessions, GGF will offer a series of 30-60 minute invited talks and panels on the current and future status of Grids in different communities such as sectors of research (e.g., Astronomy) and industry (e.g, Telecommunications). New areas such as education are also solicited. This "community track" seeks to build new and strengthen existing communities of interest in GGF. Both new and existing communities are encouraged to submit a brief abstract for presentation in this community track. GGF14 attendees will gain unique insights from applications and technology experts discussing innovative approaches to deploying and using grids. A community track overview document and slides will be posted on the GGF14 website. GGF also welcomes proposals for traditional workshops to be held at GGF14. Proposals will be evaluated by essentially the same process (GROC) as in previous GGF meetings. Please email communities(a)ggf.org for more information if you are interested in proposing a GGF14 Workshop. The community activities described above may run in parallel with other GGF activities but every attempt will be made in scheduling these to minimize unnecessary clashes. Attendee feedback and participation will be helpful in shaping the community activities for GGF15, which will be held on October 3-6 in Boston. Please send us your opinions! GGF COMMUNITY ACTIVITY KEY DATES & DEADLINES Workshop Proposal submission deadline - May 6, 2005 Community Track Abstract submission deadline - May 11, 2005 Acceptance notification - May 16, 2005 Community Track slide deadline - June 17, 2005 Workshop Summary document deadline - TBD (post-GGF14) All proposals, comments and questions should be sent to communities(a)ggf.org. Thanks, Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb(a)ggf.org

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Submit Candidates for GGF Leadership
by Steve Crumb 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Nominations for Grid Forum Steering Group The Global Grid Forum (GGF) Nominations Committee (NOMCOM) is soliciting nominations for the open positions on the Grid Forum Steering Group (GFSG). You can submit your candidate nominations to nomcom(a)ggf.org or to any of the NOMCOM members listed below. Self-nominations are accepted. The deadline for nominations is midnight Friday, May 20, 2005 UTC. GGF's mission is to "Lead the pervasive adoption of grid computing for research and industry". The key themes of the GGF mission are to enable "Pervasive Adoption", for both "Research and Industry" through "Standards" development and the continued build-out of our international "Community" supported by effective "Operations". In order to achieve this mission, GGF is being asked to step up to a new level of leadership. A unique opportunity exits now to become part of the new leadership team of GGF during 2005. The following GFSG positions are open: Standards Function: . Vice Chair Standards . Area Director (AD) Infrastructure . AD Compute . AD Applications . AD Standards Liaison Community Function: . Vice chair Communities . AD Research Applications . AD Industrial Applications . AD Grid Operations . AD Technology Innovators . AD Major Grid Projects . AD Community Affairs Operations Function: . AD Marketing . AD Events . AD Finance . AD Sponsorship . AD Information Technology These positions arise from the proposed new GGF management structure. The current draft titled "Global Grid Forum - Changes to GGF Operating Model" can be found on GridForge. The proposed structure and the open positions have to be reviewed by the membership and finally approved by GFSG. Candidates should be flexible to assume different positions in the Steering Group to meet the strategic needs of GGF Terms begin upon the announcement of selections at GGF15 (in the fall) and are usually for three years. So that, in a normal year, 1/3 of the GFSG terms would be expected to expire. However, due to the restructuring there are many more positions open this year. In order to retain the 1/3 expiration ratio some positions filled this year will be open for one or two years only. It is possible that not all of positions will need to be filled, due to the creation or elimination of positions by the GFSG, resignations, transfers, etc. The following members of GFSG have terms that expire this year: Peter Clarke, AD Data Cees DeLaat, AD Peer to Peer Bill Nitzberg, AD Scheduling and Resource Management Ken Klingenstein, AL Dennis Gannon, AL Charlie Catlett, previous Chair To make a nomination, send an email to nomcom(a)ggf.org or contact anyone of the members of the nominating committee below. We also welcome your views on the effectiveness of a position, including past performance of incumbents. ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED TO NOMCOM WILL BE KEPT IN CONFIDENCE AND WILL BE USED ONLY DURING DELIBERATIONS OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE. Many NOMCOM members will be at GGF13. We welcome your nominations or views at that time. NOMCOM 2005 Committee members are: Jill Arnold <jillar(a)internet2.edu> Karlo Berket <kberket(a)lbl.gov> Robert Cowles <rdc(a)slac.stanford.edu> Dan Gunter <dkgunter(a)lbl.gov> Tomasz Haupt <haupt(a)CAVS.MsState.Edu> Darcy Quesnel <darcy.quesnel(a)canarie.ca> Volker Rohleder <vrohlede(a)de.ibm.com> Thomas Soddemann <Thomas.Soddemann(a)rzg.mpg.de> Sven van den Berghe <Sven.vandenBerghe(a)uk.fujitsu.com> Wolfgang Ziegler Wolfgang.Ziegler(a)scai.fraunhofer.de NOMCOM 2005 non-voting members Dietmar Erwin <d.erwin(a)fz-juelich.de> (Chair) Beth Plale <plale(a)cs.indiana.edu> (previous Chair) David Martin <martinde(a)us.ibm.com> (GFSG liaison) Dietmar Erwin NOMCOM chair 2005 Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb(a)ggf.org

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GridForge Scheduled Maintenance
by Steve Crumb 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

We will be performing additional upgrades to the GridForge software tonight, March 21 from 6pm-11pm US Eastern Time. The GridForge machine will likely not be available for some portion of that time. Thanks, Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb(a)ggf.org

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GridForge Scheduled Maintenance March 9-10
by Steve Crumb 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

GGF will be performing some updates to the GridForge software and server on March 9 and 10, during US business hours. We will do everything we can to reduce the amount of downtime during these upgrades. However, you may experience some brief periods where GridForge will not be available on these dates. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience. Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb(a)ggf.org

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GGF13 Advance Registration Extended until February 3rd
by Stacey Giannese 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- 1. GGF13 Seoul, Korea Registration Advance Registration Extended 2. GGF13 Workshops 3. GGF13 Tutorials 4. Public Comment Documents ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- 1. GGF13 Advance Registration Extended until February 3rd, 2005 GGF13 Advance Registration has been extended until February 3rd 2005!! Hosted by KISTI and GFK March 13-16, 2005 in Seoul, Korea. Regional and Global Workshops and Tutorials will be offered. Don't miss your chance to take part in these informative and exciting sessions! Visit http://www.ggf.org/default.htm>http://www.ggf.org for more details. 2. Workshops Sunday, March 13 9am-6pm - "Asia Grid Workshop" - "Healthcare Applications on Grids Moving Healthcare (Applications) onto Grids" organized by Life science Grid WG Agenda: http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/Documents/GGF13_LSG_Workshop.pdf - "Grid Economy Workshop" Call for Papers http://www.gridforumkorea.org/gecon2005 The 2nd Workshop on Grid Economics & Business Models (GECON 2005) Monday, March 14 10:30am-6:30pm "The Usable Grid Workshop" organized by Application Developers and Users RG Tuesday, March 15 9am-6pm "e-Science Workshop" 3. Tutorials (Sunday, March 13th ) More information is available at http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/GGF13_Tutorials_b.htm Tutorial 1 - OGSA-DAI Developers (Time: 9am-6pm) Tutorial 2 - Distributed Resource Management Application API (Time: 9am-1:30pm) 4. 4 Documents in Public Comment (http://www.ggf.org/Public_Comment_Docs/Public_Comment_Documents.htm) A. WS-Agreement Specification Recommendation (GRAAP-WG) Authors: A. Andrieux, K. Czajkowski, A. Dan, K. Keahey, H. Ludwig, J. Pruyne, J. Rofrano, S. Tuecke, M. Xu B. Peer-To-Peer Requirements On The Open Grid Services Architecture Framework Informational (OGSAP2P-RG) Author: K. Bhatia C. Authority Recognition Informational (ARRG-RG) Authors: P. Madsen, D. Chadwick D. GridFTP v2 Protocol Description Recommendations (GridFTP-WG) Authors: B. Allcock, I. Mandrichenko, T. Perelmutov

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GGF13 Advance Registration Ends January 21
by Stacey Giannese 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- 1. GGF13 Seoul, Korea Registration 2. GGF13 Scheduling Requests 3. GGF13 Workshops 4. GGF13 Tutorials 5. Public Comment Documents ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- 1. GGF13 Advance Registration Deadline GGF13 Advance Registration ends January 21st 2005!! Hosted by KISTI and GFK March 13-16 , 2005 Seoul, Korea. Regional and Global Workshops and Tutorials will be offered. Don't miss your chance to take part in these informative and exciting sessions! Visit http://www.ggf.org/default.htm for more details. 2. GGF13 Scheduling Requests Session Scheduling is NOW open so hurry and request your working session!! Deadline for scheduling requests is Friday, 18 February 2005. Deadline for AD Hoc/ Charter Discussion BOF's is Friday, 11 February 2005. Visit http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/WG_Chairs_Update.htm for instructions on how to schedule a session. 3. Workshops Detailed Information will be available shortly at http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/schedule.htm - "Asia Grid Workshop" - "The Usable Grid Workshop" organized by Application Developers and Users RG - "Grid Economy Workshop" Call for Papers http://www.gridforumkorea.org/gecon2005 The 2nd Workshop on Grid Economics & Business Models (GECON 2005) - "Healthcare Applications on Grids Moving Healthcare (Applications) onto Grids" organized by Life science Grid WG Agenda: http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/Documents/GGF13_LSG_Workshop.pdf - "e-Science Workshop" 4. Tutorials (Sunday, March 13th) More detailed information will be available soon at http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/schedule.htm Tutorial 1 - OGSA-DAI Tutorial 2 - Distributed Resource Management Application API 5. Public Comment Documents (http://www.ggf.org/Public_Comment_Docs/Public_Comment_Documents.htm) A. WS-Agreement Specification Recommendation (GRAAP-WG) Authors: A. Andrieux, K. Czajkowski, A. Dan, K. Keahey, H. Ludwig, J. Pruyne, J. Rofrano, S. Tuecke, M. Xu B. Peer-To-Peer Requirements On The Open Grid Services Architecture Framework Informational (OGSAP2P-RG) Author: K. Bhatia

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GGF13 Registration Now Open
by Stacey Giannese 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- 1. GGF13 Seoul, Korea Registration is Now Open 2. GGF13 Scheduling Requests 3. Recently Published Documents 4. Student Travel Scholarship 5. IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-14) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- 1. GGF13 Registration is Now Open GGF13 Advance Registration ends January 21th 2005!! Hosted by KISTI and GFK March 13-16 , 2005 Seoul, Korea. Regional and Global Workshops and Tutorials will be offered. Don't miss your chance to take part in these informative and exciting sessions! Visit http://www.ggf.org/default.htm for more details. 2. GGF13 Scheduling Requests Session Scheduling is NOW open so hurry and request your working session!! Deadline for scheduling requests is Friday, 18 February 2005. Deadline for AD Hoc/ Charter Discussion BOF's is Friday, 11 February 2005. Visit http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/WG_Chairs_Update.htm for instructions on how to schedule a session. 3. Recently Published Documents Visit http://www.ggf.org/documents/final.htm GFD.40 "Guidelines for IP version independence in GGF specifications" an informational document 4. Student Travel Scholarship 6 Student Scholars will be selected from the A/P region, the US and Europe. The scholarship will include limited travel reimbursement and hotel accommodations in return for onsite assistance with the GGF13 program. Please go to http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/scholar.htm for more details on how to apply. The deadline for applications is January 24th! 5. Call for Papers - IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-14) For more detailed information please visit: http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/hpdc2005/ GENERAL CHAIR - Andrew Grimshaw, Virginia, USA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS- Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., USA and Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA HPDC is the premier conference for grid and high performance distributed computing systems. HPDC combines the advances in research and technologies in high speed networks, software, distributed computing and parallel processing to deliver high-performance, large-scale and cost-effective computational, storage and communication capabilities to a wide range of applications. The intent of this meeting is to provide a forum in which researchers report on new ideas and technical insights, application teams express the challenges of constructing wide area or scalable high performance applications, and technology creators report on future developments.

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