Workshop on High Performance Applications of Cloud and Grid Tools April 14, 2011 Argonne National Laboratory, Building 240 Conference Center, near Chicago, Illinois, USA http://www.ogf.org/HPACG/ (Immediately following Globus World 2011 April 11-12 and CCA'11 April 13 in the same location) Updated with registration and travel assistance details: see information below. Objective The objective of this workshop is to improve on the state of use of software tools designed for access, administration, job management, input/output standardization, performance optimization of job submission and execution, and other aspects of management of high performance computing resources by multiple users through incorporation of the latest advances in cloud and grid development tools. The workshop will be focused specifically on tools in use or that could be used to produce and maintain production infrastructures for large-scale projects in scientific computing. Goals 1. Gather authors, maintainers, users and interested parties for production cloud and grid infrastructure tools. Survey the existing state of these tools with regard to use and implementation of existing cloud and grid standards. 2. Update participants on current US government and international efforts to promote cloud computing usage and associated efforts on related standards development, promotion and adoption. 3. Focus the talents of the community on options for cloud-to-grid and grid-to-cloud interoperability, high performance applications of existing tools and applicability of OGF and other emerging standards, and gather input from attendees regarding the current state of their projects with respect to these topics. Using the resulting input, explore options for future development that can be achieved on a short-term basis. 4. Serve as a planning forum for a larger-scale workshop and forum aimed at evaluating, encouraging and promoting communication on this topic broadly across US-funded science agency computing projects and among their related international partners. Workshop Organizers The co-organizers for this workshop are OGF and Argonne National Laboratory. Contact Information Questions and requests for participation may be directed to: Joel Replogle Executive Director, Open Grid Forum (765) 228-9068 replogle@ogf.org Melissa Osner Program Manager, Open Grid Forum osner@ogf.org http://www.ogf.org Alan Sill Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center Drane 162, Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409-1167 (806) 742-4350 Alan.Sill@ttu.edu http://www.hpcc.ttu.edu Ian Foster Director, Computation Institute Professor, Department of Computer Science Argonne National Laboratory 9700 Cass Ave., Building 240 Argonne, IL 60439 (630) 252-4619 foster@mcs.anl.gov http://www.mcs.anl.gov Details and Registration: To register for this workshop, please visit the following link: http://www.ogf.org/HPACG/ or send e-mail to registration@ogf.org with the subject line "HPACG Workshop" For the co-located preceding events, see http://www.globusworld.org for the April 11-12 events, and http://cca11.org for the Cloud Computing Applications conference. *Please note that attendance at this workshop on Thursday is free, and that it is not necessary to register for or to attend either CCA'11 or Globus World to attend.* Attendees at the previous events, of course, are welcome to and are invited to stay on for this workshop. Travel Assistance: A limited amount of travel assistance is available for attendees who have relevant material to present but who are not otherwise able to attend. For details, please contact the workshop organizers. For any questions to the organizers regarding this workshop or other related topics, or to propose or request a presentation at this workshop, please get in touch with the organizers using the contact information above.