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Agenda GGF16 Highlights The year ahead GGF16 Athens, Greece February 13-16, 2006

GGF16 by the numbers Top Sectors Represented 53% Research/Academia 22% Industry 8% Government Top 2 Roles 36% Developer/Deployer 27% Sr. Manager/Strategist 119 First Time Visitors 33 countries represented

GGF16 at a Glance MonTueWedThurs 08:30 – 10:00 15:30 – 17:00 Lunch 10:30 – 12:00 13:30 – 15:00 Standards Community GGF16 Closing Welcome Dinner 7:30pm Production Grids Plenary: Sponsors, EGEE, OSG, HellasGrid Update UK & Italy Community Standards Community Community Standards Community Standards Town Hall Opening GGF/GRNET Keynote Ulf Dahlsten Keynote Ian Foster Keynote Dave Snelling Update NAREGI

GGF16 Program Highlights “Production Grids: The Path to Global Interoperability” Gaps (timing, agreement, maturity) Builders Architects Interoperability Interoperation

GGF Program Highlights GGF Group Sessions - Special thanks to the following authors!! GGF Document Series GFD.62 Policy Management Authority Model Charter R. Cowles, T. Genovese, P. Gietz, M. Helm GFD.61 The GGF Grid File System Architecture Workbook A. Jagatheesan GFD.60Grid Economy Use Cases J. MacLaren, S. Newhouse, T. Haupt, K. Keahey, W. Lee GFD.59OGSA Profile Definition v1.0T. Maguire, D. Snelling GFD.58 Standardised Namespaces for XML infosets in GGF M. Drescher, A. Anjomshoaa GFD.57 Attributes used in OGSI Authorization M. Thompson, V. Welch, M. Lorch, R. Lepro, D. Chadwidk, V. Ciaschini GFD.56 Job Submission Description Language (JSDL) Specification v1.0 A. Anjomshoaa, F. Brisard, M. Drescher, D. Fellows, A. Ly, S. McGough, D. Pulsipher, A. Savva GFD.55 A Survey of Transport Protocols other than "Standard" TCP E. He, P. Vicat-Blanc Primet, M. Welzl GFD.54MyProxy ProtocolJ. Basney 9 docs since published since GGF15 18 documents in 12 months 22 documents in or through public comment period

GGF16 Program Highlights Birds-of-Feather (BOFs) Meetings Regional Affiliate Program Interoperability Fests Standards Roadmap Campus Grids RG DMIS: Data Movement Interface Standardization IT Legal Issues Education Community Group (Grid for Learning) Grid applications of virtualization technologies

GGF16 Program Highlights GGF Use Case Repository (URC) GGF-wide resource to assist in the understanding of requirements across many application domains Success depends on building a critical mass of quality use cases Your feedback and support is critical!

GGF16 Program GGF/SNIA Liaison Session GGF and SNIA held a one-day workshop in 2006 before the SNIA Winter Symposium in San Jose Identified several areas of collaboration: replication, file- systems, community building Wed morning (10:30) there will be a joint session with SNIA to share experiences and identify specific work items GGF Liaisons

GGF16 Program Highlights Introductory sessions for managers and newcomers GGF101 for Newcomers Grid Primer for Managers

GGF16 Program Committee – Thank you! Chair: Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University Steering Group: Wolfgang Gentzsch, D-Grid Steven Newhouse, Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII) Costas Kotsokalis, GRNET Ann Collins, GGF Members: Kyriakos Baxevanidis, CEC Alan Blatecky, University of North Carolina Wolfgang Boch, CEC Bob Cohen, Economic Strategy Institute Robert Fogel, Intel Dennis Gannon, Indiana University Brajesh Goyal, NetApp John S. Hurley, The Boeing Company Joel Replogle, GGF Satoshi Sekiguchi, AIST Walter Stewart, Walter Stewart & Associates Julie Wulf-Knoerzer, GGF Alan Yoder, NetApp

Please fill out the GGF16 Survey Participants eligible for prize drawing

Agenda GGF16 Highlights The year ahead GGF16 Athens, Greece February 13-16, 2006

The year ahead Experience Economics Expectation 2006 is shaping up to be a year when rising expectations, successful experience and the economic pressure for standards have an opportunity to align

A year of focused priorities and objectives Community Research Applications Industry Applications Technology Innovations Grid Major Projects Operations Marketing Events Sponsorship Finance & IT Standards Grid Architectures & Specifications (OGSA, DAIS, GridFTP, JSDL) GGF Liaisons (e.g. OASIS, W3C, IETF, DMTF, SNIA)

GGF Community Objectives for 2006 Establish and grow international research and industry communities Help end users to understand and use grid technology Identify, prioritize and drive requirements and use cases into the GGF standards process Champion efforts to ensure GGF standards are valuable for software suppliers & developers to adopt Building an international community for the exchange of ideas, experiences, requirements, best practices

GGF Standards Objectives for 2006 Enhance the visibility of GGF standards through communication and branding strategies Accelerate grid specification development through a comprehensive GGF Standards Roadmap process Develop an interop fest program to improve the quality and adoption of GGF standards Establish ongoing interactions to ensure GGF standards track the issues and needs of the grid community Defining grid specifications that lead to interoperable software standards Standards Grid Architectures & Specifications (OGSA, DAIS, GridFTP, JSDL) GGF Liaisons (e.g. OASIS, W3C, IETF, DMTF, SNIA)

GGF Operations objectives for 2006 Refine the event model to meet financial and member satisfaction requirements Improve IT infrastructure and automate GGF processes to increased productivity and facilitate steering Increase member benefits and participation resulting in member growth and improved satisfaction Promote GGF as the recognized catalyst and thought leader for grid adoption worldwide Operations Marketing Events Sponsorship Finance & IT Ensuring ongoing support of our mission and communication of our progress

A year of new places and event partners GGF18 GridWorld GGF17 Grid World GGF16 GRNET Tokyo, Japan May Washington, DC Sept Athens, Greece Feb 13-16

A year of new opportunities GGF and EGA have signed non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) to merge Merger anticipated to be completed during the summer of 2006 Until then, business as usual

… and aggressive timelines Framework and letter-of- Intent Detailed plans and programs Integration into new legal entity GFSG f2f FebMarJunAprMayNovAugSept …JulyDecJan Phase 3. Merger Integration Phase 2. Merger Transition Phase 1: Merger Intent Separate but synergistic organizations New Organization Merger Timeline

A year for collaboration & communication to enable our ecosystem of value ScienceBusiness Users Builders Architects Vendors

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