© 2007 Open Grid Forum Enterprise Best (Community) Practices Workshop OGF 22 - Cambridge Nick Werstiuk February 25, 2007

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© 2007 Open Grid Forum 3 Session Objective Update on Activity with Best Practices Where do things sit on the first practice Proposed Direction Forward Ask for input and feedback on a proposed approach to broaden participation

© 2007 Open Grid Forum 4 Agenda Recap – how did we get here ? Review - Community Practice for Enterprise Grid Deployment and Management Proposal – Enterprise Community Practices Series Next Steps

© 2007 Open Grid Forum 5 Recap on Current Situation Best Practice session at OGF 19 Best Practice = community driven, immediately implementable, practical solution to a well defined problem Community generated list of potential topics Surveyed Attendees to develop priorities Defined 1 st priority as “Best Practices to Deploy and Manage an Enterprise Grid OGF 20 Session – feedback on what the practices should be, are we looking at the right questions End User Research - ongoing Documentation of the user information into the first document

© 2007 Open Grid Forum 6 Feedback and Input on Practice Document is linked to this session on OGF website Please review and provide any/all comments

© 2007 Open Grid Forum 7 Proposed Direction Forward Assumption: Community practices are valuable – ie it makes sense for the Enterprise function to invest in driving the creation of, and access to community practices. These types of documents are essential to fill the short term void to help users solve their current problems. These documents provide input into longer term OGF standards process. An opportunity for OGF to provide a near term service of immediate value to the Enterprise Grid user community. Current Approach: Challenge to get involvement and contributions from an extended team Has been difficult to scale output – and get momentum from Workshops at OGF events Not Working Conclusion: Need to do something different to drive more value and participation from the community

© 2007 Open Grid Forum 8 The ‘Ideal’ Situation OGF Enterprise Area will frame a set of problem areas – describing them in one page documents OGF Will solicit via a Wiki type process input and responses to the problem from the community (Vendors and users) OGF will bundle the various practices into a community practice around that topic area. OGF will post to the submitted practices to the OGF website and make the Practices easily accessible and available for different constituents looking to find out how people have solved problems around the grid Active marketing of the content to the Enterprise community. OGF would become a impartial resource for the Enterprise community to share and access information

© 2007 Open Grid Forum 9 Target Perspectives End Users – how can Grid solve this specific XYZ problem I am having? Application Developers – what types of applications have people run on the Grid? IT Infrastructure – how are people managing these large scale grids? Executives – how can Grid help my business?

© 2007 Open Grid Forum 10 The Proposal Call for ongoing participation from the Enterprise Grid community Vendors End users Objective Give the vendors and users a forum to describe their solutions to Enterprise grid problems Vendors get an opportunity to share their end user experiences and promote their approach to addressing Enterprise Grid problems.

© 2007 Open Grid Forum 11 Proposed Process Launch the Practices Site List topics, objectives, process Call For Participation Solicit the user and vendor community to participate around one of the topic areas. Practice Authoring Community member (vendors and users) authors appropriate document Review OGF Enterprise Council reviews practice to ensure it is consistent with the objectives of the project Publish and Promote On the Enterprise Practices site Discussion/ Iteration Enable discussion/comments feedback

© 2007 Open Grid Forum 12 Community Practice Template User Environment/ Configuration: Provide a description of the user environment /configuration that briefly describes how they are using their Grid Define the Problem/Challenge: Provide an overview of the problem/challenge that user faced. Options Available/Considered to Solve the Problem What approaches were considered to solve the problem Specific Solution Chosen to address the problem Explain the solution, and why the solution worked best for this particular problem.

© 2007 Open Grid Forum 13 Delivery Vehicle(s) OGF Website Wiki based Approach Discussion Forum around Practice Document Marketing and Promotion

© 2007 Open Grid Forum 14 Possible Community Practice Topics 1.Evaluating Application Suitability for an Enterprise Grid 2.Application Porting/ On-boarding to an Enterprise Grid 3.Enterprise Grid as an approach to Increasing Infrastructure Utilization 4.Enterprise Grid Deployment and Management Techniques – Managing at Scale 5.Grid Financial Justification – making the business case for Grid within the Enterprise. 6.Service Level Management for Applications on the Grid 7.License Optimization and Management 8.Use of External Grids integrated with Enterprise – extending the Enterprise Grid to the ‘cloud’. 9.Management of Compute and Data in an Enterprise grid environment 10.Integration of Grid Security with Enterprise Environment

© 2007 Open Grid Forum 15 Comments/ Feedback Assumption – structured approach to sharing community practices makes sense Challenges in getting participation Audiences – are they right?

© 2007 Open Grid Forum 16 Comments/ Feedback Value Relative to other potential Enterprise Activities Topic Areas – what are the right ones? Communication Vehicles – what’s the best way to share and host this? Compare/Contrast with Enterprise Grid Requirements use Case repository.

© 2007 Open Grid Forum 17 Conclusions Input from this Workshop will be used in the OGF Enterprise Council discussions