Grid Task Team Activity Update on WGISS-21 Guoqing Li RSGS,NRSCC WGISS-21, Budapest,

What’s included here?  Membership update  Task Team Websites  A call of FP6: An attempt of co-operation  HPgC and GeoComputation workshop  Agenda out-look

Membership update  Some new members enrolled  Experts from Ukraine  Prof. Natalia Kussul  Mr. Alexey Kravchenko, Mr. Alexander Lobunets, and Mr. Michael Korbakov  All from NSA, Ukraine  Expert from China  Dr. Zhenchun Huang  from Tsinghua University

Task Team Websites  Dual sites available for Grid TT  Information site (official site)  Technology wiki-site (member community)  Original hoster before WGISS-20  GSFC, thank Allan Doyle and Yonsook Enloe  WGISS site family merging policy  Transferred sites to wgiss.ceos.org domin  Thank Stuart W Doescher

Task Team Websites (cont.)  TT information  TT information site update  New URL and Entry Portal   Deeply discussion with Dr. Stuart about the content and moving  Mail communication  Face to face discussion during ISPRS, Hangzhou  New sites published at Nov. 2005

Task Team Websites (cont.)  About wiki-site  Wiki-site had been moved to new domain  But no information updated  Discussed with some volunteers about the management of wiki site  Proposal: to suspend the wiki site  There are many outstanding grid technical sites available  The works of agencies are more and more unique and particular  We can get detail information directly from the website of every agencies project websites and portals  In fact, we have no volunteer experts to deal with the wiki-site.

An attempt of co-operation  FP6 call  There is a project call from EC’s FP6  2.6.5: International Co-operation with focus on the following area  International cooperation on Grid Technologies - Target country: China  Indicative budget 5 M€  6DetailsCallPage&call_id= DetailsCallPage&call_id=271  Deadline: April 20, 2006 ( expended )

An attempt of co-operation (cont.)  The original suggestion from Nataliya Kussul  Widely discussion among members of Grid TT  Nataliya, Guoqing, Zhenchun, Dingsheng, Luigi, J-P, Paul, Ivan, Wyn etc.  And other European experts (Bruno Le Dantec, Toan Nguyen etc.)

An attempt of co-operation (cont.)  Aim  As one of three national gird projects, SIG should have the possibility to earn this project  We want to organize this project as a case of CEOS-Grid achievements applying

An attempt of co-operation (cont.)  Status  Give up the attempt  Because: no enough time to preparing  We began to discuss this proposal at February, 2006  Maybe we can grab the following opportunities, for example FP7??

HPgC and GeoComputation workshop  Another attempt of collaboration  HPgC: High Performance GeoComputation Committee  Traget: applying grid and parallel technology on the field of Geo-Science  Organization:  Suggested by Dingsheng Liu and Guoqing Li  Co-chairs  Dingsheng Liu (NRSCC)  Jean-Pierre Antikidis (CNES)  Yong Xue (London Metropolitan University)  Other participants from WGISS  Guoqing Li (NRSCC)  Nataliya Kussul (NSA Ukraine)  Zhenchun Huang (Tsinghua University)

HPgC (cont)  HPgC activities :  run series workshops all named “Geocomputation”  ICCS: International Conference on Computational Science  GCC: International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing  Conference on HPC China (in Chinese)

HPgC (cont)  Annually activities of 2006  ICCS 2006, Reading, UK.  May  GCC 2006, Changsha, China  Oct  J-P promised to introduce the work of WGISS  HPC China, Beijing, China  Oct

HPgC (cont)  Welcome more WGISS members  To join HPgC  To give keynote speeches  To host “Geocomputation workshop”  Please connect Guoqing Li, at

Agenda out-look  EC partners will give wide discussion and introduction of the work from Europe.  Some other agencies will report their work on grid. (China, NOAA, NASA, NSA)  A live discussion will be focused on EC upcoming activities.  13 topics, 1 discussion  From 13:30 to 18:00. Hope it will not delay our dinner time.

Thanks