1. © 2006 Open Grid Forum OGF-25 Welcome Craig A. Lee, President, OGF March 2, 2009 La Ciminiere, Catania, Sicily

2. © 2008 Open Grid Forum 2 Thanks To Our OGF-25 Event Sponsors Network Providers

3. © 2008 Open Grid Forum 3 A Special Thanks to our Organizational Members PLATINUM and GOLD

4. © 2008 Open Grid Forum 4 A Special Thanks to our Organizational Members SILVER

5. © 2008 Open Grid Forum 5 OGF-25 Overview PC Chair: Martin Walker Formerly of HP 45 group and BoF sessions 13 community sessions 16 tutorials 17 workshops

6. © 2008 Open Grid Forum 6 Introducing New VP of Enterprise Ian Osborne Intellect UK, www.intellectuk.org UK trade association for IT, telecoms & electronics Grid Computing Now! Project Director a knowledge transfer programme of the UK Technology Strategy Board www.gridcomputingnow.org Goals of the Enterprise Function and GCN! align very well Part of OGF-Europe

7. © 2008 Open Grid Forum 7 Introducing New AdCom Chair Martin A. Walker Distinguished Technologist at HP Segment Mgr, HPC and Grids at HP Segment Mgr, HPC at Compaq Computer HPTC Segment Mgr at Compaq Marketing Director, HPC at DEC Director, Parallel Applications at Cray Res. Inc. R&D Program Mgr, Myrias Research Corp. Member of Scientific Staff at Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics The OGF Advisory Committee (AdCom) provides advice, insight and a broad perspective on strategic directions to assist the management of the OGF.

8. © 2008 Open Grid Forum 8 Goals & Challenges for OGF Maximizing value of our current portfolio HPC Basic Profile, SAGA, DRMAA, … Grid Sustainability Moving from project funding to operational budgets Clouds and Virtualization Dynamic provisioning with simple APIs Green IT & Green Grids Managing Energy Policy Establishing the OGF brand across the entire spectrum of distributed computing Establishing the OGF brand across the entire spectrum of distributed computing

9. © 2008 Open Grid Forum 9 Event Planning Results of Event Survey At least one large meeting ("jamboree") per year A second large meeting is possible if a good co-location opportunity exists Otherwise, OGF will have two WG-focused meetings per year Expected Meetings in 2010 Large meeting in Europe in the Spring Co-location opportunity exists Two WG-focus meetings One in North America, one in Europe Managing Travel Costs Not all groups have to meet at every OGF Groups could meeting closer to their "center of gravity"

10. © 2008 Open Grid Forum 10 Upcoming Events OGF-26 Chapel Hill North Carolina, USA May 26-29, 2009 Registration Open! OGF-27 Banff, Alberta, Canada, Oct 12-16, 2009 With IEEE Grid 2009 & Cybera/CANARIE Natl Summit