1. © 2006 Open Grid Forum Geoffrey Fox November 13 2006 OGF eScience Function

2. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 2 Science Function Charter: Work with scientific, engineering and education researchers, developers and users to enable discovery, collaboration, education/training in an interoperable Grid/cyber-infrastructure environment Area NameArea FocusWhat the Area Delivers Applications & Users Lead enhancement of science and engineering by use of Grids/CI Web and Program content, demonstrations, and outreach delivered primarily via NEWORG and partner events, NEWORG website and special outreach programs. Define requirements interacting with other GGF functions Promote development of domain specific best practice and standards. Major Grid Projects Enhancing functionality and interoperability of Grid/cyber- infrastructure among the major grid projects around the world Workshops: Structured workshops between major grid projects around the world to discuss best practices, interoperation, requirements, issues and priorities Exhibits, Interoperability, best practice forums, software user groups Document: Ongoing development of the “Document” to align NEWORG standards roadmap with major grid projects priorities and directions Align with other Science functions Grid Technology Research Research into next generation Grid/CI and distributed computing technologies Structured workshops and a major annual conference on a variety of grid and distributed computing related technologies. Strict refereeing Document (s): NEWORG documents including a refereeing process and publication for NEWORG Individual documents and special issues Science based web site; community tools Education & Training Education and training curricula on and about Grid/CI Encourage the use of Grid/CI to enhance education and training Sponsor and encourage development and holding of summer schools, executive presentations, training, university curricula

3. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 3 eScience Activities from OGF18 Group activities such as those in GIN (Interoperability) Note two new groups in Education and Reliability Groups perform long term activities in focused areas This activity typically does not get much high level visibility except for GIN Timely activities arranged in the three months before meeting and including panels, tutorials and short workshops Current submissions to community program Long lead time single track workshops with invited and contributed presentations in topics of broad interest to OGF. These refereed (or otherwise high quality) activities are documented with reviews contributing to OGF Best Practice series. Individual talks appear on OGF web site and in Journal Special Issues (Other activities including development of federal proposals)

4. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 4 Possible workshop topics suggested at OGF18 Federated Identity ************** OGF19 Data management/virtualization SRB VOSpace Web 2.0 ********************* OGF19 Amazon Utility Computing JSDL for eScience Virtual machines On demand Grids Interoperable Workflow for eScience Using portal technology for eScience Service Discovery for eScience Semantic Grid Autonomic Grids Firewalls VO and Collaboration tools Incentives for eScience Resource provisioning How many (National and Domain Specific) Grids are there and do they want interoperability

5. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 5 Next and Current Steps Chapel Hill OGF19 (Blatecky General and PC Chair) Federated Identity Satoshi/Ken Web 2.0 and Grids Dave/Geoffrey Manchester OGF20 (Gentzsch General Chair, Berry PC Chair) Community Resource Aggregation as National and Campus Grids Data Management EuroGIN Commercial Web 2.0 (Catlett) Meeting here at SC not Amsterdam No telecons Modestly responded emails (optimize with pure eScience email list but no change – response still low) I will report this meeting at Amsterdam

6. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 6 eScience Group Activities

7. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 7 Proposed Group Actions Close GB (Grid Benchmarking), GGF-PROC (GGF Process), ACE (Collaboration), APPAGG (Appliance Aggregation), UPDT (Tools) Approve BTC (Build Test Certification) with added participation (Wisconsin, OMII) PGS (Production Grid Services) notes many workshops overlap their charter Encourage others knowing some will sleep on

8. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 8 eScience VP/AD’s Major role of eScience VP/AD’s seems to be leading projects such as supporting events and organizing new activities like users groups PC Chairs are obvious projects but modest time scale (1 year) Note “reviews/summaries” produced by one-day workshops viewed as helping to snapshot current Grid status (so-called BKM or Best Known Methods) for Enterprise – these need leadership as well Maybe VP/AD’s have a role in GFSG but easier to make progress in limited area? Such as Interaction on TSC – Technical Strategy Committee Participation in (weekly) Management meetings Encouraging interaction with other functions Note core OGF community is 50 commercial and 100 research/education/government (latter include standards) Need plenty of advice as to topics/speakers etc.

9. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 9 Lightweight eScience I eScience could be more effective in a lightweight cheaper organization where easier to get critical things like mobilize PC done Needs a co-ordinator and a deputy (aka VP and an AD or two) to act as corporate memory Email or Wiki or similar between these two/three people internally and externally to OGF must be effective How do we identify project leaders – from the world or from AD pool Does need continued web site improvement (it is much better) and better records of telecon Telecons should have “key people” identified, crisp minutes posted quickly, and their opinions pro-actively solicited if they miss a telecon Does need a MUCH larger advisory board to draw workshop topics, chairs/organizers, proposals

10. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 10 Lightweight eScience II Propose declaring current VP/AD’s and vaguely alive group chairs as eScience advisory board Propose adding other names after discussion Is there any downside in large advisory board? Propose asking Nomcom to suggest new VP and two new AD’s (deputies) giving special consideration to those with May 2008 termination dates Only return names of those willing to be responsive and join in telecons etc.

11. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 11 People and Terms Allesandrini(*?) Blatecky Catlett(*) De Roure Fox Gentzsch(*) Klingenstein Matsuoka Gannon Jin Kielmann Plale } Term ends May 2007 with extension requested for fall 2007 * = wish to leave May 2007 } Term ends May 2008 \

12. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 12 NOMCOM Action Items Need to define characteristics and number of new VP and AD’s Previously easier as aimed at “2 per area” although this seems definitely “wrong” Could for example ask for interest/expertise in interoperability or in being conference chair Suggest possible candidates to NOMCOM All but 4 VP/AD’s “terminate” May 2007 and only 2 out of the remaining 4 show much OGF activity

13. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 13 OGF19 eScience Status Can we really organize the two one day workshops? If so – need help in identifying participants Current Proposals for Community Program: GIN-I: GIN and the HPC profile GIN-II: GIN feedback to standards Second Workshop on Reliability and Robustness in Grid Computing Systems Introduce: Graphical Creation of Globus Based Grid Services The Application Service Grid -- SOA meets Grid Computing Transactional Grids Secure Replication of Data in the Grid GRADIENT- Grid based Enterprise Data Integration Framework How to use benchmarks when evaluating new servers Traditional Community Activities Tutorial of specialized material (my project) “Presentations” i.e. My project or product

14. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 14 Other Issues What should we do if OGF19 shows modest number of proposals and organizers worry about two workshops We don’t have much time OGF20 launched early and seems in good shape Lets launch OGF21 program planning NOW Low priority topics OGF@other meetings doesn’t seem to help OGF much Write proposals involving OGF – Education and Interoperability benefit from global scope of OGF