GridCoord KickOff Meeting July 2004 Pisa WP4 Enhanced collaboration among researchers and users of Grids 4 tasks: Organize general workshops: find communalities,

GridCoord KickOff MeetingJuly 2004

Pisa

WP4 Enhanced collaboration among researchers

and users of Grids4 tasks:

Organize general workshops: find communalities, establish links, stimulate multidisciplinary actions, promote the development of tools.

Organize specific workshops: create centres of excellence and competence, promote an open middleware repository, stimulate collaboration and cooperation on grid technologies.

Promote and organize dissemination: identify current curriculum, produce teaching material, establish a federated Grid Research institute.

Standardization strategy: identify current participation to standardization bodies (GGF, ETSI, OASIS, OMG, W3C,…), develop a strategic plan, for a better Grid usage in business and industry.

Coordination with IST Grid-related projects: AKOGRIMO, SIMDAT, CoreGRID, NextGrid.


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WP4 Enhanced collaboration among researchers

and users of Grids

Visible outputs:

A series of events : technical (vertical) workshops, high-visibility (horizontal) meetings, interviews

Reference web sites: education and middleware

Reports: grid curriculum, action plans, standardization strategy

Expected Results:

increased and focused collaborative research efforts

establish a clear leadership worldwide

European Competence Center in Grid Technology

European Grid Technology Platform

dissemination, knowledge transfer and education


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SWOT Analysis

Opportunities

Strengths

Threats

Weaknesses

Ext

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als coordination/synergy

awareness

critical mass

too many actions going on

too many busy actors

how to work together

low (national) budgets

no competitor vs USA/Asia

links with W3C & ETSI

build a european force

strong support from EC

control from USA/Asia

made in America syndrom

weakness of european industry


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Our goal today: dispatch activities/responsabilities

on the next 6 monthsFor each task:

level of coordination (an audio-conference every month, mails on demand)

leader responsible for progress and coordination

mutualization of contact addresses, procedures, communication, sponsoring, etc.

For each subtask:

What, who, where, when, procedures, partners

Rather be low profile than aiming at non realistic objectives

Reports: common squeleton, quantified objectives

For each coordination subtask:

Identify who will report on common issues


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Task 4.1: General and Thematic Workshops (MR)

Subtasks:

General Workshop 1: feb 05, 50 pers, QUB, EPSRC, MTA SZTAKIPeter Kacsuk is responsible. Workshop is in coordination with other European projects? This is to be clarified until End of September. Invitation of leaders of national projects. With european grid conference in amsterdam.

General Workshop 2: nov-dec 05, 50 pers, MTA SZTAKI, QUB, EPSRC, Ron Perrott is responsible. This is to be clarified until End of September. Workshop is together with UK e-Science All-Hands Meetings to all partners : 2 parts academic with refereed presentations and demonstrations; the idea is to build on e-science experience to help other countries to develop Grid usage.

Industrial Needs Workshop: 50 pers, Stuttgart, USTUTT, feb 05, progress status ? All send industrial contacts

Collaboration on “Joint fora for exchange and dissemination”with AKOGRIMO (MR), SIMDAT (find a contact)


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Task 4.2: Specific Workshops and activities for Grid researchers (IA)

Subtasks:

Schloss Dagstuhl Seminar on Future Generation Grids Dagstuhl nov 2004 (UP, INRIA, ZIB, USTUTT, PSNC); D. Laforenza responsible (with Mcosnard, A. Reinefeld). By invitation only. Young researchers, 99% european, coordination with CoreGRID, send report afterwards.

Joint workshops: sept 05 sophia antipolis

Use of open middleware for the Grids: 30 pers, INRIA UNSA, Denis Caromel is responsible;

Going large-scale : 30 pers, INRIA UNSA, Luc Bouge is responsible;

Contributions with specific tracks : which workshops? Who is responsible ? UP, MTA SZTAKI, PSNC ? Timing ? Proposed subjects are: programming environments and infrastructures, performance analysis and monitoring, and applications.

Volunteer before the end of July to be included in the Baseline plan.


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Task 4.2: Specific Workshops and activities for Grid researchers (IA)

Questions:

Opportunity of Agrid (Adaptative Grid Middleware, PACT, Sept 04, Juan les Pins); Opportunity of Agrid (Adaptative Grid Middleware, PACT, Sept 04, Juan les Pins); How can we be visible ? How can we contribute ?How can we be visible ? How can we contribute ?IA discusses with Thilo Kielmann on what: keynote talk ?IA discusses with Thilo Kielmann on what: keynote talk ?

How do we tackle the set-up of a European Grid Technology Platform ?How do we tackle the set-up of a European Grid Technology Platform ?Wait and see, keep it or drop it.Wait and see, keep it or drop it.

Collaboration on “Exploitation of synergies/technical coordination”with SIMDAT (check contact) , CoreGrid (IA+Thierry Priol)


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Task 4.3: Dissemination, knowledge transfer and education (IA)

Subtasks:

Grid Curriculum by computer scientists (as opposed to GGF school and physics): INRIA UNSA, web site ready in mar 05:

Master’s program based on Grid Computing : UvA, rationale, timing, Peter SLOOT responsible

input from all participants

course material, exercices, recommendations, key persons,

initial and continuous education,

with a special attention to other Sciences

Dissemination:Dissemination: web site: F Beltrame responsible. Roman T provides info. Need a logo web site: F Beltrame responsible. Roman T provides info. Need a logo

Question: are we ready to set-up an international pluri-disciplinary school ?Question: are we ready to set-up an international pluri-disciplinary school ?First look around, link with Grid and e-business (Marco V)First look around, link with Grid and e-business (Marco V)propose in conjunction with CoreGrid an implementation of the proposed Grid Curriculum. We help propose in conjunction with CoreGrid an implementation of the proposed Grid Curriculum. We help find more money to support such school.find more money to support such school.

Collaboration on “Joint fora for exchange and dissemination”with AKOGRIMO, SIMDAT


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Task 4.4: Standardisation Strategy (MR)

Subtasks:

Timing:

Officially starts in PM 7

Timing for “minor” activities (USTUTT/HLRS):

Collect information: M1-M6

Design basic questionnaire: M3-M6

Supportive action (UNSA, UvA, UP, PSNC)Supportive action (UNSA, UvA, UP, PSNC)

Grid Interoperability Plugtests: open to grid software developers to test solutions interoperabilityon several gridsFirst event 18-20 Oct 2004, with ETSI: http://www.etsi.org/plugtests/grid.htm (UNSA)

Input from contributing partners required (UvA, UP, PSNC, UNSA)

Collaboration with other IST projects (USTUTT/HLRS)

Direct collaboration with NextGrid, AKOGRIMO

Check GridStartwho is in standardization committeeswhat are the relevant actors

MR

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GridCoord KickOff Meeting July 2004 Pisa WP4 Enhanced collaboration among researchers and users of Grids 4 tasks: Organize general workshops: find communalities,