© 2006 open grid forum geoffrey fox november 13 2006 ogf escience function

© 2006 Open Grid Forum

Geoffrey Fox

November 13 2006

OGF eScience Function

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Science FunctionScience 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 Name Area Focus What 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


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)


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


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


eScience Group ActivitiesGroup Abbrev Status GGF16 GGF17 OGF18 Surveye-Learning Followon? 15 BOF 4 BOF N/AEducation and Training ET-CG Active 36 #1 24 #2 15 #1 15 #1 8 #2 NOGrid Benchmarking RG GB-RG Close NOGrid Reliability and Robustness RG GRIDREL-RG New ?? #1 ?? #2 YESGGF Process WG GGF-PROC-WG Close? YESIT Legal No interest 10 BOF N/A

Build, Test and Certification of Grid Software BTC-CG Approve? 11 BOF 7 BOF N/ACertificate Authority Operations RG CAOPS-WG Active 25 #1 20 #1 25 #2 20 #1 21 #2 NO

Grid Interoperation Now GIN VERY Active?? #1 ?? #2 60 #3 11 #4

59 #1 57 #2 42 Roadmap 44 #1 33 #2 YES

Production Grid Services-RG PGS-RG Struggling3 Campus Grids BOF; 2 Business

1 #1 2 #2 0 #3 8 #1 YES

Applications Developers and Users RG APPS-RG Inactive NO

Astronomy Applications RG ASTRO-RG Mainly in IVOA ?? #1 44 IVOA (4 sessions) 9 #1 YES

Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences RG HASS-RG Inactive YESLife Sciences Grid RG LSG-RG Struggling 15 #1 19 #1 13 #1 13 #2 NO

Particle and Nuclear Physics Applications RG PNPA-RGRestarted but low interest

7 #1 NO

Preservation Environments RG PE-RG Hanging On 3 #1 15 #1 11 Demo YES

Advanced Collaborative Environments RG ACE-RG Close YESAppliance Aggregation RG APPAGG-RG Close? NOGrid Computing Environments RG GCE-RG Inactive YES

Semantic Grid RG SEM-RGModest Activity POPULAR

80 SG101 47 #1 37 #2 29 #3

24 25 24 16 15 Five sessions of Provenance Challenge Workshop

YES

User Program Development Tools for the Grid RG UPDT-RG Closed YES

Virtualization No Followon 23 BOF N/AWorkflow Management RG WFM-RG Inactive YES


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


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.


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


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.


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

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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


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


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

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