© 2006 open grid forum geoffrey fox ogf21 seattle october 17 2007 ogf escience function

© 2006 Open Grid Forum

Geoffrey Fox

OGF21 Seattle

October 17 2007

OGF eScience Function


2

Four major types of eScience Activities

• Group activities such as those in GIN (Interoperability)• Groups perform long term activities in focused areas• Typically does not get much high level visibility except for GIN• Newish groups in Education, Reliability, Instrumentation• Typically one or more distinct 90 minute sessions

• Timely community activities arranged in the two-five months before meeting and including panels, tutorials and short workshops• Current submissions to community program • Typically one or two 90 minute sessions per submission

• Long lead time single track workshops with invited and contributed presentations in topics of broad interest to OGF. • Typically 4 or 5 90 minute sessions

• Software Provider Track started at OGF19• 14 90 minute sessions at each of OGF19 and OGF21; ~ no time at

OGF20


Research and Community Groups

• Build, Test and Certification of Grid Software Community Group (btc-cg)

• Education and Training (et-cg)• Grid Reliability and Robustness RG (gridrel-rg)• Certificate Authority Operations RG (caops-wg)• Grid Interoperation Now Community Group (gin-cg)• Production Grid Services-RG (pgs-rg)• Remote Instrumentation Services in Grid Environment - RG (risge-

rg)• Applications Developers and Users RG (apps-rg)• Astronomy Applications RG (astro-rg)• Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences RG (hass-rg)• Life Sciences Grid RG (lsg-rg)• Particle and Nuclear Physics Applications RG (pnpa-rg)• Preservation Environments RG (pe-rg)• Semantic Grid RG (sem-rg)• Workflow Management RG (wfm-rg)


eScience Council Leadership• Vice-President:

• Geoffrey Fox

• Active AD’s: • David De Roure

• Thilo Kielmann• Inactive/retired AD’s:

• Victor Allesandrini• Alan Blatecky • Charlie Catlett• Dennis Gannon• Wolfgang Gentzsch• Hai Jin• Ken Klingenstein • Satoshi Matsuoka • Beth Plale

• But the rank and file seems committed


OGF Session Attendance

0

0.1

0.2

0.3

0.4

0.5

0.6

0.7

GGF16 GGF17 GGF18 OGF19 OGF20

Fraction

Enterprise no GMB

eScCommunity

eScGroups

GGF101

Standards

Enterprise+GMB

eScTotal


Total attendance at OGF Meetings

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

GGF3 GGF4 GGF5 GGF6 GGF7 GGF8 GGF9 GGF10 GGF11 GGF12 GGF13 GGF14 GGF15 GGF16 GGF17 GGF18 OGF19 OGF20 OGF21

3of5Tourists

3 out of 5 are those who have attended 3 out of 5 last OGF/GGF’sTourists are the rest


Research and EducationAttendance at OGF Meetings

3 out of 5 are those who have attended 3 out of 5 last OGF/GGF’s

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700


Total R&E3of5 R&E


CommercialAttendance at OGF Meetings

3 out of 5 are those who have attended 3 out of 5 last OGF/GGF’s

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

400


Total COM3of5 COM


Community Program• Community oriented activities with relatively light weight approval

process with call 3-5 months before meeting and decisions 2-3 months before• Joint between Enterprise and eScience

• Exploratory (Birds of a Feather) sessions that could leads to groups or full one-day workshops

• Tutorials but not well done in OGF as no easy thoughtful coordination and don’t easily attract Grid users (as opposed to Grid builders)• Need to establish a track with a uniform audience like we have for software

development

• Small workshops often led by groups such as OGF21 GridNet2 eScience workshop

9Grid Services

Grid Subsystems

UsersGrid Projects


Software Development Sessions

• Grids are built from services which hopefully respect standards• However there are several building blocks or subsystems like Globus or

SRB which are used in many Grid projects• TeraGrid EGEE Geon LEAD MyGrid China National Grid Naregi are Grid

Projects• Form initially at least de facto standards• What is OGSA in the “non Green Field” of existing subsystems?

• OGF will offer “user group” sessions in “Grid Subsystems” in a set of consecutive sessions aimed at those building Grids and not at people using Grids

• OGF can provide one-stop shopping so don’t need to attend XYZweek for all XYZ

• GIN-Standards-Software vendors Interaction at OGF21?

10

Grid ServicesGrid Subsystems

UsersGrid Projects


OGF19 Software Development Track

• Clarens Grid Portal Toolkit• Condor Scheduling system• Genesis II OGSA Grid Infrastructure• Globus core Grid Infrastructure• Grid Federated Identity (GridShib, GAARDS, MyProxy)• GridSphere portlet container for portals• Ninf-G core Grid RPC Infrastructure • NWS and BQP Network/Queuing Tools• OGCE Open Grid Computing Environments collection of portlets (for

Science Gateways)• OMII core Grid infrastructure (includes OGSA-DAI and Taverna)• SRB data Grid infrastructure• Unicore core Grid infrastructure

11


OGF21 Software Providers Track

• Univa Driving Grid Adoption With Industrial-Strength Open-Source Solutions

• Microsoft What can Microsoft products do for you? (Steven Newhouse & Savas Parastatidis)

• Oracle Achieving transparency in operating and managing the Grid • Globus and Community for OGF (4 Sessions)• caGrid 1.0 (Infrastructure for NIH Cancer Grid)• SAGA Grid-aware Application Interface• OGSA-DAI OGF compatible Grid Database• OMII-UK Reducing the gap between researchers and resources (2

Sessions)• OMII Europe Interoperation and Interface• Introduce Graphical Grid Service Authoring Toolkit • GIN Grid Interoperability Group meets Software Providers wrap-up Panel

12


13

Recent Workshop Topics• Federated Identity at OGF19 organized by Ken Klingenstein and Satoshi

Matsuoka• Semantic Web 2.0 at OGF19 organized by Dave De Roure• Resource Aggregation Grids at OGF20 organized by Wolfgang Gentzsch• Web 2.0 at OGF21 organized by Geoffrey Fox and Dave De Roure• Probably will not have a workshop at OGF22 but rather support a data

workshop led by Standards function• OGF23 Earth Science and OGF24 eScience for “non-heroes” (mortals)• Preferred organization of one –day workshops

• Invited and Contributed Talks• Panel aimed at summarizing topic as relevant to Grids or Grid

technology• After meeting one could

• Post presentations• Convert panel discussion into a “review” “synopsis” or “Best Practice”

for area covered• Possibly arrange for scholarly publication for follow-up papers


Future eScience Function Strategy

• Grids and even eScience are quite mature (OGF21 implies 7 years at 3 meetings a year)

• eScience and Grids are substantially better funded in Europe than USA and perhaps Asia

• Support mature field by stressing Software provider sessions describing software used/useable by Grid/eScience developers• especially OGF22 in USA• Add more commercial suppliers• Ask NSF to bring the grantees of their software hardening

solicitations

• Support future of OGF by initiatives in areas where OGF eScience community has expertise


Emerging Trends for OGF eScience

• Gartner IT Highlights• Computing fabric • Unified communications • Business process modeling• Green IT • Metadata management • Virtualization 2.0 • Mashup and composite apps• Web platform and WOA • Real World Web• Social software

• OGF eScience Initiatives

• Autonomics• Data centric Science• Virtualization• Workflow• Web 2.0

• Manycore (simpler MPI, Graphics, CCR) Programming Environments and Interfaces

}Good MatchPossible MatchDifficult Match

To OGF eSciencemember expertise


Mapping to Research and Community Groups

• General• Build, Test and Certification of Grid Software Community Group (btc-cg)• Education and Training (et-cg)• Certificate Authority Operations RG (caops-wg)• Grid Interoperation Now Community Group (gin-cg)• Production Grid Services-RG (pgs-rg) (Campus Grids)• Autonomics• Grid Reliability and Robustness RG (gridrel-rg)• Data-centric Science• Preservation Environments RG (pe-rg)• Remote Instrumentation Services in Grid Environment - RG (risge-rg)• Applications Developers and Users RG (apps-rg)• Astronomy Applications RG (astro-rg)• Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences RG (hass-rg)• Life Sciences Grid RG (lsg-rg)• Particle and Nuclear Physics Applications RG (pnpa-rg)• Several relevant standards groups• Web 2.0• Semantic Grid RG (sem-rg) and (hass-rg) again• Workflow• Workflow Management RG (wfm-rg) and (sem-rg) again for mashups• Virtualization: Grid and Virtualization WG in standards• Manycore and MPI-NG: Need a new group


Actions and Issues• Will try to add more active AD’s through Nomcom process

• Who should we tap?

• How best to enhance software developer activities?• How to reach out to natural communities?

• e.g. High Performance Computing (MPI natural)• Any other communities we should address?

• Offer workshops in Green areas (Workflow, MPI-NT) and offer tutorials in orange and red areas (Web 2.0, Virtualization, Autonomics)?• What should we do for data-centric science?• Are there other areas?

• How to re-invigorate groups such as Life Sciences?• Community program healthier than groups (GIN very healthy)

• How to cope with Attendance continent effect • Europe >> Asia > USA

© 2006 open grid forum geoffrey fox ogf21 seattle october 17 2007 ogf escience function

Documents