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

OGF eScience Function
Geoffrey Fox
November 13 2006
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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 Name
Area Focus
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/cyberinfrastructure 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,
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executive presentations,
training, university curricula
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What the Area Delivers
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)
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Possible workshop topics suggested at
OGF18
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Federated Identity ************** OGF19
Data management/virtualization
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Web 2.0 *********************
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OGF19
Amazon
Utility Computing
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SRB VOSpace
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
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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)
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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
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eScience Group Activities
Group
e-Learning
Education and Training
Grid Benchmarking RG
Grid Reliability and Robustness RG
GGF Process WG
IT Legal
Abbrev
Status
Followon?
ET-CG
Active
GB-RG
Close
GRIDREL-RG
New
GGF-PROC-WG Close?
No interest
GGF16
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36 #1 24 #2
Build, Test and Certification of Grid Software
Certificate Authority Operations RG
BTC-CG
CAOPS-WG
Approve?
Active
Grid Interoperation Now
GIN
VERY Active
Production Grid Services-RG
PGS-RG
Struggling
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25 #1
20 #1 25 #2
?? #1 ?? #2 60 #3 11
59 #1 57 #2 42 Roadmap
#4
3 Campus Grids
1 #1 2 #2 0 #3
BOF; 2 Business
Applications Developers and Users RG
APPS-RG
Inactive
Astronomy Applications RG
ASTRO-RG
Mainly in IVOA ?? #1
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences RG
Life Sciences Grid RG
HASS-RG
LSG-RG
Particle and Nuclear Physics Applications RG
PNPA-RG
Preservation Environments RG
PE-RG
Inactive
Struggling
Restarted but
low interest
Hanging On
Advanced Collaborative Environments RG
Appliance Aggregation RG
Grid Computing Environments RG
ACE-RG
APPAGG-RG
GCE-RG
Close
Close?
Inactive
Semantic Grid RG
SEM-RG
Modest Activity 80 SG101 47 #1 37
POPULAR
#2 29 #3
User Program Development Tools for the Grid RG
Virtualization
Workflow Management RG
UPDT-RG
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WFM-RG
GGF17
15 #1
OGF18
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15 #1 8 #2
Survey
N/A
NO
NO
YES
YES
N/A
7 BOF
20 #1 21 #2
N/A
NO
44 #1 33 #2
YES
8 #1
YES
?? #1 ?? #2
10 BOF
NO
15 #1
3 #1
44 IVOA (4 sessions) 9 #1
19 #1
15 #1
YES
13 #1 13 #2
YES
NO
7 #1
NO
11 Demo
YES
YES
NO
YES
Closed
No Followon
Inactive
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Five
sessions of Provenance YES
Challenge Workshop
YES
N/A
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
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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.
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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
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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.
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People and Terms
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Allesandrini(*?)
Blatecky
Catlett(*)
De Roure
Fox
Gentzsch(*)
Klingenstein
Matsuoka
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Term ends May 2007 with
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Gannon
Jin
Kielmann
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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
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OGF19 eScience Status
• Can we really organize the two one day workshops?
• If so – need help in identifying participants
• Current Proposals for Community Program:
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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
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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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