PGM-RG: Session 1 24 May of 15-ish Production Grid Services (PGS-RG) Laura McGinnis, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Judith Utley, Old Dominion University David Wallom, University of Bristol

PGM-RG: Session 1 24 May of 15-ish Agenda Merger –Charter review –Administrivia Web Site Mailing List Concalls? Open Documents –Grid Constitution –Tools and Requirements –Next steps and commitments Future Workshops –GGF15: Campus Grids and Grids on Campuses –GGF16: Resource Issues in Grid Computing –GGF17: Business Analyses of Grid Computing Opportunities Open Session Review and wrap-up

PGM-RG: Session 1 24 May of 15-ish Charter Review Purpose: The purpose of this group is to bring together grid practitioners to document experiences, identify best practice and develop informational documents. These documents are offered as suggested guides to organizations moving a grid to the persistent level. This group also explores new paradigms in supporting grids that aspire to become large scale grids with a large user/application base, while not excluding the small grid efforts. In addition, this forum can be used to discuss problems and concerns that are likely to be encountered, technical as well as non-technical, when moving grid testbeds to production environments. This group should have an ongoing presence in GGF, serving a SIG/UG purpose in the grid community.

PGM-RG: Session 1 24 May of 15-ish Charter: Goals G-1) Identify technical and non-technical issues that need to be addressed for a production grid installation to be successful. G-2) Develop "common practices" documents for critical issues as they are identified. G-3) Facilitate opportunities for grid users and practitioners to share experiences in bringing grids to production. G-4) Spin off Working Groups when the need for detailed GGF documents (e.g. recommendations) is identified.

PGM-RG: Session 1 24 May of 15-ish Charter: Milestones M-1) Grid Constitution Document - spin off WG to complete M-2) PGM Survey M-3) Tools Document - to be completed by current team (had been submitted to GGF Editor) M-4) Trouble Ticket Document - reevaluate interest, identify authors for this document; spin off WG if warranted M-5) Workshops

PGM-RG: Session 1 24 May of 15-ish Chairs Chairs: David Wallom, University of Bristol Judith Utley, Old Dominion University Laura McGinnis, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

PGM-RG: Session 1 24 May of 15-ish Administrivia Chairs: –David Wallom, University of Bristol –Judith Utley, Old Dominion University –Laura McGinnis, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Website: Mailing List: Conference Calls: –Can be once or twice/month –PSC will host Toll-free US; international number available –Working calls to discuss workshop details, documents, etc.

PGM-RG: Session 1 24 May of 15-ish Workshop Planning GGF15 (Boston, October 2005) –Campus Grids and Grids on Campuses GGF16 (Location TBD, March 2006) –Resource Issues in Production Grids GGF17 (Location TBD, June 2006) –Business Analyses of Grid Computing Opportunities

PGM-RG: Session 1 24 May of 15-ish Workshop Planning: GGF15 Campus Grids and Grids on Campuses Co-Sponsoring RG/WGs Topics & Speakers Length: ½ day or full day?

PGM-RG: Session 1 24 May of 15-ish Workshop Planning: GGF16 Resource Issues in Production Grids Co-Sponsoring RG/WGs Topics & Speakers –Accounting –Security –Identity: Credentials, Authentication, etc –Data Length: ½ day or full day?

PGM-RG: Session 1 24 May of 15-ish Workshop Planning: GGF17 Business Analyses of Grid Computing Opportunities Co-Sponsoring RG/WGs Topics & Speakers Length: ½ day or full day?

PGM-RG: Session 1 24 May of 15-ish Open Session

PGM-RG: Session 1 24 May of 15-ish Wrap-up Administrivia –Mailing list –Concalls Documents Workshops Open Session