1. © 2006 Open Grid Forum Geoffrey Fox OGF Workshop eScience 2006 Royal Tropical Institute Amsterdam December 6 2006 OGF eScience Function

2. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 2 OGF is Standards and Communities eScience Community 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 NameArea FocusWhat 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 OGF and partner events, OGF 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 OGF 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 on a variety of grid and distributed computing related technologies. Strict refereeing for larger activities Document (s): OGF documents including a refereeing process and publication and special issues of journals 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

3. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 3 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 Note two new groups in Education and Reliability Typically one or more distinct 90 minute sessions Timely community activities arranged in the three-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 Refereeing similar to high quality conferences Software Development Track starting at OGF19 Total 8-11 90 minute sessions at OGF19

4. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 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 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 4 Grid Services Grid Subsystems Users Grid Projects

5. © 2006 Open Grid Forum OGF19 Software Development Track We have invited (so far 3 acceptances) in alphabetical order Condor Scheduling system Globus core Grid infrastructure Grid-Shib Grid security GridSphere portlet container for portals NWS and BQP Network/Queuing Tools (Rich Wolski) OGCE Open Grid Computing Environments collection of portlets (for Science Gateways) OMII core Grid infrastructure SRB data Grid infrastructure Unicore core Grid infrastructure Will repeat at OGF20 (UK) but less time available 5 Less widely adopted software could be showcased in community program

6. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 6 Current Workshop Topics Federated Identity at OGF19 organized by Ken Klingenstein and Satoshi Matsuoka Semantic Web 2.0 at OGF19 organized by Dave de Roure Probably Commercial Web 2.0 at OGF20 organized by Charlie Catlett 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 would Post presentations Convert panel discussion into a “review” “synopsis” or “BKM (Best Known Methods)” for area covered Possibly arrange for scholarly publication for follow-up papers

7. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 7 eScience Group Activities

8. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 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 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 OGF19 Grid Reliability and Robustness 2 session workshop 8 Grid Services Grid Subsystems Users Grid Projects

9. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 9 eScience Management Note core OGF community is 50 commercial and 100 research/education/government (latter include standards) so don’t need too much organization eScience function is streamlining it’s management and current suggestion is VP and 2 AD’s Large group of advisers for suggesting people and topics but no responsibilities Major role of eScience VP/AD’s is leading projects such as supporting events and organizing new activities like software development track OGFxx Event PC Chair is modest time scale (1 year) project Note “reviews/summaries” produced by one-day workshops viewed as helping to snapshot current Grid status need significant leadership as well