1. OMII-UK +OMII-Europe: Using Open Specifications to deliver project Achievements Neil Chue Hong + Steve Brewer © 2006 Open Grid Forum

2. Impact of open specifications What are the benefits and disadvantages of using open specifications? as a user as a developer as a provider as a project manager Do Open Specifications help to deliver Project Achievements? examples from OMII-UK and OMII-Europe projects 2

3. © 2006 Open Grid Forum Agenda First session (11.00 - 12.30) Introduction (Neil Chue Hong / Steve Brewer) Introduction to OMII-UK (Neil Chue Hong) Introduction to OMII-Europe (Steve Brewer) Case Study 1: WISDOM: drug discovery for neglected and emergent diseases (Morris Riedel) Case Study 2: Using SAGA to write applications (Shantenu Jha) Second session (14.00 - 15.30) Case Study 3: OGSA-DAI in the Social Sciences and other applications (Mike Jackson) Case Study 4: GLUE (Sergio Andreozzi) Case Study 5: GridSAM: standard access to computational resources (Steve McGough) Case Study 6: OGRSH: bringing the Grid to the desktop (Andrew Grimshaw) Q+A: Impact of OGF Specifications on Projects 3