GGF Astro BOF

Fri Sep 19 02:22:11 PDT 2003

Dear All, 

at the upcoming Global Grid Forum meeting in Chicago (5-8 Oct 2003) - see 
www.ggf.org - there will be a Birds of a Feather session which starts of 
the process of forming a Astronomy Research Group at the GGF. I attach the 
draft charter to this message. 

This will give the Astro and IVOA VO communities a chance to input astro 
requirements into the 'grid' standards process. 

I would encourage those of you interested in this area to aim to attend 
this GGF meeting. Hope to see you there. (Note that early registration 
closes sept 26.)

Please forward this message to those that may be interested. 

Yours

Nic Walton

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Dr N. A. Walton                  
(AstroGrid Project Scientist)   Tel:   +44 1223 337503 
Institute of Astronomy          FAX:   +44 1223 337523
University of Cambridge         WWW:   http://www.astrogrid.org
Madingley Road                  WWW:   http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~naw
Cambridge, CB3 0HA              email: naw at ast.cam.ac.uk
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>From spartz at ggf.org Fri Sep 19 10:16:21 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:38:01 -0500
From: Clare Spartz <spartz at ggf.org>
To: ggf-membership at ggf.org
Cc: membership at ggf.org
Subject: [ggf-membership] Just Over Two Weeks Away -- GGF9 - October 4-8 -
    Chicago

GGF9 - The Ninth Global Grid Forum 
October 5-8, Chicago, IL USA 
Chicago Sheraton Hotel and Towers 

42 working groups and research groups gathering for 4 days working 
together to build a standards-based foundation for Grid computing. 

Nine sessions will focus on finalizing proposed charters for new 
working groups and research groups, including: 
	*  Business Process Grid 
	*  Configuration Description, Deployment, and Lifecycle
Management 
	*  Workflow Management 
	*  Grid API 

In addition to working sessions where community practices and 
specifications are being developed, GGF9 will include four full-day
workshops: 
	*  Designing and Building Grid Services (OGSA/OGSI teams) 
	*  Life Sciences Grid (Applications and requirements for 
	   bioinformatics, pharmaceuticals, etc.) 
	*  Peer-to-Peer and Grids: Synergies and Opportunities 
	*  Semantic Grid 

***Important dates are approaching***

Advance Registration - available through September 26  - GGF MEMBERS
save MORE MONEY
http://www.globalgridforum.org/Meetings/ggf9/reg.htm 
Hotel Availability - space and special GGF rate guaranteed through
September 26 
http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/ggf9/lodging.htm 

***GGF9 Schedule***
http://www.globalgridforum.org/Meetings/ggf9/schedule.htm 
Find "Click here to download the full GGF9 Schedule at a Glance" 

The Complete List of Sessions/Workshops and BOFs: 
WORKSHOPS = 4 
		Designing and Building Grid Services, led by Ian Foster
et. al.
		P2P and Grids: Synergies and Opportunities, led by
Andrew Chien et. al.
		Semantic Grid Workshop, led by David de Roure et. al.
		Life Sciences Grid Workshop, led by Abbas Farazdel
et.al. 

WG/RG SESSIONS = 56 
		Grid Checkpoint Recovery (GridCPR-WG) 
		Grid Remote Procedure Call (GridRPC-WG)
		Advanced Collaborative Environments (ACE-RG)
		Applications and Test Beds (APPS-RG)
		Grid Computing Environments (GCE-RG)
		Grid User Services (GUS-RG)
		Life Sciences Grid (LSG-RG)
		Production Grid Management (PGM-RG)
		User Program Development Tools for the Grid (UPDT-RG) 
		Open Grid Service Common Management Model (CMM-WG)
		Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA-WG)
		Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI-WG)
		Grid Policy Architecture (Policy-RG)
		Grid Protocol Architecture (GPA-RG)
		Semantic Grid (SEM-RG) 
		Data Access and Integration Services (DAIS-WG)
		Data Format Description Language (DFDL-WG)
		GridFTP-WG
		IPv6 (IPv6-WG)
		OGSA Data Replication Services (OREP-WG)
		Data Transport (DT-RG)
		Grid High-Performance Networking (GHPN-RG)
		Persistent Archives (PA-RG) 
		Authorization Frameworks and Mechanisms (AuthZ-WG)
		CA Ops (CAOPs-WG)
		Open Grid Service Architecture Authorization (OGSA
AUTHZ-WG)
		Site Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting
Requirements (SAAA-RG) 
		CIM based Grid Schema (CGS-WG)
		Network Measurement (NM-WG)
		Grid Information Retrieval (GIR-WG)
		Grid Benchmarking (GB-RG)
		Relational Grid Information Services (RGIS-RG) 
		Appliance Aggregation (APPAGG-RG)
		OGSA-P2P-Security (OGSAP2P-RG) 
		Distributed Resource Management Application API
(DRMAA-WG)
		Grid Economic Services Architecture (GESA-WG)
		Grid Resource Allocation Agreement Protocol (GRAAP-WG)
		Job Submission Description Language (JSDL-WG)
		OGSA Resource Usage Service (RUS-WG)
		Usage Record (UR-WG)
		Grid File Systems 

BOF's = 9
		Astronomical Grid Community-RG
		Grid Support for Ubiquitous Computing-RG
		Grid Federations
		Grid Scheduling Ontology-WG
		Workflow Management-RG
		Business Process Grid-WG
		Metadata Management Services Architecture-WG
		Grid API-WG 
		Configuration Description, Deployment, and Lifecycle
Management-WG

GGF Sponsors at GGF9: 
http://www.globalgridforum.org/L_Involved_Sponsors/2003_spons.htm 
GGF9 Participants (as of September 12): 
http://www.globalgridforum.org/Meetings/ggf9/participants.htm 
Exploring Chicago: 
http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Tourism/ 

GGF Members Register NOW: Right Price and Guaranteed Room Rate; Meeting
with the CORE 
international Grid COMMUNITY ; Learning through Workshops; Continue to
BE a part of the GRID action!! 

Contact membership at ggf.org if you've forgotten your Y2003 GGF Individual
Membership number!!

See you in Chicago!!

Clare Spartz 
Director of Marketing and Membership 
Global Grid Forum 
work: +1.630.252.0924 
cell: +1.917.860-9126 
fax: +1.630-252-4466 
spartz at ggf.org 

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