Jan 28 Meeting in London on WSRF

[Guy Rixon]

I've registered to go to this meeting.  If anybody on this list has questions
about WSRF but can't get to the meeting, then email me and I'lll see if I can
get some answers.

Cheers,
Guy

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Bob Mann wrote:

>
> 	Hi folks,
>
> 	Further to Guy's posting today about the announcement of the
> Web Service Resource Framework, here's an announcemnt of a meeting
> to be held in London on Jan 28th entitled "WSRF: The future of Grid
> and web services". Registration (details below) is on a first-come,
> first-served basis.
>
> 	cheers
>
> 	Bob
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:16:06 -0000
> From: Lee McLeod <lee at nesc.ac.uk>
> To: Everybody <everybody at nesc.ac.uk>
> Subject: [everybody]
>
> News and a Meeting
> ==================
>
> Announcement of Web Service Resource Framework
> ==============================================
>
> Dr Daniel Sabbah, Vice President, Software Development, Strategy and
> Architecture at IBM, on behalf of IBM and the Globus Alliance, announced
> proposals for a collection of web service standards that  provide
> conventions for handling stateful resources, e.g., file systems,
> databases and long-running programs, within the preferred
> service-oriented architecture of web services.  This neatly addresses
> the requirements of large-scale and long-running systems typical of grid
> computing while retaining the style of web services favoured by
> industry.
>
> The announcement was made at Globus World (http://www.globusworld.org/)
> in San Francisco.  More information can be found at www.globus.org/wsrf.
>
> Professor Tony Hey, Director of the UK e-Science Core Programme said,
>
> "The proposed WSRF standards are a very welcome step as they bring the
> web services and grid communities into closer alignment.  This will lead
> to increased synergy with commercial middleware development that will be
> of significant value to research communities.  In this emerging
> framework the UK is expected to continue to play a leading role in
> developing standards and their implementations."
>
> Prof Malcolm Atkinson Director of the National e-Science Centre said,
>
> "These proposed
> standards are a very valuable and a much needed step in the integration
> of web service and grid approaches to large scale distributed systems.
> I'm delighted to see that they provide an effective framework for
> handling stateful components which are essential for grids,
> computational steering and distributed data management. Many European
> organisations rely on the Globus Toolkit and we are pleased to be at the
> vanguard of
> developments which will deliver much greater synergy between commerce
> and research."
>
>                            Meeting
>                            =======
>
> WSRF: The Future of Grid and Web Services
> -----------------------------------------
>
> We are pleased to announce a presentation and technical discussion on
> the Web Services Resource Framework.  Steve Tuecke and others will
> present an overview and highlights of the new framework, addressing
> motivation and technical consequences.  This will be followed by a panel
> discussion with plenty of time for questions.
>
> Steve Tuecke of Argonne National Laboratory is the Globus Alliance
> Systems Architect.  He is the leader of the OGSI standardisation working
> group and is involved in many other GGF and W3C working groups.
>
>
> Date: 28 January 2004
> Time: 16:30 for 17:00.  The meeting will end by 20:00.
> Venue: Room 308 (a lecture theatre) of the Huxley building, Imperial
> College, Queens Gate
>
> Agenda
> ------
> 16:30 Registration, Tea, Coffee and biscuits
> 17:00 High-level Overview of Standards and Technologies 	Steve
> Tuecke
> 17:30 Technical and Engineering Issues				Steve
> Tuecke
>
> 18:30 Panel Discussion: What is the impact on e-Science, Grids and
> Industry? Panel to be announced
>
> Please register on the following web site if you intend to attend,
> places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come-first-served
> basis.
>
> http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/385/
>
> Steve Tuecke has agreed to be available for further technical discussion
> on the morning of 29th January from 09:30 to 13:30 before flying back to
> the USA.  If you wish to engage in such further discussion please
> indicate when you are available and what topic you wish to discuss.  We
> will then endeavour to schedule these meetings.
>
> Prof Malcolm Atkinson
> Director
>
> Miss Lee McLeod
> Conference Administrator/PA to the Assistant Principal
> National e-Science Centre
> 13-15 South College Street
> Edinburgh EH8 9AA
> +44 (0)131 650 9817
> lee at nesc.ac.uk
>
>
>
>

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