| Thursday, February 16 |
| 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | |
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Production Grids Enterprise and Research - #5
(90 mins)
Wolfgang Gentzsch, Director, D-Grid
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This workshop, organized by Kyriakos Baxevanidis(European Commission), Wolfgang Boch (European Union), Wolfgang Gentzsch (D-Grid) and Bob Cohen (Economic Strategy Institute), will consist of five panels spread over Wednesday, 15 February, and Thursday, 16 February.
Panel 5- Discussion of Collaboration in Production Grid Research Initiatives and Commercial Production Grids: Advances and Issues that need to be addressed:
Chair: Wolfgang Gentzsch, Director, D-Grid
Selected Panelists from the previous four panels and from the Sessions on Interoperability in Research Grids.
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Corporations that are early adopters of grids are now being challenged by a need to link different design and research centers together. Just as sessions during the first two days of this GGF conference discuss how national research initiatives are in the process of deploying production grids for R&D, several of these sessions focus on how firms are using or plan to develop grids that will link R&D, design, product development and financial or risk analysis groups within a single company through a "collaborative environment" built by using Web services, Service Oriented Architectures or other interfaces. This workshop will provide an opportunity for enterprises to explain their experiences or plans to deploy such "collaborative grid environments" based upon their use of early grids. It will highlight what are the main issues in deploying these collaborative grids, what problems need to be addressed to make them work better and what benefits the firms hope to achieve. To provide a link to the GGF standards efforts, several people involved with the GGF standards work will participate in the commercial grid panels.
It will, in parallel, provide an update on recent research initiatives on production grids funded by public-programmes from regions like the US, the EU and the AP (as examples are mentioned the US TeraGrid, the EU EGEE, and the Japanese NAREGI initiatives). The workshop will also provide an update on the European Grid research on next generation grids and for promoting the uptake in business and industry, and the recently launched NESSI initiative, as well as an update on policy level initiatives that aim at building global trust in the context of the global deployment of Grids such as the International Grid Trust Federation, the Asia Pacific Grid PMA (APGridPMA), the European Policy Management Authority for Grid Authentication in e-Science (EUGridPMA), and the Americas GridPMA (TAGPMA).
Lessons and best practices that could be passed from the current production grid initiatives in research to the commercial world and - in parallel - how current production grid infrastructures in research could address more effectively concerns and requirements coming from industry with a view also to investigate new ways to attract more commercial entities to use the grid infrastructures will be discussed as well as the role of standards in this picture.
Location: Olympia B
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| | Slides: Production Grids Panel 5 |