| Wednesday, May 10 |
| 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm | |
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OGSA and Alternative Grid Architectures
(90 mins)
Panel: OGSA and Alternative Grid Architectures
OGSA has been positioned as the GGF "flagship" architecture. However, despite the tremendous and continuous efforts being spent by the OGSA Working Group, its standardization still remains incomplete. This has resulted in various groups, especially those in the industry with immediate production needs, to attempt to establish several alternative, simpler grid service layer architectures based on pure Web Services, and claims that GGF actually does need such diversity. In the mean time, OGSA has made substantial progress that is now finally claimed to lead to proliferation of working standards and their reference implementations, and too much divergence from the core OGSA/WSRF efforts would not lead to interoperating standards. The purpose of the panel is to investigate both the short- and long-term visions of both camps, in leading to working, interoperable, and of course useable standards and implementations that companies and major projects could commit their major efforts to in a sustainable fashion.
Panel Participants:
Andrew Grimshaw (UVa)
Dave Snelling (Fujitsu FLE)
Jay Unger (IBM)
Marvin Theimer (Microsoft)
Tony Hey (Microsoft)
Geofferey Fox (UIndiana)
Satoshi Matsuoka (Titech)
Location: G402
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| | Slides: What is OGSA? - Geoffrey Fox |