The 23rd Open Grid Forum - OGF23
June 2-6, 2008
Barcelona, Spain


Monday June 2, 2008

 9:00am - 10:30am
  OGF23 Welcome and Les Robertson Keynote
    Other:     Keynote - Les Robertson
    Slides:     OGF23 Opening

 11:00am - 12:30pm
  DAIS Working Group Session (DAIS-WG)
    Slides:     1: DAIS Working Group Status Update by Mario Antonioletti
    Slides (PDF):     2:Integration of WS-DAIR into AMGA by Ali
    Slides (PDF):     3:WS-DAI-RDF(S) Overview & Querying by Isao Kojima
    Slides:     4:WS-DAI-RDF(S) Ontology by Miguel Esteban Guitierrez

  Dynamic Service Level Agreements (1/2)
    Slides:     GridEcon - Service Level Agreements for a Market Place for Computing Resources
    Slides:     The BEinGrid SLA cluster - Results and perspectives
    Slides:     Workshop Programme

  Interoperability and Interoperation between Europe, India and Asia (1/4)
    Slides (PDF):     Applications Interoperability
    Slides (PDF):     The EGEE-III Project
    Slides (PDF):     The EU-IndiaGrid Project

  OGF101 (OGF101)
    Slides:     OGF101 Slides

  OMII-UK: using open specifications to deliver project achievements (1/2)
    Slides (PDF):     Introduction to Workshop and Agenda
    Slides:     OMII-Europe: Building Components for Grid Operability
    Slides (PDF):     OMII-UK: using specifications to deliver services

 2:00pm - 3:30pm
  Dynamic Service Level Agreements (2/2)
    Slides:     On the Use of Service Level Agreements in AssessGrid
    Slides:     SLA@SOI: Research Perspectives for Dynamic SLA Management
    Slides:     Workshop Programme

  Enterprise Grid Requirement Research Group (EGR-RG) (EGR-RG)
     Document (Word):     Guidelines of Requirements for Grid Systems
    Other:     Worksheet for document

  Interoperability and Interoperation between Europe, India and Asia (2/4)
    Slides (PDF):     EGEE-GARUDA Interoperability
    Slides (PDF):     The DAE Grid Network
    Slides (PDF):     The Indian Network Perspective

  OGSA-DMI WG (OGSA-DMI-WG)
    Slides:     OGSA-DMI Update at OGF23
    Slides:     OGSA-DMI WSDL Renderings & Interop

 3:45pm - 5:15pm
  Data Grid Management Systems - BoF (Data Grid - BoF)
    Slides:     Data Grid Management System WG - BoF

  Exploring Cloud Computing (1/2)
    Slides (PDF):     Being in the Clouds, Elastic Server - Alexis Richardson
    Slides (PDF):     Clouds Provide Grids with Higher Levels of Abstraction and Explicit Support for Usage Modes - Shantenu Jha

  Integrating Service and Desktop Grids (ISDG) BOF
    Slides (PDF):     Application porting and repository
    Slides (PDF):     Enabling Desktop Grids for eSciences
    Slides (PDF):     Interconnecting Grid Desktop Grid and Network
    Slides (PDF):     ISDG Objectives and Standardization Considerations

  Interoperability and Interoperation between Europe, India and Asia (3/4)
    Slides (PDF):     Data Management - Asian Case Studies
    Slides (PDF):     e-Infrastructures Interoperability between Europe and India
    Slides (PDF):     Interconnect EGEE and CNGRID e-Infrastructures

  NML-WG: Session #1 (NML-WG)
    Slides (PDF):     Freek Dijkstra presentation: "Multi-layer network modeling"
    Document (Text):     Meeting notes (secretary: Jeroen van der Ham)
    Slides (PDF):     Yuri Demchenko presentation: "Attributes used for Authorisation in Network Resource Provisioning"

 5:30pm - 7:00pm
  Exploring Cloud Computing (2/2)
    Slides:     Summary Report: An EGEE Comparative Study: Grids and Clouds - Evolution or Revolution? - Marc-Elian Bégin

 5:30pm - 6:15pm
  Firewall Virtualization for Grid Applications BOF
    Slides:     OGF23-FVGA+Just.ppt
    Slides:     Proposed Architecture for basis of standards
     Document (Word):     Proposed Charter

 5:30pm - 7:00pm
  Interoperability and Interoperation between Europe, India and Asia (4/4)
    Slides (PDF):     Interoperability between Europe and China - The EchoGRID Initiative
    Slides (PDF):     The EU-AsiaGrid Project
    Slides (PDF):     The NAREGI Middleware

  Quality for Grid & Grid for Quality: sharing experiences and perspectives of Grid and Open Source communities (2/2)
    Slides:     Agenda
    Slides:     ECHOGRID - Manieri
    Slides:     ETICS - Rippa
    Slides:     LHC - Mendez Lorenzo
    Slides:     MIMOS - Ming
    Slides:     QUALIPSO - Sillitti
    Slides:     QUALOSS - Fleurial Monfils

Tuesday June 3, 2008

 9:00am - 9:45am
  Keynote Presentation - Mario Compolargo
    Slides:     The European e-Infrastructure initiative -Mario Compolargo

 9:45am - 10:35am
  Invited Presentations (Brito, Kranzlmueller)
    Slides (PDF):      eScience-Related Research in Brazil - Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz
    Slides:     European Grid Initiative -Dieter Kranzlmueller

 11:00am - 12:30pm
  GRAAP#1 (GRAAP-WG)
    Slides:     State and issues of interop and conformance

  Industrial Usage of Grid technology
     Document (Word):     OGF23_SIMDAT_Industrial Usage of Grid Technology
    Slides (PDF):     SIMDAT-Meteo-Activity-OGF23MG
    Slides (PDF):     SIMDAT_Aerospace_OGF
    Slides (PDF):     SIMDAT_Automotive_Reicheneder_v02
    Slides (PDF):     SIMDAT_Grid-Technology
    Slides (PDF):     SIMDAT_Intro_ OGF
    Slides (PDF):     SIMDAT_Pharma-OGF-final
    Other:     SIMDAT_Pharma_OGF_Video

  NML-WG: Session #2 (NML-WG)
    Slides:     Victor Reijs presentation: "Domains in and around the Stitching Framework"

  SAGA Working Session (SAGA-WG)
    Slides:     1. Introduction, SAGA overview
    Slides:     2. JSAGA presentation
    Slides:     3. Implementation status, and future directions

 2:00pm - 2:45pm
  OGF-BEinGRID Keynotes - Werner Vogels
    Slides (PDF):     Werner Vogels Keynote

 2:45pm - 3:30pm
  OGF-BEinGRID Keynotes - Diego Pavia
    Slides (PDF):     Diego Pavia - Atos Origin - BEinGRID Industry Days

 3:45pm - 5:15pm
  BEinGRID: Welcome Plenary
    Slides (PDF):     Charles Brett - Forrester - BEinGRID Industry Days
    Slides (PDF):     Jesus Villasante - EC - BEinGRID Industry Days

  Remote Instrumentation Services in Grid Environment - demo and presentations (RISGE-RG)
    Slides:     DORII - Deployment of Remote Instrumentation Infrastructure
    Slides (PDF):     Grid Support for Real-TIme Online Interactive Applications - Thomas Fahrihger
    Slides:     Short introduction of the sessions - Marcin Plociennik

  RESERVOIR Project
    Slides:     Agenda
    Slides (PDF):     Management of Virtual Execution Environments - Ignacio Llorente
    Slides (PDF):     Overview & Architecture, Benny Rochwerger
    Slides (PDF):     Service Management - Nikolaos Tsouroulas
    Slides (PDF):     Virtual Infrastructure - Benny Rochwerger

  Resource Selection Working Session (OGSA-RSS-WG)
    Slides:     Activity Delegation Kick Off Presentation by Alexander Papaspyrou
    Slides:     PDF version of presentation
    Slides:     Presentation by Donal Fellows

 5:30pm - 7:00pm
  BEinGRID: Case Study Demo (Financial Portfolio Management)
    Slides (PDF):     BEinGRID Case Study - BE04 Financial Portfolio Management

  BEinGRID: Successful Stories in Grid I
    Slides (PDF):     BEinGRID Case Study - BE01 Computational Fluid Dynamics
    Slides (PDF):     Fura - Gridsystems - BEinGRID Industry Days

  Data Area Meeting
    Slides:     Agenda and Updates - David Martin and Erwin Laure
    Slides:     DAIS WG Status - Mario Antonioletti
    Slides:     INFOD WG Status - Steve Fisher
    Slides:     OGSA ByteIO WG Status - Neil P Chue Hong
    Slides:     OGSA-DMI WG Status - Michel Drescher

  GRAAP#2 (GRAAP-WG)
    Slides:     Negitiation protocol proposal for discussion
    Slides:     Proposal for a generic negotiation framework

  Grid & Virtualization Working Session
    Slides (PDF):     Working Group Presentation

  Usage Record 1 Experiences (UR-WG)
    Slides:     PDF version of presentation
    Slides:     Presentation by Donal Fellows

Wednesday June 4, 2008

 9:00am - 10:30am
  BEinGRID: Case Study Demo (Ship Building)
    Slides (PDF):     BEinGRID Case Study - BE16 Ship Building

  BEinGRID: Cross Technical Activities: Major Findings
    Slides (PDF):     Kostas Kavoussanakis - EPCC - BEinGRID Industry Days
    Slides (PDF):     Stefan Wesner - HLRS - BEinGRID Industry Days
    Slides (PDF):     Theo Dimitrakos - BT - BEinGRID Industry Days

  Using grid techniques to optimise energy efficiency (1/2)
    Slides (PDF):     An Enterprise Perspective on Energy Efficiency and Grids
    Slides (PDF):     Challenges and opportunities for grid in a low-carbon economy
    Slides (PDF):     Data Centre Energy Utilisation and Accounting

 11:00am - 12:30pm
  BEinGRID: Case Study Demo (Risk Management in Finance) / Sponsor Demo (FURA, Gridsystems)
    Slides (PDF):     BEinGRID Case Study - BE11 Risk Management in Finance
    Slides (PDF):     Fura - Gridsystems - BEinGRID Industry Days

  BEinGRID: Service Oriented Infrastructures: a Telecommunications Industry Perspective
    Slides (PDF):     Jonathan Legh-Smith - BT - BEinGRID Industry Days
    Slides (PDF):     Jorge Villaverde - Capgemini - BEinGRID Industry Days
    Slides (PDF):     Vic Morris - Vordel - BEinGRID Industry Days

  GIN BES and JSDL feedback (GIN-CG)
    Slides:     ARC Feedback
    Slides:     gLite Feedback
    Slides:     GridSAM Feedback
    Slides:     Introduction
    Slides:     Unicore Feedback

  Grid File System WG (GFS-WG)
    Slides:     Data Grid Federation by RNS - Hideo Matsuda (Osaka Univ)
    Slides:     Introduction - RNS and GFS Naming profile - Osamu Tatebe (Univ Tsukuba)
    Slides:     iRODS Metadata - Reagan Moore (SDSC)
    Slides:     RNS Experiences - Andrew Grimshaw (UvA)

  Using grid techniques to optimise energy efficiency (2/2)
    Slides (PDF):     European Union Code of Conduct for Data Centre Operators
    Slides (PDF):     JISC Low Carbon ICT project

 2:00pm - 3:30pm
  BEinGRID: Case Study Demos (Groundwater Modeling / Movie Post-Production Workflow)
    Slides (PDF):     BEinGRID Case Study Demo - BE02 Movie Post-Production Workflow
    Slides (PDF):     BEinGRID Case Study Demo - BE06 Groundwater Modeling

  BEinGRID: Successful Stories in Grid II
    Slides (PDF):     BEinGRID Case Study - BE14 New Product & Process Development
    Slides (PDF):     Carl Kesselman - Univa UD - BEinGRID Industry Days

  Databases in the Grid: tools, middleware and applications (1/3)
    Slides (PDF):     3D project
    Slides (PDF):     AMGA WS-DAIR interface
    Slides (PDF):     Comparison evaluation of grid db access tools and software
    Slides (PDF):     CORAL
    Slides:     Earth science GRID
    Slides (PDF):     GRelC Project
    Slides (PDF):     Grid Data Source Engine
    Slides (PDF):     Introduction to the workshop
    Slides (PDF):     OGSA DAI
    Slides (PDF):     Unosat Grid Project
    Slides (PDF):     Virtual Observatory

  OGSA-WG status and direction (OGSA-WG)
     Document (Word):     Meeting minutes
    Slides:     Session Slides

 3:45pm - 5:15pm
  BEinGRID: Case Study Demo (Ship Building)
    Slides (PDF):     BEinGRID Case Study Demo - BE16 Ship Building

  BEinGRID: Does a Grid Marketplace Exist?
    Slides (PDF):     Daniel Field - Atos Origin - BEinGRID Industry Days

  BES/HPC, JSDL and GLUE Profiling (GLUE)
    Slides:     Session Slides

  Grid Network Interface BOF
    Slides (PDF):     GLIF GNI activities update - Eduard Graca (I2cat), Mathieu Lemay (Inocybe Technologies Inc.)
     Document (Word):     GNI BOF Minutes
    Slides (PDF):     Grid Network Interface (GNI) - BOF Co-Chairs
    Document (PDF):     Grid Network Interface Charter
    Slides (PDF):     Grid technologies for stardardized next-gen telecom services framework - Takahiro Miyamoto (KDDI)
    Slides (PDF):     Grids and Networks _Bridging the gap - Inder Monga (NORTEL)
    Slides (PDF):     Interdomain Dynamic Circuit Network DICE Control Plane - John Vollbrecht (Internet2)
    Slides (PDF):     Phosphorus Project - Harmony System Interfaces

 5:30pm - 7:00pm
  BEinGRID: Case Study Demos (Engineering and Business Processes in Metal Forming / Distributed Online Gaming)
    Slides (PDF):     BEinGRID Case Study - BE08 Engineering and Business Processes in Metal Forming
    Slides (PDF):     BEinGRID Case Study - BE09 Distributed Online Gaming

  Dynamic Management of Network Resources BOF
     Document (Word):     DCN Architecure
     Document (Word):     DMNR BoF Agenda
     Document (Word):     Draft dmnr-wg charter
    Slides:     OFG23 DMNR BOF slides
     Document (Word):     OGF GLIFMessaging

  GLUE 2.0 - Overview (GLUE)
    Document (PDF):     GLUE 2.0 Specification
    Document (PDF):     GLUE v. 2.0 – Reference Realizations to Concrete Data Models
    Slides:     Session Slides

Thursday June 5, 2008

 9:00am - 10:30am
  BEinGRID: Case Study Demos (Risk Management in Finance / Seismic Processing and Reservoir Simulation)
    Slides (PDF):     BEinGRID Case Study - BE11 Risk Management in Finance
    Slides (PDF):     BEinGRID Case Study - BE18 Seismic Processing and Reservoir Simulation

  BEinGRID: Successful stories in Grid III
    Slides (PDF):     BEinGRID Case Study - BE03 Visualisation and Virtual Reality
    Slides (PDF):     Paul Strong - eBay - BEinGRID Industry Days
    Slides (PDF):     Phil Walston - Layer7 - BEinGRID Industry Days

  Digital Repositories – Interoperability Using Grid Technologies (1/4)
    Slides:     e-Infrastructure for Research Repositories. Andreas Aschenbrenner, SUB Goettingen
    Document (PDF):     OGF-Europe: Digital Repositories Seminar Summary
    Slides:     Scientifc Digital Repositories in FP7. Krystyna Marek, GEANT and e-Infrastructures Unit of INFSO, European Commission
    Slides:     Semantic Application for Digital Repositories. Fabrizio Gagliardi, Microsoft Research

  GLUE 2.0 - Discussion (GLUE)
    Document (PDF):     Comments to Last Call WG Documents
    Document (PDF):     Open Issues for Public Comments Docs

  Life Science Resource Profile BOF
    Slides:     Life+Science+Resource+Profile+200806+FumikazuKONISHI.pdf
    Document (PDF):     LSR-ProfileNote.pdf

 11:00am - 12:30pm
  BEinGRID: Case Study Demos (Computational Fluid Dynamics / Retail Management)
    Slides (PDF):     BEinGRID Case Study - BE01 Computational Fluid Dynamics
    Slides:     BEinGRID Case Study - BE05 Retail Management

  BEinGRID: Finance and Grid
    Slides (PDF):     BEinGRID Case Study - BE04 Financial Portfolio Management
    Slides (PDF):     Charles Jarvis - Platform - BEinGRID Industry Days
    Slides (PDF):     Elies Prunes - Atos Origin - BEinGRID Industry Days
    Slides (PDF):     Nagib Amara - AXA - BEinGRID Industry Days

  Digital Repositories – Interoperability Using Grid Technologies (2/4)
    Slides:     Earth Science Community view on Digital Repositories. Luigi Fusco, European Space Agency
    Slides:     Natural Resource Science: Environmental Monitoring and Fisheries and Aquaculture Resource Management, Donatella Castelli, CNR-ISTI
    Slides:     Repositories and Grids in the Humanties. Mark Hedges, Kings College, London
    Slides:     Space Sciences: Domain Specific Interoperability Standards. Francoise Genova, Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory

  GLUE 2.0 - Implementation (GLUE)
    Document (PDF):     GLUE 2.0 – Reference Realizations to Concrete Data Models
    Slides:     GLUEMan
    Link:     GLUEMan website

 2:00pm - 3:30pm
  Digital Repositories – Interoperability Using Grid Technologies (3/4)
    Slides:     Data Sharing Policies. The International Polar Year Case. Hans Pfeiffenberger, Alfred Wegener Institut
    Slides:     gCube: A Framework for Controlled Sharing of Data, Services, and Computing Storage Resources. Pasquales Pagano, CNR-ISTI
    Slides:     Promoting Open Standards for Digital Repository Infrastructures: Archival case study examples and challenges. Flavia Donno, CERN

  GSM-WG I (GSM-WG)
    Slides:     GSM-WG introduction to data management

  JSDL-WG Session 1 (JSDL-WG)
    Document (Text):     Minutes for parameter sweep session
    Slides:     Parameter Sweep - TemplateFile proposal
    Slides:     Parameter Sweep Examples
    Slides:     Parameter Sweep Introduction
    Slides:     Project Presentation: g-Eclipse

  OGF-Europe Tutorial: Managing Computational Activities on the Grid - from Specifications to Implementation (1/3)
    Slides (PDF):     Introduction to the Tutorial and to Job Submission
    Slides (PDF):     Specification: JSDL and HPC Basic Profile
    Slides (PDF):     Specification: OGSA-BES

 3:45pm - 5:15pm
  GSM-WG II (GSM-WG)
     Document (Word):     SRM protocol issues from OGF22

  JSDL-WG Session 2 (JSDL-WG)
    Document (PDF):     Activity Instance schema - Use cases & requirements
    Document (Text):     Minutes for Activity session
    Slides (PDF):     Slides for JSDL Session #2 "Activity instance use cases & requirements"

  OGF-Europe Tutorial: Managing Computational Activities on the Grid - from Specifications to Implementation (2/3)
    Slides (PDF):     Implementations: ARC A-REX
    Slides (PDF):     Implementations: gLite CREAM-BES
    Slides (PDF):     Specification: GLUE 2.0

  RISGE-RG - use cases (RISGE-RG)
    Slides:     AugerAccess Use Case
    Slides:     Ocean Observatories RISGE use cases
    Slides:     Use case of NMR spectrometry in Virtual Laboratory

 5:30pm - 7:00pm
  Astronomical Applications RG - Update Session
    Slides (PDF):     AstroTaverna Workflows (Walton + Benson)
    Slides (PDF):     EuroVO/ EGEE (Taffoni)
    Slides (PDF):     Grid and the VO (Walton + Rixon)
    Slides (PDF):     iRODS Workflows (Moore)
    Slides (PDF):     Session agenda

  Future Perspective Workshop: perspectives and point of collaborations among Grid roadmaps and Strategic Research Agendas (2/2)
    Slides:     ECHOGRID - Manieri
    Slides:     ECHOGRID Roadmap

  OGF-Europe Tutorial: Managing Computational Activities on the Grid - from Specifications to Implementation (3/3)
    Slides (PDF):     Exercises: BES/JSDL/HPC-BP (Unicore, ARC and GridSphere at work)
    Slides (PDF):     Exercises: GLUE 2.0

Friday June 6, 2008

 9:00am - 10:30am
  OGF-Europe Tutorial: Accessing and Integrating Structured Data using OGSA-DAI 3.0 and Links with WS-DAI
    Slides (PDF):     OGF-23-OGSA-DAI.pdf

 11:00am - 12:30pm
  OGF-Europe Tutorial: Managing Files & Storage Spaces using the Storage Resource Manager (SRM) Interface
    Slides (PDF):     Tutorial