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GGF13 - The thirteenth Global Grid Forum
March 14-17, 2005
Seoul, Korea
GGF13 Summary
Over 475 participants from 26 different countries
attended GGF13 in Seoul, March 13-16, 2005, hosted by KISTI
(Korean Institute of Science and Technology Information) and
GFK
(Grid Forum Korea).
A one and a half day regional plenary program coordinated
by GFK consisted of keynote talks, panel discussions and presentations
by key A/P grid developers and deployers. There has been significant
progress in Grid activities in Asia since the last GGF in Asia (GGF7
in Tokyo). At present, there exist 10 national scale Grid projects
from seven economies in Asia, in addition to large number of small
to medium scale projects. GGF13 provided an opportunity for the
leaders of these projects to get together, for the first time, and
discuss regional collaboration on Grid. As a result, organization
to address collaboration and cooperation among the national Grid
projects of Asia is being formed. Moreover, the meeting provided
a chance to show Grid activities in Asia to the world, and helped
to initiate numerous collaborations among Asia, North America, and
Europe.
GGF Working Groups and Research
Groups (WG/RG) met to discuss, collaborate and produce documents
for the standardization of computing. Over 58 WG/RG Sessions met
and 6 BoFs, 5 Workshops and 2 Tutorials were held throughout the
week.
- BoFs
– OGSA BYTEIO-WG Charter Discussion BoF (DATA)
– Firewall Issues Charter Discussion BoF (GRID SEC)
– Sensor Grid Requirement-RG Charter Discussion BoF (ARCH)
– WS Delegation AdHoc BoF (GRID SEC)
– OSGA – Basic Execution Services-WG Charter Discussion
BoF (SRM)
– Grid VPN-RG Charter Discussion BoF (DATA)
- Workshops
– Asia Grid Summit
– Healthcare Applications on Grids
– Grid Economy
– The Usable Grid
– e-Science
- Tutorials
– OGSA-DAI Developers
– Distributed Resource Management Application API
GGF13 Statistical Information
Participants
List
Area and Group Highlights
GFK/KISTI GGF13 Highlights, by Dr. Jysoo Lee,
Director of KISTI
Highlights
- Business Grid, or commercial application of Grid
technology, has been very limited in Korea. Several examples of
Business Grid were introduced during the Grid Economy Workshop
and the Business Grid plenary. As a result, several Korean companies
such as KT (Korea telecom) and Samsung Networks are seriously
considering investing in Grid technology.
- Korea is well-known for its advanced IT infrastructure.
Although Grid can be combined with it to build a unique and efficient
testbed, the importance of Grid has not gotten through policy
makers. Several efforts by senior GGF people, including discussion
with the minister of MIC, helped to convey the importance of Grid
to policy makers
- GGF, and Grid community in general, has been dominated
by North America and Europe. Asia, with the possible exception
of Japan, has joined the effort later. Grid community of Asia
wishes to contribute to the world-wide effort of Grid, and I sincerely
hope GGF to pay particular attention to help them to be incorporated
to the Grid community of the world.
Discussions among government agencies
- There was a meeting between Director General of
MIC (Ministry of Information and Communication) of Korea, KISTI,
and European delegate (Ulf Dahlsten and Wolfgang Boch). The discussion
includes collaborations in many areas of Grid, including infrastructure,
personnel exchange, and training.
- There was a MoU signing between NGO (national
Grid office) of Singapore and KISTI. Both agreed to work together
in many areas of Grid, including P2P computing, Grid middleware,
and applications.
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