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GF5
– The Fifth Grid Forum
October
15 - 18, 2000
Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA
Bell Atlantic Learning Center
Sponsor Host by:
Sun Labs
Sponsored by:
Boeing Phantom Works, NASA, Argonne National Laboratory,
NCSA, SDSC, University of Virginia
GF5 was the largest to date with over 190 participants from a dozen
countries and over 100 organizations.
Thirty participants were from Europe and ten from Asia-Pacific
countries. GF5 also had
the largest industrial participation to date with over 30 individuals
from industry. 25 Grid Working Drafts were discussed at GF5.
Plenary Program:
- Opening
Plenary- Grid Architectures Welcome
(Charlie Catlett, Grid Forum Chair)
- Keynote:
Observations on Architecture, Protocols, Services, API's, SDK's,
and the Role of the Grid Forum (Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory
and University of Chicago)
- Welcome-Bob Sproull, Sun Fellow, Vice President and
Director of Sun Labs
- East
Opening Plenary- Grid Forum and the Emerging Grid Industry (Invited
talks) Professor Andrew Chien, Entropia and University of California-San
Diego (PPT) Dr. Robert Knighten, Intel Enterprise Architecture
Lab and Peer-to-Peer Working Group
- Plenary
Presentations of Results from GF5 Working Sessions: Grid Working
Drafts - Each session in GF5 was summarized.
- The
Klearinghouse: A Knowledge Management Clearinghouse for Grid
Applications and Technologies (George Brett, National Laboratory
for Applied Network Research (NLANR) and NCSA)
- Proposed
Grid Forum Documents - Several GF working groups have produced
GridForum Drafts outlining proposed standards or "best practices" that
have been discussed at previous GF meetings within working groups
where consensus has been reached within the working group. There
was a Q & A sessions with open discussion.
Working/Research Groups:
ACCT: Distributed Accounting Architecture (2 Sessions)
Advanced Programming Models (APM)
APM: GCF Implementation Issues
APM: GCF Requirements
APM: Grid Component Framework (GCF)
DATA: GF/eGRID survey of activities and requirements Commercial
Grid Systems
DATA: GridFTP protocol requirements and specification
GCE: Charter Development
GCE: Survey White Paper
GIS: Integrating Information Services into Grid Directories
GIS: LDAP Queries- Challenges and Opportunities
GIS: Revisit Charter and Open Discussion
GP/GIS: Directory Schema
GP: Scenarios and Event Schema (w/GIS)
GP: Timestamps
Grid Architecture Discussion
Grid Forum Process & Governance Discussion
Grid Information Services (GIS)
Grid Performance (GP)
GUS/APM: Pgmg Models, and
GUS: Grid User Services Best Practices (3 Sessions)
NEW: Grid Computing Environments (GCE)
Remote Data Access (DATA)
Scheduling & Resource Management (SRM)
SEC: Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI) Roadmap
SEC: PKI Certificate Policies
Security (SEC)
Selected Grid Technologies
SRM/SEC: Scheduling and Security
SRM: Generic Grid Resource Description and Ten Steps
SRM: Superscheduler Query Interface
SRM: Vendors, Standards and Low-Hanging Fruit
Tutorials:
Tutorial: XML (Reagan Moore, SDSC)
Tutorial: JINI (Ken Arnold, Sr. Staff Engineer, Jini Project, Sun
Microsystems)
BOF:
GIS: JINI Working Group
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