© 2005 Global Grid Forum The information contained herein is subject to change without notice

Leading the pervasive adoption of grid computing for research and industry

Mark Linesch

Chairman, Global Grid Forum

Agenda

•GGF16 Highlights

•The year ahead

GGF16Athens, Greece

February 13-16, 2006

GGF16 by the numbers

Top Sectors Represented

• 53% Research/Academia

• 22% Industry

• 8% Government

Top 2 Roles

• 36% Developer/Deployer

• 27% Sr. Manager/Strategist

119 First Time Visitors

33 countries represented

GGF16 at a GlanceMon Tue Wed Thurs

08:30 – 10:00

15:30 – 17:00

Lunch

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Welcome Dinner7:30pm

Production Grids

Plenary: Sponsors, EGEE, OSG, HellasGrid

Update UK & Italy

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OpeningGGF/GRNET

Keynote Ulf Dahlsten

Keynote Ian Foster

Keynote Dave SnellingUpdate

NAREGI

GGF16 Program Highlights“Production Grids: The Path to Global Interoperability”

Gaps (timing, agreement, maturity)

Builders

Architects

Interoperability

Interoperation

GGF Program HighlightsGGF Group Sessions - Special thanks to the following authors!!

GGF Document Series

GFD.62 Policy Management Authority Model Charter

R. Cowles, T. Genovese, P. Gietz, M. Helm

GFD.61 The GGF Grid File System Architecture Workbook

A. Jagatheesan

GFD.60 Grid Economy Use Cases J. MacLaren, S. Newhouse, T. Haupt, K. Keahey, W. Lee

GFD.59 OGSA Profile Definition v1.0 T. Maguire, D. Snelling

GFD.58 Standardised Namespaces for XML infosets in GGF

M. Drescher, A. Anjomshoaa

GFD.57 Attributes used in OGSI Authorization

M. Thompson, V. Welch, M. Lorch, R. Lepro, D. Chadwidk, V. Ciaschini

GFD.56 Job Submission Description Language (JSDL) Specification v1.0

A. Anjomshoaa, F. Brisard, M. Drescher, D. Fellows, A. Ly, S. McGough, D. Pulsipher, A. Savva

GFD.55 A Survey of Transport Protocols other than "Standard" TCP

E. He, P. Vicat-Blanc Primet, M. Welzl

GFD.54 MyProxy Protocol J. Basney

• 9 docs since published since GGF15

• 18 documents in 12 months

• 22 documents in or through public comment period

GGF16 Program HighlightsBirds-of-Feather (BOFs) Meetings

• Regional Affiliate Program

• Interoperability Fests

• Standards Roadmap

• Campus Grids RG

• DMIS: Data Movement Interface Standardization

• IT Legal Issues

• Education Community Group (Grid for Learning)

• Grid applications of virtualization technologies

GGF16 Program HighlightsGGF Use Case Repository (URC)

• GGF-wide resource to assist in the understanding of requirements across many application domains

• Success depends on building a critical mass of quality use cases

• Your feedback and support is critical!

GGF16 ProgramGGF/SNIA Liaison Session

• GGF and SNIA held a one-day workshop in 2006 before the SNIA Winter Symposium in San Jose

• Identified several areas of collaboration: replication, file-systems, community building

• Wed morning (10:30) there will be a joint session with SNIA to share experiences and identify specific work items

GGF Liaisons

GGF16 Program HighlightsIntroductory sessions for managers and newcomers

GGF101 for Newcomers

© 2005 Global Grid Forum The information contained herein is subject to change without notice

Leading the pervasive adoption of grid computing for research and industry

GGF101 GGF101 -- Making Sense of Your First GGFMaking Sense of Your First GGFA "must attend" for newcomers to GGF. This session describes howA "must attend" for newcomers to GGF. This session describes how work gets done in work gets done in GGF and how to make sense of the all the varied activities goingGGF and how to make sense of the all the varied activities going on at a GGF Event. on at a GGF Event. You will walk away with a better understanding of the GGF communYou will walk away with a better understanding of the GGF community and have a clear ity and have a clear set of "next steps" to take to get involved.set of "next steps" to take to get involved.

Grid Primer for Managers

Grid Primer

management-level introduction to Grid technologies

Pawel PlaszczakJ akub Dziwisz

www.gridwisetech.compawel@gridwisetech.comkuba@gridwisetech.com

GGF16 Program Committee – Thank you!Chair: Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University

Steering Group:Wolfgang Gentzsch, D-GridSteven Newhouse, Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII)Costas Kotsokalis, GRNETAnn Collins, GGF

Members:Kyriakos Baxevanidis, CECAlan Blatecky, University of North CarolinaWolfgang Boch, CECBob Cohen, Economic Strategy InstituteRobert Fogel, IntelDennis Gannon, Indiana UniversityBrajesh Goyal, NetAppJohn S. Hurley, The Boeing CompanyJoel Replogle, GGFSatoshi Sekiguchi, AISTWalter Stewart, Walter Stewart & AssociatesJulie Wulf-Knoerzer, GGFAlan Yoder, NetApp

Please fill out the GGF16 Survey

Participants eligible for prize

drawing

Agenda

•GGF16 Highlights

•The year ahead

GGF16Athens, Greece

February 13-16, 2006

The year ahead

Experience Economics

Expectation2006 is shaping up to be a year when rising expectations,

successful experience and the economic pressure for standards

have an opportunity to align

A year of focused priorities and objectives

Community

Research Application

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Industry Applications

Technology Innovations

Grid Major Projects

Operations

MarketingEvents

Sponsorship Finance & IT

Standards

Grid Architecture

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(OGSA, DAIS, GridFTP,

JSDL)

GGF Liaisons

(e.g. OASIS, W3C, IETF, DMTF, SNIA)

GGF Community Objectives for 2006

•Establish and grow international research and industry communities

•Help end users to understand and use grid technology

•Identify, prioritize and drive requirements and use cases into the GGF standards process

•Champion efforts to ensure GGF standards are valuable for software suppliers & developers to adopt

Building an international community for the exchange of ideas,

experiences, requirements, best

practices

GGF Standards Objectives for 2006

•Enhance the visibility of GGF standards through communication and branding strategies

•Accelerate grid specification development through a comprehensive GGF Standards Roadmap process

•Develop an interop fest program to improve the quality and adoption of GGF standards

•Establish ongoing interactions to ensure GGF standards track the issues and needs of the grid community

Defining grid specifications that lead

to interoperable software standards

Standards

Grid Architectures

& Specifications

(OGSA, DAIS, GridFTP, JSDL)

GGF Liaisons

(e.g. OASIS, W3C, IETF, DMTF, SNIA)

GGF Operations objectives for 2006

•Refine the event model to meet financial and member satisfaction requirements

•Improve IT infrastructure and automate GGF processes to increased productivity and facilitate steering

•Increase member benefits and participation resulting in member growth and improved satisfaction

•Promote GGF as the recognized catalyst and thought leader for grid adoption worldwide

Operations

MarketingEvents

Sponsorship Finance & IT

Ensuring ongoing support of our mission and communication of

our progress

A year of new places and event partners

GGF18GridWorld

GGF17 Grid

World

GGF16GRNET

Tokyo, Japan

May 10-12

Washington, DC

Sept 11-14

Athens, Greece

Feb 13-16

A year of new opportunities

• GGF and EGA have signed non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) to merge

• Merger anticipated to be completed during the summer of 2006

• Until then, business as usual

… and aggressive timelines

Framework and letter-of-

Intent

Detailed plans and programs

Integration into new legal

entity

GFSG f2fFeb Mar JunApr MayNov Aug Sept …JulyDec Jan

Phase 3. Merger Integration

Phase 2.Merger

Transition

Phase 1: Merger

IntentSeparate but synergistic organizations New Organization

Merger Timeline

A year for collaboration & communication to enable our ecosystem of value

Science Business

Users

Builders

Architects

Vendors

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