OGF19 sessions

As of Jan. 28, 2007

related infomation

• OGF19 WG/RG schedule
• OGF19 general info

OGSA-WG sessions

<1> OGSA security session

• Date: Monday, January 29
• Time: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
• Location: Bellflower
• Owner: Alan Sill and Andrew Grimshaw
• Dial-in: +1-866-599-4740, pass: 9621596

• agenda
  • OGSA security discussion including Basic Security Authentication Profile.
  • Discuss short-term versus long-term authentication requirements.
  • Discuss how to reference existing security profiles in OGSA documents.

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• Minutes
• Also AuthN-Bof minutes

<2> OGSA and EGA reference model and General session

• Date: Monday, January 29
• Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
• Location: Bellflower
• Owner: Paul Strong and Hiro Kishimoto
• Dial-in: +1-866-599-4740, pass: 9621596

• agenda
  • OGSA and EGA reference model
    • In order to clarify relationship between OGSA architecture and EGA reference model, design team is trying to write-up HPC cluster usecase for EGA reference model assuming that OGSA is SOA and Web-service based instantiation of EGA reference model.
  • OGSA-WG general session
    • Document status update
    • Tasks and priority review
    • March F2F meeting logistics
    • Telecon schedule

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• Minutes

<3> OGSA EMS session

• Date: Tuesday, January 30
• Time: 9:00 am - 10:30 am
• Location: Bellflower
• Owner: Andreas Savva and Andrew Grimshaw
• Dial-in: +1-866-599-4740, pass: 9621596

• agenda
  1. EMS Architecture Scenarios version 1
     • Overview of document, scope and status (submitted to OGF Editor for public comment)
     • Things we learned, gaps, etc
  2. Next version
     • What scenarios should be added in the next version
     • EMS and Data services (to be discussed in a separate session "Related Session <2> below))
     • EPS and Deployment
     • Other (UR, RUS?)
  3. Open discussion on future work of the OGSA EMS design team

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• Minutes (Also include Information Broker session.)

<4> OGSA Information & data modeling

• Date: Tuesday, January 30
• Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
• Location: Bellflower
• Owner: Ellen Stokes and Fred Maciel
• Dial-in: +1-866-599-4740, pass: 9621596

• agenda
  • Information Modeling in OGSA XML schema and semantics Best practices, and
  • BES container based Proof of concept work as Information model profile document
  • Review responses to DMTF documents (DSP-0225, DSP-0230)

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• Minutes

<5> OGSA workflow

• Date: Tuesday, January 30
• Time: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
• Location: Bellflower
• Owner: Andrew Grimshaw
• Dial-in: +1-866-599-4740, pass: 9621596

• agenda
  • Workflow is one of key grid technology. OGSA-WG will identify requirements and review existing workflow languages.
  • There is a rich literature in workflow, workflow systems, workflow languages, etc. (There are even workshops)
  • OGSA can either choose an existing solution, or create a new one.
  • High-order decision: should OGSA take on workflow, or wait.

• Background material:
  • Grid workflow is summarized in GGF10 Berlin meeting http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/groc/ggf10-ww/ with longer papers appearing in a special issue of Concurrency&Computation: Practice&Experience at http://www.cc-pe.net/iuhome/workflow2004index.html. Editorial is Dennis Gannon and Geoffrey Fox Workflow in Grid Systems http://grids.ucs.indiana.edu/ptliupages/publications/Workflow-overview.pdf. (these are pre publication copies).
  • Jia Yu and Rajkumar Buyya, A Taxonomy of Workflow Management Systems for Grid Computing, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2005-1, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, March 10, 2005. http://www.gridbus.org/reports/GridWorkflowTaxonomy.pdf

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• Minutes

Related sessions

<1> Showcasing the DMTF Technologies (Liaison to DMTF)

• Date: Wednesday, January 31
• Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
• Location: Bellflower
• Owner: Tom Roney

• agenda
  • Jim Davis, CTO of WBEM Solutions, Inc. will showcase the DMTF technologies and their working software protocols.

<2> EMS/Data Scenarios (OGSA-D-WG)

• Date: Thursday, February 1
• Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
• Location: Azalea
• Owner: Dave Berry, Allen Luniewski

• agenda
  • Review of the scenarios for linking OGSA EMS and Data services, with possible application to the HPC Profile.