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Grid Computing EnvironmentsWorking Group
(GCE)gce-wg_at_gridforum.org

• Grid Forum 5
• Marlborough, MA
• (mthomas_at_sdsc.edu)

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CGE_at_GF5 Sessons

• Session 1
• Monday, 10/16/00, Track B (307)
• 1020 - 1040 a.m.
• Session 2
• Monday, 10/16/00, Track A (Auditorium)
• 300 430 p.m.
• Session 3
• Monday, 10/16/00, Track C (207)
• 1020 a.m. - 1040 a.m.
• Working Groups to watch GIS, APM
• Tutorials LDAP and Jini

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Grid Computing Environments

• Why
• We are users of Grid services, not developers
• Have unique perspective to contribute
• Purpose of Working Group
• Establish grid standards that are required to
  integrate technology implementations solutions
• Contribute to coherence/interoperability of
  Grid-based computing environments by establishing
  standards, requirements, and best practices that
  are required to integrate technology
  implementations and solutions.

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CGE_at_GF5 Sessons

• Session 1
• Monday, 10/16/00, Track B (307)
• 1020 - 1040 a.m.
• Session 2
• Monday, 10/16/00, Track A (Auditorium)
• 300 430 p.m.
• Session 3
• Monday, 10/16/00, Track C (207)
• 1020 a.m. - 1040 a.m.
• Working Groups to watch GIS, APM
• Tutorials LDAP and Jini

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GCE-wg Session 1

• Welcome Introduction
• History of GCE
• Review of presentation at GF4
• Review Charter
• Goals
• Establish what we plan to do
• Define GCEs
• Finalize Charter
• Initiate white paper

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GCE Getting Started

• Actions Items for GF5
• Organize Develop charter, select chairs, etc.
• Input from existing WGs
• White paper survey of existing/current projects
  to serve as input for common architecture
  elements and how they interact with existing
  services?
• Set up email reflector, invite participation
• Working Group Organizers
• Mary Thomas, Debbie Gracio, Jason Novotny, Piyush
  Mehrotra and others.

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GCE Status as of 10/15/00

• Chairs Mary Thomas, Dennis Gannon, Geoffrey Fox
• Active Mailing List gce-wg_at_gridforum.org
• Initial Charter started
• Background material gathered
• Including Computing Portals data serves as
  starting point for our working group
• White paper started

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GCE Goals for GF5

• Review Charter, which should include
• List of Grid Computing Environments
• Define them
• Define common GCE architectures
• List of Tasks that GCEs try to do
• How do these relate to other working groups
• Begin review of a Best Practices white paper
  base on GCEs, Tasks Architectures.
• Define a product for wg eg the working
  protocol for MyProxy.
• Identify secretary, webmaster for group

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GCE Session 2 Charter Development

• Agenda speakers followed by open forum
• Speaker session
• Ed Siedel eGrids, Testbeds, Applications
• Domenico Laforenza Grid Computing
• GF Working Group Interactions
• Craig Lee GCE APM
• Gregor von Laszewski GIS GCE
• Open discussions
• Dennis Gannon slides
• What are Grid Computing Environments?

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Defining GCE Working Group

• Specific timetables for describing specific
  components (MyProxy, CoG, tools)
• Develop protocols and toolkits for user to use
  now.
• Cactus, nees, grio

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Standards Development for GCEs

• How to use common standards
• Grid/industry intop
• Ref. Archs

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GCE Session 3 Finalizing Charter

• Review of Charter
• Dennis Gannon, Best Pracitces Standards
• Finalizing a list of GCEs
• Final list of Tasks
• Who will help?
• Need task leaders for other white papers
• Determine deliverables and goals for GGF and GF6

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Role of CGE and Other WGs

• user/apps/portals grid
  services
• 
  --gt GIbS-WG
• Models-WG lt--gt --gt
  Accts-WG
• Apps-WG lt--gtlt--gt GCE-WG lt--gt --gt Perf-WG
• Users-WG lt--gt --gt
  Data-WG
• 
  --gt Sched-WG
• 
  --gt Security-WG
• this in not to imply that they do not have thier
  own relationships)

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Session 2

• Comments from Dennis Gannon

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Grid Computing Environments

• BOF was held on Tuesday, July 11, 2000
• Purpose of Working Group
• To establish grid standards that are required to
  integrate technology implementations solutions
• Focus
• contribute to the coherence and interoperability
  of frameworks, application user portals, PSEs,
  etc.
• Deliverables
• Analysis of existing architectures
• Identification of common interfaces, elements,

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What is an Architecture?

• For example, 3-tier model

Desktop Tools
Browser
Workflow Management Application frameworks
Portal Server
Gridland
Execution serv
authentication
Information
Data services
App. metadata
Resource Info
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GCE Charter Issues

• Best Practices Identify exemplar projects
• user portals (Mississippi web portal, HotPage,
  ??)
• Application Area portals and PSEs
• Software Toolkits for building Grid applications
• Java and Perl CoGs, MyProxy, GridPort and GPDK,
  ...
• Grid Application workflow management
• Standards Development for GCEs
• how to use common/standard grid services, APIs,
  SDKs and Protocols
• Grid/Industry standard interoperability
• reference architecture(s) for GCE framework(s).

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Session 3

• Working Group Comments

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Definitions

• A GCE extends the users desktop by providing
  tools that access the Grid services.
• Examples
• Portals users, education web, other
• CACTUS, UNICORE, HotPage, LaunchPad, Mis. Web
• Workflow systems to help manage large tasks
  involving multiple steps
• Applications Cactus
• Collaborative Envs WebDav, (a subset?)
• Object frameworks application composition tools
• How do we consider
• Shell/env, NES Network enable service (Ninf,
  Netsolve)

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TASK GCE Database

• Consider using the NLANR Clearinghouse project
• https//dast.nlanr.net/Clearinghouse
• George Brett will lead this task
• Use to store references to relevant GCE projects
• Merge computing portals data and other websites

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Goals

• Finalize Charter 4 week review
• Choose examples of web based portals
• CACTUS/GPDK - Jason
• UNICORE - Dietmar
• HotPage/GridPort Mary
• LaunchPad George
• Mississippi Web Portals - Thomas
• Atomic Tasks
• How does each do Files? Sec? Job submit?
• When?
• Informational, 1 page summaries of each by early
  January
• TR by GGF1 (prelim)