Why Global Grid Forum

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Why Global Grid Forum?

• Promote Interoperability and Best of Breed
• Reduce Duplication, Increase Quality

• Building, managing, using Grids
• Creating Grid Technologies

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Global Grid Forum Status

• Participation is Increasing
• Since June 1999 - 5 Major Workshops in US, 2 in
  Europe
• GF5 in October 190 participants, 110
  organizations, 11 countries
• Mailing lists 500 individuals from 150
  organizations, 24 countries
• How To Participate
• Get informed and participate in electronic
  discussions
• GGF1 in Amsterdam (4-7 March 2001)
• Work is getting done
• 10 Working Groups (plus 2 proposed), 25 Grid
  Working Drafts
• How to Contribute
• Help increase application teams participation
• Bring your implemented solutions/attempts into
  discussions

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Global GF Working Groups

• Scheduling and Resource Management
• Security
• Performance
• User Services
• Remote Data Access
• Grid Information Services
• Advanced Programming Models

• Accounting / Resource Tracking
• Grid Computing Environments
• Applications and Testbeds
• Proposed
• Grid Architectures
• Collaborative Environments

Merger of eGrid GF working groups
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Global Grid Forum History
1999
2000
GF BOF (Orlando)
GF1 (San Jose NASA Ames)
GF2 (Chicago iCAIR)
eGrid and GF BOFs (Portland)
GF3 (San Diego SDSC)
eGrid1(Posnan PSNC)
GF4 (Redmond Microsoft)
Asia-Pacific GF Planning (Yokohama)
eGrid2 (Munich at Europar)
GF5 (Boston Sun)
Global GF BOF (Dallas)
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Global Grid Forum 2001
2001
GGF1 (Amsterdam) March 4-7, 2001 w/ European
Data Grid Kickoff (March 7-9) Hosts Amsterdam
Science and Technology Center (SARA, Univ.
Amsterdam, NIKHEF) Details at website by 1 Dec.
2000
GGF2 (Washington, DC) July 15-18, 2001 Details at
website by Feb 2001
GGF2 (tbd) October, 2001 Details at website by
April 2001
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Global Grid Forum Organization

• General Chair
• Charlie Catlett (ANL)
• Steering Group
• Ruth Aydt (UIUC)
• Ian Foster (ANL)
• Andrew Grimshaw (Applied Meta)
• Bill Johnston (LBNL NASA IPG)
• Domenico Laforenza (CNUCE)
• Satoshi Matsuoka (TIT)
• Jarek Nabryski (Poznan SNC)
• Satoshi Sekiguchi (ETL)

• Advisory Committee
• Frederica Darema (NSF)
• Bill Feiereisen (NASA)
• Fabrizio Gagliardi (CERN)
• Paul Messina (DOE)
• Yoichi Muraoka (Waseda)
• Alexander Reinefeld (ZIB)
• Rick Stevens (ANL)
• Ongoing Discussions
• Process Document Series
• Relationship to ISOC, W3C, etc.

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Current Grid Working Drafts
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Year 2000 Global GF Sponsorship Program

• Platinum (gt25,000)
• Argonne National Laboratory
• NASA NAS
• Microsoft Research
• Sun Microsystems
• Gold (10,000 - 25,000)
• NCSA
• SDSC
• Silver (5,000 - 10,000)
• Boeing Phantom Works, Northwestern University,
  University of Virginia, VA Linux

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Year 2001 Global GF Sponsorship Program

• Similar 3-Level Structure (Silver/Gold/Platinum)
• Multiple Sponsorship Opportunities
• Meeting Sponsorship
• Three major workshops in March, July, October
• Receptions, email rooms, etc.
• Minority Serving Institutions Program
• Participant sponsorship
• Global GF Portal Creation
• Redesign of website for Global Grid Forum with
  added capabilities for participants, document
  repository, etc.