Welcome to the ISGC 2011.
Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, TW
Planning Teams and Activities for the Afternoon.
Running Existing Seismological Simulation Code on BOINC
Testing Performance on Various Multicore Machines
Exploring Porting to GPUs and Other Processors
Testing Performance of Seismological Code using Virtual Machines
Group meeting to wrap-up since last OGF, discuss the state of the group and the documents under work, discuss comments received during the public comment period, planning for the next period
Agenda:
(1) Welcome
(2) Update since OGF30
(3) State of the WG
(4) Pending and upcoming work on micro specs
(5) Work on Negotiation spec comments
The Storage Resource Manager protocol manages data in the Large Hadron Collider grid, and for many other global grid data infrastructures and applications. This session will look at the current use, in all areas of research, interoperation with other storage, roadmap, and other aspects of large scale data management for science.
This session will look at large scale distributed data management: the SRM protocol is used in some of the largest grids in the world, and the session will look at interoperation, current use and roadmap, and other aspects of managing data on a petabyte scale.
Agenda:
(1) Current use, roadmap, EMI input
(2) Interoperation: iRODS, GAFS, CVMFS, cloud storage
(3) Managing a distributed data infrastructure
(NSI-WG) Presentation NSI working group session will discuss the draft NSI protocol and plans for prototyping
Planning Teams and Activities for the Afternoon.
Session to continue the discussion on comments received on the WS-Agreement Negotiation Specification
Updates on world-wide activities related to interoperability and interoperation of distributed computing and data infrastructures.
Agenda:
(1) Welcome (Morris RIEDEL)
(2) Update on GIN Demonstrations & SC10 Review (Stephen CROUCH)
(3) Operational & Technical Interoperability within EGI (Michaela LECHNER /Sergio ANDREOZZI)
(4) Interoperability Challenges of the European Middleware Initiative (EMI) (Morris RIEDEL)
Continued discussion of draft NSI protocol
Setting up QCN with Laptops, Mobile Phones and USB Sensors
Setting up a QCN Server
Developing A Web-based Dissemination Campaign for QCN in Taiwan
Developing A Strategy for Regional Deployment of QCN in SE Asia
(new) Ad-hoc BOF
The TeraGrid has begun to measure “usage modalities.” We want to measure these modalities to understand what objectives our users are pursuing, how they go about achieving them, and why, so that we can make changes in the TeraGrid to better support them. We believe other infrastructure projects are also working in this area, and this session will allow us to discuss how we can all do this together, including coming up with common definitions and means of measurement. If there is sufficient interest, this could lead to a working group to continue this activity.
Agenda:
(1) Discussion of TG work to-date
(2) Open discussion of other infrastructures work
(3) Discussion of how to go forward
GIN-CG) Presentation
Updates on world-wide activities related to interoperability and interoperation of distributed computing and data infrastructures.
Agenda:
(1) Interoperability Updates between Desktop Grids and Service Grids (Etienne URBAH)
(2) FutureGrid Updates (Andrew GRIMSHAW)
(3) SIENA: European Roadmap on Standards in e-Science (Johannes WATZL)
(4) Updates on RENKEI Interoperability Work (Kazushige SAGA)
(5) Others
(ISOD-RG) Charter-Discussion BOF
The ISOD-RG intends to leverage work done in the currently existing and concluded OGF working groups and other standardisation bodies to provide recommendation about developing a new generalised architecture and framework for dynamically provisioned virtualised services. The scope of the ISOD-RG will also include investigation of the possible architecture frameworks for the Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provisioning model.
ISOD-RG will have 2 sessions. First session will we be devoted to the ISOD-RG charter discussion, second session will host presentations devoted to the technical discussions of the planned deliverables and existing practices and solutions.
This is the first meeting of the On-demand Infrastructure Services provisioning Research Group (ISOD-RG) that follows successful BoF's at OGF28 and OGF30. ISOD-RG will investigate existing practices in the on-demand combined network and IT infrastructure resources provisioning.
Agenda:
Session 1 - Charter Discussion and Work Items
(1) Status Update from the ISOD BoF at OGF31
(2) Charter Discussion ISOD-RG
(3) Discussion: Work Items and Candidate Contributions
The session wants to gauge the interest and activities in performing optimization of particularly complex and computationally expensive problems in Grid and Cloud environments.
Agenda:
(1) Introduction
(2) Overview - who does what
(3) Software and Use Cases
(4) Dos and Donts
(ISOD-RG) Charter-Discussion BOF
The ISOD-RG intends to leverage work done in the currently existing and concluded OGF working groups and other standardisation bodies to provide recommendation about developing a new generalised architecture and framework for dynamically provisioned virtualised services. The scope of the ISOD-RG will also include investigation of the possible architecture frameworks for the Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provisioning model.
ISOD-RG will have 2 sessions. First session will we be devoted to the ISOD-RG charter discussion, second session will host presentations devoted to the technical discussions of the planned deliverables and existing practices and solutions.
Agenda:
Session 2 - On-going developments and projects overview
(1) Projects presentations
GEANT3 Project update: Virtualisation Services and Composable Services
GEYSERS Project: Infrastructure Virtualisation
Other projects
(2) Potential contributions discussion
Overview and analysis Cloud provisioning models
Infrastructure Services Modeling
Other proposals about contribution (e.g. WSAG vs SLAM, etc.)
(PGI-WG) Presentation
As spin-off activity of the Grid Interoperaion Now (GIN) community group, the Production Grid Infrastructure (PGI) working group aims to improve existing open standards (e.g. BES, JSDL, GLUE, etc.) with production Grid experience.
This session presents the current status in terms of the specification and complementary documents (glossary, use cases, etc.).
Agenda:
(1) Published Documents; Glossary & Use Cases
(2) Standardization Status of PGI Specifications
(3) Relationships to other groups
(4) Others
Discussion of RNS Metadata Search Interface
Discuss on GridRPC standard, focusing on data handle
(EMI) Presentation
The European Middleware Initiative (EMI) provides software to support a wildly diverse range of e-Science user communities and their distributed computing and data infrastructures like EGI, PRACE, and others.
Link: http://www.eu-emi.eu/
Agenda:
(1) EMI 101 (Morris RIEDEL)
(2) EMI Standardization Roadmap (Aleksandr KONSTANTINOV)
(2) Standardization within the EMI Data area; pNFS, SRM, & Storage Accounting Records (Patrick FUHRMANN)
(3) GLUE2 as Common Information Model in EMI (Laurence FIELD)
(4) Common Security Profiles using SAML & XACML (John WHITE)
(5) Others
(CAOPS-WG) Group Discussion
Review status of Working Drafts
Agenda:
(1) Opening and IP issues
(2) Review documents status
Auditing Guidelines Document (Yoshio)
IGTF HLCA Policy (Jens)
Relying party defined namespace policies (DavidG)
Authentication service profile (Christos)
Infrastructure federation is becoming an increasingly important issue for modern Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs): Dynamic elasticity of quasi-static Grid environments, incorporation of special-purpose resources into commoditized Cloud infrastructures, cross-community collaboration for increasingly diverging areas of modern e-Science, and Cloud Bursting pose major challenges on the technical level for many resource and middleware providers. Especially with respect to increasing cost of operating data centers, the intelligent, yet automated and secure sharing of resources is a key factor for success.
The DCI Federation Working Group (DCIfed-WG) will, after initial research, deliver a specification for the automatically negotiated, SLA-secured, dynamically provisioned federation of resources and for Grid- and Cloud-type infrastructures. The scope of the specification will include (1) the delegation of workload from one domain into the other, covering job description, submission, and monitoring; and (2) leasing of resources, including resource definition, provisioning, and monitoring.
This session focuses on general issues, group synchronization, open problem discussion, and future planning.
Agenda:
(1) Welcome
(2) What is DCI Federation?
(3) Discussion of open issues from the mailing list
(4) Housekeeping (Conference Calls, Workspaces, etc.)
(5) AOB
(UR-WG) Group Discussion
The Usage Record Format (URF) has been used widely to track resource usage mostly in the context of computing environments.
This session discusses and presents approaches towards a next generation of usage records covering also data and network usage record tracking.
Agenda:
(1) Review URF in compute and its usage
(2) Storage Accounting Approaches
(3) Network Accounting Approaches
(4) Towards URF 2.0
(5) AOB
SAGA-WG) Group Discussion
Opening Ceremony
Chair:
Robert JONES
CERN, CH
Remarks:
Robert JONES
CERN, CH
Simon C. LIN
Academia Sinica, TW
Keynote Speakers:
OGF Welcome and Current Projects in the EGI
Steven NEWHOUSE
EGI.eu, NL
Computing at LHC Experiments in the First Year of Data Taking at 7 TeV
Daniele BONACORSI
INFN, IT
Extending gLite VOs with Volunteer and Institutional BOINC-based Desktop Grids to Execute Parameter Sweep Applications
Peter KACSUK
MTA SZTAKI, HU
Chair:
Robert LOVAS
MTA SZTAKI, HU
Chair:
Robert LOVAS
MTA SZTAKI, HU
Chair:
Robert LOVAS
MTA SZTAKI, HU
Chair:
Robert LOVAS
MTA SZTAKI, HU
(FutureGrid BoF) Ad-hoc BOF
This session will discuss the status of the FutureGrid.
FutureGrid is a project to develop a high-performance grid cloud test bed that will allow scientists to collaboratively develop and test innovative approaches to parallel, grid, and cloud computing. The test bed will be composed of a high-speed network connected to distributed clusters of high-performance computers. FutureGrid will employ virtualization technology to allow the test bed to support a wide range of operating systems. The goal is to build a system that helps researchers identify cyberinfrastructure that best suits their scientific needs. The FutureGrid project is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and is led by Indiana University with University of Chicago, University of Florida, San Diego Supercomputing Center, Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Virginia, University of Tennessee, University of Southern California, Dresden, Purdue University, and Grid 5000 as partner sites.
More information may be found at: https://portal.futuregrid.org/about
Chair:
Kento AIDA
National Institute of Informatics, JP
Chair:
Kento AIDA
National Institute of Informatics, JP
Chair:
Kento AIDA
National Institute of Informatics, JP
Chair:
Kento AIDA
National Institute of Informatics, JP
Chair:
Hiroshi SAKAMOTO
The University of Tokyo, JP
Chair:
Hiroshi SAKAMOTO
The University of Tokyo, JP
Outreach session giving the status of the network topology modelling
(SAGA-WG) Group Discussion
Chair:
Simon C. LIN
Academia Sinica, TW
Chair:
Bob JONES
CERN, CH
This Workshop propose a step forward on the successful Workshop organized by the EU-IndiaGrid2 project at OGF30 in Brussels: Interoperation and Interoperability across European and Indian e-Infrastructures, and will be organised in cooperation by the CHAIN and the EU-IndiaGrid2 projects. The CHAIN project, (Co-ordination and Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures) started on 1st December 2010.
Agenda:
(1) Introduction
(2) Network aspects
Contribution from DANTA/TEIN3
Contributions from Region Representatives
(3) Regional e-Infrastructures
Contribution from EGI
Contribution from CHAIN
Contribution from EU-IndiaGrid2
Contribution from Regional
e Infrastructures
(4) Middleware solutions
Contribution from EGI/EMI
Contributions from Grid
(5) Interoperation Now Community Group
Contribution from Regional
e Infrastructures
(6) Conclusions
This session will introduce OCCI with two talks: "The OCCI Architecture" and "The OCCI Core".
This Workshop propose a step forward on the successful Workshop organized by the EU-IndiaGrid2 project at OGF30 in Brussels: Interoperation and Interoperability across European and Indian e-Infrastructures, and will be organised in cooperation by the CHAIN and the EU-IndiaGrid2 projects. The CHAIN project, (Co-ordination and Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures) started on 1st December 2010.
Agenda:
(1) Introduction
(2) Network aspects
Contribution from DANTA/TEIN3
Contributions from Region Representatives
(3) Regional e-Infrastructures
Contribution from EGI
Contribution from CHAIN
Contribution from EU-IndiaGrid2
Contribution from Regional
e Infrastructures
(4) Middleware solutions
Contribution from EGI/EMI
Contributions from Grid
(5) Interoperation Now Community Group
Contribution from Regional
e Infrastructures
(6) Conclusions
(OCCI-WG) Group Discussion
This session will focus on how OCCI relates to other standards being developed in the cloud standards space.
Cloud Computing has offered several benefits that SMEs can strategically leverage by doing a paradigm shift in their IT development and operations. However, as ever, there are several pitfalls including vendor lockin, lack of interoperability, portability and federated deployability support. In this BoF session, we would like the participants throw up possible best practices, engage and debate its wider applicability across various markets within Asia and the world at large and across various vertical domains. In addition, we will examine similar efforts put in by contemporary standards bodies and share their experiences.
Agenda:
1. Introduction
2. Cloud computing usage across Asian SMEs
3. Key challenges faced by the Asian SMEs in leveraging the Cloud computing services - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
4. Best Practices for successful leverage
5. Learnings
6. Session Wrap-up.
OGSA-DMI-WG) Group Discussion
The OGSA DMI Working Group tackles the problems of discovering of data transport protocols available at the data's source and destination location and agreeing on one of them, and the actual invocation of the agreed data movement. This includes direct data movements and 3rd party data movements.
This session will present an overview of the OGSA-DMI working group, summarize the past and current efforts-functional specification, renderings, and the experiences from different OGSA-DMI implementations. Furthermore, the session will also present the working group's recent effort to tackle multiple source-sink data transfer requirements. As we are working towards the next version of OGSA-DMI specification, it will be an opportunity for data management experts to share their experiences and contributions during the session.
Agenda:
(1) Functional and Rendering Specification
(2) Experiences from the OGSA-DMI WS-I Implementations
(3) Multiple source / sink transfers
This session is an opportunity for researchers in cloud and grid security to present recent developments. Hot topics include authorisation and delegation, firewalls, security aspects of virtualisation, applications of encryption, interoperation and performance, protection against DDoS, standards, and much more. The Cloud Security session at OGF30 was a great success, with presentations on many different aspects of cloud security, from both industry and academia.
elegation is the process where a remote agent obtains a credential that allows it to act on behalf of some user, so gaining authorisation to use resources. Delegation is often needed within current Grid environments; for example, a job that runs at some remote site requires access to data on the basis that the job was launched by an authorised user.
GridSite Delegation (GSD) is a protocol that allows a server to obtain a delegated credential. It does this securely, without sending the private key over the network, and using a standard communication frameworks: SSLv3 and SOAP.
GSD was initially conceived as part of the GridSite project and later adopted by EGEE/gLite as a standard protocol. There exists C and Java implementations (both the server and client components) that were developed independently. GSD is currently in use within the European Middleware Initiative (EMI) and further afield.
This BoF session is to look at establishing a working group to take the existing GSD documentation and write a OGF INFO document that describes the GSD protocol. This document may become the basis for some future OGF standard.
This session is an opportunity for researchers in cloud and grid security to present recent developments. Hot topics include authorisation and delegation, firewalls, security aspects of virtualisation, applications of encryption, interoperation and performance, protection against DDoS, standards, and much more. The Cloud Security session at OGF30 was a great success, with presentations on many different aspects of cloud security, from both industry and academia.
This workshop will focus on roadmaps for OGF standards, in particular as they relate to cloud models of distributed computing.
This session is an opportunity for researchers in cloud and grid security to present recent developments. Hot topics include authorisation and delegation, firewalls, security aspects of virtualisation, applications of encryption, interoperation and performance, protection against DDoS, standards, and much more.
The Cloud Security session at OGF30 was a great success, with presentations on many different aspects of cloud security, from both industry and academia.
This BoF will discuss issues related to Cloud-to-Grid and Grid-to-Cloud standardization.