GCE-RG: GGF7 Grid Portal Architecture Workshop

["Mary Thomas" <mthomas@austin.tacc.utexas.edu>]

All -

For GGF7, the GCE-RG is organizing a workshop titled:

              Grid Portal Architecture Workshop
    http://www.computingportals.org/meetings/ggf7/
               Thu 6 Mar 2003: 08:00-13:30

The goal of this workshop is to articulate a community standard architecture for 
Grid Portals. This portal architecture would allow portal application developers to 
build specialized application components (portlets) that could be easily installed 
in any compliant portal server and easily configured by users to operate in their 
environment. This architecture should provide a standard way for the application 
portlets to share information and important user specific context data such as proxy 
certificates.
 
Important issues and Questions
 
*	Are the current portal frameworks, such as Jetspeed, 
	sufficient for all our requirements?
*	Is the portlet model the right one for Grid applications?  
*	When is the Web "pull" model insufficient for Grid applications?
*	What Grid services are needed to make Grid portals useful?
*	Are the proposed OGSA core Grid services appropriate and useable 
	by Grid portals?  
*	What other Grid middleware implications are there for Grid portal interoperability?
*	What are the requirements for a messaging and notification model 
	to be used by Grid portals? 
*	How do we build a GridShell?  How does one create a user's Grid Context?
*	How do we design a Grid portal architecture that best supports
	 collaboration?
*	Two important standard have emerged:  WSIA (Web Services for 
	Interactive Applications) and WSRP (Web Services for Remote 
	Portals).  Are these sufficient for the requirements of Grid 
	Applications?

The workshop details and agenda are posted on the GCE website
listed above. We are seeking a few contributed presentations
as well as invited talks. Please contact myself, or Dennis Gannon 
(gannon@cs.indiana.edu) if you are interested in presenting.

We hope to see you at GGF7
Mary

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Mary Thomas                                            
mthomas@tacc.utexas.edu
Manager, Grid Computing Group   (512) 471-6363 (office)
Texas Advanced Computing Center    (512) 475-9445 (fax)
University of Texas at Austin          
http://tacc.utexas.edu/~mthomas
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