GCE: Grid Forum 5

[Mary Thomas <mthomas@SDSC.EDU>]

All -

Grid Froum 5 is just 2 few weeks away.  As a new
group, our first focus will be to do the following:

   1.  Commit to forming this group and defining
       what we want to do and what our contributions
       to the Grid Forum will be.
   2.  Finalize a charter:  I am readying a rough draft
       based on GF guidelines
       final version.   
   3.  Finalize chairs, secretary and a website maintainer.
   4.  Initiate one or more whitepapers which we 
       will use for later work.
   

We now have nearly 30  members on our list, and a wide
variety of views, our challenge will be to sythensize
these activities into well organized categories.

As a starting point for debate, I would like to work
on defining a set of basic terms and then agree upon
definitions.  For example, what do we mean by grid
computing environments?  What is a portal?  What is
a PSE (problem solving env?).  We will use the results
for our inital Charter and an initial 'best practices'
survey white paper.

I will post separate email threads for each of the 
following topics:

1.  What is a GCE?
2.  What do GCE's try to do?
3.  What services do GCE's need from the Grid?

If anyone cares to volunteer to 'champion'; these 
discussions, that would be very helpful.

Mary 

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 Mary Thomas                                    E-mail: mthomas@sdsc.edu
 Manager, Computational Science Portals Group   Phone:  (858) 534-5061
 Scientific Computing Department                Fax:    (858) 534-5117
 San Diego Supercomputer Center             http://www.sdsc.edu/~mthomas
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