GCE: March Meeting Task List

["Mary Thomas" <mthomas@SDSC.EDU>]

All -

Time to get organized for the March meeting.  Geoffrey Fox was
here in San Diego, and we came up with some thoughts, the
raw notes I have included below.

We discussed the history of DATOOR and ComputingPortals, what
was good & useful, and what was not.  As a result, we decided that
a good focus and deliverable for our working group would be a special issue
of Concurrency, Practice and Experience focussed on current best
practices in Grid Computing.

Here is the basic Process, with some due dates
1. Find BP Candidates (have some, but need more European input)
2. Get a list of issues with elaborations (END of JAN BY ITERATING LIST
BELOW)
3. Ask BP Candidates to talk and write about issues at GGF1 with a
   template doc (END JAN to END FEB)
4. Refine annotated issues list and produce call for papers
     work on this at GGF1, complet by  (END of MARCH)
5. Papers ---> publish
	End June SUBMIT DATE
	End August REVIEW PROCESS
	End October Final
	Feb 2002 Publish
6.  Redo new list start End of June,  finish for October Meeting
    "list" becomes cosmic overview to be published next year
    papers published in (5) become October presentations (Or, we
    get a session at HPDC, but that is out of synch).

This is pretty exciting, since it gives us all a venue to publish,
and that will drive interest and _participation_.  This will be a
valuable benefit to the GCE community.  Should this task be added
to the charter?

For March, we have the following KEY tasks:
Task 1. GCE charter (NEARLY DONE)
Task 2. Drive GCE mailing list discussion of ISSUES
        subtask: take issues list and create the Best Prac template
Task 3: Organize BP papers, and presentations for GGF1
        subtask:  submit as official WG docs
        subtask:  organize GGF1 presentations
Task 4. Organize CPE special issue
        subtask: call for papers, etc.

I will be starting separate threads on some of these
(like the issues).  We don't have much time for any of
these, but I think that we can get this done for GGF1.

Mary
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Mary Thomas                                    Email: mthomas@sdsc.edu
Manager, Computational Sciences Portals Group  Ph:    858.534.5061
Scientific Computing Department                Fax:      858.534.5117
San Diego Supercomputer Center                 www.sdsc.edu/~mthomas

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RAW NOTES:

* Special Issue on Architecture and Applications of Portals
* special focus on portal architecture and implications for
  Computational Grids
* Papers can contain:

Overview
Capabilities
Experience
Status
Futures
Architecture
What works CS and Application
Futures What will work in CS and Applications

Papers can address the following Issues:
	Metaschedulers
	(XML) object specifications for computers, users, programs, data streams
.....
	Security
	Tools e.g. scientific whiteboard
	Implementation
		Architecture, Java EJB JMS SOAP Perl ...
	Scalability
	Fault Tolerance
	Complexity (real people can't install Complex Codes)
      Others TBD

need to elaborate each item in issues list

Process
1. Find BP Candidates DONE
2. Get a list of issues with elaborations END JAN BY ITERATING LIST ABOVE
3. Ask BP Candidates to talk and write about issues at GGF1 with
   template  END JAN to END FEB
4. Refine annotated list and produce call for papers  END MARCH
5. Papers ---> publish
	End June SUBMIT
	End August REVIEW
	End October Final
	Feb 2002 Publish
6. Redo new list start End June finish for October Meeting
7. Present mini-papers at October Meeting
8. March "list" becomes cosmic overview to be published.