RE: Grid Portals workshop at LBL wrap-up

["Mary Thomas" <mthomas@sdsc.edu>]

All -

I hear from the SDSC'rs that it was a great meeting.  I am sorry
to have missed it :-(  

I would like to suggest that we keep momentum
by agreeing to meet again around the NASA/IPG annual review
that is, I think, in August.  

Thinking ahead, like all great people, Bill J. planned for me
to organize a portals collaboration workshop like we had last 
year, which was VERY productive.  A workshop gives us a real target
date and sets deadlines (which always _enables_ productivity).

AFter the GGF meeting and the GCE working groups have time
to complete thier initial docs, we may well have a set of
schemas that will be beta-standards.

If this sounds good, I will start making workshop plans.

Mary
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  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: novotny@bullwinkle.lbl.gov [mailto:novotny@bullwinkle.lbl.gov]On
  > Behalf Of Jason Novotny
  > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 12:25 PM
  > To: Michael Russell; Gregor von Laszewski; jshalf@lbl.gov; Mary Thomas;
  > thinke@mail.arc.nasa.gov; Jarek Gawor; launchpad@nas.nasa.gov;
  > grid-portals@george.lbl.gov; btemko@cs.indiana.edu; mdahan@sdsc.edu;
  > mock@sdsc.edu; becker@nas.nasa.gov; haupt@erc.msstate.edu;
  > shawn@ncsa.uiuc.edu; EWBethel@lbl.gov; massimo.cafaro@unile.it;
  > gce-wg@gridforum.org
  > Subject: Grid Portals workshop at LBL wrap-up
  > 
  > 
  > 
  >     Thanks again to all those who attended the Grid Portals 
  > Developer Workshop. I
  > believe it was quite successful in presenting new and useful 
  > information as well
  > providing us with some discussion/task items for the future. 
  > The slides are online at:
  >     http://www-itg.lbl.gov/Grid/public/events/agenda.html (pdf 
  > coming soon!)
  > 
  >     To continue our thread of discussion, we wanted to 
  > standardize data models across
  > Grid information services. Although we had disgreed on the 
  > merit of constructing user
  > profile schemas, other possible schemas that were discussed were:
  > 
  >     - batchML. Gregor's term for developing a data schema for 
  > batch queuing systems.
  > This would address deficiencies in current MDS representations 
  > of scheduling resources.
  > 
  >     - Application schemas- Dennis Gannon talked about this at 
  > Mary's workshop in SDSC.
  > Deemed useful for application portals trying to unite VO's and 
  > providing Grid
  > interoperability. Dennis and folks at NCSA apparently have done 
  > some work in this area.
  > We should continue to iterate on schema ideas, possibly 
  > expressed in XML, but the
  > representation isn't important on the first pass.
  > 
  >     Please chime in with other ideas if you are interested (and 
  > join Grid Forum Grid
  > Computing Environments (GCE) mail list  if you haven't already 
  > at www.gridforum.org)
  > 
  >     Thanks, Jason
  > 
  > 
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