Call for usecase for Grid Checkpoint/Recovery (GridCPR)

[Paul Stodghill <stodghil@cs.cornell.edu>]

At GGF9 in Chicago, the GridCPR Working Group decided to produce a
document that describes the usecases for checkpoint and recovery in a
Grid environment. This document will be submitted to the GGF for
discussion at GGF10 and will eventually become a GWD-I document. The
purpose of this document is to provide a focus for the
checkpoint/recovery API that will be proposed in the near future.

This message is a call for usecases to be included in the document!

If you are interested in providing a usecase for the working group,
please do the following,

1. Read the working group's charter at,

        http://gridcpr.psc.edu/GGF/charter/GridCPR-WG-charter.1.1.txt

   In particular, the GridCPR working is charged with defining,

	"a user-level API and associated layer of services that will
	permit checkpointed jobs to be recovered and continued on the
	same or on remote Grid resources."

   Our focus is on

	"recoverability of jobs among heterogeneous Grid resources"

   This means, for instance, that we are not considering system-level
   checkpoint/recovery schemes (a la Condor) at this time.

   If you are not sure whether your usecase falls under this working
   group's charter, please submit it anyway!

2. Write up your usecase(s). We are not providing a template, but
   we ask that you please be sure to highlight,

    - How you would use GridCPR in your scenario, and
    - What makes your scenario difficult for GridCPR.

3. Submit your usecases to the GridCPR mailing list
   <gridcpr-wg@gridforum.org> or to the usecase document editor (Paul
   Stodghill <stodghil@cs.cornell.edu>).

   Please submit your usecase by October 31, 2003.

Here is the current schedule for the production of this usecase
document,

- October 31, 2003 - Usecase submission deadline.
- November 30, 2003 - First draft submitted to GridCPR mailing list for discussion.
- January 15, 2004 - Draft completed and submitted to GGF
- March 2004 - Discussion of draft at GGF10 in Frankfurt, Germany.
- Post GGF 10 - Revise document and submit to GGF Document Editor for
			final approval.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to get in touch
with me. Thanks.

Paul Stodghill <stodghil@cs.cornell.edu>
Deptartment of Computer Science
4128 Upson Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY  14853
USA