Production Grid Services (PGS-RG)

1. Production Grid Services(PGS-RG) Laura McGinnis, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Judith Utley, Old Dominion University David Wallom, University of Bristol 1 of 15-ish

2. Merger Charter review Administrivia Web Site Mailing List Concalls? Open Documents Grid Constitution Tools and Requirements Next steps and commitments Future Workshops GGF15: Campus Grids and Grids on Campuses GGF16: Resource Issues in Grid Computing GGF17: Business Analyses of Grid Computing Opportunities Open Session Review and wrap-up Agenda 2 of 15-ish

3. Charter Review Purpose: The purpose of this group is to bring together grid practitioners to document experiences, identify best practice and develop informational documents. These documents are offered as suggested guides to organizations moving a grid to the persistent level. This group also explores new paradigms in supporting grids that aspire to become large scale grids with a large user/application base, while not excluding the small grid efforts. In addition, this forum can be used to discuss problems and concerns that are likely to be encountered, technical as well as non-technical, when moving grid testbeds to production environments. This group should have an ongoing presence in GGF, serving a SIG/UG purpose in the grid community. 3 of 15-ish

4. Charter: Goals G-1) Identify technical and non-technical issues that need to be addressed for a production grid installation to be successful. G-2) Develop "common practices" documents for critical issues as they are identified. G-3) Facilitate opportunities for grid users and practitioners to share experiences in bringing grids to production. G-4) Spin off Working Groups when the need for detailed GGF documents (e.g. recommendations) is identified. 4 of 15-ish

5. Charter: Milestones M-1) Grid Constitution Document - spin off WG to complete M-2) PGM Survey M-3) Tools Document - to be completed by current team (had been submitted to GGF Editor) M-4) Trouble Ticket Document - reevaluate interest, identify authors for this document; spin off WG if warranted M-5) Workshops 5 of 15-ish

6. Chairs Chairs: • David Wallom, University of Bristol • Judith Utley, Old Dominion University • Laura McGinnis, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center 6 of 15-ish

7. Administrivia • Chairs: • David Wallom, University of Bristol (david.wallom@bristol.ac.uk) • Judith Utley, Old Dominion University (jputley@earthlink.net) • Laura McGinnis, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (lfm@psc.edu) • Website: www.psc.edu/~lfm/PSC/Grid/PGS-RG • Mailing List: pgs-rg@gridforum.org • Conference Calls: • Can be once or twice/month • PSC will host • Toll-free US; international number available • Working calls to discuss workshop details, documents, etc. 7 of 15-ish

8. Workshop Planning • GGF15 (Boston, October 2005) • Campus Grids and Grids on Campuses • GGF16 (Location TBD, March 2006) • Resource Issues in Production Grids • GGF17 (Location TBD, June 2006) • Business Analyses of Grid Computing Opportunities 8 of 15-ish

9. Workshop Planning: GGF15 Campus Grids and Grids on Campuses • Co-Sponsoring RG/WGs • Topics & Speakers • Length: ½ day or full day? 9 of 15-ish

10. Workshop Planning: GGF16 Resource Issues in Production Grids • Co-Sponsoring RG/WGs • Topics & Speakers • Accounting • Security • Identity: Credentials, Authentication, etc • Data • Length: ½ day or full day? 10 of 15-ish

11. Workshop Planning: GGF17 Business Analyses of Grid Computing Opportunities • Co-Sponsoring RG/WGs • Topics & Speakers • Length: ½ day or full day? 11 of 15-ish

12. Open Session 12 of 15-ish

13. Wrap-up • Administrivia • Mailing list • Concalls • Documents • Workshops • Open Session 13 of 15-ish