This workshop, to be hosted at the UK National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh, falls within the remit of the Grid Computing Environments research group of the Global Grid Forum. Attendees will be from groups worldwide active in developing generic portal and portlet technologies or in applying such frameworks to e-Science tasks such as client-side
Grid interfaces and Problem Solving Environments. The first two days of the workshop will be of wide interest and will provide information and review current projects. The second two days will aim to identify current research issues, future directions and areas where shared technology can accelerate the deployment and uptake of e-Science.
We will aim to write up the proceedings from this meeting to form a short report or "research monograph" which can be published at GGF or elsewhere.
Preliminary programme:
Copies of the presentations given at the Portals Workshop are available at http://www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=261
Day 1 Focus on Portal Technologies:
Start 10am, finish 6pm
The aim of this day is to show what portal user interfaces and generic frameworks people are using so far.
Grid Portal session
- Rob Allan (Daresbury Laboratory) "Introduction to the Workshop"
- Dennis Gannon (Indiana) "The NCSA Alliance Portal and the
Plan for OGCE"
- Roberto Barbera (INFN) "GENIUS Portal for the European Data Grid"
- Beppe Ugolotti (EngineFrame) "Engineframe, the GridPortal in
Engineering and Industry: success cases"
- Kurt Mueller (SDSC), "NPACI HotPage Update"
- Charles Severance (University of Michigan) "NEESGrid, CHEF and the Grid"
- Michael Russell (Potsdam) "The GridLab Portal Project"
- Massimo Cafaro (ISUFI/CACT, University of Lecce) "Web Access to the
Grid using the Grid Resource Broker portal"
JISC Portal session
- Chris Awre (JISC) "Feedback on the JISC Portals Programme"
- Sandy Buchanan (SCRAN, Edinburgh) - "The Pixus Image Portal project"
- Tim Stickland (EDINA) - "XGrain broker for cross-searching of
information isources"
- Eddie Boyle (EDINA) - "Go-Geo! Portal for geo-spatial discovery"
<Day 2 Focus on Portlet Frameworks:
Start 10am, finish 6pm
Aim of this day is to show how portlets are used and how they can encapsulate underlying functionality for Portals and PSEs.
- Speaker tba () "JPortlet Source Forge Project"
- Jason Novotny (AEI) "The GridSphere Architecture"
- Jason Novotny (AEI) "GridLab Portlet Services"
- Eric Roberts (University of Texas) "HotPage Portlet Development at TACC"
- Tomislav Urban (University of Texas) "GridPort 3.0 Plans"
- Maciej Bogdanski (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center) "PROGRESS Experience with Sun One Portal Framework"
- Francisco Pinto, Mike Fraser and Sebastian Rahtz (Research
Technologies/ Subject Portals Project, University of
Oxford) "Portlet Framework+Standards=Functionality Freedom"
- Robert Sherratt (Hull) "The uPortal Framework and Channels"
- Speaker tba (IBM) "Portlets in IBM WebSphere"
- Speaker tba (), "TACC Portlet Demonstration"
- Discussion on Portlet Frameworks
Day 3 Focus on Portal Services for PSEs:
Start 10am, finish 6pm
The aim of this day is to consider re-usable architectures, common components and underlying Web and Grid services.
- Andrew Richards and Rob Allan (Daresbury Laboratory) "Grid Portal
Services in the IeSE Integrated e-Science Environment"
- Rik Tyer and Glen Drinkwater (Daresbury Laboratory) "Data
Management Portal Serivces in IeSE"
- Stephen Pickles (University of Manchester) "Desktop services and
the GRENADE project"
- Jason Novotny (AEI) "The GridSphere Portlet
Service Model"
- Maciej Bogdanski (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center) "The PROGRESS Grid Service Provider"
- David Walker (University of Cardiff) "Workflow serivces, Triana
etc."
- Tomislav Urban (University of Texas) "The Grid Portal Information
Repository (GPIR) System."
- Murtaza Gulamali (Imperial College, London) - "ICENI Inside:
Exposing the OGSA through a portal"
- Geoffrey Fox and Marlon Pierce (Indiana) "Portal Components for
Distributed
Collaboration"
- Matthew Dovey (University of Oxford) - Discussion of WSRP: The
purpose of this TC is to develop a web services standard that
will allow for the "plug-n-play" of portals, other intermediary
web applications that aggregate content, and applications from
disparate sources
Day 4 Practical Sessions:
Start 10am, finish 4pm
Aim of this day is to give practical demonstrations of some of the technology discussed in the previous days.
- Oliver Wehrens, Michael Russell and Jason Novotny (GridLab Project) Tutorials on
Building Portlets using the GridSphere Framework:
- "Installing the GridSphere Portlet Framework"
- "Portlet Development 101: Writing a Simple Portlet"
- "Advanced Portlet Development using the GridSphere model"
- Practical demonstrations on how to use GRB and its libraries in
several application contexts (Remote Sensing, Biomedical Imaging,
Climate Modelling, etc).
- Practical demonstrations of HPCPortal, InfoPortal and DataPortal
- Other practical sessions tba.
The event will be hosted by the e-Science
Institute in Edinburgh which is a centre for education and
research for e-Science, and provides new state-of-the art
facilities including an Access Grid system.
Travel
The e-Science Institute is less than 15 minutes walk from Waverley
rail station, and from St Andrews square bus stations. It is
approximately 20 minutes by taxi from Edinburgh airport (40
minutes by bus). Please see our web site for a map of the area.
