UK Globus Week

04 April, 05 10:00 AM - 08 April, 05 04:00 PM

e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, , Edinburgh

Organisers:

Dr Jennifer Schopf, Prof Malcom Atkinson, Dr Dave Berry, Dr David Fergusson, Dr Mike Mineter

Any slides or other material generated as a result of this event can be found at: www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=519

UK Globus Week overview

Following the success of our 2003 tutorials on Globus Toolkit 3, we are pleased to announce Globus Week, to be held at NeSC on April 4 to 8, supported by Dr. Carl Kesselman and the Globus Team from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Southern California/ ISI. This event is sponsored by the National e-Science Centre (NeSC).

Motivation

The Globus Toolkit (http://www.globus.org/toolkit) provides libraries and components that enable the development of service-oriented Grid applications and infrastructures. Core Globus components address basic issues relating to security, resource access and management, data movement and management, resource discovery, and so forth. A broader Globus ecosystem includes numerous tools and components that build on core Globus functionality to provide application-level functions.

Globus Toolkit version 4 (GT4), to be released as a beta version in March 2005, will provide a range of new services and features. In addition, by delivering the first robust implementation of Globus Web services components, GT4 completes the first stage of the migration of Web services that began in 2003 with GT3. Thus, it is timely to convene a meeting, both to communicate the latest status of Globus software and to enable intense conversation between Globus developers and users concerning future directions for open source Grid software.

Aims

The UK Globus Week has five aims:

To bring together people from the UK, Europe, and globally with a significant interest in the Grid, Globus toolkit, and stable, standard, and cost-effective high performance computing.
To present Globus developments and research, and to demonstrate case studies of academic and commercial Globus use.
To provide a program of tutorials, workshops, Questions & Answers, and demonstrations from the Globus Alliance, tailored to the needs to the UK Grid community.
To develop a roadmap for continued Globus development, deployment, integration, and support, which draws on skills and experience from within institutions, eScience Projects, the Grid Operations Center (GOC), UK National Grid Service (NGS), and UK Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII).
To stimulate the formation of a community that will undertake this work.
To document the event's proceedings as a UK eScience Technical Report.

Presenters for the tutorals include Carl Kesselman, Bill Allcock, Charles Bacon, Lisa Childers, and Jennifer Schopf, as well as other members of the Globus Alliance who will be present for the week; a valuable and rare opportunity for the UK and EGEE communities.

Available talk titles and abstracts can be found here or by clicking on the speakers name in the agenda below.

Monday April 4
Globus Toolkit Training for System Administrators Presenters: Lisa Childers, ANL Charles Bacon, ANL Bill Allcock, ANL Jarek Gawor, ANL Kostas Tourlas, NeSC
10:00	Introduction Basic Installation Security
12:00	Lunch
13:00	GridFTP WS Java Core OGSA-DAI
15:00	Coffee Break
15:30	RFT GRAM MDS Wrap-up
17:30	Close
Tuesday April 5
Globus Toolkit for Users Lisa Childers (ANL) Charles Bacon (ANL) Bill Allcock (ANL) Jarek Gawor (ANL) Amrey Krause (EPCC)
09:00	Introduction Security
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	GridFTP
12:00	Lunch
13:00	MyProxy WS Java Core OGSA-DAI RFT RLS
15:00	Coffee Break
15:30	GRAM MDS Wrap-up (15 mins) [Lisa]
17:00	Close
Wednesday April 6
09:00 - 17:00	Globus Toolkit Training for Building Grid Services Pre-requisites : Build a Grid Service Tutorial (6th April) Before arriving, it is required that you install some software on your laptop in order to run the tutorial. It is available from: http://www-unix.globus.org/toolkit/tutorials/BAS/UKApril/index.html Please be sure to do this before you arrive, and to run the verification script available at that website. If you need additional help installing the software, please contact bacon@mcs.anl.gov. Getting Started: Deploy a Service State Management Part I: Create Resources Lifetime Management Part I: Destroy Resources State Management Part II: Add a Resource Property Aggregating Resources: Register with a Local Index Building a VO: Register with a Community Index Lifetime Management Part II: Lease-based Model Notification: Resource as Notification Producer Discovery: Find a Resource Security Part I: Service-Level Security Part II (optional): Resource-Level
Thursday April 7 - Globus Futures
09:00	Chair: Malcolm Atkinson Welcome: Malcolm Atkinson, NeSC Keynote: Carl Kesselman, USC/ISI "The Globus Toolkit V4.0: Current Status and Future Directions"
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	GT2/3 Experiences and Futures. Chair: Jen Schopf David Wallom, (Campus Grid) Mark Calleja (e-Minerals) Stephen Pickles (NGS)
12:30	Lunch
13:30	GT3/4 experiences and futures. Chair: Steven Newhouse Conrad Hughes, Dependable Grid Services (DGS) Terry Sloan, INWA, JOSH Terry Harmer Engineering Task Force (ETF)
15:00	Coffee Break
15:30	GT3/4 evaluation and experiences. Chair: Dave Berry Theirry Delaitre (GEMLCA) Neil Chue Hong (OGSA-DAI) Bill Allcock (performance and security evaluation) Response from Globus (Globus Alliance) Dicussion Planning for Breakout Sessions
17:30	Close
Friday April 8 - Contribution Policy and Process
09:00	Globus contribution process. Chair: Dave Berry
09:00	Discussion of Process: Lisa Childers
09:30	Breakouts to discuss what people think is currently missing, what UK eScience might contribute, and possible collaborative projects by topic. Data management Job submission Monitoring Security Build and test Others?
10:30	Coffee break
11:00	Breakouts continue (people may shift to a different area)
12:00	Lunch
13:00	Report back. Chair: Jen Schopf Each group presents 1 slide of their top 3 issues (and 1 page from each breakout will be submitted for report)
13:30	Interoperability Panel. Moderator: Carl Kesselman Jarek Gawor (WS-RF) Steven Newhouse (OMII) Erwin Laure (EGEE) Mark McKeown (WS-RF lite) Savas Parastatidis (WS-GAF) Some questions to be discussed: Which of the other technologies represented here are you interoperable with today? What is your security solution - and what other security solutions will it work with? Which currently evolving standards you plan to adopt? Which components developed elsewhere would you consider adopting into your system? Do you have a common core that could be used between systems? Do you see a role for standard APIs as well as interoperable protocols?

For those who have paid for the conference dinner it will be held at Howies, Waterloo Place (http://www.howies.uk.com/homepage.html) on the 7 April at 19:30.

Bookings

Applying for this event is a two step process. Please follow the instructions provided on the registration page.

Enquiries

Enquiries should be made directly to our Conference Administrator.

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.

http://www.nesc.ac.uk