GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
GridNet2 – Enabling UK Leadership in Grid Standards
6th February 2005
Principal Investigator: Malcolm Atkinson
1. Part 1: Previous Track
Record
As described in more detail in Part 2, this is an
application to continue to support the UK’s active
engagement in standardisation that benefits UK
e-Science. This track record therefore focuses initially
on UK-wide achievements in relevant standards.
1.1. UK’s Effect on Grid Standards
Partially as a result of GridNet1 the UK has
established a significant influence on the
development of standards and in the sharing of best
practices. This engagement is invaluable as the future
of e-Research, the generalisation of e-Science,
demands a cost-effective, sustainable, persistent and
reliable e-Infrastructure [1]1. For this we require
standards and shared best practices for three reasons:
1. the task of creating, operating and
maintaining e-Infrastructure is so large that
it is essential to collaborate internationally –
this requires standards so that independently
produced and autonomously managed parts
can inter-work;
2. the community of users engage in a myriad
of collaborations, many of them
international – so that they require
internationally inter-operating
e-Infrastructure;
3. the mobility of users and the requirement
that investments in applications and highlevel tools be re-usable at many sites
internationally – requires standard
environments for users’ work and
applications’ services.
1.2. GridNet1 Grant
The previous project, GridNet, here called GridNet1
to differentiate if from the current proposal, was
funded by the EPSRC grant GR/R74772/01. It has
been operated by NeSC on behalf of the whole UK
e-Science community since February 2002; it
terminates in February 2005 (see
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/gridnet.html). This has
been a significant success in three important respects:
1. It has established UK staff and activities in
leading roles in standards bodies;
2. It has enabled UK practitioners of
e-Sciences to influence emerging standards;
and
3. It has placed UK researchers and developers
in an international community ensuring
rapid communication of ideas, best practice
and plans – an important step in making
internationally sustained e-Infrastructure
available to the UK research community.
Evidence for this success is given as appendices A, B
and C respectively showing:
1. The roles UK e-Scientists play in relevant
standards bodies – participating in 40 GGF
groups, covering all areas of GGF and
providing 4 area directors and 18 group
chairs;
2. The UK e-Scientists named on developing
standards proposals – as authors of 9 of the
41 formally processed GGF documents; and
3. The reports of the UK e-Scientists funded
by GridNet – an extensive list based on a
survey with 44 respondents active in GGF,
IETF, OASIS and W3C2.
In each case, the report is an underestimate, as it is
difficult to conduct full and up-to-date scans, and
not all funded e-Scientists have yet responded to the
request for reports. Financial and administrative data
is presented in Part 2.
1.3. NeSC & eSI
NeSC has a staff of 15, with responsibility for
supporting the UK e-Science Core Programme.
NeSC runs the e-Science Institute with a vigorous
programme of workshops, training, conferences,
meetings and visitors – 20,000 participant days by
November 2004. At NeSC, the eDIKT project
(funded by SHEFC, £2.3 million for the first three
years), is developing middleware to support data
intensive scientific research and commercial
applications. The eDIKT has a team of 12, including
eight developers and a technical architect. NeSC and
EPCC brought GGF5 to the UK.
1.4. University of Edinburgh
The School of Informatics at Edinburgh is the largest 5*
rated CS group in the UK and has a particularly
strong database group led by Peter Buneman. Their
interests include management of scientific data,
digital data curation (DCC) and data integration.
Edinburgh is engaged in seven eSCP Centre projects:
OGSA-DAI/DAIT, GridWeaver, SunDCG,
BRIDGES, MS .NET Grid, FirstDIG and PGP
Grid. It leads AstroGrid, QCDGrid, ILDG,
ENHANCE and eMAP. It has a major role in
GridPP, ScotGrid, RealityGrid, the Wellcome Trust
Cardiovascular Genomics Project, JISC DyVOSE, eScience e-Diamond, GeneExpress, CoAKTing,
DIRC Dependable Grid Services and MRC
NEOSIM. It has recently obtained a SHEFC
Abbreviations and specialist terms are explained in
Appendix F.
2
1
References are on page 9.
Malcolm Atkinson
1/29
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
Scottish Bioinformatics Research Network and a
BBSRC QTLgrid.
EPCC was established in 1990 and has a staff of 65
including a software engineering team of over 30,
with an established and documented software
development process, which undertakes
approximately one million pounds worth of contract
software development per year. EPCC has a proven
track record of delivering production-quality
software to a wide range of commercial end-users,
from multi-nationals and government agencies to
specialist UK manufacturing firms. EPCC has
continuing leadership in European IST projects for
training and Grid technology, e.g.: ENACTS,
GridStart and TRACS2000. EPCC is the lead
contractor in the HPCx project (£53 million over 6
years).
1.5. Malcolm Atkinson
GridNet2 will be led by Malcolm Atkinson,
Director of NeSC and Professor of e-Science in the
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
For 20 years Atkinson was professor of Software
Engineering at the University of Glasgow. During
which time, he led the Computing Science
Department to a 5* RAE rating, contributed
substantially to database and distributed systems
research, helped establish UKCRC, led more than 15
research projects, and engaged in extensive industrial
collaboration and consultancy. Successful projects
from that time, include FIDE1 and FIDE2
developing a European framework for DB
programming. He was the database consultant on the
Malcolm Atkinson
2/29
HMS project developing a healthcare system, and
created the DRASTIC & ZEST projects developing
automated change handling for data integration in
distributed persistent object systems. He led the
PJava project, developing persistent Java (this has led
to storage management and debugging components
in JVM products) and created GRUMPS collecting
information about computer uses in worldwide
distributed systems. He chaired the VLDB99 PC,
and has been a member of many VLDB &
SIGMOD committees. He is a Fellow of the BCS
and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
In his recent role, he has led the UK e-Science
Architectural Task Force, is a member of the
e-Science Technical Advisory Group, the OMII
Steering Committee and the GOSC management
committee. He has written chapters for the two
major books on Grids, has been elected to the GGF
Steering Group, the GGF Research Oversight
Committee, the Journal of Grid Computing Editorial
Board, and the Globus Alliance Board. He is on the
Scientific Advisory Board of the GEON project in
SDSC and the Simula Research Centre in Oslo. He
recently joined a Helmoltz panel reviewing the Grid
R&D at Juelich and Karlsruhe. He leads training in
the EGEE and NextGrid projects and is engaged in
the architecture work in NextGrid. He is active in
organising International Grid Summer Schools. He
has a total of more than 100 publications. He visits
other research centres extensively and represents UK
e-Science at International meetings.
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
2. Part 2: Description of proposed research
2.1. Overview
The very active UK e-Science community has had a
major influence on the international development
and adoption of standards. There is a growing need
for investment in standards as the complexity, scope
and ambition of e-Infrastructure increases, as the
number of countries, projects and organisations
engaged in delivering e-Infrastructure grows rapidly,
and as the user communities become more diverse.
Without standards it will not be possible to deliver
and support high-quality, sustainable, internationally
inter-operating e-Infrastructures [1]. Therefore
investment in standards and UK commitment to
develop and adopt them must be sustained.
Open standards developed and deployed by global
consortia are the best insurance that the deployed
e-Infrastructures will remain open to meet research,
governmental, industrial and commercial needs and
will remain accessible to those that wish to develop
them to meet new requirements in their sector or
research discipline.
Developing common understanding, collecting and
refining use cases, converging on agreed
specifications, evaluating and revising those
specifications, and concluding a standard, is a long,
arduous and labour intensive process. It cannot be
conducted without support. There are two costs, the
investment of time by leading practitioners (>6 staff
years/year – see Appendix C) and the incidental but
Figure 1: illustrating maturity and (expected)
adoption of some WS standards3
non-trivial travel and subsistence costs incurred. The
GridNet proposals only address the latter. UK
e-Scientists have willingly donated their time, and
their employers and principal investigators have
considered this a worthwhile investment. Typically
research grants and institutions do not have funds to
cover the incidental costs and it is therefore
necessary to continue GridNet funding if the UK is
to continue to play strongly in standards
development.
We may soon encounter a time where major standards warrant
invested time but no institution or project is able to donate staff
effort. This proposal does not cover that eventuality.
SDOs depend on nearly full-time staff for leadership
roles – the UK may in the future contribute and
hence pay for such leaders. That eventuality is also
not considered here.
During GridNet1 the UK engagement grew as the
maturity of the UK community developed and as the
number of relevant standards activities increased.
The growing complexity and the urgency of
standardisation work in web service and grid
contexts means that we now need to invest further
and have increasing engagement in steering the
process. Mechanisms are therefore proposed for
stimulating, coordinating and guiding UK
standardisation – so that the UK’s voice becomes
even more effective.
3 From OGSA Status and Future, Hiro Kishimoto and
Ian Foster, GGF12, slide originally from Michael
Behrens, DISA consultant.
Malcolm Atkinson
3/29
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
representations, often called ontologies, so that data
generated across many groups can be interpreted
consistently – an example is the widespread use of
Figure 2: illustrating status and relationship of some
OGSA-related standards (requirements)4
Use Cases
&
Applications
GRID
COMPUTING
DISTRIBUTED
COMPUTING
Distributed query processing
Collaboration
Multi Media
ASP
VO Management
OGSA Self
OGSA-EMS
WS-DAI
Information
WSDM
Discovery
GGF-UR
WS-BaseNotification
Naming
Privacy
Trust
GFD-C.16
WSRF-RP
WSRF-RL
Data Model
WSRF-RAP
WS-Addressing
WS-Security
Gap
2.2. Background
The overall requirements of e-Infrastructure include
the construction and operation of the largest ever
distributed computational systems. These depend on
the Internet, and for the most part, we can take the
standards for network provision for granted. Above
that level are basic and commonly agreed web service
standards characterised by WS-I [2] such as
WSDL1.2, SOAP and WS-Security. Above these are
a complex set of developing and rival standards, such
as WSRF, WS-BA, WS-AT, WS-Eventing and
WS-Notification, partially characterised in Figures 1
and 2. Both figures highlight the need for further
standardisation – in 1 to establish standards and in 2
to fill in substantial gaps in standards for grid
architectures.
2.2.1. Higher-level standards
In order that inter-operation can be achieved at
levels which are useful without hand-crafted
adaptation of protocols and the messages they carry,
higher-level standards are needed, such as common
agreements on job submission and description, being
addressed by the GGF JSDL WG, and on data
operations, such as queries and updates, being
addressed by the GGF DAIS WG – in both
examples, the UK plays a leading role. It is also
important to develop standards that make it possible
to write applications easily and have them work in
any e-Infrastructure context – this is addressed by
the GGF SAGA working group – again the UK has
a significant role. Similar efforts are required to
develop general and domain related common
4 Provided by David Snelling (Fujitsu) and Mark
Linesch (GGF & HP).
4/29
SAML/XACML
WSDL
HTTP(S)/SOAP
Hole
Malcolm Atkinson
Data Centre
Persistent Archive
Core
Services
Base
Profile
UTILITY
COMPUTING
X.509
CIM/JSIM
Evolving
Data
Transport
Standard
the rock classification ontology developed by the
British Geological Survey. We also need: (1)
consistent user interfaces to reduce the need for
training and to facilitate mobility, (2) consistent
management interfaces to enable extensive
e-Infrastructure deployment and management, (3)
agreed representations and interpretations of policies
for use, negotiation, authorisation, and accounting,
and (4) established standards which development
tools use to aid application development, debugging
and tuning.
UK e-Scientists should engage in these efforts to
ensure that:
1. the emerging standards suit UK
requirements by contributing their
understanding,
2. the UK community avoids waste by taking
into account standards work as it progresses,
and
3. the standards and their reference
implementations remain open.
In some cases, we can expect to do more, by leading
and thereby placing UK industry and research at an
advantage with the first-in-field opportunities.
2.2.2. GridNet1 Achievements
GridNet1 established a UK presence at GGF and in
other standards bodies. This includes 46 people
registered and active at GGF, a representative on
GFAC and 5 representatives on GFSG. The UK
provides leadership in 16 of the GGF working and
research groups. We have more potential influence
on GGF standards than any country other than the
USA. We have also increased our presence on
relevant committees of W3C and OASIS standards
groups. This would not have happened without the
UK’s substantial investment in e-Science. GridNet1
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
played an important role in directing energy and
found in Appendix D. The members of the GNAB
insight into standards efforts. Further details of these
who have sustained the effort of reviewing and
achievements can be found in Appendices A to C.
monitoring the GridNet1 allocation process are given
GridNet1 was set up and administered by
Table 2: The Original GridNet1 Advisory Board team
NeSC. This included establishing a web
Name
Institution
Malcolm Atkinson NeSC Director, ATF & DBTF, Edinburgh & Glasgow
interface for applications which also set out
Jon Crowcroft
Member of TAG & GNT, University of Cambridge
the prevailing arrangements. The support
John Darlington
LeSC Director & TAG, Imperial College
process included the following steps:
Dave Hutchinson
Chair GNT & member TAG, U. Lancaster CoE
1. Advice on application suitability,
Andy Keane
SeSC Director & TAG, So’ton
usually handled by the PI.
Andy Parker
CeSC Director, Cambridge University
Ron Perrott
BeSC Director & TAG, Queens University, Belfast
2. Completed web-form submission,
automatically registered in process
in Table 2.
DB.
2.3. New requirements for GridNet2
3. Review by three members of the GridNet
Today
the UK is heavily engaged in the standards
Advisory Board (GNAB1).
process and we have to recognise that much of the
4. Resolution of differences in reviewers’
work is done between meetings of the SDOs. Three
responses.
examples are:
5. Notification
1. Regular telcons to progress standards and
6. Monitoring and claims.
documents, for example, the OGSA WG of
GGF has an average of 3 telcons / week, as
The funding made available is either a direct claim
it has subsidiary design teams, and the three
arrangement with the individual claimant or a budget
DAIS documents are the subject of telcons
that is managed via an institutional account. For
amongst their authors, editors, reviewers
efficiency, to avoid repeated demands on the GNAB
and contributors.
we encouraged the latter form and once a feel for
contributions and costs were established, encouraged
2. Face-to-face (f2f) meetings are used to get
budgets covering several people and a period of the
undivided focus on the issues in a standard
order of a year – partly because it is not possible to
– these last from two to four days, and
deliver useful input to standards via a single trip and
require either hosting or travel – for
partly to reduce administration and reviewing
example, Dr McGough’s recent funding is
overheads. It has always been the case that GridNet1
to host an f2f for the JSDL WG at Imperial,
has only funded sustained commitment. Table 1
and Dr Jha’s recent funding is to attend two
shows the budgets allocated and funds claimed so
SAGA WG f2f meetings.
far; many groups have yet to make their final claims.
3. Document preparation meetings where
subgroups of editors and authors meet to
Table 1: Allocations and Claims by Universities
consolidate the results of the work that has
University
Number
Allocation
Claimed
been undertaken through mail lists, web
Cambridge
1
£18,000.00
£6,012.93
forums, f2f and telcons.
Cardiff
5
£24,440.00
£15,919.22
When a standard is nearing completion, it is
Edinburgh
6 £136,760.43
£90,762.34
necessary to “socialise” it in order to enhance its
Glasgow
2
£16,000.00
£4,289.40
prospects for adoption – standards are only useful if
Imperial
2
£30,618.10
£21,493.84
they are widely adopted. This involves visiting
Lancaster
1
£6,000.00
£0.00
relevant projects, middleware development teams
Leeds
1
£1,000.00
£1,000.00
and industry decision makers. As many UK staff
Manchester
12
£70,376.68
£49,248.54
now lead work on standards, they will need to
Newcastle
2
£14,000.00
£9,664.06
undertake socialisation tours with GridNet2 funding.
QMC London
1
£8,000.00
£5,156.91
In the last three years, some of the standards of
Queens, Belfast
1
£30,000.00
£7,974.58
central concern to e-Science have moved to become
Salford
1
£4,000.00
£4,000.00
of central importance to industry and commerce. A
Southampton
4
£27,641.64
£24,712.32
pertinent example is the transition of OGSI as a WG
UC London
2
£3,000.00
£1,000.00
at GGF to a group of standards, WS-Resource
41 £389,836.85 £241,234.14
Framework (WSRF) and WS-Notification, at OASIS.
In many cases, such as this, it is vital that the UK
This corresponds to 46 claims – most requests are
interests are expressed and that we remain in touch
successful because of prior informal advice. It
with the progress, evolution and assessment of these
corresponds to successful claims by 32 people, some
standards and their rivals. This requires the support
make repeat claims and some make a claim for a
of membership as well as engagement at such SDOs.
group of staff, e.g. Dr Baxter’s claims for EPCC staff
The UK now has senior positions in various SDOs
engaged in standards, and Prof Perrott’s claim for
and a large active community. The urgency of
Queens University Belfast staff. Full details may be
Malcolm Atkinson
5/29
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
achieving consensus and formulating agreements as
standards has never been greater. Yet the standards
context is in turmoil with many overlapping
activities, rival proposals and substantial gaps. It
would be all too easy for enthusiasm and effort to be
wasted. It is therefore necessary to engage in various
co-ordination and support actions so that UK
investment in standards has increased effect. Care
must be taken to avoid:
1. imposing extra demands for time on people
already committing very large amounts of
time on standards, and
2. dampening enthusiasm where engagement is
already effective, e.g. in JSDL and SAGA.
2.4. Programme and methodology
The mechanisms that have already proved effective
in GridNet1 will be refreshed, revised and redeployed
(see http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/gridnet.html).
Additional mechanisms will be provided to meet the
new requirements identified above. The refreshed
facilities will include:
1. Appointment of an enlarged GNAB – to
share the reviewing load and to ensure
representative engagement with UK
requirements and expertise.
2. Wide advertisement of the available
resource to the UK community, through the
NeSC web site and newsletter, Directors’
meetings, All-Hands Meetings, and
opportunistically, e.g. at eSI and other
meetings. This will include a summary of
the achievements from GridNet1 based on
the information collated in the appendices
of this document.
3. Continuation of the application, budget
allocation and monitoring process (see
2.2.2). This will include the necessary web
site maintenance, database infrastructure,
book keeping, communication and process
oversight.
New operational arrangements will include:
1. A quarterly report on the web site of
allocations and achievements, together with
notices of meetings and new web forums
(PI + Tech. PA task).
2. A tabulation of all known UK participants
in relevant standards processes and their
roles – a “who’s-who” of UK e-Science
standardisation efforts (PI + Tech. PA).
3. UK participants will be required to produce
a timely and brief report on each meeting
they attend with comments on important
outcomes and their impact on the UK.
4. UK standardisation Access Grid (AG)
meetings hosted by NeSC and chaired by
the GridNet2 PI, to coordinate UK
standards work and to recognise
requirements for specific meetings and
Malcolm Atkinson
6/29
coordinated actions. The GNAB2, the UK
members of SDO steering committees and
the UK Core Programme Directorate, as
well as all recipients of GridNet 1 or 2 funds
and any interested UK parties will be invited
to attend. There will be at least 4 such
meetings / year, they will include prepared
position papers, identify UK issues, seek
UK consensus and agree tactics for
imminent SDO meetings. One per year will
be more strategic and additional meetings
will be called for specific issues and
subgroups of the community (PI, GNAB2 +
Tech. PA).
5. Specialist standardisation mail-lists, web
forums, AG meetings, telcons and f2f
meetings, when the need is recognised, to
develop UK strategies, consensus or
adoption of specific issues or standards.
These will be organised by and supported
from NeSC (eSCP Directorate + PI).
6. Provide support for hosting as well as
attending f2f standards meetings. (The eSI
will continue to support such meetings, but
often standardisation leaders wish to hold
them in their own institution.)
7. Provide support for socialising UK led
standards.
8. Provide support for hosting (and in
exceptional circumstances attending) regular
international telcons.
The above two groups of operational activities cover
the role of GridNet1 revised to meet today’s
standardisation environment. Three extensions to
the GridNet1 role are proposed:
1. Handling sponsorship and membership of SDOs.
The UK sponsorship or membership of
GGF, EGA, OASIS and similar
organisations has previously been agreed
and arranged by the UK e-Science Core
Programme Directorate. At their request, it
is proposed that this be subsumed by
GridNet2 and coordinated with other
standards activities.
2. Supporting SDO steering group members. This
requires special support as there are large
demands placed on people who commit to
such governance activities. For example,
GFSG members meet for 2 days prior to
each GGF plus have extra f2f meetings (e.g.
2 days in November 04 in Pittsburgh, USA
and 3 days January 05 in San Francisco),
have weekly international telcons and all the
activities they take on, such as oversight of a
standardisation area or planning and
arranging major events. Not only should
these activities be funded, some assistance
should also be available to which routine
tasks, such as setting up telcons, and
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
collating / web-publishing information can
be delegated.
3. Providing immediate response. There are
occasional requests for a quick response,
e.g. for support to host an f2f at short
notice. Often the requestor wishes to make
a commitment to host an f2f before leaving
the current meeting. It is proposed that the
PI be given a mandate to make such
decisions up to a threshold of £1000,
provided that (a) these are reported to the
GNAB2 at the next quarterly meeting and
(b) that policy formulated by GNAB2 on
such expenditure is properly observed.
2.5. Relevance to beneficiaries
The UK e-Science community, and in the medium
term the UK e-Research community, will benefit
directly through three effects:
1. Efficiencies and economies from effective
international collaboration in the
construction, deployment and operation of
e-Infrastructure – a direct result of UK
requirements influencing standards and UK
experts being informed by engagement in
standards.
2. Accelerated research and development as
the UK’s advanced middleware and
applications will be better adapted to
sustainability and will support mobility
across international boundaries of code,
data and researchers themselves.
3. Opportunities for UK services, innovation
and business to flourish based on being well
informed and closely engaged in the
international standards milieu.
An absence of standards consumes the time of
e-Infrastructure developers as they investigate
alternatives, as they adopt different paths and then
have to build bridges between divergent platforms or
retrofit subsequent standards. This will happen
within the UK and more seriously internationally
unless relevant standards are developed. A similar
prospect of waste due to lack of code portability
afflicts applications developers unless all relevant
APIs are standardised; MPI was developed as a
standard to overcome just such a problem. The
research leaders and application researchers are
presented with confusion and uncertainty until
standards emerge. Such uncertainty will undermine
confidence. In the event of local standards,
international collaboration and researcher mobility
has higher cost. Therefore the penalties of nonengagement, the consequence of discontinuing
GridNet are significant and widespread.
Conversely, if GridNet2 funds are judiciously applied
they will yield standards that have considerable
benefits. The funds will be directed to areas where
understanding and maturity permits relevant
standards to emerge. As the UK currently has
Malcolm Atkinson
7/29
leadership in many areas of e-Science, it has the best
understanding and capability for formulating the
standards. By engaging energetically in these
standards the GridNet2 community will ensure this
leadership has international influence, increase the
rate at which standards emerge and steer those
standards to match UK investment and established
e-Science practices.
2.6. Dissemination and exploitation
The opportunities, achievements and progress of the
GridNet2 supported community will be collected,
collated and summarised on the NeSC web site.
Relevant summaries, extracts and major
achievements will be presented to UK e-Science
Directors and to TAG and will be communicated by
the NeSC newsletter. Much of the work results in
standards or documents leading to standards and
these are read by a wide community interested in
standards.
GridNet2 includes technical communication which
will make it possible to be much more proactive than
in GridNet1, identifying the work in which the UK is
engaged and the work on which it depends, reporting
the UK consensus and contributions and
highlighting crucial pending issues and their
subsequent resolution. These final components will
be a crucial part of making SDO governance more
effective and of coordinating UK input into SDOs.
Extracts and highlights will be published widely, e.g.
in popular journals, such as the New Scientist, to
explain the challenge and value of standards and their
contribution to UK e-Infrastructure.
2.7. Management
The PI will be Prof. Malcolm Atkinson PhD FRSE
FBCS, who is himself engaged in standards,
especially those being developed by the DAIS WG,
the data aspects of OGSA WG and those pertaining
to data transport. He is also a member of the GFSG
and the architecture team of the NextGrid project.
He will provide direction and leadership, coordinate
the work of GNAB2, give advice on applications,
communicate with the UK e-Science Core
Programme and take overall financial and managerial
responsibility for the project.
The co-PI will be Dr Anna Kenway, NeSC Centre
Manager. She will take responsibility for appointing
and supervising staff engaged on GridNet2 and will
direct and oversee operations, including the financial
bookkeeping, the web presentation and the formal
communication with applicants and institutions.
Both the PI and co-PI will attend the quarterly
GridNet2 AG coordination meetings.
The proposed constitution and terms of reference of
the GNAB2 are given in Appendix E. The GNAB2
will provide the basis for all funding decisions above
the proposed PI’s discretion threshold and will
advise on the overall conduct of the GridNet2
project. The initial membership of the GNAB2 is
given in Table 3.
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
Table 3: Proposed Membership of the GNAB2
Name
Position & Responsibilities
Prof. Malcolm Atkinson
PI GridNet, Director of NeSC and eSI,
PI OGSA-DAIT, member GFSG
Dr John Brooke
Deputy director ESNW, U. Manchester
Prof. David Chadwick
U. Kent & STF
Prof. Jon Crowcroft
U. Cambridge Computing Lab. & TAG
Dr Martin Dove
Director of NIEeS, Cambridge
Mr Alex Hardisty
Manager, Welsh e-Science Centre
Prof. Peter Henderson
PI OMII
Dr Shantenu Jha
Research Fellow, UCL
Prof. Andy Keane
Director Southampton e-Science Institute
Dr Stephen McGough
LeSC & Imperial
Dr Steven Newhouse
Deputy Director OMII
Dr Savas Parastatidis
NEReSC and OMII TAB
Prof. Andy Parker
Director of Cambridge e-Science Centre
Prof. Ron Perrott
Director Belfast e-Science Centre
Prof. Rob Procter
Director NCeSS
Dr Chris Rushbridge
Director DCC
Dr Richard Sinnott
Deputy director, Glasgow NeSC
Dr Arthur Trew
Director EPCC, Edinburgh
2.8. Justification of resources
The following items are considered: (a) funds to be
allocated to support standards work by UK staff, (b)
funds for UK sponsorship and membership of
SDOs, (c) support for UK members of SDO
governing bodies and (d) staff and their support
costs at NeSC to operate GridNet2. The costs are
summarised in Tables 4 and 5. The first is funding
sought from the EPSRC and is calculated without
inflation on staff salaries and with 46% overhead.
The second is funding sought from JISC JCSR with
inflation included in salary calculations but without
salary overheads.
Summary of Costs for GridNet2
Table 4: Summary of Costs for GridNet2 EPSRC Component
Year 1
Year 2
Total
Members' travel, subsistence, telcons and face-to-face meetings
Subtotal
£116,500 £119,995
£236,495
SDO: Sponsorship and Membership
Subtotal
£60,000
£61,800
£121,800
NeSC staff & costs
Book-keeper
£11,400
£12,054
£23,454
Sys Admin (Ian Soutar)
£2,121
£2,145
£4,266
Subtotal
£13,521
£14,199
£27,720
Staff Overheads
£6,220
£6,532
£12,751
Total
£196,241 £202,526
£398,766
Table 5: Summary of Costs for GridNet2 JISC Component
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
SDO Gov. travel, subsistence, telcons and face-to-face meetings
Number
4
3
wkly telcons
£450
£464
£914
f2f @3/yr
£2,700
£2,781
£5,481
events @3/yr
£3,150
£3,245
£6,395
extra days
£750
£773
£1,523
Subtotal
£28,200
£21,785
£49,985
NeSC staff
Tech-PA
£8,676
£9,336
£18,012
Equipment + S/W
£1,500
£300
£1,800
Consumables
£500
£515
£1,015
Total
£38,876
£31,936
£70,811
Notes on these costs:
1. The first subtotal is based on the mean
allocation / year of GridNet1 – it does not
take into account increasing activity.
2. The second subtotal is based on the
sponsorships and memberships currently
paid by the UK Core Programme to GGF.
3. The third subtotal is based on the four
members of the GFSG currently in
Universities (Malcolm Atkinson, Edinburgh;
Peter Clarke, Edinburgh; David De Roure,
Southampton and Stephen Pickles,
Manchester), the recent costs for all four,
the costs for the last year for Peter Clarke
and on the recent and planned GFSG
meetings. Peter Clarke’s has resigned from
GFSG effective January 2005. Telcons have
been costed at 10p/minute, 100
minutes/week & 45 weeks/year. Travel
and subsistence at £650 per return journey
+ £100 per day.
4. The NeSC staff costs are based on the
continuation of the bookkeeping,
administration and systems administration
at the same rate as for GridNet1. There is
a new post, Technical Personal Assistant,
that will spend one day/week in support of
the GFSG and other SDO governance
appointments and one day/week
collecting, collating and presenting
information and other activities that
improve the coordination and strategies of
the UK e-Science standardisation
community, whether or not they are funded
by GridNet2. This material will be
disseminated to the GridNet2 sponsored
workers and will be input to the
coordination meetings.
1
HM Treasury, Department of Trade and Industry, and Department of Education and Skills, Science & innovation investment
framework 2004 – 2014, July 2004, section 2.25.
2
Malcolm Atkinson, David DeRoure, Alistair Dunlop, Geoffrey Fox, Peter Henderson, Tony Hey, Norman Paton, Steven
Newhouse, Savas Parastatidis, Anne Trefethen and Paul Watson., Web Service Grids: An Evolutionary Approach, August 2004, UK
e-Science Technical Report Series, UKeS-2004-05.
Malcolm Atkinson
8/29
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
Appendix A: UK e-Scientists’ standardisation roles
All data in these appendices omits activities after 31st December 2004. The following table is gleaned from scanning
the GGF web site, which does not show the full set of engagements, for example, all of the active group
membership. It also omits UK work at W3C, EGA, OASIS and IETF. Groups with no visible UK activity on the
GGF web site are omitted, but that web site significantly understates community activity. In a few cases individuals
identified below have ceased in the role shown, but were active in that role for much of the duration of GridNet1.
Area
Group
Applications and Programming Models Environment
Advanced Collaboration
Environments RG
Grid checkpoint recovery WG
Applications and test beds RG
UK staff
Michael Daw, member, Manchester
Grid user services RG
Life Sciences Grid RG
Production grid management
RG
Simple API for Grid
Applications RG
Accounting Models RG
Architecture
Open Grid Services Architecture
WG
Open Grid Services
Infrastructure WG
Common Management Model
WG
Grid Policy RG
Grid Protocol Architecture RG
Semantic Grid RG
Service Management
Frameworks RG
Data
Data Access and Integration
Services WG
Grid File Systems WG
Info Dissemination WG
Persistent Archives WG
OGSA Replication services WG
Data Format Description
Language WG
IPv6 WG
Data Transport WG
Transaction Management RG
Malcolm Atkinson
Stephen Pickles, member, Manchester
Simon Cox, chair, So’ton; Shantenu Jha, secretary, UCL;
Nicholas Walton, member, Cambridge
David Wallom, member, Bristol; David Baker, So’ton
Carole Goble, workflow subcommittee leader,
Manchester, Richard Sinnott, member/contributor,
NeSC
Steven Newhouse, member, OMII; Mark McKewan,
member, Manchester; David Wallom, member, Bristol
Ian Taylor, secretary, Cardiff; Shantenu Jha, secretary,
UCL; Hakki Eres, member, So’ton
Jonathan Giddy, member, Cardiff
David Snelling, area director, Fujitsu
David Berry, data design leader, Edinburgh; Mario
Antonioletti, member, Edinburgh; Malcolm Atkinson,
member, Edinburgh; Stephen Pickles, member,
Manchester; David Snelling, member, Fujitsu;
A. Djaoui, member, RAL
David Snelling, chair, Fujitsu; Savas Parastatidis,
member, Newcastle; Stephen Pickles, member,
Manchester; Tim Banks, member, IBM UK; Guy
Rixon, member, Cambridge; A. Djaoui, member, RAL
David Snelling, admin., Fujitsu
Kirstin Kleese van Dam, member, Daresbury Lab.
David Snelling, admin., Fujitsu
Carole Goble, chair, Manchester; David De Roure,
chair, So’ton; Malcolm Atkinson, member, Edinburgh;
Peter Clarke, member, Edinburgh; Danius Michaelides,
member, So’ton (Omer Rana, ex-Secretary, Cardiff)
Omer Rana, co-chair, Cardiff; Steven Newhouse,
member, OMII
Peter Clarke, area director, Edinburgh
Norman Paton, chair, Manchester; Dave Pearson, chair,
Oracle UK; Mario Antonioletti, secretary, Edinburgh;
Malcolm Atkinson, member, Edinburgh; Martin
Westhead, member, ex Edinburgh; Vijay Dialani,
member, So’ton, Savas Parastatidis, member, Newcastle;
Simon Laws, member, IBM UK; Gary Li, member,
OMII; Brian Collins, member, ex IBM UK; Amrey
Krause, member, Edinburgh; Andrew Borley, member,
IBM UK; Jonathan Davies, member, IBM UK; James
Magowan, member, IBM UK; Kev O’Neill, member,
RAL
Ananta Manandhar, member, Daresbury Lab.
Steve Fisher, secretary, RAL; Mario Antonioletti,
member, Edinburgh; David Bell, member, Brunel; Vijay
Dialani, member, So’ton
Kerstin Kleese van Dam, member, Daresbury Lab.
Vijay Dialani, member, So’ton
Martin Westhead, chair, ex Edinburgh; Neil Chue
Hong, member, Edinburgh
Piers O’Hanlon, admin., UCL; Sheng Jiang, member,
UCL; Vijay Dialani, member, So’ton
Neil Chue Hong, secretary, Edinburgh; Yee Li,
member, UCL;
Jim Webber, chair, Newcastle
9/29
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
Information Systems and Performance
CIM-based Grid Schema WG
Discovery/monitoring event
description WG
Network Measurements WG
Brian Collins, member, IBM UK;
James Magowan, member, IBM UK
Grid Information Retrieval WG
Network Measurements for
Apps RG
Relational Grid Information
Services RG
P2P
Richard Hughes-Jones, admin, Manchester; Paul
Mealor, member, UCL; Mark Leese, member,
Daresbury Lab.
Kev O’Neil, member, RAL
Richard Hughes-Jones, co-chair, Manchester; Mark
Leese, co-chair, RAL
Steve Fisher, chair, RAL; Kev O’Neil, member, RAL
David De Roure, area director, So’ton
Matthew Leslie, admin., Oxford
Ian Taylor, co-chair, Cardiff
OGSA-P2P RG
Appliance Aggregation
Architecture RG
Jini WG
Omer Rana, co-chair, Cardiff
Grid Security
Authorization Frameworks and
Mechanisms WG
Certificate Authority Operations
WG
OGSA Authorization WG
Site AAA Requirements RG
Authority Recognition RG
Scheduling and Resource Management
Configuration Description,
Deployment and Lifecycle
Management WG
Grid Economic Services
Architecture WG
Job Submission Description
Language WG
OGSA Resource Usage Service
WG
Andrew McNab, chair, Manchester; David Chadwick,
member, Salford; Kev O’Neil, member, RAL, Richard
Sinnott, member NeSC
David Wallom, member, Bristol
Andrew McNab, chair, Manchester; David Chadwick,
member, Salford
Kev O’Neil, member, RAL
David Chadwick, chair, Salford
Stephen Pickles, area director, Manchester
David Bell, member, Brunel
Jon MacLaren, chair, Manchester; Steven Newhouse,
chair, OMII; Jonathan Giddy, member, Cardiff
Stephen McGough, chair, Imperial; Ali Anjomshoaa,
chair, Edinburgh; William Lee, member, Imperial
Steven Newhouse, chair, OMII; James Macowan,
member, IBM UK; Jonathan Giddy, member, Cardiff
Table A1: Roles of UK staff at GGF
Appendix B: UK e-Scientists’ standards documents
The following table is gleaned from scanning the GGF published papers. It is not complete, as many of the papers
are still under development. Only UK authors are named. The number of other authors is also given.
Author(s)
M. P. Atkinson, V. Dialani,
N.W. Paton, D. Pearson, T. Storey
& P. Watson + 2
D. Snelling + 9
P. Clarke + 3
R. Hughes-Jones + 5
Group
DAIS WG
Reference #
GFD.13
Paper title
Grid Database Access and Integration: Requirements and
Functionalities
OGSI WG
GFSG
NM-WG
GFD.15
GFD.19
GFD.23
J. Magowan + 1
T. Banks, A. Djaoui, S. Parastatidis
& D. Snelling + 9
P. Clarke + 3
DAMED-WG
OGSI-WG
GFD.25
GFD.31
Open Grid Services Infrastructure
Job Description for GGF Steering Group Members
A Hierarchy of Network Performance Characteristics for
Grid Applications and Services
An analysis of “Top N” Event Descriptions
Open Grid Service Infrastructure Primer
GFSG
GFD.34
D. Simeonidou, R. Nejabati,
P. Clarke & D. Hutchison + 9
A. McNab + 9
GHPN-RG
GFD.36
AuthZ-WG
GFD.38
Documentation Required to Request Formation of a
Working Group in the GGF
Optical Network Infrastructure for Grid
Conceptual Grid Authorization Framework and
Classification
Table B1: UK authors on published GGF papers
In summary UK authors have contributed to 9 of the 41 GGF documents so far formally published. The next
appendix shows they are contributing to many more currently under development.
Malcolm Atkinson
10/29
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
Appendix C: GridNet1-sponsored e-Scientists’ Reports
The following reports have been received summarising work and achievements from e-Scientists who have been
sponsored by GridNet1. Again, the data is incomplete because not every participant replied to the recent request.
The data is presented in two parts:
1. A table summarising replies from a questionnaire shown below, and
2. A response to a request to Savas Parastatidis to identify UK roles in OASIS.
The questionnaire sent by email to all those funded by GridNet1 was:
1) Your Name:
Your Institution:
2) The People on behalf of whom you reply if different:
3) Your view: Is engaging in work at SDOs worthwhile?
4) Which SDOs have you been working with?
5) What Roles have you undertaken in each case? E.g. chair, co-chair, secretary, editor, member, observer of
WGs or RGs.
6) What has this required? Event attendance, face-to-face attendance, telcons, etc. Please give quantitative
estimates of the time involved if possible.
7) What has been achieved? (de facto) Standards adoption, Standards, standards proposals, information
papers, requirements analysis, community building, reference implementations, etc.
8) What do you believe can be achieved by sustaining the effort during the next two years? Particularly
identify achievements c.f. Q7 that are expected.
9) Any other comments.
The 35 replies received so far (corresponding to 39 GridNet1 supported standards workers) are summarised in the
three tables below. Full copies of the replies may be obtained from Malcolm Atkinson (mpa@nesc.ac.uk) – the
summaries below are heavily précised – the intention was to do this editorial work fairly, but some bias may have
been introduced. The first table summarises the respondents’ comments on the value of SDO work. The second
characterises the work that they are doing and the time invested. The third lists results and expectations.
Table C1: Summary of GridNet1 members’ views on the value of working with SDOs (start)
Institution (q1)
Person (q1 & 2)
Worthwhile (q3)
Mr Jonathan Giddy,
WeSC
GGF meetings are an important venue for
the people working on these technologies
to maintain a handle on the latest work
Dr Omer F. Rana, WeSC
Yes, engaging in work at SDOs is very
worthwhile. Essential …
Dr Ian Taylor, WeSC
Yes, it is very worthwhile and essential for
the UK e-Science to be involved with
these processes …
Imperial College
Dr Nathalie Furmento
Dr Murtaza Gulamali
Dr William Lee
Dr Stephen McGough
Dr Anthony Mayer
Dr Steven Newhouse5
Yes. Many organisations involved in Grid.
Main thrusts of the Grid is that it should
be ubiquitous and inter operable this can
only be achieved through standardisation.
Strong need for SDOs in this area. Our
engagement required to meet UK needs.
Lancaster
University
Drs Nigel Davies, Adrian
Friday & Oliver Storz
Cardiff University
Comments (q9)
Valued networking, meeting with Globus &
GridLab, and with other UK eScientists.
Future better if more GGF work propagated
in the UK via training. Some work at GGF
premature & some hamstrung by Globus
dominence
GGF is undergoing structural changes. GGF
has taken on a much stronger industrial
emphasis (with Mark Linesch as chair).
Expect much stronger emphasis on standards
production and cross organisational work. It
is therefore essential to keep a strong
presence in the GGF
… we will need to find extra resources to pay
for staff …
Mr Terry Harmer
Mr Paul Donachy
Queens U., Belfast
Dr Noel Kelly
It was a great and useful funding source &
YES. without this UK would be poorly
placed to influence activity
Other coutries fund a percentage of a
person's employment to be on standards
bodies - is that done in the UK?
Prof Ron Perrott
Dr Dave Simpson
5
Now at OMII.
Malcolm Atkinson
11/29
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
Table C1: Summary of GridNet1 members’ views on the value of working with SDOs (cont)
Institution (q1)
U. Cambridge
University College
London
Person (q1 & 2)
Worthwhile (q3)
Comments (q9)
Prof Jon Crowcroft
Invaluable: able to attend IETF where
attendance required to be heard & GGF kept informed
Gridnet extremely well received - its light
management touch ... visibility it gives to UK
work alone ... the tip of an
iceberg compared with the actual work done
Dr Shantenu Jha, Centre
for Computational
Sciences
Yes. "Premature standardization is the
root of all evil". Beware "design by
committee", but grid computing is
mature yearning for greater structure, too
complex for ad hoc, ... critical role of
SDOs & GGF …
Dr Ali Anjomshoaa,
EPCC
Large systems involve multitudes of
individuals, vendors & institutions. It is
absolutely crucial to bring them together
at SDOs.
Grid usability big issue. Thanks to GridNet,
my activities with SAGA & APPS RGs (&
GridCPR-WG), will focus on the central
dogma of "usability for the user".
Dr Paul Anderson,
Informatics
A low-level of engagement is worthwhile
... to influence standard development and
raise awareness
flexible and "lightweight" GridNet funding is
extremely helpful
Prof Malcolm Atkinson,
NeSC
Yes, very. Necessary to make grids
economic and enable international
research collaboration
We (UK) need to become smarter at
standards politics, so that we don't get
pushed around c.f. impact on DAIS of
changes in platform standards, and we don't
let groups go around in circles – it will take
dedicated leadership time
Dr Rob Baxter, EPCC
yes. M/W developers need these
standards - the standards need input from
M/W developers
Dr Dave Berry, NeSC
Yes
Dr Mario Antonioletti,
EPCC
U. Edinburgh
UK e-Science needs to be more co-ordinated
in its contributions to standardisation
activities. We need an agreed UK "big
picture".
Mr Neil Chue Hong,
EPCC
Dr Amrey Krause, EPCC
Dr Martin Westhead,
EPCC
U. Glasgow
U. Leeds
Malcolm Atkinson
Dr Colin Perkins
Yes
Dr Richard Sinnott,
NeSC
Extremely important to help shape future
software activities and gain insight into
how others are applying technologies, e.g.
in life science domain.
Prof Ken Brodlie
Certainly – gives an international
awareness which is absolutely vital
12/29
Without GridNet direct feedback on security
APIs being investigated within BRIDGES,
DyVOSE, VOTES project not possible.
There is no substitute for direct discussions
with the wider Grid community
Use of GridNet funding, to gain awareness of
international activity prior to involvement in
standardisation is valuable and represents a
good use of money
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
Table C1: Summary of GridNet1 members’ views on the value of working with SDOs (cont)
Institution (q1)
U. Manchester
U. Newcastle
U. Salford
U. Southampton
Person (q1 & 2)
Worthwhile (q3)
Comments (q9)
Mr Michael Daw
Yes, very
GridNet excellent and invaluable help to join
in with community research
Dr Donal Fellows
Absolutely!
GridNet funding has been absolutely
invaluable
Mr Michael Jones
Yes, as an observer (mainly), directions
taken by GGF and in depth issues arising
are important
Dr Richard HughesJones
Yes only way to reach agreements on
matters that have implications wider than
one subject area or international
experiment
In addition to SDO work, GridNet has
enabled collaborative work and (human)
networking between UK e-Scientists and
researchers from other countries
Prof Carole Goble
Yes, though it can be frustrating! The
contacts are marvellous and UK has
influence
GridNet is crucial. Without it I would not
have been able to develop the
Semantic Grid activity
Dr Jon MacLaren
Yes: standardisation itself, raising profile
of the U. Manchester and UK e-Science +
networking & new collaborations
Continued funding will allow us to reap the
rewards of important, hard groundwork
Dr Andrew McNab
as R. H-J
Received a citation by CERN director for
contribution to security
Dr Stephen Pickles
Absolutely, for Grid computing, standards
are essential. The pace is frustratingly
slow, due to the need for openness,
auditability & consensus
Standards development work is important,
but time consuming, wrt (RAE) standards
and working software represent a poorer
investment than journal papers – this is a
problem
Dr Savas Parastatidis,
NEReSC
Absolutely. SDO activities are the best
way to contribute experiences to standards
that are important for the
interoperability of future toolkits
It would not have been possible for us to
engage with the standards
community without GridNET
ditto
ditto
Prof Paul Watson,
NEReSC
Prof David Chadwick
Prof Simon Cox
Absolutely essential
Yes
Prof David De Roure
Absolutely. Grid computing is
fundamentally about interoperability community-based standards activities are
essential
Dr Vijay Dialani
SDOs worthwhile: (a) to create eInfrastructure need standards for
interoperation & to create & sustain user
communities (b) to understand & address
interdependencies
Prof Luc Moreau
Yes, it is very useful for information
sharing & capturing requirements. Led to
research such as Grimoires (OMII) &
Provenance (EU-FP6)
excluded WS as this
is supported by OMII
Table C1: Summary of GridNet1 members’ views on the value of working with SDOs (end)
It is reassuring to notice that there is widespread endorsement of the value of engaging in SDO work, but there are
a few cases of concern about the affect on academic careers and resources to cover staff time.
Malcolm Atkinson
13/29
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
Table C2: Invested effort and working time from GridNet1 members (start)
Institution
Person
Mr Jonathan
Giddy, WeSC
SDO + WG
(q4)
GGF
Roles (q5)
Work (q6)
mem. Scheduling Architecture
RG, GESA & OGSA-RUS
WGs, obs many other RGs
attend GGF, prepare
docs and submit use
cases
Time
(q6)
staff
weeks/year
6
Cardiff
University
Dr Omer F.
Rana, WeSC
Dr Ian Taylor,
WeSC
GGF &
AgentLinkIII
GGF
co-chair SMF-RG & Jini-WG
+ sec. Semantic Grids RG
attend GGF, f2f,
telcons, email & docs
sec. SAGA RG & co-chair
Appliance Aggregation RG
Many telecons, talks,
hosting sessions &
f2f meetings +
writing of documents
for APPAGG
6
2d/w at
crucial
times + 3
GGF
events/y
12
Imperial
College
Lancaster
University
Dr Nathalie
Furmento
GGF
Dr Murtaza
Gulamali
GGF
Dr William Lee
GGF
Dr Stephen
McGough
Dr Anthony
Mayer
Dr Steven
Newhouse
GGF all since
GGF4
Drs Nigel
Davies, Adrian
Friday & Oliver
Storz
Mr Terry
Harmer
Mr Paul
Donachy
Queens U.,
Belfast
Dr Noel Kelly
Prof Ron
Perrott
Dr Dave
Simpson
U. Cambridge
University
College
London
Prof Jon
Crowcroft
Dr Shantenu
Jha, Centre for
Computational
Sciences
co-chair JSDL WG & mem.
GRAAP, DRMAA, OGSA &
Policy WGs + SAGA RG
GGF
attend 3 GGF/y + 1
w prep as chair /
GGF + 0.5d/w WG
chairing + per wg
3h/w telcon & email
+ 3 f2f/y
60d/y
GGF
GGF
12
co-chairs establishing RG in
Ubiquitous Computing
attended GGFs and
run BoF sessions +
article for IEEE
3
TeleManagement
Forum (TMF)
with IGS.
GGF: DFDL,
DAIS, LSG,
ADF,
security,
resource
management
and
configuration
GGF PC, members: LSG,
NM & TMF & observer:
DAIS, DFDL & ADF.
IETF for
Internet
standards &
GGF for tech
transfer from
IETF
mem. IETF WGs, co-chair
GHPN
GGF
sec. SAGA & Apps WGs, ed.
workshops: Grid Apps &
Pgmming Tools (GGF8) +
Grid API (GGF12) + contrib
GridCPR
Event attendance,
telcons, offline
discussions, mail
monitoring
telcons:
1h/2w to
1h/w +
attendance:
3*5d/y,
2*5d/y, 4d
+ email:
2h/w,
1h/w,
1h/w, 1h/w
+ reading
8
3 IETF + 3 GGF
meetings/y self or
member of project
~6w/y
6
3 GGF events/y + f2f
(1w FT) + telcons,
docs, charter
negotiation, email
SAGA
4.5h/w +
APPS
1.5h/w +
f2f &
events
10
Malcolm Atkinson
14/29
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
Table C2: Invested effort and working time from GridNet1 members (cont)
Institution
U. Edinburgh
Person
SDO +
WG (q4)
Roles (q5)
Time
(q6)
GGF
Co-chair JSDL about to
release spec and schema.
Participated many WGs
including GRAAP and
OGSA
attend all GGFs +
preparation + follow
up + weekly telcon /
email communication
to maintain momentum
4 w/y +
.75 d/w
Dr Paul
Anderson,
Informatics
GGF
CDDLM
WG
contributor
CDDLM f2f + private
meetings + much email
+ code development
10-15 days
Dr Mario
Antonioletti,
EPCC
GGF &
OASIS
GGF: Sec & ed. DAIS,
mem OGSA data design
team. OASIS: mem.
WSRF TC
DAIS WG: all EPCC
staff - at all GGF since
GGF5 + f2f (2/y) +
telcons
DAIS WG
all EPCC
staff - 2d/w
over 2 years
Prof Malcolm
Atkinson,
NeSC
GGF: DAIS,
DFDL,
Archiving,
OGSI,
OGSA, TM,
OREP, …,
GFSG
Author/contributor, 5
GGF PCs, 1 General
chair & GFSG member +
GROC + workshops +
OGSA data design f2fs
All GGF since GGF3
+ f2f + many telcons +
(too much) email +
wrestling with Grid
Forge
Equivalent
~ 40 d/y
Dr Ali
Anjomshoaa,
EPCC
Dr Rob Baxter,
EPCC
Dr Dave Berry,
NeSC
GGF
GGF
(OGSA WG)
3
observer: DAIS, OGSA,
OGSI & DFDL WGs
Design team leader, data
area
≥ 2 GGFs /y + ≥ 3
F2F /y + 1 or 2 telcons
/w + agendas, minutes,
... + writing &
reviewing docs
All EPCC
staff: 12
staff
months in
2 years
10d/y +
12d/y +
20d/y +
≥10d/y.
Total
≥52d/y
Mr Neil Chue
Hong, EPCC
GGF
ed. DAIS-WG, observer
OGSA & OGSI WGs
DAIS WG: all EPCC
staff - at all GGF since
GGF5 + f2f (2/y) +
telcons
DAIS WG
all EPCC
staff - 2d/w
over 2 years
Dr Amrey
Krause, EPCC
GGF
ed. DAIS-WG
DAIS WG: all EPCC
staff - at all GGF since
GGF5 + f2f (2/y) +
telcons
DAIS WG
all EPCC
staff - 2d/w
over 2 years
Dr Martin
Westhead,
EPCC
GGF
founder, co-chair & ed.
DFDL WG
All GGF since GGF5
+ f2f 2/y + telcons
3h/w for
18 months
Dr Colin
Perkins
IETF
co-chair Audio/Visual
Transport & multiparty
multimedia session
control WGs
Dr Richard
Sinnott
Prof Ken
Brodlie
Malcolm Atkinson
GGF LSG,
AuthZ
staff
weeks/year
8
U. Glasgow
U. Leeds
Work (q6)
Life science grid
contributor,
10
9
Presentations at last 2
GGF life science grid
meetings offline
discussions, mail
monitoring
8d/y +
2h/week
3
None – used
for fact
finding
mission
15/29
52
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
Table C2: Invested effort and working time from GridNet1 members (cont)
Institution
Person
Mr Michael
Daw
GGF
Mr Michael
Jones
GGF
U. Salford
GGF
Roles (q5)
Work (q6)
Tech. Director of SC
Global '03, Chair of SC
Global '05 mem. GGFRG Advanced Collab.
Envs
f2f meetings + Access
Grid
Member JSDL-WG
3 GGF sessions / y >=
3 days each + 1 3-day
f2f / y + 2h telcon/2w
Observer to all security
groups
co-chair Network
Measurements WG, cochair Network
Measurements RG,
mem. High Perf.
Networks RG
Semantic Grid, Life
Science Grid &
Workflow RGs
co-chaired 2 WGs, edited
documents, and an
author
Time
(q6)
9
69 work
days
GGF attendance
all GGF + 1d f2f/GGF
+ telcons + email +
drafting docs 60% time
prior to GGFs
11d/y +
2h/w
4
Co-chair Sem Grid, area
lead LSG & mem
Workflow
GGFs 3 times/year to
chair groups + f2f &
AG meetings
3 events/y
+ wshp org
+ confs
Dr Jon
MacLaren
GGF
Dr Andrew
McNab
GGF
co-chair AFM & OGSA
Authorization WGs
all GGF + 1d f2f/GGF
+ telcons + email
11d/y +
2h/w
GGF + my
staff active in
OASIS for
WSRF as
implementers
of WSRF
Area Director for
Scheduling & Resource
Management since
GGF12, contributor
GRAAP, UR, OGSA,
GridCPR & GUS WGs,
mem APPS-RG, ACERG, OGSI-WG &
SAAAR-WG, co-founder
SAGA-WG & GFSG
All GGF since GGF4,
with presentation &
workshops, em,ail 1.5h
telcons/w
1d/w until
GGF12
now
1.5d/w
GGF: OGSA mem,
DAIS author, OGSI
author & GRAAP obs;
OASIS: WSRF mem
BPEL obs & WS-CAF
obs; W3C: WSAddressing obs, WSDL
obs & SOAP obs
All GGFs + 50% DAIS
F2F + telcons/docs &
email
All GGFs + 50% DAIS
F2F + telcons/docs &
email
1w/GGF +
4d/y +
3h/w
GGF events
3-4 work
ws
GGF,
OASIS, W3C
Prof Paul
Watson,
NEReSC
GGF
mem. OGSA, DAIS &
OGSI WGs
Prof David
Chadwick
GGF: SAML
Authorisation
Joint editor of GGF
draft
Malcolm Atkinson
16/29
14
1
GGF & W3C
Dr Savas
Parastatidis,
NEReSC
staff
weeks/year
2 months
Prof Carole
Goble
Dr Stephen
Pickles
U. Newcastle
GGF, Access
Grid
community
Dr Donal
Fellows
Dr Richard
Hughes-Jones
U. Manchester
SDO + WG
(q4)
9
4 hrs/w
10
4
12
1w/GGF +
4d/y +
5h/w
9
31/05/2005
7
4
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
Table C2: Invested effort and working time from GridNet1 members (cont)
Institution
Person
Prof Simon
Cox
Prof David De
Roure
SDO + WG
(q4)
GGF
GGF, W3C
and OASIS
U.
Southampton
Dr Vijay
Dialani
GGF &
OASIS
Prof Luc
Moreau
GGF:
Semantic
Grid RG
(SEM-RG) &
Workflow
Management
RG (WFMRG)
Roles (q5)
Mem. SAGA &
Semantic Grid RGs +
Apps Workshop
organiser & WG
observer,+ co-chair
APPS RG
GGF: chair Semantic
Grid RG & GFSG
member; W3C as
Advisory Committee rep
& mem Web Ontology
Language WG
Members in WG/RG
AT GGF, Observer at
OASIS WGs
Mem. Sem-RG & WFMRG, ed. Sem RG
workshop proc GGF11,
iterators in VDL,
semantic description of
WS, WS-Agreement
Work (q6)
3 GGF events/y +
telcons & reviewing +
~3f2f/y
Time
(q6)
staff
weeks/year
~6w/y
6
Every GGF since
GGF5, running
workshops at GGF9 &
GGF11,
a tutorial at GGF12 &
2-day GFSG at SC'04 +
wkly GFSG telcon + 2
W3C OWL f2f &
telcons
weekly telecon & ~4 2d
f2f/y (≥5h/w/WG ~=
1h telecon, 2/3h doc
production & 1/2h
discussion or reading)
GGF9, 10 and 11 + f2f
with Kate Keahey +
proceedings preparation
+ paper
10
5h/w/WG
+ 8d/y
7
9+2+1+
3 days
3
Total
257
Table C2: Invested effort and working time from GridNet1 members (end)
The Table C2 shows the very considerable investment (probably under reported) by UK GridNet1 members. The
second column shows that a large proportion of the staff committing to the SDO work are senior, well qualified
and experienced staff. The third column shows that nearly all members are engaged with GGF and that in a few
cases they work with OASIS, IETF or W3C. The fourth column shows a regular pattern of leadership and
contribution. The fifth shows that in addition to attending events most members also engage in f2f, email, telcons
and considerable work preparing, reading and editing documents. This is mapped to approximate (or explicitly
reported) times in column 6 and normalised into staff weeks/year in column 7 for summation. Experience shows,
and is confirmed by consulting other GFSG members, that the time actually invested is very much in excess of 5
day weeks and 8 hour days – for example, Dave Snelling commented that when he left the OGSA WG telcon at
1:30 am on 16th December, Dave Berry was still on the call that had started at midnight. That call is a weekly
scheduled telcon. Column 7 has been based on 5 * 8-hour day working weeks, with 40 weeks + 3 GGF eventweeks/year. This yields a commitment of 257 staff weeks/year, the equivalent of 6 full-time senior staff. Those figures
do not include the large amount of time invested in developing reference implementations, which far exceeds the
direct SDO effort.
Malcolm Atkinson
17/29
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
Table C3: Achievements accomplished by GridNet1 members and anticipated during GridNet2 (start)
Institution
Person
Mr Jonathan Giddy,
WeSC
Cardiff
University
Dr Omer F. Rana,
WeSC
Dr Ian Taylor, WeSC
Imperial
College
Lancaster
University
Achieved (q7)
Main benefit is meeting UK e-Science community
without day-to-day pressures & opportunity to
meet others notably Globus & GridLab
3 inf docs, community established, 3 workshops
with IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2001, 2 & 3 + links
between multi-agent systems & Grid
APPAGG survey doc. + SAGA collected app.
scenarios
Prospects (q8)
Develop Semantig grids + agent and grid
interaction
SAGA will propose an API - stable mid 2005 +
re-energise APPAGG
Dr Nathalie Furmento
Dr Murtaza Gulamali
Dr William Lee
JSDL WG
Apps WG
OGSA/OGSI & mem JSDL WG
Dr Stephen McGough
DRMAA, GRAAP and JSDL specs ready for
review, LeSC, OMII, Cadance, Fujitsu, NAREGI,
Intel and Unicore using JSDL, EGEE, GridCC
and GridPP interested, ref. impl. SGE & Condor
Dr Anthony Mayer
Dr Steven Newhouse
Active in many groups
Formed GESA-WG, SMF-WG, OGSA-RUS-WG
Drs Nigel Davies,
Adrian Friday &
Oliver Storz
community building
Grid-related support for ubiquitous computing
Promotion of UK activities, industrial
participation, networking opportunities, f2f has
high value, new collaborations, many papers, e.g.
DAIS & DFDL, clear requirements specification,
understanding of standards timescales.
Prominent UK role at GGF & OASIS,
international recognition of UK achievements,
reconciliation of commercial and research
interests, common standard implementations of
M/W & tools
JSDL, GRAAP & DRMAA specs adopted then
richer JSDL specs will follow
Mr Terry Harmer
Mr Paul Donachy
Queens U.,
Belfast
Dr Noel Kelly
Prof Ron Perrott
Dr Dave Simpson
U. Cambridge
Prof Jon Crowcroft
conveyed expertise between IETF & GGF - under
the flagship of UK e-Science + doc. network
issues for grid users
net service and optical docs need work + UK
optical + EU input covering: multicast
deployment & stability, Inter-provider QoS and
SLAs
University
College
London
Dr Shantenu Jha,
Centre for
Computational
Sciences
Chartered SAGA-RG, identified 15 use cases,
informed other WGs of Apps requirements,
GridCPR close to producing a Use-case &
Architecture doc.
SAGA: 4-6 design meetings/2y to deliver
simple API + APPS-RG will inform general
GGF audience
of issues identified by appl. developers & users
Dr Ali Anjomshoaa,
EPCC
JSDL v 1.0 of spec. & schema early 2005. Fujitsu,
Intel, NAREGI, OMII, Unicore, NextGrid,
DEISA, & EGEE using JSDL
JSDL will become the de-facto standard - many
follow up implementations and extensions
Dr Paul Anderson,
Informatics
requirements awareness + web pages + ref.
implementation
mutual awareness towards standards for
configuration of Grid fabric
Dr Mario
Antonioletti, EPCC
de facto DAI standards over WS - imminent specs:
DAI, DAIR, DAIX, DAIF
Prof Malcolm
Atkinson, NeSC
Integrated thinking across standards relevant to
UK work - but frustrated that standards take off
on their own and become a political power
struggle
U. Edinburgh
Dr Rob Baxter, EPCC
Dr Dave Berry, NeSC
Established role model for design teams, especially
link with others (e.g. DAIS for DBs &
EGEE+GFS for files).
Excellent, many critical standards ready to
emerge, e.g. DAIS, SAGA, JSDL, GSM, …
OGSA vital as a coordinating activity &
stimulator
Complete WS-DAI, JSDL & DFDL standards
specs
OGSA WG will produce the first full description
of the architecture. Crucial for UK e-Science to
influence the design. More work required for
data architecture using all the strengths of UK
e-Science
Mr Neil Chue Hong,
EPCC
Dr Amrey Krause,
EPCC
Dr Martin Westhead,
EPCC
Malcolm Atkinson
18/29
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
Table C3: Achievements accomplished by GridNet1 members and anticipated during GridNet2 (cont)
Institution
Person
Dr Colin Perkins
U. Glasgow
Dr Richard Sinnott
U. Leeds
Prof Ken Brodlie
Mr Michael Daw
Achieved (q7)
New standards for transport of uncompressed
high-definition video, congestion control for realtime data transport, and session description and
coordination
LSG use cases document, 2 LSG presentations,
AuthZ document inputs, email discussions
Awareness of work in Steven's group at Argonne
and de Fanti and Leigh's group in Chicago, demo
at SC’03, AHM workshop
Successful conferences (SC Global), community
building
an ontology for visualization
AG take off expected
Mr Michael Jones
Report back status of developing standards in
security areas, now to GOSC
Ongoing support to GOSC, ETF, NGS on all
matters of security
Dr Richard HughesJones
Network monitoring req. anal. & information
papers + rec. Hierarchy of Network Performance
... + Schema & WS for Network measurement
ref. impl of network perf. measurement
Prof Carole Goble
Community building and information papers,
influenced EU FP6 calls to include Sem Grid
Sem Grid primer & Sem-Grid reference
architecture
Dr Jon MacLaren
Informational documents + GRAAP WG
standard recommendation draft
Number of groups would complete standards,
e.g. JSDL (LeSC, EPCC & U.Man.) UK led
Dr Andrew McNab
Conceptual Grid Authorization Framework and
Classification
Dr Stephen Pickles
ref. impl of OGSI (OGSI::Lite) used in
RealityGrid + WSRF (WSRF::Lite) used by EGEE
& OMII, WSRF interop. fest, GRAAP req. doc.
SAGA RG, UR spec. used in EGEE, TeraGrid &
NGS, community e.g. TeraGyroid, computational
steering, remote vis., job migration, in OGSA,
GridCPR, GRAAP & GSA
protocol for negotiation, adv. res. and co-alloc.
(GRAAP), UK influence over direction of GGF
(GFSG) + systematic analysis of grid API
requirements (SAGA)
Dr Savas Parastatidis,
NEReSC
Contribution to the evolution of standards + in
depth knowledge of the guiding principles +
engagement with the community
WS-based infrastructure will stabilise and the
UK e-Science community must contribute and
monitor the standardisation process.
Prof Paul Watson,
NEReSC
ditto
ditto
Prof David Chadwick
GGF review underway, implemented in GT3 & 4,
and in Permis
management interface for SAML + X.509
meetings as BSI rep + standardise the
recognition of authority
Prof Simon Cox
Community building, information papers and
requirements analysis. Won 2 HPC Challenges @
SC'02
drive agenda for standards which serve the needs
of a diverse community of users - where
standards meet applications
Prof David De Roure
GGF9 Semantic Grid wshp & procs, GGF11
Semantic Grid Appl's wshp & procs, GGF12
Semantic Grid tutorial progress on Semantic Grid
primer & building Semantic Grid community
SG: SG charter review, Grid Resource Ontology,
SG primer, SG pub comment on WS-A, SG
Services study. P2P: Agents-related activity,
build ubicomp activity
Dr Vijay Dialani
GSA-DAI & INFO-D WGs standard proposals,
information papers, use cases & ref impl. I have
authored/co-authored 3 docs
working standards may evolve for basic grid,
grid security & data access, dissemination
services
Prof Luc Moreau
Information papers & community building
GRAAP: extend WS-Agreement to negotiate
QoS for asynch. notification + SEM-RG:
interface for registring services' metadata +
provenance req.
U. Manchester
U. Salford
Life Science arguably biggest growth area – UK
e-Science highly visible in this area
JSDL will be in public comment March 05 with
interoperable implementations.
Dr Donal Fellows
U. Newcastle
Prospects (q8)
U.
Southampton
Table C3: Achievements accomplished by GridNet1 members and anticipated during GridNet2 (end)
Very substantial achievements during GridNet1 are reported, including community building, requirements analysis,
collaborative demonstrations, workshops, informational document preparation and standards specification
proposals. The UK community sampled here confidently expects to achieve significant progress if investment is
sustained through GridNet2. There appear to be many cases where specifications are about to reach the public
review stage. The UK continues to produce a substantial number of reference implementations.
Malcolm Atkinson
19/29
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
Participation in OASIS, W3C, IETF, GGF, etc. SDOs
Contributed by Dr Savas Parastatidis, University of Newcastle, Edited by Malcolm Atkinson
Over the last couple of years the GridNet1 project has given the opportunity to UK e-Scientists to closely follow
and directly influence the development of standards in the areas of Grid, Web Services, Semantic Web and
Semantic Web Services. The emerging standards from these efforts play a key role in the development of
interoperable tooling and middleware technologies which are used for building e-Science applications and for
realising the national Grid infrastructure.
Most of the effort to date has been consumed by the involvement with the activities of the GGF where very
important milestones have been achieved (e.g. work on the design of the OGSA platform, agreement on the use of
Web Services technologies, development of the DAIS specifications, etc.). The involvement with the GGF
continues to be important since many of the high-level aspects (the services) of the Grid architecture are still being
discussed and developed into standards.
Due to the adoption of Web Services technologies as the underlying infrastructure for Grid computing and the fact
that GGF is focusing only on the Grid-related specifications leaving the development of Web Services standards to
organisations like W3C, OASIS, and IETF there is clear need for direct involvement with those organisations. Such
an involvement will guarantee that the UK e-Science and Grid communities will be in a position to influence the
development of standards for e-Infrastructure that are directly or indirectly used by e-Science/Grid applications.
Furthermore, the close monitoring of the work taking place in SDOs other than GGF will mean that those
responsible for designing the architecture, building, and deploying e-Science applications and the supporting
e-Infrastructure will have a first-class understanding of the technologies involved.
A non-exhaustive list of technologies currently being considered or will emerge as candidates for standardisation in
the future, which are of interest to the UK e-Science and Grid communities, are in the areas of security (e.g.
WS-SecureConversations, WS-Trust), workflow (e.g. BPEL), coordination and transactions (e.g.
WS-CoordinationFramework, WS-TransactionsManagement, WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction and
WS-BusinessActivity), the WS-ResourceFramework set of state-handling services, and the
WS-Notification/Eventing communication services, registries (e.g. UDDI), semantic Web and semantic Web
Services (e.g. RDF, SWSIG), and others.
Currently, only a few individuals around the UK are actively participating in standards related activities other than
the GGF. This is mostly due to the lack of specially provisioned funding for such activities. The membership costs
for W3C, OASIS, and IETF are shown in Table C1.
Annual institution membership
Annual individual membership
W3C
€6,054 (must commit to an initial 3 years)
*
OASIS
$250
$1,000
IETF
Free
Free
* The W3C notes6 that it may be possible for academics who are experts in a field to ask the Working Group Chair
to be invited to join the Working Group as an invited expert.
Table C1: Membership Costs for W3C, OASIS, and IETF
In addition to the membership costs, it is also important to note that there are travel- and teleconference-related
expenses. The working groups or technical committees in these organisations make progress through regular
teleconferences and f2f meetings. The travel expenses can be significant given that there may be 3-4 meetings per
year (sometimes even more). The SDOs encourage the active participation of their members through rules that
guarantee continuous involvement with a group’s activities. Therefore, participation in f2f meetings is necessary.
Finally, participation in SDOs is a serious commitment given the time and energy that has to be dedicated. It is
clear, however, that a number of people in the UK e-Science are more than willing and happy to get involved due
to the benefits it brings to their personal research endeavours and to the UK e-Science and Grid communities as a
whole.
6
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/FAQ#individual
Malcolm Atkinson
20/29
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
Appendix D: Financial Allocations in the GridNet1 grant
The allocations and claims made so far are shown in the following table.
Full Name
Prof Jon Crowcroft
Mr Jonathan Giddy
Dr Omer F Rana
Dr Omer F Rana
Dr Omer F Rana
Dr Roger Philip
Dr Paul Anderson
Dr Paul Anderson
Prof Malcolm Atkinson
Prof Malcolm Atkinson
Dr Robert Baxter
Dr Robert Baxter
Dr Colin Perkins
Dr Richard Sinnott
Dr Steven Newhouse
Dr Stephen McGough
Prof Nigel AJ Davies
Prof Ken W Brodlie
Prof Carole Goble
Mr Donal K Fellows
Dr Jon MacLaren
Dr Jon MacLaren
Dr Jon MacLaren
Dr Michael Daw
Dr Michael Daw
Mr Mike Jones
Prof Norman W Paton
Dr Richard Hughes Jones
Dr Stephen Pickles
Dr Stephen Pickles
Dr Paul Watson
Dr Savas Parastatidis
Dr Shantenu Jha
Prof Ron Perrott
Prof David Chadwick
Dr David De Roure
Dr Luc Moreau
Prof Simon Cox
Mr Vijay Dialani
Dr Peter Clarke
Dr Shantenu Jha
32
Amount
Applied
£18,000.00
£1,000.00
£1,000.00
£32,820.00
£5,440
£1,000.00
£2,000.00
£5,000.00
£30,000.00
£30,000.00
£40,000.00
£50,000.00
£6,000.00
£15,000.00
£30,000.00
£618
£34,000
£1,000.00
£9,000.00
£4,800
£4,400.00
£4,800.00
£1,900
£7,528.00
£3,550
£1,600
£6,051
£20,200.00
£5,000.00
£1,400
£4,800.00
£9,200.00
£8,000.00
£30,000.00
£13,735.00
£8,083.00
£12,000.00
£1,500.00
£4,000.00
£1,000.00
£2,000.00
£467,425.10
University
Cambridge
Cardiff
Cardiff
Cardiff
Cardiff
Cardiff
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Glasgow
Imperial
Imperial
Lancaster
Leeds
Manchester
Manchester
Manchester
Manchester
Manchester
Manchester
Manchester
Manchester
Manchester
Awarded
£18,000.00
£1,000.00
£1,000.00
£16,000.00
£5,440
£1,000.00
£2,000.00
£5,000.00
£30,000.00
£30,768.85
£30,000.00
£38,991.58
£6,000.00
£10,000.00
£30,000.00
£618
£6,000
£1,000.00
£8,000.00
£4,800
£4,400.00
£5,947.68
£1,900
£7,528.00
£3,550
£1,600
£6,051
Spent
£6,012.93
£1,000.00
£1,000.00
£12,919.22
Manchester
Manchester
Manchester
Newcastle
Newcastle
QM, U London
Queens, Belfast
Salford
Southampton
Southampton
Southampton
Southampton
UC London
UC London
£20,200.00
£5,000.00
£1,400
£4,800.00
£9,200.00
£8,000.00
£30,000.00
£4,000.00
£18,141.64
£6,000.00
£1,500.00
£2,000.00
£1,000.00
£2,000.00
£389,836.85
£13,516.56
£4,987.05
£1,000.00
£2,000.00
£2,850.75
£30,000.00
£10,463.72
£30,000.00
£15,447.87
£6,000.00
£5,710.60
£21,493.84
£1,000.00
£6,639.55
£766.10
£4,400.00
£5,943.14
£6,935.14
£6,061.00
£2,320.12
£7,343.94
£5,156.91
£7,974.58
£4,000.00
£18,141.64
£3,199.31
£1,500.00
£1,871.37
£1,000.00
£248,655.34
Left
£11,987.07
£0.00
£0.00
£3,080.78
£5,440.00
£0.00
£0.00
£2,149.25
£0.00
£20,305.13
£0.00
£23,543.71
£0.00
£4,289.40
£8,506.16
£618.10
£6,000.00
£0.00
£1,360.45
£4,033.90
£0.00
£4.54
£1,900.00
£592.86
£0.00
£1,600.00
-£10.00
£6,683.44
£12.95
£1,400.00
£2,479.88
£1,856.06
£2,843.09
£22,025.42
£0.00
£0.00
£2,800.69
£0.00
£128.63
£0.00
£2,000.00
£137,631.51
Table of Allocations in University Order
Malcolm Atkinson
21/29
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
Appendix E: Proposed GridNet2 GNAB Terms of Reference
The GridNet2 Advisory Board will have a membership comprised as follows:
1. The director of the UK e-Science Programme or his nominee.
2. Eight members selected from or nominated by the directors of the UK e-Science Centres, Centres of
Excellence and CCLRC.
3. The directors of the NERC Environmental e-Science Institute, the Open Middleware Infrastructure
Institute, the Data Curation Centre and the ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science or their nominees.
4. Five of the UK staff actively engaged in UK standards efforts.
5. The PI of the NextGrid2 project.
Their role will be as follows:
1. To review applications for GridNet2 funding, as in GridNet1. Three anonymous reviews are normally
requested. They may advise: fund in full, fund to a specified level or don’t fund. It is sometimes necessary
to seek clarifications from applicants. This will be undertaken via the NeSC GridNet2 administrator. If the
reviewers do not reach agreement, a further reviewer from the GNAB2 may be consulted at the discretion
of the PI. The requests for reviews are always sent to institutions not involved in the application.
2. To advise on policy for the allocation of GridNet2 funds and strategic standards issues, either via the
quarterly AG meetings or via e-mail with the GridNet2 PI.
Malcolm Atkinson
22/29
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
Appendix F: Abbreviations and Vocabulary
AAA
Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting
– principal components of security
ACE
GGF Advanced Collaborative Environments
RG https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/acerg
ACID
Atomic, Consistent, Isolated and Durable –
properties of simple short Tx
ACM
Association of Computing Machinery
http://www.acm.org/
ADE
GGF Application Development Environments
RG now GCE-RG
Admin
Administration / administrator
AG
Access Grid http://www.accessgrid.org/
AgentLinkIII
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/research/projects/
AgentLinkIII/
AHM
All-Hands Meeting involving everyone, UK
e-Science AHM http://www.allhands.org.uk/
AHRB
UK Arts and Humanities Research Board
http://www.ahrb.ac.uk/
AKT IRC Advanced Knowledge Technologies
Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration
http://www.aktors.org/akt/
API
Applications Programming Interface
APPAGG
GGF Appliance Aggregation RG
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/appaggrg
APPS RG GGF Application Developers and Users RG
http://forge.gridforum.org/projects/apps-rg
ASP
Application Service Provider
AstroGrid Constructing the UK’s Virtual Observatory
http://www.astrogrid.org/
ATF
eSCP Architectural Task Force – superseded by
OGSA WG & NextGrid Architecture WP
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/teams/atf.html
AuthZ
Authorisation Frameworks and Mechanisms
WG
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/authz-wg
BBSRC
UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences
Research Council http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/
BCS
British Computer Society
http://www.bcs.org.uk/
BeSC
Belfast e-Science Centre
http://www.qub.ac.uk/escience/
BoF
Birds of a Feather – gathering of people with
common interests, e.g. to consider starting a
standardisation WG
BPEL
Business Processing Execution Language
http://www128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wsbpel/
BRIDGES Biomedical Research Informatics Delivered by
Grid Enabled Services
http://www.brc.dcs.gla.ac.uk/projects/bridges
/
CCGrid
International Symposium on Cluster
Computing and the Grid
http://www.ccgrid.org/
CCLRC
Council for the Central Laboratory for the
Research Councils http://www.cclrc.ac.uk/
CDDLM
GGF Configuration Description, Deployment,
and Lifecycle Management WG
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/cddlmwg
Malcolm Atkinson
23/29
CeSC
Cambridge e-Science Centre
http://www.escience.cam.ac.uk/
CIM
DMTF Common Information Model for
describing systems
http://www.dmtf.org/standards/cim/
CLRCeSC CCLRC e-Science Centre http://www.escience.clrc.ac.uk/web
CoAKTing Grid project associated with the AKT IRC
http://www.aktors.org/coakting/
Condor
Technology for High-Throughput Computing
(HTC) http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/
contrib
Contributing / contributor – in standards
parlance a person who writes words for a
document
co-PI
Deputy or assistant to the PI
d
day
DAI
Data Access and Integration
DAIF
GGF DAIS standard for file access
DAIR
GGF DAIS standard for relational databases
DAIS
GGF Data Access and Integration Services
WG http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/grid-db/
DAIT
DAI Two – follow on to OGSA-DAI project
building DAI M/W
DAIX
GGF DAIS standard for XML databases
DBTF
eSCP Database Task Force – superseded by
DAIS WG http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/grid-db/
DCC
Digital Curation Centre http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
DEISA
EU IST FP6 Distributed European
Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications
project http://www.deisa.org/Links.html
Dependable Grid Computing DIRC grid project
http://www.dirc.org.uk/research/activities/des
cription.php?pa=9
DFDL
GGF Data Format Description Language WG
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/dfdl-wg/
DIME
Direct Internet Message Encapsulation IETF
draft spec – see also MTOM
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp
?url=/library/enus/dnglobspec/html/dimeindex.asp
DIRC
Dependability Interdisciplinary Research
Collaboration
http://www.dirc.org.uk/overview/index.html
DMTF
Data Management Task Force SDO
http://www.dmtf.org/
DQP
Distributed Query Processor
http://www.ogsadai.org.uk/dqp/
DRASTIC Distributed Resilient Architecture with Scalable
Technology for Incremental Change EPSRC
project
DRMAA
GGF Distributed Resource Management
Application API WG
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/drmaawg
DyVOSE
Dynamic Virtual Organisations in e-Science
Education
http://labserv.nesc.gla.ac.uk/projects/dyvose/
ed
Editor
eDiamond Mamographic database construction and
integration – simulation for radiography
training http://www.ediamond.ox.ac.uk/
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
eDIKT
e-Science Data, Information and Knowledge
Transformation
http://www.edikt.org/index.htm
EGEE
EU IST FP6 project Enabling Grids for
E-SciencE – to build pan-European and
world-wide e-Infrastructure http://egeeintranet.web.cern.ch/egeeintranet/gateway.html
EGA
Enterprise Grid Alliance
http://www.gridalliance.org/en/index.asp
eMAP
Edinburgh Mouse Atlas Project
http://genex.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/
ENHANCE Enhancing the Performance Predictability of
Grid Applications with Patterns & Process
Algebras
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/stg/research/E
NHANCE/
ENACTS European Network for Advanced Computing
Technology for Science EU Collaboration
Network http://www.enacts.org/
EPCC
Part of the School of Physics at Edinburgh
University – once stood for Edinburgh Parallel
Computing Centre – now broader remit leads
to letters being uninterpreted
http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/
EPSRC
UK Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/default.htm
eSCP
UK e-Science Core Programme run by EPSRC
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/escience/
eSI
UK e-Science Institute, Edinburgh
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/
eSNW
e-Science North West regional centre at
Manchester University
http://www.esnw.ac.uk/
ESPRIT
EU IT research support before IST
http://www.cordis.lu/esprit/home.html
ESRC
UK Economic and Social Research Council
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/
EU
European Union
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
FIDE
EU ESPRIT Basic Research Action 6309
project Fully Integrated Data Environments
http://www.isbn.nu/354065772X
FirstDIG
First Data Investigation on the Grid
http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~firstdig/
FP6
EU Framework Programme 6 – periodic ~4
year period of resource allocation for research
FRSE
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Fujitsu
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/
GEON
CyberInfrastructure for Geosciences
http://www.geongrid.org/index.html
GESA
GGF Grid Economic Services Architecture
WG
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/gesa-wg
GFAC
Grid Forum Advisory Committee
GFD
Grid Forum Document
GFD-C.16 GGF Certificate Policy Model
http://www.ggf.org/documents/GFD/GFDC.16.pdf
GFSG
Grid Forum Steering Group
GGF
Global Grid Forum http://www.ggf.org/
GHPN-RG GGF Grid High-Performance Networking RG
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ghpn-rg
GNAB
GridNet Advisory Board
Malcolm Atkinson
24/29
GNT
Grid Net Team
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/teams/gnt.html
GOSC
Grid Operations Support Centre
http://www.grid-support.ac.uk/
GRAAP
GGF Grid Resource Allocation Agreement
Protocol WG
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/graap-wg
GridCC
EU IST FP6 Grid enabled Remote
Instrumentation with Distributed Control and
Computation project http://www.gridcc.org/
GridCPR
GGF Grid Checkpoint and Recovery WG
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/gridcprwg
GridPP
PPARC project: Grid for UK Particle Physics
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/
GridStart
EU IST FP6 project integrating grid projects
http://www.gridstart.org/
GridWeaver Exploring Automated Configuration and
Management for Grid Computing Fabrics
http://www.gridweaver.org/
GSM
GGF Grid Storage Management WG
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/gsm-wg/
GROC
GGF Grid Research Oversight Committee
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/groc
GRUMPS EPSRC distributed computing project
http://grumps.dcs.gla.ac.uk/
GUS
GGF Grid User Services RG
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/gus-rg
h
hour
Helmholtz German association of national research centres
http://www.helmholtz.de/
HMS
Health Management System – Wolfson funded
project
HP
Hewlett Packard http://www.hp.com/
HPCx
High-Performance Computing UK capability
computing facility http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/
HTC
High-Throughput Computing
IBM
International Business Machines
http://www.ibm.com/us/
IEEE
Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers
http://www.ieee.org/
IGS
TMF International GPS Service
Info-D
GGF Information Dissemination WG
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/infodwg/
IST
Information Society Technologies an EU theme
ITU
International Telecommunications Union SDO
http://www.itu.int/home/index.html
IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force SDO
http://www.ietf.org/
ILDG
International Lattice Data Grid
http://www.lqcd.org/ildg/tiki-index.php
http://www.intel.com/
Intel
IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6
http://www.ipv6.org/
JCSR
JISC Committee for Support of Research
JISC
UK Joint Information Systems Committee –
providing the existing UK e-Infrastructure,
such as JANET http://www.jisc.ac.uk/
Jini
Java distributed inter-process communication
architecture
http://java.sun.com/products/jini/
Jini-WG
GGF now SMF-RG
http://www.ggf.org/5_ARCH/jini_b.htm
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
JSDL
Job Submission and Description Language &
GGF WG
JSIM
Java-Based Simulation and Animation
Environment
http://chief.cs.uga.edu/~jam/jsim/
Juelich
Forschungszentrum Jülich in der HelmholtzGemeinschaft http://www.fzjuelich.de/portal/index.php?index=3
JVM
Java Virtual Machine
Karlsruhe Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe in der
Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft http://www.fzk.de/
KMZ
see Karlsruhe above
LeSC
London e-Science Centre
http://www.lesc.ic.ac.uk/
LSG
GGF Life Sciences Grids RG
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/lsg-rg
mem
member – in most SDOs membership requires
minimum levels of sustained engagement
MPI
Message Passing Interface http://wwwunix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/
MRC
UK Medical Research Council
http://www.mrc.ac.uk/
MS
Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/
MS .NET Grid http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~ogsanet/
MTOM
Message Transmission Optimization
Mechanism http://www.w3.org/tr/2004/crsoap12-mtom-20040826/
M/W
Middleware – software for composing and
supporting multiple software components
above the operating systems
NAREGI Japan, National Research GRID Initiative,
http://www.naregi.org/index_e.html
NCeSS
UK National Centre for e-Social Science
http://www.ncess.ac.uk/
NERC
National Environmental Research Council
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/
NEReSC
North East Regional e-Science Centre
http://www.neresc.ac.uk/
NEOSIM Neural Open Simulation
http://www.neosim.org/
NeSC
UK National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh &
Glasgow Universities http://www.nesc.ac.uk/
NextGRID EU IST FP6 project to establish sustainable
grids http://www.nextgrid.org/
NM-WG
GGF Network Measurements WG
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/nm-wg
OASIS
An SDO http://www.oasisopen.org/home/index.php
obs
Observer/observation of – people who watch,
propagate and comment on standards – less
onerous than mem`
OeSC
Oxford e-Science Centre http://escience.ox.ac.uk/
OGSA
Open Grid Services Architecture & GGF WG
OGSA-DAI UK e-SCP project to build DAI M/W
http://www.ogsadai.org.uk/
OGSA-EMS OGSA Execution Management System –
design team within the GGF OGSA WG
OGSA-RUS GGF OGSA Resource Usage Service WG
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/rus-wg
OGSI
Open Grid Services Infrastructure and GGF
WG to develop OGSI spec – now superseded
by WSRF and WS-Notification
OMII
Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute
http://www.omii.ac.uk/
Malcolm Atkinson
25/29
OREP
GGF Replication Services Working Group
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/orepwg/
OWL
W3C Web Ontology Language
http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-guide/
P2P
Peer to peer
PA
Personal Assistant
PC
Programme Committee
pgm
program
PGP
Pepper’s Ghost Productions Grid
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/action/projects/project
_action.cfm?title=125
Permis
EU ISIS project: Privilege and Role
Management Infrastructure Standards
validation http://www.permis.org/
PI
Principal Investigator
PJava
Persistent Java EPSRC & Sun project
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=245905
Policy-WG GGF Grid Policy Architecture RG (completed)
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/policy-rg
PPARC
UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research
Council http://www.pparc.ac.uk/
prep
preparation – in standards context planning and
setting up meetings, proposing decision points
and document structure
QCDGrid Quantum Chromodynamics Grid
http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/ukqcd/
QMC
Queen Mary College London
http://www.qmc.ac.uk/
QoS
Quality of Service
QTLGrid Quantitative Trait Loci grid
RAE
UK Research Assessment Exercise – used
periodically to assess subject research
performance per university
RAL
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory part of
CCLRC http://www.cclrc.ac.uk/Activity/RAL
RDF
W3C Resource Description Framework
http://www.w3.org/RDF/
RealityGrid Project to grid-enable the realistic modelling
and simulation of complex condensed matter
structures
http://www.realitygrid.org/information.html
req
Requirements
RG
Research Group
SAAAR
GGF Site Authentication, Authorisation and
Accounting Requirements RG
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/saaa-rg
SAGA
Simple API for Grid Applications & GGF WG
SAML
Security Assertion Mark-up Language v2.0 in
review Jan 05 at OASIS http://www.oasisopen.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbre
v=security
SC
Super Computing – annual conference and
exhibition http://www.supercomp.org/
SC Global SC’s in some years use AG to allow world-wide
involvement http://www.scconference.org/sc2004/scglobal.html
ScotGrid
Scottish Grid Service
http://www.scotgrid.ac.uk/
SDO
Standards Development Organisation, e.g.
OASIS or GGF
SDSC
San Diego Supercomputing Centre
http://www.sdsc.edu/
Sem Grid
GGF Semantic Grid RG
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/sem-rg/
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
sec
SeSC
Secretary
Southampton e-Science Centre http://www.escience.soton.ac.uk/
SGE
Sun Grid Engine
http://gridengine.sunsource.net/
SHEFC
Scottish Higher Education Funding Council
http://www.shefc.ac.uk/
SIGMOD ACM Special Interest Group on Management
of Data http://www.acm.org/sigmod/
Simula Research Laboratory http://www.simula.no/
SLA
Service Level Agreement – between two
services to define what they commit to for each
other
SMF-WG
GGF Service Management Frameworks RG
http://www.ggf.org/5_ARCH/jini.htm
SOA
Service Oriented Architecture
SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol
http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/
So’ton
Southampton (university) and e-Science Centre
http://www.e-science.soton.ac.uk/
spec
Specification
SUNDCG Sun Data and Compute Grids
http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/sungrid
SWSIG
W3C Semantic Web Services Interest Group
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/swsig/
TAG
eSCP Technical Advisory Group
TC
Technical Committee – e.g. OASIS has TCs to
develop standards
Tech PA
Technical Personal Assistant capable of helping
with coordination of UK standards effort
Telcon
Telephone Conference
TeraGyroid An HPC computation demponstrating
international
TM
GGF Transaction Management RG
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/tm-rg
TMF
Tele-Management Forum
http://www.tmforum.org/
TRACS
Training and Research on Advanced Computer
Systems EU IST project
http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/tracs/general.html
Tx
Transaction
U
University
UCL
University College London
http://grid.ucl.ac.uk/
UDDI
OASIS Universal Description, Discovery and
Information Protocol http://www.uddi.org/
UKCRC
UK Computing Research Committee
http://www.ukcrc.org.uk/
UNICORE Uniform Interface to Computing Resources
http://unicore.sourceforge.net/
UNIVA
Globus commercialisation company
UR
GGF Usage Record WG
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ur-wg/
VDL
Virtual Data Language
VDT
Virtual Data Tollkit
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/vdt//index.html
VLDB
Very Large Database http://www.vldb.org/
VO
Virtual Organisation
VO
Virtual Observatory
w
week
W3C
World-Wide Web Consortium – an SDO http://www.w3.org/
Wellcome Trust Major UK Medical Research Charity
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/
Malcolm Atkinson
26/29
WeSC
Welsh e-Science Centre
http://www.wesc.ac.uk/
WG
Working Group
WP
Work Package – typically in UK & EU project
plans
wrt
with respect to
WS
Web Service
WS-Addressing Mechanisms for identifying resources via
WS W3C proposal
http://www.w3.org/Submission/2004/SUBMws-addressing-20040810/ and
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/addr/
WS-AT
WS-Atomic Transactions – short ACID Tx
http://www106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/specifica
tion/ws-tx/#atom
WS-Attachments SOAP attachments and DIME
http://www106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/libr
ary/ws-attach.html
WS-BA
WS-Business Activity – long-running business
transactions http://www106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/specifica
tion/ws-tx/#ba
WS-BPEL WS Business Process Execution Language
OASIS spec http://www.oasisopen.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbre
v=wsbpel
WS-CAF
WS Composite Applications Framework at
OASIS 3 specs – rival to WS-Coordination,
WS-AT & WS-BA trio http://www.oasisopen.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbre
v=ws-caf
WS-Coordination Coordination of distributed applications
http://www106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/specifica
tion/ws-tx/#coor
WS-Choreography Describes coordination and data
exchange between WS W3C drafts
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/chor/
WS-DAI
Presumed standard WS from DAIS WG
WSDL
WS Description Language at W3C
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/desc/
WSDM
OASIS Web Services Distributed Management
http://www.oasisopen.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbre
v=wsdm
WSDM: MOWS Management of WS – v1.0 public review
of spec Dec 2004
WSDM: MUWS Management using WS – v1.0 public
review of spec Dec 2004
WS-Eventing
Notification protocol proposed by MS
now merging into WS-Notification we hope
http://ftpna2.bea.com/pub/downloads/WSEventing.pdf
WS-Federation
Federation of AAA information across
trust realms http://www106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/libr
ary/ws-fed/
WS-I
WS-Interoperability A periodically augmented
profile of WS standards that are widely
implemented and known to interoperate
http://www.ws-i.org/
WSIA
WS Interactive Applications http://www.oasisopen.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbre
v=wsia
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
WSIL
WS Inspection Language http://www106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/libr
ary/ws-wsilspec.html
WS-Notification Group of 3 specifications at OASIS for
subscribing to, publishing and selecting
notification messages http://www106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/specifica
ytion/ws-notification/
WS-Policy Model and syntax for policies http://www106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/specifica
tion/ws-polfram/
WS-ReliableMessaging
Reliable message delivery in
the presence of network and software failures
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp
?url=/library/enus/dnglobspec/html/wsrmspecindex.asp
WSRF
WS-ResourceFramework a collection of
standards at OASIS for handling resources with
state http://www.oasisopen.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbre
v=wsrf
WSRF-BF WSRF-Base Faults – mechanisms for reporting
errors http://docs.oasisopen.org/wsrf/2004/11/wsrf-WS-BaseFaults1.2-draft-03.pdf
WSRF-RAP WSRF-Resource Access Pattern based on WSAddressing
WSRF-RL WSRF-Resource Lifetime http://docs.oasisopen.org/wsrf/2004/11/wsrf-WSResourceLifetime-1.2-draft-04.pdf
WSRF-RP OASIS WSRF Resource Properties queriable
and sometimes updateable general WS property
interfaces
http://devresource.hp.com/drc/specifications/
wsrf/WS-ResourceProperties-1-1.pdf
WSRF-SG WSRF-Service Group http://docs.oasisopen.org/wsrf/2004/11/wsrf-WSServiceGroup-1.2-draft-03.pdf
WSRP
OASIS standard for web services as remote
portlets http://www.oasisopen.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbre
v=wsrp
WS-SecureConversation
Mechanisms for establishing
and sharing security contexts http://www106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/specifica
tion/ws-secon/
WS-Security OASIS Framework and foundation for security
http://www.oasisopen.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbre
v=wss
WS-SecurityPolicy WS-Policy assertions used to specify
security in WS-Security http://www106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wssecpol/
WS-Transaction Now superseded by WS-AT
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp
?url=/library/en-us/dnglobspec/html/wstransaction.asp
WS-Trust Security tokens and credential handling
http://www106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/specifica
tion/ws-trust/
X509
ITU standard for credential exchange and
authentication
http://www.itu.int/rec/recommendation.asp?ty
pe=folders&lang=e&parent=T-REC-X.509
Malcolm Atkinson
27/29
XACML
XSPAN
y
ZEST
OASIS eXtensible Access Control Mark-up
Language http://www.oasisopen.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbre
v=xacml
A cross-species anatomy network - a novel tool
for bioinformatics
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/action/projects/project
_action.cfm?title=179
year
Zoned Evolvable Software Technology EPSRC
project
http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dcs1elb/csm/sce99/r
2.ps
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
Appendix G: Supporting Letters
The reports in Appendix C include positive support from all of the members of the GridNet1 project. In addition
the agreement of 18 experienced members of the UK e-Science community to be members of the GNAB2 was
taken as endorsement by them of the current proposal (see Table 3 page 8). Two other letters of support are
copied here: from Dr David Snelling of Fujitsu and a leading standardisation activist in this field, and from Mark
Linesch, Chair of GGF.
David Snelling’s email
Malcolm,
Thank you for sending me the proposal for GridNet2. I found the
comments in the final section particularly interesting.
It is clear to me that the contribution made by the UK, both from
industry and academia, is very valuable to the standards process,
particularly in the GGF. As you know, the GGF's situation is somewhat
special compared to that of other standards bodies, due to the high
reliance on innovation in standards development. The need for
innovation is addressed, in a large part, by the contribution from the
UK. I would very much like to see the same, or higher, level of
participation for individuals from the UK e-Science community in the
future. I also believe, that the value provided by even a limited
amount of central coordination is helpful in ensuring that the UK
contribution is as effective as possible.
I look forward to continuing to work with you and the others from the
UK community in the coming years. I therefore lend my strongest support
to this proposal and wish you the best of luck.
Dr. David Snelling
GGF Vice Chair of Standards (acting)
Mark Linesch’s Letter
Malcolm Atkinson
28/29
31/05/2005
GridNet2 Case for Support
National e-Science Centre
Professor Malcolm Atkinson
Director
National e-Science Centre
15 South College Street
Edinburgh EH8 9AA
Scotland, UK
Board of Directors
MARK LINESCH
GGF CHAIR
Dear Malcolm,
Charlie Catlett
Argonne National Laboratory
Previous GGF Chair
I wanted to take a moment to express my thanks and continued support
for the outstanding work being done by NeSC and the UK e-Science
community as part of the GridNet project. UK practitioners have provided
critical technical leadership for the development of emerging grid
standards - essential for pervasive international adoption. The UK
contributions have also been extremely important in helping to form an
international community to share ideas and best practices for sustainable
e-Infrastructures.
Bill Feiereisen
Los Alamos National Laboratory
GFAC Chair
The Global Grid Forum in partnership with the UK e-Science community
must provide the continued community and standards leadership required
to enable the pervasive adoption of grid computing worldwide. Investment
in standards and the UK commitment to develop and adopt these
standards must be sustained to meet the needs of government, industry
and research sectors.
Ian Baird
EMC
Therefore it is my hope that that the UK Research Councils will continue to
lend support to the international grid efforts through adoption of the
GridNet2 proposal. The GridNet2 proposal along with the collaborative
leadership of the UK community is vital to our continued progress toward
open standards and a strong international community to support the
adoption and growth of grid computing worldwide.
Sincerely,
Bill Nitzberg
Altair Grid Technologies
Advisory Committee
Bill Feiereisen
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Chair
Kyriakos Baxevanidis
Commission of the EC
Frederica Darema
US National Science
Foundation
Robert Fogel
Intel Corporation
Fabrizio Gagliardi
CERN
Tony Hey
UK e-Science Programme
John S. Hurley
Boeing
Sangsan Lee
Dasan Networks, Inc.
Yoichi Muraoka
Waseda University
Simon Nicholson
Sun Microsystems & OASIS
Mark H. Linesch
Chair, Global Grid Forum
Alexander Reinefeld
ZIB Berlin
Mary Anne Scott
US Department of Energy
Walt Brooks
NASA
Lennart Johnsson
University of Houston
Malcolm Atkinson
29/29
31/05/2005