GridNet Funding Report
Open Grid Forum 22
25-28th February 2008
Cambridge, MA, USA
Mr. Neil Chue Hong,
OMII-UK,
University of Southampton.
N.ChueHong@omii.ac.uk
This report summarises my attendance at OGF22 in Cambridge and its relevance to current
OMII-UK and UK e-Science activities.
Meetings Attended
Monday 25th
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Opening Session
OGF Marketing Workshop
OMII-Europe: Using open standards to deliver interoperability
OGSA-DMI Discussion of Specification
OGSA-Data Architecture Future Directions
Authz Interoperation Demonstrations
Activity instance document schema
Tuesday 26th
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HPCP Spec Adoption
Grid Interoperation Now (GIN): Specification Adoptions & Discussions
SAGA: The Simple API for Grid Applications
SAGA + DAIS: next steps
Creating a standard software API for Data Grid Management Systems BoF
Wednesday 27th
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The Encyclopedia of Life: A Web page for every species
Financial Services workshop
DAIS Working Group Session
Thursday 28th
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Data Management Workshop
Relevance
I am primarily interested in the application of standards to the creation of sustainable,
interoperable implementations of software of use to researchers. In particular, I have
contributed directly to many of the data area standards groups.
I co-chair the OGSA-ByteIO which did not have a session at this OGF, but which came up in
the context of many discussions. We have an experiences document in draft, and I solicited
comments on it from a number of other OGF WG chairs.
I attended a number of sessions concerned with interoperability which featured software
which has been developed or sponsored by OMII-UK. I pressed for prioritising available
effort on getting interoperability at the critical points for allowing people to migrate between
different infrastructures.
I participated in a number of the discussions in the more mature working groups to
understand the current status of the specifications and their routes to adoption, for instance
through OMII-UK software – this included DAIS, SAGA, and AuthZ.
I had several discussions with Shantenu Jha and Andre Merzky of SAGA about socialising
and promoting their work, and how to tie it into the data access and data transfer specs.
Although unable to attend the Workflow Management WG, I had discussions with Ian Taylor
and contributed input based on the experiences of OMII-UK collaborators and users.
Likewise, though I was unable to attend the OGC-OGF collision workshop, which I have
contributed to at past OGFs, I had a discussion with one of its co-chairs about its status and
how OMII-UK can continue contributing.
I had a number of discussions with different OGF attendees about OMII-UK and our efforts
to deliver and support software communities. I also talked to people working on UNICORE
and Globus, and continued discussions about the OMII-UK/caBIG collaborations.
As NomCom Chair, I had discussions about raising the grassroots involvement in the steering
and coordination of OGF. I also had discussions about strategies for improving the feedback
cycle between the standards and eScience councils, and continued my participation in the
OGF Marketing group.
Overall, by being able to attend OGF22, I was able to efficiently discuss a number of
collaborations and generate new work because of the critical mass of people attending. I am
also able to get a good perspective of what work, particularly in standards, will be relevant
for UK e-Science software, and thus for OMII-UK.