GridNet Funding Report
Open Grid Forum 21
15-19th October 2007
Seattle, WA, USA
Mr. Neil Chue Hong,
OMII-UK,
University of Southampton.
N.ChueHong@omii.ac.uk
This report summarises my attendance at OGF21 in Seattle and its relevance to current OMIIUK and UK e-Science activities.
Meetings Attended
Monday 15th
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Opening Session
OGSA-ByteIO Interoperability Fiesta results
Web 2.0 Grids and Cyberinfrastructure
Real-time Web 2.0: Evolution of Middleware for Grid-based Instruments and Sensors
ByteIO Experience Document compilation
OGF Marketing Workshop
Tuesday 16th
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Keynote: Think Little: The Proliferation of Small Clusters Means Big Changes
Standard API for Data Grids
Grids in the IT Data Centre
Town Hall
DAIS Working Group Session
OGSA-DAI Workshop
Standards All-Hands Meeting
Wednesday 17th
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caGrid 1.0 – Update on caGrid Infrastructure Project
OGSA Data Architecture
Data Integration Solutions with OGSA-DAI
OMII-Europe
Data Area Meeting
SAGA Session 2
Thursday 18th
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OGC/OGF Collaboration Workshop (1/2)
OGC/OGF Collaboration Workshop (2/2)
Software Providers meet GIN and Standards
OMII-UK: Reducing the gap between researchers and resources (1/2)
OMII-UK: Reducing the gap between researchers and resources (2/2)
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 and this was a significant OGF for us, as we presented the
results of the ByteIO Interoperation Fiesta which compared the four implementations of the
standard, and started work on the experiences document.
I attended a number of sessions concerned with interoperability which featured software
which has been developed or sponsored by OMII-UK. I also participated in a panel “Software
Providers meet GIN and Standards” on this subject.
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, and SAGA, as well as the work done
through OMII-Europe.
I chaired the OMII-UK workshop which had a good attendance of about 25% of the total
attendees where we demonstrated a number of the software components developed by OMIIUK and their relevance to the OGF community. This let us get better feedback, and also
improved the visibility of our work, and the associated UK eScience projects.
I participated in the OGF/OGC Collision Workshop which featured work done by OMII-UK
in the UK with EDINA, Leeds and Manchester as part of the SEE-GEO project. It also
featured work being done using OGSA-DAI, an OMII-UK software component, in the
GeoGRID project led by AIST in Japan.
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 attempted to solicit volunteers for the community led nominations
process. I participated in the Marketing workshop to give a UK perspective.
Overall, by being able to attend OGF21, I was able to promote a lot of the standards and
eScience related work that we are doing or sponsoring at OMII-UK. 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.