International
Activity
Malcolm Atkinson
Director
www.nesc.ac.uk
27th May 2005
Standards Contribution
GFSG
Peter Clarke until Autumn 2004
Malcolm Atkinson from Autumn 2004 (GGF12)
Re-organisation consultations
Data Area Director & Events Sub-Committee
Standards Working Groups
Dave Berry led OGSA-Data Design Team -> WG chair
Dave Berry initiated OGSA-Byte-IO WG
Malcolm Atkinson, Stephen Davey, Neil Chue Hong, …
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Contributing to several data area WGs
Ali Anjomshoaa co-chair JSDL WG
Mario Antonioletti secretary to DAIS WG & OASIS observer
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International Visitors
Visits & Visitors already addressed by Anna
Visiting Delegations
SWITCH
Chinese MOST visit
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5 October 2004
18 November 2004
Mr Yu Chijian, Division Chief at MOST
Professor Depei Qian, Chief Scientist of the China National Grid
Led to Recently Arrived Visitors
Working with the OGSA-DAI team
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Dr Kai Nan, Computer Network Information Centre, Chinese Academy of
Sciences
Dr Yongwei Wu, Tsinghua University
Planning long-term collaboration
University of Edinburgh MoU
International Collaborations
International Projects & Alliances
ESLEA: links
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with Chicago & CERN (for HEP)
with USA Teragrid (for RealityGrid)
With Dwingeloo (for Radio Astronomy)
SC 2005 RealityGrid & ESLEA competition entry
Peter Clarke, David Fergusson & Malcolm on EGEE PEB
Malcolm on NextGRID Architecture Board
Malcolm led the ICEAGE bid
Malcolm on GEON & Simula Research Lab Advisory Boards
Malcolm & Mark Parsons on Globus Alliance Board
Richard Baldock 3-months in UCSD with BIRN project
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Plan to run a BIRN node here
David Fergusson on PC of TERENA Conference
David Fergusson & Malcolm on PC of GridKA school in Karlsruhe
Continuing to co-Lead UK e-Science stand at SC
Plus demonstration project
International Summer Schools
Leading Role in Organising
Third GGF International Summer School in Grid Computing
60 students offered places
Room for <20 more – Apply NOW!
Training Team play an International Role
Their talk follows
Invited Talks at
Malcolm Atkinson
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EU Grid Projects & Concertation days
EU Conference on Grid Computing
David Fergusson
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Crossgrid Meeting
Richard Sinnott
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Life Science Grid Conference, Kanazawa, Japan
International OGSA-DAI
Chinese Visitors Here Now
2 months with OGSA-DAI
Planned future collaboration
DIALOGUE project
Meeting in August in Columbia, Ohio
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Joel Saltz host – possible NIH funding for OGSA-DAI for caBIG
Participants from UK + SDSC, ANL, ISI, Indiana, Vienna, etc.
SC4DEVO project
International collaboration & competition on Sky Survey VOs
Users from 3 Continents at User’s Group Meeting 1 June
Japanese WebDB products built on OGSA-DAI released
And more projects
AstroGrid2
GridPP2
ILDG
QCDgrid
- astronomy virtual observatories
- PP experiments data handling
- PP theory data standards & handling
NextGRID
- Architecture of Future Grids
GeneExpress - Tools for developmental
functional genetics
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International Collaboration must serve a purpose
Purpose changing from developing plans to building systems
Comments and Questions Please