>>>>>>>> ANNOUNCEMENT <<<<<<<<<

GGF Grid Computing Environments Grid Portals Workshop

May 21-23, 2001

San Diego Supercomputer Center, La Jolla, CA

This is an announcement for the GCE Grid Portals Workshop, which

Will be hosted by the San Diego Supercomputer Center, May 21-22, 2001.

Registration information can be found at:

https://gridport.npaci.edu/workshop/gpw01/

There will be a $50.00 fee that will cover breakfast, lunch, snacks and a reception Monday night. The workshop will run from Monday to Wednesday am, with an optional Wednesday afternoon session.

BACKGROUND:

The decision to hold the workshop was made at the Global Grid Forum meeting in Amsterdam (GGF1). Preliminary agenda items include:

· Grid portal protocol definitions

· Integration of XML schemas from existing portal projects and GGF/GIS

· Portal architecture discussions

· Integration of the performance working group Event objects as discussed at GGF1

· Panel discussions/breakout session: Perl/Java/PHP/Python/CORBA

· Possible project demo/discssion (only if time and group interest prevails)

The goal will be to arrive at a set of agreed upon standards to be included in the white papers that were proposed at GGF1. The

results of this workshop will be presented at GGF2, in Washington

this July. As discussed, this meeting will be limited to portal developers, and is not a general conference.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

Grid portal developers, GCE members, and Grid service developers interest in participating in protocol definitions used by portals that are interoperable with other GGF working groups. The workshop focus will be on completing tasks identified at GGF1 in Amsterdam. Presentations relevant to the agenda will are solicited, but they should not be project presentations.

This is not a general workshop, and all registrants will be reviewed.

If you care to be part of the organizing committee, please

let us know.

Please contact Maytal Dahan (mdahan@sdsc.edu) for information regarding workshop registration details.

Hope to see you in May -

Mary