Grid Computing Environments (GCE) Charter
Draft: Please direct comments to Mary Thomas (mthomas@tacc.utexas.edu) and
Geoffrey Fox (gcf@cs.indiana.edu )
September, 2002: Rev 2
July, 2002: Rev 1
1. Research Group Organization:
Chair(s):
_ Geoffrey Fox (gcf@indiana.edu)
_ Dennis Gannon (gannon@cs.indiana.edu)
_ Mary Thomas (mthomas@tacc.utexas.edu)
_ EU: Rob Allan (r.j.allan@dl.ac.uk)
Secretary: Jay Alameda (jalameda@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
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2. Statement of Purpose
The Grid Computing Environment (GCE) Research Group is aimed at contributing to
the coherence and interoperability of frameworks, portals, PSE's, and other Grid-based
computing environments and Grid services. We will do this by evaluating and testing
protocols, APIÕs and SDKÕs from "best practices" projects that are required to integrate
technology implementations and solutions. A GCE covers both the tools and the
technologies needed to construct environments such as:
_ Portals: users, application, education Š web, other
_ Problem Solving Environments
Our function is to perform research on how developers are using the Grid and itÕs
services, and by using a task-oriented approach to extract out functionality, API's, and
protocols and to facilitate interoperability between users of the Grid and developers of
the Grid based on what can be done today and what can/should be done in with next
generation of software. Our information will have a bi-directional flow between service
working groups and those that sit at "higher" levels of the 3-tier Grid architecture.
Our research would be expected to produce recommendations to GGF for possible
standards. Our process will consist of: meetings and workshops, ad-hoc testbed,
demonstration activities at SC, GGF and other conferences; targeted groups of papers.
Our deliverables will consist of papers, publications, documents, sharing of research
software via papers and web sites, collaborations on projects.
3. Targeted Projects and Activities
The GCE research group will initially perform collaborative research on:
a. Identify "Community Practices" for projects
b. Target metadata and related projects (needs clarification)
c. Produce survey documents
d. Focused studies: detailed exploration of particular technologies
e. Participate in ad-hoc testbeds and collaborations as necessary
Currently we are working on the following:
a. Grid Job metadata and workflow management
b. Portlets and similar technologies for component models for user interfaces
c. Interoperable web and grid services (eg OGSA)
d. Explore architecture(s) for GCE framework(s).
h. We will use the results and provide feedback to other research and working groups
i. Continue to evaluate emerging technologies in the areas of grid services, APIs,
SDKs and Protocols, technologies
o. Collect Software Toolkits for building Grid applications and post/link on websites
4. General Deliverables
a. We expect to hold at least 2 additional topical workshops outside the GGF
meetings.
b. We expect to have around three targeted activities each year, and at least one will
produce a GGF document.
c. We expect to continue to produce papers for publication based on our targeted
activities.
4.1 Current Activities (July 2002):
a. Publications: a group of 28 papers will be published in C&C:P&E, which was a
direct result of the GCE activite to collect "current practices" documents in 2001.
b. Grid Job metadata, will produce a GGF informational document by GGF7
c. Interoperable web services demonstration planned for SC02, and resultant GGF
info doc by GGF7.
GCE_Charter_Jul02_v2.txt
d. Continue to experiment with schemas needed for interoperable web services
in collaboration with GGF-WG's such as the CIM and DAMED WG's; use
research results to provide feedback to working groups and develop experiments
to test proposed standards.
e. We expect to start new targeted activities in the areas of
i. Portlets
ii. OGSA-based Grid services
iii. Experiments with the above technologies in a testbed fashion