Meeting January 12, 2004

NOTE: The meeting has been moved to WH 1 West because of the number of registrants

OSG White Paper | Agenda | Invitation | One Pagers | Directions | Hotels

Purpose of the meeting
· Familiarize a wider audience with the Open Science Grid vision and goals.
· Provide an opportunity for discussion of these concepts.
· Hear points of view of a broader community and their visions and goals.
· Team building exercise.
· Opportunity to discuss how to agree on and achieve a shared vision and roadmap and to plan some next steps.

Charge to each Working Group

1. Determine the high level goals and objectives in your area.
2. Highlight Issues that need to be addressed in your area.
3. Suggest some Next Steps that you think should be considered and explain why.

Outputs of the Meeting

1. One-page participant summaries
2. Words of wisdom from each working group – goals, statements, proposals, issues, action items, etc.
3. Agreement on some obvious next steps

One Page Descriptions

Attendees :

Invitation:
We would like to invite you to join us at Fermilab on Monday January 12th, 2004 for a day of open discussions on the Open Science Grid consortium concept (http://opensciencegrid.org) and on how we might together take some further steps towards achieving this vision.

During the week of January 12th the DOE and NSF will be conducting a joint review of the Software and Computing program of U.S. Atlas and U.S. CMS. So many people from LHC experiments, Grid projects and funding agencies will be in the vicinity of Fermilab on January 12th. We thought we would take the opportunity to host an open forum and to encourage many interested parties to attend. We apologize in advance for Chicago weather in January.

Great progress is being made on many fronts towards bringing together different but complementary efforts in Grid Computing with demonstrations, research ideas exercised, and services initiated. DOE Science Grid people and NSF Teragrid people and Trillium Project people and many experiments and researchers are all working together in different ways, along various different axes. Cooperation between many of these efforts is outstanding and has led to some notable successes such as the Grid2003 (http://www.ivdgl.org/grid2003/) demonstration involving 22 sites.

It is clear and understood by all that each organization (lab or university), funded project, and experiment needs to achieve areas of individual success and recognition in addition to working together with others in cooperative structures (such as projects or consortia or collaborations). So that in order to achieve an Open Science Grid vision each of the partners and participants needs to take steps that take them along their own axis as well as moving us collectively towards a strong persistent U.S. Grid infrastructure that is broader and stronger than any one of its constituent partners can be.

Please consider joining us for a discussion of what steps we might take collectively, what collaborative organizational bodies or governance we might set up to help us and what interoperability exercises and demonstrations could be initiated (in addition to those already planned or underway). Of course the issue of what additional funding opportunities might be available and appropriate to further an Open Science Grid approach can also be on the table for discussion.

For the agenda we suggest that each person who comes representing an institution, project or experiment provide only a one page (literally) synopsis of that institution/project/experiment and its role in building U.S. Grid infrastructure. We intend to allow a lot of time for discussions. The afternoon could be in a workshop format where subgroups huddle to come up with some ideas and statements to share. Please indicate if you would be willing to help with the agenda or organization!

We are sending this to a large number of colleagues, but we have probably left out many people who might be interested. Please forward this to others who might wish to attend.

The meeting is open to all. However, we will need to get a rough idea of who is coming and so we are asking you to let us know if you are coming by replying to this email. We will shortly be putting up an information and registration page at http://www.opensciencegrid.org/Meetings/jan1204/

best regards,

Vicky White, Head, Computing Division at Fermilab,
Lothar Bauerdick, U.S. CMS Software and Computing Manager,
Ruth Pordes, Trillium Projects, HICB Joint Technical Board

Please send mail for more information.