GRIDS Center
Community Workshop
Call for Presentations
The organizers of the 2nd Annual GRIDS Center Community Workshop are
soliciting presentations from members of cyberinfrastructure (CI)
projects in the following areas. Presentations may range from 15 to
45 minutes long and should address one or more of the following
topics.
Note: To propose a presentation,
please send
e-mail, with your proposal, to
contact@grids-center.org.
Area 1 - Security
Descriptions of how your project simplified the user experience
related to obtaining and managing Grid security credentials. What
strategies and tools are you using?
Descriptions of how your project handled
unusual or sophisticated security requirements (for example,
integration with existing systems, tricky authorization policies, or
auditing requirements).
Descriptions of the challenges ahead for your
project regard authentication, authorization, accounting, and
auditing.
Area 2 - Software Management
Descriptions of how your project manages software and service
requirements (for example, software/service inventories or service
level agreements).
Descriptions of how your project handles
software deployment.
Descriptions of how your project simplifies or
unifies the user experience across several independently operated
resource provider sites.
Descriptions of software or service
verification processes in your project. (Verification of compliance
with community/application requirements.)
Description of your project's experience with
the GRIDS Center build and test facility.
Descriptions of the challenges ahead for your project regarding
software requirements, deployment, and verification.
Area 3 - Portals
Descriptions of the mechanisms used by your portal to utilize
production Grid resources (for example: TeraGrid, Grid3, DOE Grid,
UK National Grid, or LCG).
Descriptions of how your portal satisfies
security requirements (authentication, authorization, accounting,
auditing).
Descriptions of the tools your project used to
construct your portal.
Descriptions of how your project overcame
interesting challenges in building your portal.
Descriptions of the challenges ahead for your
project regarding portal development and deployment.
Area 4 - Data Management
Description of how your project:
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Moves data around
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Manages data (e.g., access, performance,
availability)
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Manages datasets (e.g., description,
inventory, curation, analysis)
Descriptions of the challenges ahead for your
project regarding data management.
Area 5 - System Information and Monitoring
Descriptions of what your applications need to know about the system(s)
on which they're running.
Descriptions of what your users need to know
about the system.
Descriptions of how you collect that
information and make it available.
Descriptions of your project's experiences
using system information and monitoring tools.
Descriptions of your project's experiences
using more than one production Grid (e.g., TeraGrid, DOE Grid,
Grid3, LCG, or UK National Grid).
Descriptions of the challenges ahead for your
project regarding system information and monitoring.
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