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Welcome to The First

Australian Grid Forum Workshop (AGF/OzGrid1)Dec. 9-10, 2002, Melbourne, Australia

The Grid: 21st Century Computing Infrastructure

Grid Resource Broker

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Grid Information Service

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Application Drivers

Solving grand challenge applications using computer modeling, simulation and analysis

Life Sciences

CAD/CAM

Aerospace

Military ApplicationsDigital Biology Military ApplicationsMilitary Applications

Internet & Ecommerce

Some Grid Projects Australia

Nimrod-G Gridbus GridSim Virtual Lab DISCWorld GrangeNet ..new coming up

Europe UNICORE Cactus UK eScience EU Data Grid EuroGrid MetaMPI XtremeWeb and many more.

India I-Grid

Japan Ninf DataFarm

Korea...N*Grid

USA Globus Legion OGSA Sun Grid Engine AppLeS NASA IPG Condor-G Jxta NetSolve AccessGrid and many more...

Cycle Stealing & .com Initiatives

Distributed.net SETI@Home, …. Entropia, UD, Parabon,….

Public Forums Global Grid Forum Australian Grid Forum

IEEE TFCC CCGrid conference P2P conference

http://www.gridcomputing.com

Workshop Objectives

Serve as a Forum that brings together (Australian and international) policy makers, researchers, developers, and users of Grid technologies and applications.

Promote the exchange of ideas and collaborations among different scientific and business communities.

Promote sharing of Grid Technologies and Expertise. Promote the development of Australian Academic

Grid testbeds that facilitate sharing of resources for technology research and development.

Initiate and Promote National Grid Research Agenda

Volunteers/Organisers

Workshop Co-Chairs: Bill AppleBe, Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing

(VPAC) Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne Paul Coddington , University of Adelaide Andrew Wendelborn, University of Adelaide

Local Organisation Jane Sabato (chair) Candy Chong , VPAC (co-chair) Belinda Kesters , VPAC David Bannon , VPAC Sudharshan , VPAC Shoaib Burq, GRIDS Lab @ Melbourne Srikumar Venugopal, GRIDS Lab @ Melbourne

Australian Grid Forum

A “open” community forum to provide an exchange of information about Australian grid activities and a focus for discussion of grid-related issues.

Provide a broad-based repository of information about all Australian grid activities.

A facilitator of open communication between groups, to encourage collaboration and to ensure the progress of grid activities both locally, and through interaction with international grid organizations.

Support specialised discussion and working groups. Share expertise in development and deploymemt

Grid technologies and applications.

Australian Grid Forum can do:

Coordinate a web site with links to Australian grid-related projects; a catalogue of grid facilities; a discussion forum:

ideas for applications, new directions etc example discussion issue: setting up a hierarchy of GIIS for Australia

a mailing list; Facilitate information exchange, such as

sharing experience with deployment of Grid technologies setting up workshops, web conferences, and similar Specialized discussion groups and working groups

Promote Australian Grid Technologies Encourage Aus application areas Seek collaborative opportunities within Australia, Asia Pacific and

internationally Assist in an advisory and educational role through APAC in

particular Encourage setting up of Access Grid nodes (via VisLab)

Technical Authors’ Affiliations

Australian National University

Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing

Distributed Systems Technology Centre

Monash University Queensland Parallel

Supercomputing Foundation

Queensland University of Technology

University of Adelaide

University of Melbourne University of Sydney Victorian Partnership for

Advanced Computing Xcomp Pty Ltd International! Hebrew University of

Jerusalem, Israel MTA SZTAKI, Hungary

(speaking) Osaka University, Japan

Technical Presentations

22 technical talks spread across 6 sessions for 2 days.

2 separate Open Discussions Developing National Grid Agenda Australian Grid Forum: Charter and

Future

Program Schedule: Day 1

10.15-12.30 Session 1: Grid Infrastructure Chair: Andrew Wendelborn, Adelaide

1.30 – 3.10 Session 2: Grid Application Development Tools Chair: Wayne Kelly, Queensland

University of Technology 3.25-5.30 Session 3: Grid Testbed

and Application Scheduling Chair: Paul Coddington, University of

Adelaide 6.00-xx: APAC Sponsored Dinner!

Program Schedule: Day 2

9.00-10.40: Session 4: Grid Performance Engineering Chair: Bill AppelBe, VPAC

10.55-12.30 Session 5: Data Intensive Computing Applications

Chair: Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney 1.30-2.30 Session 6: National Grid Program – Open

Discussion Forum Australian Academic Grid Testbed Development Sharing Technologies and Expertise Developing Collaborations

2.30-3.00 Session 7: APAC II Grid: Plans and Future John O'Callaghan, Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing

3.00-3.15 Afternoon Tea Break 3.15-4.15: Session 8: Australian Grid Forum (AGF) &

Steering Committee Meeting Plans, Objectives, Working Groups Next AGF Events

4.15-4.30 Conclusions and Closing Remarks