GCE06
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GCE06 - Second International Grid Computing Environments and Portals Workshop 06
- Conference Web Page: http://www.cogkit.org/GCE06
- held in conjunction with with SC06, Tampa, FL
- Meeting dates: Sunday, Nov 12, 8:00am-3:00pm and Monday, Nov 13, 8-5. 8:00am - 3:00pm
- Meeting Location, Salon G
Abstract
The purpose of this Workshop is to bring together the community to discuss and foster the exchange of ideas for the development of tools, methodologies and frameworks to build Grid computing environments. Last years conference at SC05 focussed on tools for Grid Portals. This years conference will broaden the discussion to also include efforts of other tools that make the development and use of Grids more easily accesible from the desktop. The results of the Workshop will be published in a special edition of Concurrency Practice and Experience.
Scope
Scientific portals and gateways have emerged to be important components of many large-scale scientific computing and Grid projects. They are characterized by delivering well-established mechanisms for providing familiar interfaces to secure Grid resources, services, applications, tools, and collaboration services for communities of scientists. In most cases access is enabled through a web browser without the need to download or install any specialized software or worry about networks and ports. As a result, the science application user is isolated from the complex details and infrastructure needed to operate an application on the Grid.
In addition to Web-based tools we see the emergance of Desktop based Grid tools that make the development and also the use of Grids easier.
This workshop will focus on projects and technologies that are adopting these new technologies and services as well as develop new once. We seek papers from all aspects of portal, gateway, and tool development including architecture design and standards studies, toolkits developed in support of Grid portals and gateways, as well as Grid middleware.
GCE 2006 topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Applications of Grid Portals and Gateways (including User Portals, Application Portals, Science Gateways, Education Portals, User interface/usability studies).
- Design and architecture of Grid portals and gateways including
- Tools and frameworks that make developing Grid Portals and gatweaways easier
- Portal security models and solutions.
- Middleware solutions in support of portals and Gatwways including: Web Services; WSRF Services; Grid technologies; Databases; Workflows; WSRP and other standards; Web services in support of Portals and Gateways.
- Interaction with Commodity and Commercial tools such as Perl, Python, Matlab, and Mathematica.
- Interaction with Desktop aplications.
Paper Submission and Publication
Authors are invited to submit a full paper on original and unpublished work (which is also not submitted elsewhere for review) reporting omsignificant projects and results in any aspect of Grid portals, gateways and desktops, as well as their related technologies. Papers should not exceed 10 single-spaced pages of text including images and references using 11 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch paper with 1in margins. The document format is PDF. Electronic submission will be done through the workshop website. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper.
Proceedings
All papers selected for this workshop will be peer-reviewed. The accepted authors will have the posibility to publish an enhanced version in a special issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/) under the journal guidelines.
Important Dates:
- 11-Sep-06: Papers Due
- 03-Oct-06: Acceptance Notification
Organization:
Workshop Chair:
Gregor von Laszewski (ANL/UC) gregor@mcs.anl.gov
Steering/Advisory Committee:
- Dennis Gannon, Indiana Univ. (gannon@cs.indiana.edu)
- Geoffrey Fox, Indiana Univ. (gcf@indiana.edu)
- Rob Allan, Daresbury (r.j.allan@dl.ac.uk)
- Mary Thomas, (mthomas@rohan.sdsu.edu)
- Marlon Pierce, (mpierce@cs.indiana.edu) Last years chair.
Proposed Technical Program Chairs:
- Marlon Pierce (IU) (mpierce@cs.indiana.edu)
Confirmed Techncal Program Committee
- Tom Hacker (hacker@iu.edu)
- Tomasz Haupt (haupt@cavs.msstate.edu)
- Mary Thomas, San Diego Sate University, (mthomas@roham.sdsu.edu)
- Ian Kelley, Center for Computation and Technology, (ikelley@cct.lsu.edu)
- Suresh Marru, Indiana University
- Masimo Cafaro, (massimo.cafaro@unile.it)
- Wehrens, Oliver, Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max Planck Institute, Germany and LSU CCT (wehrens@aei.mpg.de)
- Marlon Pierce, Indiana University, (mpierce@cs.indiana.edu)
- Ruth Pordes, Fermi National Laboratory, (ruth@fnal.gov)
- Gregor von Laszewski, Argonne National Laboratory, (gregor@mcs.anl.gov)
- Nancy Wilkins-Diehr (wilkinsn@sdsc.edu)
- Shaowen Wang, The University of Iowa (shaoweb-wang@uiowa.edu)
- Purushotham V. Bangalore (puri@cis.uab.edu)
- Alameda, Jay (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)
- Roberts, Eric (Texas Advanced Computing Center)
- Severance, Charles (University of Michigan)
Proposed Technical Program Committee
- Walfredo Cirne (walfredo@dsc.ufcg.edu.br)
- Allen, Rob (Daresbury Labs, UK)
- Baker, Mark (University of Portsmouth, UK)
- Fox, Geoffrey (Indiana University)
- Kosiedowski, Michal (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center)
- Kuba, Martin (Masaryk University in Brno, CZ)
- Lin, Abel (University of California at San Diego)
- Mueller, Kurt (San Diego Supercomputer Center)
- Novotny, Jason (University of California at San Diego)
- Parashar, Manish (Rutgers University)
- Pickles, Stephen (University of Manchester)
- Roberto, Barbera (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, IT)
Proposed Letter to Conference Committee Members
Dear Colleague,
On behalf of the GCE06 Committee, we would like to invite you to serve as a member of the Program Committee for the GCE06 Workshop to be held in conjunction with Supercomputing on Nov 12-13, 2006 in Tampa FL, USA.
The goal of the GCE06 is to foster information exchange and encourage innovation in the areas of Grid and Scientific Portals and Gateways. It will promote the exchange of ideas and information between universities, industry, and national laboratories through the development of application portals and gateways as well as tools that help the scientific community to provide solutions to current scientific and technical challenges.
Having a strong program committee is critical for ensuring the quality and reputation of the symposium. We do hope that you will agree to be a part of the GCE06 Program Committee. As a member of the Program Committee you will be responsible for reviewing or obtaining a review for approximately 4 papers. The current (tentative) dates are:
Paper submission due: 11-Sep-2006. Notification of acceptance: 03-Oct-2006.
Additional information is available at http://www.cogkit.org/GCE06
We look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely yours,
Gregor von Laszewski
Conference Logistic
- Conference submission tool
- Once we hear more, we will set up a conference tool such as http://www.linklings.com/. We will be discussing with the other program committee members if there are better systems out there and which one to chose.
- Preferred time
- a Sunday or Monday meeting would be better than Friday.
- Fee
- We like to keep the fee as small as possible. We may ask NSF for support. However having food there may be more welcoming to attendees. Once we know of an acceptance, we try to find out the cost for the service to determine if a fee should be issued..
- Duration
- At this time we plan for a full day including a possible poster session. This is based on the experience from last year where we had actually many strong presentations.
