:: Session 8.5: Day 3: Time 18:45
to 19:05
OGF & Standardisation Work
Malcolm Atkinson
and Steven Newhouse
Contents:
18:45 Standards Development
The development of standards is essential to enable effective development of
Grids. Interoperability depends on well-specified and carefully chosen
standards that are widely adopted. The stages of standard development, the
current status of standards and experiences of working on standards will be
described. We will tell you about GGF as well as other standards development
organisations (SDOs) and encourage you to consider contributing to
standardisation efforts. The discussion will describe the activity in the Open
Grid Services Architecture Working Group as it composes and profiles
specifications from GGF and elsewhere, and the ongoing interoperability efforts
within the global Grid community to validate implementations of these
specifications.
Slides:
- OGF Standards Activity [
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Biographies:
Professor Malcolm Atkinson PhD, FBCS, FRSE
Malcolm Atkinson is the Director of the National e-Science
Centre and the e-Science Institute. He is the UK e-Science Envoy
and plays a leading role in OMII-UK, and is on the advisory
boards of GOSC, NCeSS, Baltic Grid and GEON. He leads training
and education in the two EU-funded projects EGEE and ICEAGE
project, International Collaboration to Extend and Advance Grid
Education. These two projects have organised the ISSGC06. He
is a member of the Global Grid Forum Steering Group and Data
Area Director for GGF.
He began his career in computing in 1966. He has worked at
seven universities: Glasgow, Pennsylvania, Edinburgh, UEA, Cambridge,
Rangoon and Lancaster; and for two companies: Sun Microsystems
(at SunLabs in California) and O2 (an Object-Oriented DB company
in its early years in Versailles). He led the development of
the Department of Computing Science in Glasgow and is now Professor
of e-Science in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
He has more than 130 publications. He has taken leading roles
in national strategic research and infrastructure committees.
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Dr Steven Newhouse
Steven Newhouse is Director of the Open Middleware Infrastructure
Institute UK, a collaborative e-Science project between the
University of Southampton (where he is based), the University
of Edinburgh, and the University of Manchester. He is a member
of the Global Grid Forum (GGF) Steering group, where he is responsible
for Application Standards, and is on the management or supervisory
boards of the Grid Operational Support Centre (GOSC), AstroGrid
and GridPP. He remains active in the Open Grid Services Architecture
Working Group (OGSA-WG) of the GGF.
Before moving to Southampton in June 2004 he was the Sun Lecturer
in e-Science in the Department of Computing at Imperial College
London and Technical Director of the London
e-Science Centre (LeSC) also based at Imperial. His early
research work was in Computational Underwater Acoustic Modelling
at the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College. He moved
to the Imperial College Parallel Computing Centre in 1998 where
he developed the Centre’s research and equipment portfolio
through collaborative projects with the College’s main
computational users. He led the Centre’s research activity
in ICENI
– the Imperial College e-Science Networked Infrastructure
– a service oriented architecture built using Java and
Jini that provided a gateway to other infrastructures.