Rice University
Duncan Hall 1049
April 18-19, 2007

Agenda

Wednesday, April 18

 8:30- 9:00    Continental breakfast
 9:00- 9:30    Talk - Lessons from LEAD/VGrADS Demo – Yang Seok Ki
 9:30-10:00    Talk - Fault Tolerance and Recovery for Grid Workflow Systems – Anirban Mandal
10:00-10:30    Talk - Grid Economics Progress Report – Andrew Mutz & Ryan Zhang

10:30-11:00    Break

11:00-12:30    Discussion - Next steps on demos

Assume that we will use (some of) these for SC07 demos

12:30- 1:30    Lunch

 1:30- 2:00    Talk - DAG Scheduling with Reliability / GridSolve / Fault Tolerance in OpenMPI – Asim YarKhan
 2:00- 2:30    Talk – Texas Internet Grid for Research and Education (TIGRE) – Chuck Koelbel
 2:30- 3:00    Talk – Resource Specification Prediction Model – Richard Huang

 3:00- 3:30    Break

 3:30- 4:00    Discussion - Short-term planning

What activities will we emphasize this year?
Set schedule for shared demos at SC07
Set milestones for any other major projects

 4:00- 5:00    [Parallel meetings] Developers Meeting

vgES development supporting the demo(s)

 4:00- 5:00    [Parallel meetings] PI Meeting (PIs only)

Management issues
Annual report to NSF
Research foci for years 4 and 5
    - Any new areas added? Any old areas phased out?
    - Any deliverables that need to be planned (e.g. a software distribution)?
Do we want/need a workshop in fall '07? (previously scheduled at UNC)
Should we plan a follow-on project?
    - If so, who should be involved?
    - If so, which program(s) to apply to and when?

Thursday, April 19

 8:30- 9:00    Continental breakfast
 9:00-10:00    Talk/discussion - Education and Outreach

Particularly any summer activities we want to do

10:00-12:00    Long-term planning

Discussion of research themes, milestones to NSF, plans for year 5
Possible discussion of follow-on proposals, rolling VGrADS software into NMI or other infrastructure

12:00-1:30    Lunch

 1:30- 3:00    Developers Meeting

vgES development supporting the demo(s)
vgES plans for longer-term goals
Demo-specific development

 3:00- 3:30    Break

 3:30- 5:00    Developers Meeting continues

vgES development supporting the demo(s)
vgES plans for longer-term goals
Demo-specific development