Workshops & Special Sessions
International Grid Interoperability and Interoperation Workshop 2008 (IGIIW 2008)
Organizers
Morris Riedel, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
Abstract
Significant international and broader interdisciplinary research is increasingly carried out by global collaborations that use next generation infrastructures such as Grids as a base to enable enhanced science (e-science). Many e-science applications take advantage of these infrastructures to simulate phenomena related to a specific scientific or engineering domain on advanced (parallel) computer architectures. In addition, more and more commercial players adopt the concepts of next generation infrastructures to enable new kinds of economic applications and flexible resource usage models.
More recently, increasing complexity of e-science applications that embrace multiple physical models (i.e. multi-physics) and consider a larger range of scales (i.e. multi-scale) is creating a steadily growing demand of compute power and storage capabilities. This leads to the demand of world-wide interoperable infrastructures that allow for new innovative types of e-science by using, for example, high throughput computing (HTC) infrastructures and high performance computing (HPC) resources together for complex e-science application workflows. Thus the only option left to satisfy increasing e-science application demands is to harness a united federation of world-wide Grids, which provides access to different kinds of resources and services.
The workshop will discuss the interoperability and interoperation aspects of current Grid and Web technologies, production Grids in general, and the interoperability through emerging open standards and well designed interfaces in particular. In the context of this workshop, the difference between interoperability and interoperation is as follows: Interoperation is specifically defined as what needs to be done to get production Grids (e.g. DEISA, EGEE, TeraGrid) to work together as a fast short-term achievement using as much existing technologies as available today. Hence, this is not the perfect solution and different than interoperability that is defined as the native ability of Grids and Grid middleware (UNICORE, gLite, Globus Toolkit, and others) to interact directly via well defined interfaces and common open standards. This will enable cross-Grid use cases and applications from a growing range of domains in industry and science, taking also recent technologies such as Clouds or Web 2.0 into account.
Date and Time
Tuesday, December 9, Time TBA
Submission URL
Submissions should be e-mailed as a PDF attachment to igiiw [at] fz-juelich [dot] de. For further details, see the workshop web page.
