TC6 members / WG chairmen
Earlier today, I received the e-mail below from Andrew Martin of Oxford University. (I've had no previous contact with him.)
Is anyone interested in Grid Computing and/or the Global Grid Forum? Does anyone think it relevant to any of our Working Groups? (As far as I can see it doesn't appear in any of the Working Groups aims and scopes.)
If you reply to me (to save filling up everybody's mailboxes), I'll put together a response to Andrew (which, of course, I'll copy to everyone).
Regards (and, if the wish is not too late, have a good week-end)
Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Martin [mailto:Andrew.Martin@comlab.ox.ac.uk] Sent: 22 February 2002 12:35 To: radfordp@logica.com Subject: IFIP TC6 / Grid ?
Hello,
I understand you are the UK representative for IFIP TC6. I'm writing to ask if you are aware of any interest in that community in the `Grid computing' paradigm.
You may know that the Grid/e-Science theme is presently receiving a great deal of UK and European funding, and gaining a great deal of interest and investment from companies such as IBM. I have just returned from a meeting of the Global Grid Forum (GGF4), which sees itself as a peer organisation to the IETF and W3C. I have been struck by how much that community appears to need input from the Software Engineering and/or computer science world. IFIP seems a likely framework for such input, and TC6 (WG 6.1, 6,2, 6.4 etc.) the most promising community.
No doubt I'm not the first to make that connection; can you direct me to any like-minded people? Looking at IFIP web pages, I can see much discussion of internet applications, but no mention of the Grid.
Thank you very much.
Best regards
Andrew. -- Andrew Martin. Oxford University Software Engineering Centre, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford. OX1 3QD Phone: (01865) 283605
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Dear Peter,
The subject of Grid Computing is nowadays key in research activities. I would face with much sympathy its inclusion in TC6 objectives. Definitely, WG 6.4, 6.1 and 6.2 seem to be the most related WGs. We could even have a Task Group on Grid Computing as we have done with E-Commerce.
Do you think that Andrew Martin is interested in dynamizing such an activity in TC6? If yes, he could come to our next TC6 meeting and make a proposal. I suggest that he introduces the Grid subject by means of a 20 minute presentation and then we can have a discussion on how to proceed. The chairmen of WG 6.1, 6.2 and 6.4 will be present in Saariselka.
It would be good to have other opinions from TC6 members on this mail.
Best regards
Augusto
-----Original Message----- From: ifip-tc6-admin@Lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE [mailto:ifip-tc6-admin@Lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE]On Behalf Of Radford, Peter Sent: sexta-feira, 22 de Fevereiro de 2002 17:08 To: IFIP TC6 (E-mail) Subject: [ifip-tc6] FW: IFIP TC6 / Grid Computing
TC6 members / WG chairmen
Earlier today, I received the e-mail below from Andrew Martin of Oxford University. (I've had no previous contact with him.)
Is anyone interested in Grid Computing and/or the Global Grid Forum? Does anyone think it relevant to any of our Working Groups? (As far as I can see it doesn't appear in any of the Working Groups aims and scopes.)
If you reply to me (to save filling up everybody's mailboxes), I'll put together a response to Andrew (which, of course, I'll copy to everyone).
Regards (and, if the wish is not too late, have a good week-end)
Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Martin [mailto:Andrew.Martin@comlab.ox.ac.uk] Sent: 22 February 2002 12:35 To: radfordp@logica.com Subject: IFIP TC6 / Grid ?
Hello,
I understand you are the UK representative for IFIP TC6. I'm writing to ask if you are aware of any interest in that community in the `Grid computing' paradigm.
You may know that the Grid/e-Science theme is presently receiving a great deal of UK and European funding, and gaining a great deal of interest and investment from companies such as IBM. I have just returned from a meeting of the Global Grid Forum (GGF4), which sees itself as a peer organisation to the IETF and W3C. I have been struck by how much that community appears to need input from the Software Engineering and/or computer science world. IFIP seems a likely framework for such input, and TC6 (WG 6.1, 6,2, 6.4 etc.) the most promising community.
No doubt I'm not the first to make that connection; can you direct me to any like-minded people? Looking at IFIP web pages, I can see much discussion of internet applications, but no mention of the Grid.
Thank you very much.
Best regards
Andrew. -- Andrew Martin. Oxford University Software Engineering Centre, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford. OX1 3QD Phone: (01865) 283605
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