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Focus Group
An ESP-GRID focus group was held at OUCS on Thursday 28th April 2005 in Conference Room A, at the Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS). The proposed subject for discussion was - Brain Storming Meeting – Actors and Use-Cases for a 'Generic Grid'. The meeting was facilitated by Mustie Rahman (Mustafizur Rahman, OeSC - Oxford e-Science Centre and Oxford University).
Proposed agenda
Brain Storming Meeting – Actors and Use-Cases for a 'Generic Grid' 28 April 2005
- 10.30 Welcome and introduction (Mark Norman)
- 11.15 Discussion about the definition of Grid computing from the Use-cases document (Mustie Rahman)
- 11.45 Discussion on the Actors and the Use-cases (Mustie Rahman)
- 12.45 Lunch served in the conference room
- 13.30 Discussion on the Actors and the Use-cases (Mustie Rahman)
- 14.30 Break
- 14.45 Summary of the day, and Discussion about any contentious issues - incorporating attendance via portable Access Grid (Mustie Rahman)
- 15.15 Closing remarks (Mark Norman)
- 15.30 Planned end
Attendees
- Bruce Beckles, Cambridge University
- Brock Craft, UCLIC - University College London Interaction Centre
- Matthew J. Dovey, OeSC - Oxford e-Science Centre
- Alun Edwards, ESP-GRID, OUCS – Oxford University Computing Services
- Christian Fernau, SPIE and ESP-GRID, OUCS
Ivan Flechais, ComLab - Oxford University Computing Laboratory
- Ivaylo Kostadinov, OeSC - Oxford e-Science Centre
Andrew Martin, ComLab - Oxford University Computing Laboratory
- Rhys Newman, Physics, Oxford University
- Mark Norman, SPIE and ESP-GRID, OUCS
- Francisco Pinto, SPIE and ESP-GRID, OUCS
- Mustafizur Rahman, OeSC - Oxford e-Science Centre and Oxford University
- Alan Robiette, JISC
- Angela Sasse, Dept of Computer Science, UCL - University College London
- Steven Young, OeSC - Oxford e-Science Centre
Von Welch, GridShib (Attending via Portable Access Grid)
Apologies received from
- David Chadwick, The Computing Laboratory, University of Kent
- John Merrells, Parthenon Computing Ltd.
- Shawn Mullen, IBM
Mark Slaymaker, ComLab - Oxford University Computing Laboratory
- Anne Trefethen, EPSRC - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Notes
Notes on a spreadsheet records a transcript of 75%+ of the discussion.
Documents produced for or after the meeting
Before the focus group meeting, we had circulated a 'thought provoking' draft Grid use cases document that was the result of a few brainstorming sessions between the project team and a few others around Oxford who were interested. This was used as the main focus for discussions to start things off.
