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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 [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~alun/documents/scutters/ESP-GRID20050428BrainStormNotes.xls 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 [attachment:GridUseCases0_65.pdf 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.