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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

Photos

• http://users.ox.ac.uk/~alun/documents/scutters/BrainStormMeetingImages/brainstormBW1.JPG

• http://users.ox.ac.uk/~alun/documents/scutters/BrainStormMeetingImages/brainstormBW2.JPG

• http://users.ox.ac.uk/~alun/documents/scutters/BrainStormMeetingImages/brainstormBW5.JPG

• http://users.ox.ac.uk/~alun/documents/scutters/BrainStormMeetingImages/brainstormBW6.JPG

• http://users.ox.ac.uk/~alun/documents/scutters/BrainStormMeetingImages/brainstormBW7.JPG

• http://users.ox.ac.uk/~alun/documents/scutters/BrainStormMeetingImages/brainstormBW8.JPG

• http://users.ox.ac.uk/~alun/documents/scutters/BrainStormMeetingImages/brainstormBW9.JPG

Links

• AE recorded an audio file of the meeting

• AE wrote notes on [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~alun/documents/scutters/ESP-GRID20050428BrainStormNotes.xls spreadsheet] which records 75%+ of the discussion, Steven Young in particular responded with comments to an early draft of this sheet - his response is prob in the DCOCE mail folders.

(-- AlunEdwards DateTime(2006-04-18T11:48:12Z))

Documents produced for or after the meeting

See also [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~markn/GridUseCases/ Grid Use Cases] for the documents produced for and after the Focus Group Meeting.