Workshop on Lightweight Grid Computing

Date

Tuesday 2^nd May to Wednesday 3^rd May 2006

To share ideas on the middleware needed to provide users with lightweight access to Grid Resources
To look at ways to pool resources for future collaboration (note that the use of portals to provide this capability was not considered since the workshop focused on programmatic and scripted interfaces to the Grid).

Losehill Hall
Peak District National Park Centre for Environmental Learning
Castleton
HOPE VALLEY
S33 8WB

Telephone 01433 620373
Fax 01433 620346
Grid Reference SK 153838

Tue 2^nd May
12:00	Welcome and Introduction (chair: John Kewley)
	Peter Coveney " The importance of lightweight middleware"
	Rob Allan "The GROWL Project"
14:00	The Users' perspective (chair: Peter Coveney)
	Kashif Sadiq "GRID Middleware for Biomolecular Science Applications: A user's perspective"
	Radhika Saksena "Application Hosting Environment (AHE): the User's View"
	Mary-Ann Thyveetil "A comparison of the AHE with the GT2 based Reality Grid launcher"
15:30	Discussion Session (chair John Kewley)
	"Lightweight vs Heavyweight - What is the difference?"
	"Co-allocation and Interactive Grids"
17:30	Opportunity for a walk up Lose Hill

	or a look round Castleton

Wed 3^rd May
09:00	Lightweight Grid Computing 1 (chair: Peter Coveney)
	James Suter "WEDS: WSRF Environment for Distributed Simulation"
	Dan Grose "Hosting and Accessing Objects via Persistent Web Services"
	Andrew McNab "Web Services in Scripts and C using GridSite"
	Asif Akram "Workflow Web Services"
	Stefan Zasada "Application Hosting Environment (AHE): Developer's View"
11:00	Lightweight Grid Computing 2 (chair: John Kewley)
	Stephen McGough "GridSAM: Job Submission and Monitoring Web Service"
	Andrew Porter "Reality Grid steering system"
	Bruce Beckles "A user-friendly approach to grid security"
	Jon Blower "VEIGA: a Very Easy Interface to Grid Applications"
	Shantenu Jha "SAGA: The Simple API for Grid Applications"
13:45	*Discussion Session al fresco* (chair: Stephen Pickles)**

	"How can we encourage more Users to use the Grid?"
	"How do we move forward together?"

University of Cambridge:: Bruce Beckles
CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory:: Asif Akram, Rob Allan, Adam Braimah, John Kewley, Jamie Rintelman and Jens Thomas
Imperial College:: Stephen M^cGough
University of Lancaster:: Daniel Grose
Losehill Hall:: Angela Fowl, Caroline Hicken and Chris Ockerel
University of Manchester:: Mark Mc Keown, Andrew McNab, Andrew Porter and Stephen Pickles
Reading e-Science Centre:: Jon Blower and Dan Bretherton
UCL:: Peter Coveney, Shantenu Jha, Kashif Sadiq, Radhika Saksena, James Suter, Mary-Ann Thyveetil and Stefan Zasada