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OGF-25 WelcomeCraig A. Lee, President, OGF

March 2, 2009

La Ciminiere, Catania, Sicily

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Thanks To Our

OGF-25 Event Sponsors

Network Providers

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A Special Thanks to our Organizational Members

PLATINUM and GOLD

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A Special Thanks to our Organizational Members

SILVER

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OGF-25 Overview

• PC Chair: Martin Walker• Formerly of HP

• 45 group and BoF sessions• 13 community sessions• 16 tutorials• 17 workshops

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Introducing New VP of Enterprise

• Ian Osborne• Intellect UK, www.intellectuk.org

• UK trade association for IT, telecoms & electronics

• Grid Computing Now! Project Director• a knowledge transfer programme of the

UK Technology Strategy Board

• www.gridcomputingnow.org

• Goals of the Enterprise Function and GCN! align very well

• Part of OGF-Europe

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Introducing New AdCom Chair

• Martin A. Walker• Distinguished Technologist at HP

• Segment Mgr, HPC and Grids at HP

• Segment Mgr, HPC at Compaq Computer

• HPTC Segment Mgr at Compaq

• Marketing Director, HPC at DEC

• Director, Parallel Applications at Cray Res. Inc.

• R&D Program Mgr, Myrias Research Corp.

• Member of Scientific Staff at Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics

The OGF Advisory Committee (AdCom) provides advice, The OGF Advisory Committee (AdCom) provides advice, insight and a broad perspective on strategic directions to insight and a broad perspective on strategic directions to

assist the management of the OGF. assist the management of the OGF.

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Goals & Challenges for OGF

• Maximizing value of our current “portfolio”• HPC Basic Profile, SAGA, DRMAA, …

• Grid Sustainability• Moving from project funding to operational budgets

• Clouds and Virtualization• Dynamic provisioning with simple APIs

• Green IT & Green Grids• Managing Energy Policy

• Establishing the OGF “brand” across the entire Establishing the OGF “brand” across the entire spectrum of distributed computingspectrum of distributed computing

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Event Planning

• Results of Event Survey• At least one large meeting ("jamboree") per year

• A second large meeting is possible if a good co-location opportunity exists

• Otherwise, OGF will have two WG-focused meetings per year

• Expected Meetings in 2010• Large meeting in Europe in the Spring

• Co-location opportunity exists

• Two WG-focus meetings• One in North America, one in Europe

• Managing Travel Costs• Not all groups have to meet at every OGF

• Groups could meeting closer to their "center of gravity"

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Upcoming Events

• OGF-26• Chapel Hill• North Carolina, USA• May 26-29, 2009• Registration Open!

• OGF-27• Banff, Alberta, Canada, Oct 12-16, 2009• With IEEE Grid 2009 & Cybera/CANARIE Natl Summit