The EPCC and the EU funded projects GridStart and GridLab invite participation in a 3-day workshop on "Grid Applications Programming" on July 2004 19-21.

The WorkShop will bring together application programmers who are interested in enhancing their applications to make use of Grid capabilities; and Grid middleware developers who want to make their middleware services available to the wider scientific application community.

The workshop will particularly target the application and middleware developers from the EU 5th Framework Grid projects clustered by GridStart as well as other Grid initiatives. This will be a good opportunity to consider a wide variety of Grid use-cases; and to help new projects reuse existing components for their work.

As preparation for the workshop, we encourage the submission of use cases from YOUR project. This will allow us to tailor the workshop to your specific application requirements.

A large part of the workshop will be devoted to presentations, tutorials and discussions of the Grid Application Toolkit (GAT). The GAT is an API developed by the EU GridLab project to support the development or porting of applications to Grid environments. The GridLab project seeks to enhance the GAT user community in cooperation with the GridStart projects and others, and also seeks feedback on the scope and specification of the GAT API, which will be used to revise the API to better suite the needs of a larger class of applications. This feedback will also be supplied to the new SAGA-RG in the GGF, whose purpose is to investigate and develop a standard API for enabling high-level applications to use Grid technologies.

Target audience

• Programmers of scientific applications
• Grid middleware developers

Important Dates

• 2004 July 07 : Registration deadline
• 2004 July 07 : Use Case Submission
• 2004 July 19-21 : Workshop
• Contact for Submission: Andre Merzky

REGISTRATION, LOGISTICS

• Registration and venue info at EPCC

Agenda

Possible additional Topics:

• Writing GAT adaptors
• Application Steering with GAT Events
• Standardizing GAT - work at GGF
• Detailed Comparison to Globus, CoG, ...
• Language Bindings

MEETING MATERIAL

GAT API Specification:

• Full Specification
• GAT API Overview

GAT C-Implementation

• GAT Engine Snapshots
• Stable Release (Comming Soon!)

Organization

Organizers

• Ed Seidel (AEI/LSU)
• Mark Parsons (EPCC, UK -- local organizer)
• Hartmut Kaiser (AEI)
• Ariel Oleksiak (PSNC)
• Krzysztof Kurowski (PSNC)
• Andre Merzky (VU)

Program Committee

• Gabrielle Allen (AEI/LSU)
• Ed Seidel (AEI/LSU)
• Tom Goodale (LSU)
• Jarek Nabrzyski (PSNC)