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GGF5 BOF session

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Edinburgh (GGF5)

Edinburgh (GGF5)
Bob Jones (CERN)
Description
A number of grid projects, such as European DataGrid (www.edg.org), GriPhyN (www.griphyn.org), CrossGrid (www.crossgrid.org), European DataTag (www.datatag.org), PPDG (www.ppdg.net) etc. are building grids to support data intensive applications from various scientific domains such as high energy physics, astro-physics, bio-medical and earth observation. Each of these projects are actively working on architectural issues that can potentially be unified to provide the basis for common solutions. Future directions (e.g. Open Grid Services Architecture) in underlying toolkits (such as Globus and Condor) will have an important impact on these architectures and how they intend to embrace these developments needs to be addressed. The BOF will bring together people from these projects to determine if a common architecture can be found that satisfies their application needs for data intensive grids. The goal of the BOF will be to review architectures of the projects to extract common approaches by identifying those components and configurations that have proved successful.