Performance Measurement Architecture Workshop 2003: Agenda

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Agenda

Location: SDSC, Room 279. This is accessable from the outside, near ridge walk (at the top of the hill). Or, from reception, go up one floor and to the end of the 200 corredor (and out).

Original charge & rough agenda still available.

Thursday

08:00-08:30 continental breakfast (provided)
08:30-08:45 Welcome (and Agenda Bashing)
Matt Zekauskas
- Discuss Scope: diagnostic performance measurement architectures, comparison with "grid"/"middleware".
- Discuss Outcomes: report, architecture components & interfaces, map of existing projects and research areas. (preliminary, we will revist at the end of the day).
08:45-09:25 A top-down view
Short presentations on proposed architectures:
- Previous architecture diagram from an Internet2 measurement workshop -- MattZ (5)
- Internet2 piPEs -- Eric Boyd (10)
- GEANT Phase II -- Excerpted by Matt Z (10) [Original, from DANTE site]
- Internet2 Middleware End-to-End Diagnostics -- Chas DiFatta (15)
09:25-09:45 A bottom-up view: finding commonality in existing projects I
Short 10 minute presentations from implementors on existing projects
- CalNGI/NPACI/... -- Kevin Walsh
- UWashington - Ville Aikas [no presentation]
09:45-10:30 break
10:30-12:15 A bottom-up view: finding commonality in existing projects II
- NIMI - Andy Adams
- SLAC work - Connie Logg
- NLANR MNA/AMP - Tony McGregor
- piPEs current state - Eric Boyd
- TeraGrid (SAMI) - Jon Dugan
- ESnet - Chin Guok
- LBL work (SCNM, NTAF) - Brian Tierney
- ANML work - Steve Wallace
- Advisor - Tanya Brethour/Jim Ferguson
- PSC work - Matt Mathis
12:15-13:15 lunch (provided)
13:15-14:30 Common themes in projects
Identify common blocks in projects - look for common "tools in our kit".

14:30-15:00 break

15:00-16:30 Revisit top-down
- Use cases -- explore different views of the problem
- Do these demand different architectures / sets of tools
- Common Themes
- Holes
Slide Margaret Murray showed about web portals.
Wisconsin Advanced Internet Lab (WAIL)Measurement Activities (Slides from Barford)
16:30-17:00 Revisit outcomes, summarize day
17:00+ finish, dinner on your own

Friday

This is fuzzier, and is subject to change based on Day 1 progress.

08:00-08:30 breakfast
08:30-08:45 Review progress, Reset today's agenda
08:45-09:45 Discussions I
Open Research Areas
- security and privacy issues -- what's the model
- resource discovery
- others from first day's discussion
09:45-10:30 break
10:30-12:15 Discussions II
- Relationships to other groups: Standards, Grid, Middleware, Security
- Standard Interfaces
- Important Schemas, metadata
- Infrastructure Support
12:15-13:15 lunch
13:15-15:30 Wrap up discussion and moving forward
- Architecture summary
- Discuss how to produce outcomes
- Next steps

This material is based in part on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. ANI-0314723. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Last update: 10-Dec-2003, Matt Zekauskas