The CDIGS project makes significant contributions to Globus outreach activities: expanding awareness about Globus technologies to relevant communities and deepening that awareness wherever possible.

CDIGS outreach activities include the following.

• High-Performance Computing (HPC) Center outreach
• TeraGrid and Open Science Grid outreach
• Training material development
• Outreach events and activities

Calendar Year 2008 Outreach Events:

• SC 2008, multiple presentations and papers:
  • see http://dev.globus.org/wiki/Outreach/SC2008
• National Center for Toxological Research, Center for Toxicoinformatics, October 23
  • Gave a talk entitled "How to Benefit from Grid and Cloud Computing" (attendance ~30)
  • The main applications there are still small scale and current algorithms are memory & database limited. We discussed possibilities for extending existing calculations to the grid.
• Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium, Oct 7
  • Gave a talk entitled "What Happens When Grid Computing Meets HPC Computing?"(attendance ~50)
• Brookhaven National Lab, Sep 19
  • Met with the Atlas group to determine some of the best methods for meeting the anticipated ATLAS requirements as the LHC comes online. Job submissions are anticipated to reach upwards of 100,000 per day.
  • Discussed possibility of including GUMS in the GT Release for providing and alternative mapping capability to Gridmap files.
• Presented at GridKa '08 in Karlsruhe, Germany (Sep 10)
• Presented a tutorial on GridFTP, RFT, RLS and SRM at the OSG's Midwest Grid School, Chicago, IL (Sep 18)
• Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Sep 9
  • Presented a talk "Globus, Grid, and Cloud Computing" to the PSC audience (attendance ~35).
  • Met with the PSC/TG data team. Discussed ways of improving GridFTP Usage on the TG. Possibilities include automating GridFTP setups, DMOVER (www.psc.edu/dmover) includes methods for accomplishing this. Also requested clearer documentation on best practices for setting up GridFTP servers.
• Raj Kettimuthu attended International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2008)
• Gave an invited talk on "Data Movement Tools for Distributed Petascale Science," at Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science, Portland State University, Portland, OR, September 8, 2008
• ISSGC08 - Grid School, July 6-18, Hungary. http://www.iceage-eu.org/issgc08/index.cfm
  • Martin Feller represented the CDIGS team and taught several courses on Grid Job Submissions in conjunction with OSG.
• Met with Gerhard Klimeck's Nanohub team at Purdue, Jul 18
  • Gave a presentation "LEAD Debugging Efforts" and "Service Oriented Science".
  • Discussed specialized requirements for a team such as NanoHUB to work on the TG (e.g. special queues for immediate turn around). Also discussed some of the problems the team has encountered when trying to access TG & OSG sites.
  • Planned to engage further once the school year starts and students are available to work on more projects surrounding NEMO3D.
• Met with caBIG users and providers at the annual caBIG Meeting in Washington, June 23-25. https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/2008AnnualMeeting/index.htm
  • Goal was to determine specific needs and requirements from this community as well as to understand this unique community better. An important distinction between this community and other Globus communities is that caBIG actively writes new Globus based services and does not rely as much on existing services such as GRAM and GridFTP. Hence, important improvements to the toolkit are features that make it easier to write services, and avoidance of problems like classpath collisions.
• Met with NCSA teams on May 30
  • Gave a presentation "Service Oriented Science"
  • Discussed ways to improve Globus reliability both from a provider perspective as well as from a software perspective. One idea that came out of this meeting was the formation of a new TG working group to test particular user configurations on all new software before it is deployed on TG.
• Organized the GlobusWorld portion of the Open source, & Cluster conference. http://www.opensourcegridcluster.org/. Many presentations and tutorials were given by CDIGS team members in addition to talks from the Globus developer & user community.
• IPDPS
  1. Presented a paper entitled: A Dynamic Scheduling Approach for Coordinated Wide-Area Data Transfers using GridFTP. G. Khanna, U. Catalyurek, T.Kurc, R. Kettimuthu, P. Sadayappan, and J. Saltz, Proceedings of 22nd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'08), Apr 2008
• OSG All Hands Meeting, March 3-6.
  • http://indico.fnal.gov/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1037 
  • Dan Fraser gave a presentation "Managed Object Placement Service"
• International Winter School on Grid Computing, http://www.iceage-eu.org/iwsgc08/index.cfm
• OGF 22, "GridFTP and Challenges in Data Transport," John Bresnahan, Data Management and Movement workshop at
• "Protecting DOE's Open Science and Energy Control Systems", Frank Siebenlist, National Tsing Hua University, "The Globus GridFTP Framework and Server", Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Invited Talk at the Department of Computer Science,Hsinchu, Taiwan, December 2007.
• OSG/EGEE Middleware Security Group (MWSG) meeting at LBNL - Dec 6-7, 2007.
  • "Trusted Virtualization: Challenges and Opportunities", Frank Siebenlist,
  • "SSH & GSI-X.509: Happily Living Together in Harmony",  Frank Siebenlist
  • "GT's Java Authorization Framework",  Rachana Ananthakrishnan,
• Building Effective Virtual Organizations, NSF Workshop, Washington DC, Jan 15-16, 2008.
  • "Protecting DOE's Open Science and Energy Control Systems", Frank Siebenlist, DOE-Briefing, Dec 13, 2007. 
    "VO & Security", Frank Siebenlist,
  • Security Breakout session was led by Frank Siebenlist
  •  "VOs Present & Future," Dan Fraser, Panel Presentation and Discussion.
• ESG AG session, Jan 17, 2008 "ESG Security Architecture", Frank Siebenlist, Rachana Ananthakrishnan,
• Attended Scientific Data Management (SDM) Center All-Hands meeting, Nov 28-29, 2007 (Ann Chervenak)
• "Globus Toolkit 4", Rachana Ananthakrishnan, IEEE eScience Conference, Bangalore, India
• Attended the IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2007), Hsinchu, Taiwan Dec 5-7, 2007 (Rajkumar Kettimuthu)
• NSFBuilding Effective Virtual Organizations (Jan, 2008) "VOs Present & Future" Panel Presentation.