Production Grid Management (PGM-RG)
Session 2 - Open Session: Who We Are, What We Do, How You Can Get Involved

Agenda
	RG Introductions
	Charter
	Leadership introductions
	History
	Communication
	website
	mailing list
	Topics Being Addressed by the RG
	Documents
	Completed
	In progress
	Workshops
	Completed
	Proposed
	Next Steps
	Open Forum

Charter  Purpose
The purpose of this group is to bring together grid practitioners to document experiences, identify best practice and 
develop informational documents. These documents are offered as suggested guides to organizations moving a grid to the 
persistent level. This group also explores new paradigms in supporting grids that aspire to become large scale grids 
with a large user/application base, while not excluding the small grid efforts. In addition, this forum can be used to 
discuss problems and concerns that are likely to be encountered, technical as well as non-technical, when moving grid 
testbeds to production environments. This group should have an ongoing presence in GGF, serving a SIG/UG purpose in the 
grid community.

Charter - Goals
G-1) Identify technical and non-technical issues that need to be addressed for a production grid installation to be 
successful.
G-2) Develop "common practices" documents for critical issues as they are identified.
G-3) Facilitate opportunities for grid users and practitioners to share experiences in bringing grids to production.
G-4) Spin off Working Groups when the need for detailed GGF documents (e.g. recommendations) is identified.

Charter - Milestones
M-1) Grid Constitution Document - spin off WG to complete
M-2) PGM Survey
M-3) Tools Document - to be completed by current team (had been submitted to GGF Editor)
M-4) Trouble Ticket Document - revaluate interest, identify authors for this document; spin off WG if warranted
M-5) Workshops

Leadership
	David Wallom, University of Bristol, UK
	Laura McGinnis, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, USA 
	Judith Utley, USA (emeritus)

History

Chartered in June, 2003
Document Attempts
Best Practices
Case Studies
Presentations from production grids
DOE Grid (GGF5)
ApGrid (GGF7)
Titech Grid (GGF7)
Unicore (GGF7)
Grid Account Management: A Case Study (GGF9)
Workshops
Merge with Grid User Services RG  in progress
Communication

Website: 
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/pgm-rg
Mailing list: Majordomo
pgm-rg@gridforum.orgFace-to-face
Group is geographically distributed; face-to-face is primarily at GGF meetings
Conference calls
Available, but we haven't used regularly yet
Access Grid
Topics Being Addressed by the RG

Existing Grids
Ops Centers
Co/Meta Schedule
Software stack updates
User- base
Support / call centers
Support for VOs and related process
Performance monitoring/metrics
Service level descriptions
Standardization in monitoring
Pre-deployment Sites
Have users with unmet need
Physical Deployment
Commercial Solutions
Confidence Measures
Shared/Common
Deployment
User training
Administrative policies
Site manager training
"Repeatability"
SLAs (Service Level Agreements)
Documents - Completed
	GFD.35 (Informational): 
	Management of Grid Services in Production Grids Workshop
	J Utley (Editor)
	June, 2004
	www.ggf.org/documents/GWD-I-E/GFD-I.035.pdf)

Documents  In Progress
	From PGM:
	Membership Survey (Stephen Newhouse)
	From User Services:
	Grid Constitution (David Wallom)
	Tools Requirements
	Trouble Ticket 

Workshop: GGF8
	Tools For Grid Management
	GSI Credential Management with MyProxy
	A System for Monitoring and Management of Computational Grids
	GRIP: Creating Interoperability between Grids
	Grid Weaver
	Automatically Establishing the Executive Environment for User Applications
	Exegrid  Workflow Support and Resource Management
	Grid Packaging Using GPT 3.x

Workshop: GGF11
	Management of Grid Services in Production Grids 
	The UK Grid: Moving from Research to Production
	TeraGrid Architecture: A Grid for Users
	Grids in Asia Pacific:  What has been done? And what hasn't?
	Grid3...