Proposal for an AG technical retreat..

[John L. Moreland]

Rick/Gang,

This sounds interesting, and the timing couldn't be better. A new 
project (led by Larry Smarr) is gearing up and he would like to build 
a bunch of new AG nodes at a handful of sites around California. So, 
we are certainly thinking about how to improve, deploy, and support 
AG systems on a larger scale. I therefore look forward to hearing 
more about the retreat.

John

At 11:31 PM -0500 10/11/00, Rick Stevens wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm thinking that it might be a good idea to put together an Access 
>Grid retreat
>for sometime early next year. The purpose of the retreat would be to 
>gather people
>together to discuss where we are with the Access Grid Project, 
>present some technical
>proposals to the AG technical community for where we might want to 
>go in the next year with
>new capabilities, to plan some stretch events that will help refine 
>and improve
>the AG concept, and to provide an open forum for discussing new and 
>interesting
>things we can do with the AG in the future.  I propose a 2-3 day 
>format, with a few
>invited talks, contributed presentations from various groups on 
>future directions,
>some breakout sessions to discuss specific applications of AG 
>(Medical, etc.) and
>the publication in an informal proceedings the lecture notes and 
>discussion papers which
>would cover new AG related technologies and projects.
>
>Thoughts ?
>
>---Rick