message from Gigi Karmous-Edwards

[Karel Vietsch <vietsch@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 06:14:55 -0500
> Subject: Re: Control plane and grid integration group
> From: Gigi Karmous-Edwards <gigi@xxxxxxxx>
> To: "International collaborators participating in the 
> Global               Integrated Lambda Facility (GLIF)" <all@xxxxxxx>,
>         GlifControlPlane <controlplane@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Gigi Karmous-Edwards <gigi@xxxxxxxx>,
>         Licia Florio <licia@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> I want to thank Cees for his kind introduction. I would like to also thank
> TERENA (specifically Licia Florio) for helping to create and manage the
> mailing list for the GLIF control plane working group. I welcome all who
> have an interest in this topic to join the list. The name of the list is
> controlplane@xxxxxxxx
>
> To subscribe, people should send an email to majordomo@xxxxxxx with the
> following text:
>
> subscribe controlplane your_name your_e-mail_address
>
> As you can see from the GLIF WEB site, the Goal of this working group is as
> follows:
>
> To agree on the interfaces and protocols that talk to each other on the
> control planes of the contributed Lambda resources. People working in this
> field already meet regularly in conjunction with other projects, notably the
> NSF-funded OptIPuter and MCNC Controlplane initiatives.
>
> Our GLIF Control Plane Kick-off meeting will be on the September 30th
> iGrid/GLIF meeting later this year. Please feel free to share ideas and
> topics on the mailing list at any time. Active discussions on the mailing
> list will help ensure a productive meeting on the 30th.
>
> Based on the last MCNC control plane workshop, the community identified
> several key areas we need to focus on. Here are some of the reoccurring
> challenges:
>
> -Define and understand real operational scenarios
> -Defining a set of basic services:
>     *precise definitions
>     *developing semantics the whole community agrees to
> -Interdomain exchange of information
>     *determine what information needs to be monitored
>     *how to abstract monitored information to share
> -Determine what existing standards are useful vs. where Grid requirements
> are unique and new services and concepts.
>     * how do we standardize mechanisms and protocols that are unique to the
> -Grid community
>     *Define a Grid control plane architecture
>     *Work closely with E-science applications to provide vertical
> integration
>
>
>
> I look very forward to working on this very important topic within the GLIF
> community!
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Gigi
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Gigi Karmous-Edwards
> Principal Scientist
> Advanced Technology Group
> MCNC Grid Computing and Network Services
> RTP , NC, USA
> + 1 919-248-4121
> gigi@xxxxxxxx
> --------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
> On 2/6/05 6:19 PM, "Cees de Laat" <delaat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Dear *,
> >
> > As most of you may remember from earlier discussions and emails
> > leading to the meeting in Nottingham, there was also an objective to
> > have a group meeting on: "Control plane and grid integration" next to
> > the GOC, TEC and APPs groups. In the end that group did not meet
> > because the usual suspects for that track were already meeting at
> > well organized MCNC workshops, OptIPuter meeting and GridNets.
> > However, we now feel we should organize this and with great pleasure
> > I can announce that Gigi Karmous-Edwards agreed to chair this group.
> > Although I assume most of us know her for completeness I included a
> > bio below.
> >
> > Gigi will work with the secretariat to set up a mailing list and take
> > it from there.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Cees.
> >
> >
> >
> > Gigi Karmous-Edwards (gigi@xxxxxxxx is a Principal Scientist at MCNC
> > Grid Computing and Network Services (GCNS) where her research focus
> > is on novel optical technologies and their role in Grid Computing. In
> > her role, she initiates and leads collaborative research activities,
> > which focus on advance networking technologies for Grid computing,
> > and has published several papers in that area. She organized and
> > chaired two International workshops for "Optical Control Plane for
> > the Grid Community," which continues to meet and make progress in the
> > area of optical control plane research. She recently was appointed
> > Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State
> > University, where she will teach advanced classes on Network
> > Management and Control Planes. She has given several invited talks at
> > both national and international conferences. She has spent the last
> > fourteen years of her nineteen-year academic and industry R&D career
> > in all disciplines of networking Control Planes and Network
> > Management, including strong activity in standards work, system
> > architecture for data communication systems, and software design for
> > both embedded systems and management applications. She received her
> > B.S. in Chemical Engineering, and her M.S. in Electrical Engineering,
> > from NCSU. She is a member of IEEE society.
> >
> > --
> > http://www.science.uva.nl/~delaat/
> >