Position Papers

The steering committee solicited position papers requesting information about how the future TeraGrid could help individuals, projects, communities, or organizations to address research challenges and what this might mean for future TeraGrid capabilities, governance, resources, services, etc. In keeping with the goal of the planning process, the committee asked that position papers focus on needs and requirements in the timeframe 2010-2015.

  • Collaboration across the Ocean

     Author: Yoichi Muraoka
    Institute: Waseda Unversity

    Dr. Muraoka states that "we need something more than just a set of high speed computers and high speed internet to promote scientific collaboration. We need new infrastructure which can support investigators to exchanging important ideas as well as data, tracking the progress of a project, and facilitating interaction between experts from different disciplines."

    Yoichi_Muraoka_Waseda_University.pdf
  • Cyber-infrastructure for Pervasive Computing: Opportunities and Challenges

    Author: Gerhard Klimeck
    Institute: Purdue University

    This paper suggests actions the NSF and the TeraGrid could take to make scientific computing truly pervasive.

    TG_PositionPaper_GerhardKlimeck.pdf
  • D-Grid Future

    Author: Wolfgang Gentzsch
    Institute: D-Grid Initiative, Duke University and RENCI

    This paper describes the path forward for D-Grid on a national as well as on an international
    scale.

    D-Grid Future Jan08 Gentzsch.pdf
  • Evolutionary Pressures on the TeraGrid and the Larger Grid/Distributed Computing Community

    Author: Craig A. Lee

    "This document serves as an effort to catalog the evolutionary pressures on the general grid and distributed computing communities. Assuming that the TeraGrid wants to grow and evolve beyond its current form and user base, these general evolutionary pressures should be applicable. For each of the areas discussed in this document, however, the TeraGrid leadership must evaluate and decide where the applicability is higher or lower."

    TGEvolutionaryPressures.pdf
  • Importance of Collaboration between TeraGrid and International Projects

    Author: Bob Jones
    Institute: CERN

    "Over the last couple of years EGEE has developed a good working relationship with Teragrid. The reason for building such a relationship is to be able to support user communities that wish to make use of a range of grid infrastructures. Our vision for the future is that of a global grid eco-system consisting of multiple interoperating infrastructures that make it possible for users to aggregate resources spanning desktop volunteer grids (such as BOINC), cluster based grids (such as EGEE) and HPC systems (such as Teragrid) to share applications and data easily."

    Bob Jones_Input.pdf
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