Sessions place: OGF24, Singapore, Sep 16th, 2008

Session secretary : Costas Kotsokalis (thanks for taking the minutes)

1. First Session:

* General presentation about the group - Marcin Plociennik

- There is a presentation about RISGE-RG work during ICT'08 in Lyon, France,
during the networking session:
"Why experimental sciences require e-Infrastructure"
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/item-display.cfm?id=712

- Contact with "Sensor Grids for Environmental Monitoring" communities,
representing Asia region
http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/index.php?id=1456

* Presentation on optiputer-based microscopy - David Wallom
  - Point on requirement for many different visualization platforms and tools

* CIMA presentation - Peter Turner
  - One CIMA component for the control/monitoring of many different instruments of the same kind
  - Still developed but not “supported”, needs further work
  - CIMA not available as production software, only in CVS

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2. Second session - discussion
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* Proposition to extend current set of use cases, then post-process and try to provide a model use case within the document published by the group.

* DORII will propose GLUE extensions to the relevant group. v1.3 temporary solution, v2.x real target.

* Suggestion to make a decision tree in the form of a questionnaire towards interested parties

* David suggests starting with a limited set of functionality and then extending even further. The document can be used to identify a few points that we wish to look at closely.

* Analogy of instruments to computations. Interactive steering of instruments similar to computational steering.

* Possible relevance to Network Measurements and Grid Network Interface groups’ work. Good idea to look into them?

* Need to make the document more coherent and condensed. Related work/experience in the field can go to appendices and be further shortened. Clarifications/modifications to be solicited from the people who have provided use cases so far.

* Functional reqs of the NMR case can be presented as UML use case diagrams.

* Suggestion is to produce a model use case based on these, then convert RINGrid model use case to this format, and merge.

* Have a look through current groups and identify the ones to have a discussion with and may be able to affect (e.g. GLUE, ByteIO, etc).