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In January 2007, at the third New York State Workshop on Data-Driven
Science and Cyberinfrastructure, Miller presented* the status of the NYS
Grid to the membership of this grassroots NYS Cyberinfrastructure initia-
tive, along with details and demonstrations. Signii cant progress had been
made in the technical working group and the communications group. Little
or no progress was made in establishing or identifying issues with the
other working groups. Critical results of this meeting included the recogni-
tion that the NYS Grid was stable and serving numerous users from out-
side of New York State; that high-end users from New York State required
assistance in order to move them onto a grid; and that education and out-
reach to faculty, students, and staff throughout New York State were
required. It was also noted that after identifying users within New York
State, they should work with the middleware developers and the technical
group afi liated with this initiative. However, the head of the user group
and the head of one of the campus-based high-end compute centers stated
clearly that they did not see the benei t of cyberinfrastructure or grid com-
puting for users. This lack of cohesion in terms of existing opportunities
and vision for the future served to shape the identity of this group as it
moved forward. Subsequent to this meeting, the middleware group contin-
ued to meet and the user group and the user support group merged.
The board of the grassroots NYS Cyberinfrastructure Initiative
(NYSGrid.org) then took several controversial steps:
1. They decided to ask the executive director of the group (who was
also a member of the board) to resign.
2. They stated that the NYS Grid was now part of NYSGrid.org, the
aforementioned grassroots NYS Cyberinfrastructure initiative
that grew out of the series of three workshops.
3. They stated that NYSGrid.org was now in complete control of the
NYS Grid.
Next, NYSGrid.org board took the following steps:
1. The remaining members of the inaugural board decided to estab-
lish their own virtual organization, called NYSGRID, which was
sanctioned by the Open Science Grid even though the Open Science
Grid was aware of the confusion and problems in New York State,
as they had worked with the NYS Grid since its inception.
2. The creation of the NYSGRID virtual organization (VO) necessarily
created additional confusion throughout the state and nationally
in terms of understanding the distinction between this NYS
Cyberinfrastructure Initiative and the NYS Grid, which was estab-
lished years earlier by Miller's Cyberinfrastructure Laboratory.
* www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/miller/talks.shtml.
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