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OGF Monthly Newsletter
October 2006
A look at Past Accomplishments and A Preview of Coming Attractions
Welcome to the new OGF Monthly eNewsletter
Each month we will highlight accomplishments for the past month and
preview activities planned for the coming month. Please feel free to
submit newsletter suggestions and items for consideration to
jehrig(a)ogf.org.
New Document Published
GFD.082 - Grid Information Retrieval System for Dynamically
Reconfigurable Virtual Organization
Two important requirements that all Grid application systems should
satisfy are to accommodate the dynamic nature of Virtual Organizations
(VOs), and to enforce different levels of security among different VOs.
This document shows how to implement a Grid Information Retrieval (GIR)
system using VO and security mechanisms provided by Globus toolkit 3.0,
and shows how GIR system scalability and security can be improved for
dynamic VOs. Congratulations to the Grid Information Retrieval Working
Group and Author Yangwoo Kim!
Read the full document at http://www.ogf.org/documents/GFD.82.pdf
Area Directors Named
Technical Areas are the bedrock of the OGF and our Technical Area
Directors manage and facilitate groups, milestones and deliverables in
defined areas of expertise such as data, architecture, management, etc.
Ellen Stokes, Management
Ellen is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's Grid Strategy,
Architecture, and Standards area. She is Co-chair of GGF/OGSA resource
management design team to help OGSA model the resources necessary for
Grid and put those model extensions/modifications into the DMTF Common
Information Model.
Blair Dillaway, Security
Blair is a software architect in the advanced technology incubation
group of Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Office. He has
participated in the OGSA Authz WG, providing substantive feedback on the
new charter for the WG and commenting on early draft specifications.
David Groep, Security
David has worked in the grid security area for a number of years,
initially in the context of the European DataGrid project, continuing in
EGEE, where he was responsible for the design of the site access control
security services. He has long experience in GGF/OGF, being active in
the security area, particularly its internationalization.
New Organizational Members
Welcome to our newest organizational members Altair Engineering and
CANARIE.
Headquartered in Troy, Michigan, Altair Engineering is a leading global
product design consulting and technology company. Through engineering,
consulting, CAE software solutions and high performance computing
technologies, Altair Engineering increases innovation for more than
1,500 clients around the globe. Altair's PBS Professional operates in
networked multi-platform UNIX environments, and supports heterogeneous
clusters of workstations, supercomputers, and massively parallel
systems. http://www.altair.com/
Headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, CANARIE's mission is to accelerate
Canada's advanced Internet development and use by facilitating the
widespread adoption of faster, more efficient networks and by enabling
the next generation of advanced products, applications and services to
run on them. http://www.canarie.ca/about/index.html
Event Review
OGF/ITU-T Next Generation Networks Workshop
On October 23-24, OGF and ITU-T collaborated on a workshop that brought
together experts from the grid and next generation network communities.
OGF is actively reaching out to communities such as the Telco community
to advance Grid adoption, interoperability and scalability.
Opportunities for Telco's include: 1) specializing in network SLAs that
are optimally suited to Grids; 2) using Grids for their IT internal
needs; and/or 3) offering Grids as a managed service to customers.
ITU-T's Global Standards Initiative on Next Generation Network (NGN-GSI)
is well under way and is responding to urgent market needs for global
NGN standards. NGN offers increased quality and service features for
users, independent of the underlying transport technology.
During the two day workshop, graciously hosted by ITU-T at the
headquarters in Geneva, OGF and ITU-T discussed current status of our
respective work and explored opportunities for alignment and
collaboration. The full workshop agenda and presentations including a
summary report-out are available at
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/worksem/grid/programme.html
Upcoming Events
SC06 Tampa, Florida November 11-16
OGF will have an exciting announcement regarding this show. Watch for
details coming soon.
DMTF Management Developers Conference December 4-7 in Santa Clara, CA
OGF is a sponsor of this event and will by represented by Tom Roney,
Ellen Stokes and Fred Maciel who will lead a session on behalf of the
Resource Management Design Team. Visit the conference website for more
information http://www.mandevcon.com/.
OGF19 Chapel Hill, North Carolina January 29 - February 2, 2007
Program will include a full slate of chartered group sessions, 2 days of
eScience workshops, Enterprise sessions, and more. Register and save up
to $100 http://www.ogf.org/OGF19/events_regstrtn_ogf19.php.
OGF20 Manchester, U.K. May 7-11, 2007
Save these dates! Program overview to be announced soon.
Individual Members - Activate your 2007 Membership
Even though 2007 is a couple of months away, OGF is launching its 2007
individual membership program now in order to provide immediate benefit
to 2007 members planning to attend OGF19. The fee for 2007 membership is
$195 and registered members will receive a $100 discount to all 2007 OGF
events. Individuals who are not employed by OGF organizational members
may join OGF at http://www.regonline.com/112287. Individuals that
registered under the 2006 program are requested to reregister for 2007
at a reduced 2007 annual fee of $100. Your member number will be
required to obtain this discount. Individual member benefits can be seen
at http://www.ogf.org/Members/members_ind_program.php. Questions may be
sent to member-info(a)ogf.org
The success of OGF depends upon member participation. All of the
significant events, activities and accomplishments of the forum are
member driven. Please contact any OGF staff member if you want to get
involved http://www.ogf.org/ggf_contact.htm. We welcome your input!
