January 2008 - Interest - lists.ogf.org

OGF Launches Thought Leadership Series
by john.ehrig＠ogf.org 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

We are pleased to announce the launch of OGF's new thought leadership series http://www.ogf.org/TLS/index.php. We are launching this to give thought leaders in OGF and the greater Grid and distributed computing community the opportunity to express their ideas, opinions and perspectives. One of the main goals we have in initiating this series is to stimulate discussion and provoke lively debate on a broad range of hot topics and issues facing the grid and distributed computing community. Wolfgang Gentzsch, Coordinator of the German D-Grid Initiative; Geoffrey Fox and Marlon Pierce, from the Community Grids Laboratory at Indiana University; and Ian Foster from Argonne National Lab and University of Chicago, kick-off the series. Wolfgang's article outlines the Top 10 Rules for Building a Sustainable Grid in his highly informative and practical discussion of the real world lessons he has learned in deploying Grids. Geoffrey and Marlon tackle the hard issues - Too much Computing, Too much Data and Never too much Simplicity - facing the e-Science community, specifically and the entire Grid community, in general, as emerging new computing resources (multicore, cell processors, GPUs, reconfigurable computing, etc) and alternative approaches to service architectures (collectively, Web 2.0) change the overall landscape. Ian Foster's article, "There's Grids in them thar Clouds", reprinted from his 1/08 blog entry, discusses whether or not "cloud computing" is just a new name for grid. OGF welcomes everyone to comment and encourages all thought leaders in the Grid and distributed computing community to submit articles for this series. Submitting is easy to do, simply email it to thoughtleadership(a)ogf.org. You will receive valuable recognition and visibility as a thought leader and your article may help, and influence, others in the community. Articles will also be considered for future OGF event content. In conjunction with the launch of the thought leadership series, we have also refreshed the OGF home page www.ogf.org in order to better highlight the key areas of value that we deliver to the industry, including our document series, events, and breaking news. Included in this effort is a new set of pages http://www.ogf.org/EventHighlights/index.php to showcase the valuable content our attendees produce for each OGF event. We hope you like the new look and find it easier to use! Finally, submissions are still being sought for the Special Journal Issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience for the Open Grid Forum. The deadline is March 15. Visit http://www.ogf.org/rotate_headers/rotate_special_issue.php to make a submission or for additional information. John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org

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OGF22 Community Program Now Available...Advanced Registration Deadline Extended
by john.ehrig＠ogf.org 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Dear OGF Members and Participants, The preliminary program for OGF22 (Cambridge, MA 25-29 February) is now available on-line at www.ogf.org/OGF22/schedule.php. Group sessions (see below) will be added to the schedule next week. To give you the chance to review the exciting and informative community program we have planned, the advanced registration discount period has been extended to Friday, 1/18. Please register by then to obtain the best rate at http://www.ogf.org/OGF22/registration.php. OGF achieved major milestones in 2007 with the announcement of product implementations of the HPC Profile and demonstrations of many other OGF standards. With that in mind, we have designed the OGF22 program to build on this momentum and to make significant additional progress throughout 2008 toward our mission of ensuring the widespread adoption of Grids. OGF22 Program Highlights include: * A two day Specification Adoption track that will feature sessions covering the HPC Profile, Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA), Simple API for Grid Applications (SAGA), Network Measurements/Network Mark-up Language, and OGSA Authorization standards as well as implementation presentations from Grid Interoperation Now (GIN), OMII-Europe, and UNICORE. * Keynote presentations from Charlie Catlett, CIO of Argonne National Laboratory, Craig Lee, OGF President, and other Grid luminaries to be announced. * Demonstrations from many of the Specification Adoption presenters at the welcome reception. * Cloud Systems BoF that will set the current cloud scene and review options for OGF activities in this emerging area that has recently garnered substantial interest. * A full day "Enabling the Next Generation IT Infrastructure" program featuring presentations and case studies on the use of Grid in the IT data center and Grid and Virtualization applications. Presentations are planned by leading IT vendors and Grid users including VMware, Intel, Platform Computing, SAS, CA, Data Synapse and many others. * Half day workshops focused on the challenges and opportunities facing the Financial Services and Pharmaceutical, Biotech and Life Sciences industries as they continue to deploy leading edge Grid solutions. Case studies and presentations are planned by representatives from major financial services, pharmaceutical, and life sciences organizations. * A one day Data Management and Movement workshop where thought leaders in the data area will address key Grid data management concerns, with a focus on file system and data movement. * Additional community driven content including: + Collaboration workshop with the Open Geospatial Consortium + Workshop for Grid Identity Providers + Globus GridWay tutorial + Grid Best Practices + Grid Requirements Gathering + Globus Software User Experiences Workshop * The current list of Chartered Group that have requested sessions include: + Grid Scheduling Architecture RG + Preservation Environments RG + Grid Storage Management WG + OGSA Authorization WG + Remote Instrumentation Services in Grid Environment RG + OGSA Resource Selection Services WG + Usage Record WG + GridRPC WG + Simple API for Grid Applications Core WG + Grid Information Retrieval WG + Reference Model WG + Network Mark-up Language Working Group + Info Dissemination WG + Particle and Nuclear Physics Applications RG + Workflow Management RG + Astronomy Applications RG + OGSA-Data WG + Education and Training CG + Grid High-Performance Networking RG + OGSA Data Movement Interface WG OGF has secured a block of sleeping rooms at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge (meeting location) at a special rate of $129 for single or double occupancy. Reservations must be made on or before February 8, 2008, to receive the discounted rate. Reservations can be made by calling the hotel directly (be sure to reference 'OGF22') or online at http://www.ogf.org/OGF22/lodging.php Register now and save http://www.ogf.org/OGF22/registration.php We look forward to seeing you in Cambridge! John Ehrig OGF Program Manager (925) 275-6677 www.ogf.org

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January 08 GridConnections Newsletter
by john.ehrig＠ogf.org 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

The January 08 GridConnections newsletter is here. Open the attached document or follow this link http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_newsletter.php to view the newsletter. In this month's issue: * Message from Craig Lee, OGF President * SC07 Report - OGF Grid Remote Call Procedure Demonstration * SC07 Report - Internet2 and Collaborators Demonstrate OGF Standards * OGF22 Update - Advanced Registration Closing/Preliminary Program and More * Documents Update - Recently Published Documents and Documents in Public Comment * Upcoming Events - OGF22, 23 & 24, INGRID 08 and More * Newsletter Contributors Needed * Please Renew your OGF Membership for 2008 Happy New Year, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org Open Forum | Open Standards

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