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June 08 GridConnections Newsletter
by john.ehrig＠ogf.org 29 May '08

29 May '08

The June 08 GridConnections newsletter is here. Please open the attached document to view the newsletter. In this Issue: - OGF23 Show Special - Welcome New Organizational Member - UNICORE - Now Accepting At-Large Board of Director Nominations - Documents Update: Documents in Public Comment - Upcoming Events: OGF24, 25 26 & 27 and eScience 08 Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677

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May 08 GridConnections Newsletter
by john.ehrig＠ogf.org 01 May '08

01 May '08

The May 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 Issue: - OGF23 Preview - OGF23 On-line Program Schedule Now Available! - Important OGF23 Deadlines - Welcome New Organizational Member Cybera - Documents Update: Newly Published Documents and Documents in Public Comment - Upcoming Events: OGF23 & 24, Open Source Grid and Cluster Conference, GCC08 and eScience 08 - Newsletter Contributors Needed Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677

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April 08 GridConnections Newsletter
by john.ehrig＠ogf.org 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

The April 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 Issue: * Stakeholder Survey Q&A * OGF22 Reports: Cloud Systems BoF and OGC Workshop * OGF23 Sneak Preview * Important OGF23 Deadlines * OGF at Street Grid 2008 * Documents Update: New Documents in Public Comment * Upcoming Events: OGF23 & 24, INGRID 08, Street Grid 2008, and Open Source Grid and Cluster Conference * Newsletter Contributors Needed Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677

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Upcoming OGF Event in Barcelona
by Steve Crumb 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

** Apologies to any who receive multiple copies of this note ** The benefits of deploying grid and related technologies in a broad spectrum of IT environments continue to grow and evolve. Researchers and scientists in both academic and commercial settings are using Grids to scale their compute and data capabilities while enhancing their ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries. Commercial organizations are finding that grids are "mission critical" to enabling business agility in a shared, service-oriented and increasingly virtualized infrastructure. These and many other uses of grid technologies will be examined in detail at the upcoming OGF23 event (http://www.ogf.org/OGF23/) in Barcelona, Spain on 2-6 June. OGF23 is the first event organized by the EU-funded project OGF-Europe, which is chartered with mobilizing and integrating the EU community on grid standards and best practices. The project will use OGF23 to launch its tutorial series and its initiatives on Digital Repositories and national and international grid interoperation. Grid case studies will be presented through the co-location of the EU-funded BEinGRID project's Industry Days event (3-5 June) at OGF23. Results and demonstrations of over 15 different "experiments" with grids in commercial sectors will be presented. In parallel to these commercial activities, OGF23 will feature several workshops on scientific uses of grids and other emerging technologies such as virtualization and clouds. In addition, an important part of this multi-faceted event will be the commercial exhibition where Europe-based projects and vendors will showcase their latest Grid solutions. Last and certainly not least, participants will have a great program with a variety of sessions to choose from including: . Keynote talks from IT and Grid thought leaders . Demonstrations of OGF specifications in action . Best practice sessions where today's grid deployment solutions are identified . Standards development working sessions . Numerous open call sessions driven by the latest needs identified by the community Advanced registration is now open so visit <http://www.ogf.org/OGF23/registration.php> http://www.ogf.org/OGF23/registration.php to obtain the lowest registration fee. The program committee is still receiving content proposals until April 11 at: <http://www.ogf.org/OGF23/cfp.php> http://www.ogf.org/OGF23/cfp.php. June is a busy time in Barcelona so make sure you reserve your hotel soon at: http://www.ogf.org/OGF23/lodging.php. If you are interested in exhibiting or sponsoring, visit http://www.ogf.org/OGF23/sponsor.php. We look forward to seeing you in Barcelona! Steve Crumb Executive Director, Open Grid Forum scrumb(a)ogf.org +1 312-895-5931 (office) +1 630-915-3324 (cell)

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March 08 GridConnections Newsletter
by john.ehrig＠ogf.org 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

The March 08 GridConnections newsletter is here. Open the attached document or follow this link http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_enews.php?mar08 to view the newsletter. In this Issue: *OGF22 Report --Tiger Team Stakeholder Analysis and Results --Keynotes --Pharma/Life Sciences Workshop --Financial Services Workshop --Additional Reports *OGF-Europe Q&A with Silvana Muscella and Steve Crumb *Documents Update - Newly Published Documents and Documents in Public Comment *Call For Submissions for OGF Special Journal Issue *OGF In The News *Upcoming Events - OGF23 & 24, INGRID 08 and More *Newsletter Contributors Needed *Please Renew your OGF Membership for 2008 Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677

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February 08 GridConnections Newsletter
by john.ehrig＠ogf.org 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

The February 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: * Breaking News - Irving Wladawsky-Berger Keynote Added to OGF22 Program * OGF Launches Thought Leadership Series * GLUE Q&A with Working Group Co-chair Sergio Andreozzi *** Special Insert - OGF22 Session Previews *** * OGF22 Program Updates * Welcome New Organizational Members MIMOS and Sybase * Call For Submissions for OGF Special Journal Issue * Improved OGF Website Launched * Documents Update - New Documents in Public Comment * Upcoming Events - OGF22, 23 & 24, INGRID 08 and More * Newsletter Contributors Needed * Please Renew your OGF Membership for 2008 Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org Open Forum | Open Standards

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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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December07 GridConnections Newsletter
by john.ehrig＠ogf.org 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

The December 07 GridConnections newsletter is here. Open the attached document or follow this link http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_enews.php?dec07 to view the newsletter. In this month's edition: * SC07 Report - High Performance Computing Basic Profile Demonstration * SC07 Report - OGF Grid Interoperation Now Demonstrations * Now Open - OGF22 Registration/Call for Participation/Sponsorships * Globecom07 Report * Documents Update - Documents in Public Comment * Upcoming Events - OGF22, 23 & 24, Management Developers Conference, IGT and More * Newsletter Contributors Needed * Please Renew your Organization Membership for 2008 Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org Open Forum | Open Standards

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