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Dasein Cloud
by Thijs Metsch 23 Jun '13

23 Jun '13

Hi, Just to inform you that there is a cool project going on called Dasein-Cloud. http://dasein-cloud.sourceforge.net/ On the website it reads: Dasein Cloud is an Open Source Java API made available by enStratus Networks LLC under the terms of the Apache License 2.0. This API specifies cloud-independent interfaces for enabling an application to access resources across multiple clouds. If you are interested have a look - and it might be great to implement OCCI in their someday! Cheers, -Thijs -- Thijs Metsch Senior Software Engineer Grid and Cloud Technology Platform Computing GmbH Europaring 60 D-40878 Ratingen http://www.platform.com http://www.nohuddleoffense.de/ - http://www.twitter.com/befreax

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OCCI Monitoring API
by Augusto Ciuffoletti 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Dear all, following the extremely fruitful meeting in Zurich, here is the revision of the proposed document. A few anticipations about the content: - the concepts are always the same: abstraction from short-lived details using mixins, extract/aggregate/publish pipe for the measurements - the syntax is different: I tried to make it simpler and more powerful: only 2 kinds in the model (one resource and one link), but the monitoring infrastructure may be hierarchical from 0 to n levels - a section about conformance levels has been added: the monitoring API is optional, so we need to define a level 0 to avoid confusion. The other two levels corresponds to the capability of creating user mixins (level 2) or not (level 1) - there is a detailed example of a simple case using an HTTP rendering You can directly interact with the LaTeX document if you like, though the pdf is attached as well. The LaTeX document is available on a specific collaboration platform: www.writeLatex.com. It is possible to update the document, but I ask you to follow these simple instruction, to avoid to lose the control of the document. If you want to add a note, please use the \rem command, whose usage is described by the following example: \rem{Augusto Ciuffoletti}{My comment goes here} placed near the sentence you want to comment. A footnote will be generated ("My comment goes here"), signed with your id ("Augusto Ciuffoletti"). You can access the document here https://www.writelatex.com/26835vgbcrcwithout authentication needed. The browser window is divided into two parts: on one side you can edit the source, on the other you see the updated document view. You can also download the pdf or a zip of the current state of the document. There is no "revision history", so it is impossible to "undo" a change. Augusto -- Augusto Ciuffoletti Dipartimento di Informatica Università di Pisa 56100 - Pisa (Italy)

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Late Christmas present from Taiwan
by Sill, Alan 26 Dec '12

26 Dec '12

Folks, Our friends at NCHC in Taiwan seem to have been busy. Check this link out! Alan Build Your Private Cloud with Ezilla and Haduzilla: Introduction to NCHC Ezilla and Haduzilla project in OSC.JP CLOUD 2012 Tokyo https://www.ospn.jp/osc2012.cloud/modules/eventrsv/?id=1&noform=1

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Merry Christmas; Stocking stuffer: Fun with URI Templates and the Facebook Graph API
by Sill, Alan 22 Dec '12

22 Dec '12

Dear OCCI WG members, I think this has been a consequential year for OCCI in the field, and I'm very proud of and grateful for the work you have individually and collectively done. We've come a long way from the first efforts of the group back in 2009 and the tremendous acceleration over the last 2-3 years that led to the publication of the first complete OCCI specs in early 2011. As a minor Christmas present, I thought you might be interested in the following link with reference to damnhandy and RFC6570. I'd be interested in your opinions and look forward to learning more from you and to contributing in whatever minor way that I and others in OGF can to your continued success in revising and updating the specs as needed, extending them to new worlds including monitoring, the Internet of Things and other application areas if possible, and to further implementation work and whatever the future brings us. I hope we can also continue to understand OCCI and its place in the surrounding cloud standards landscape. Take care and have a great 2013. Topic: URI Templates implemented via damnhandy Link: http://damnhandy.com/2012/05/03/fun-with-uri-templates-and-the-facebook-gra… Alan

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Cloud Interoperability special session at CLOSER 2012
by Augusto Ciuffoletti 21 Dec '12

21 Dec '12

Dear all, during next CLOSER conference there will be a special session dedicated to Cloud Interoperability: the topic is rapidly gaining momentum, and I considered as appropriate to find a place where to gather results and proposals, to have a snapshot of what's happening on the field. The members of this working group have an established interest and competence in the field, not restricted to the OCCI initiative. So I ask you some help for reviewing papers: if you are willing to spend some time evaluating the work of your colleagues, please let me know. Also pass the word to those that you think might volunteer for this fundamental contribution. This is also a call for papers: it would be desirable that the many groups and individuals that participate in the task of cloud interoperability find the time and resources to contribute to the event with a paper reporting their results. You find the details about the CLOSER conference at http://closer.scitevents.org/, and infos about the Cloud Interoperability session are at http://closer.scitevents.org/CI.aspx. The conference will be held in Aachen (Germany) 8-10 May, and the firm deadline for papers submission is *March 1st*. Thank you for your attention -- Augusto Ciuffoletti Dipartimento di Informatica Università di Pisa 56100 - Pisa (Italy)

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Fwd: volunteer on cloud monitoring
by Sill, Alan 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

Dear ADs and OCCI-WG members, Any thoughts on the best place for someone interested in cloud monitoring to contribute? Alan Begin forwarded message: Dear Alan, I'm quite new of OGF and this is because I'm writing to you and I'm not using the mailing list. After the following message, I have seen many other messages related to standardization in Cloud environment. Based on my specific area of expertise related to monitoring and measurement, I'd like to contribute with some (standard) advices regarding names and rules in the field of cloud monitoring (said in a very brief way...). Therefore, if you think - I'm in the right place - it is useful please, could you give some hints on how to contribute? Thanks in advance for your time regards antonio ------------------------------------------------------------- Antonio Pescape' Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica University of Napoli ''Federico II'' Via Claudio, 21 - 80125, Napoli (Italy) [Room n. 3.10] tel. +39 081 7683856 - fax +39 081 7683816 e-mail : pescape(a)unina.it<mailto:pescape@unina.it> (or pescape(a)ieee.org<mailto:pescape@ieee.org>)Personal web-page: http://wpage.unina.it/pescapeTeaching web-site (in Italian): http://www.docenti.unina.it/antonio.pescape

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Status of OCCI and OpenNebula
by Gregor von Laszewski 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

All: please could someone provide me with a status update on OCCI and OpenNebula distribution. We in FG are interested in finding more out about it (does it work for the newest version of OpenNebula, and so forth). Furthermore, we would appreciate any help from the community to discuss a community managed OpenNebula distribution on FG that supports OCCI. We have in FG an internal OpenNebula cloud deployed, that is however not accessible to the public as it is strictly used for some internal services we have. The main reason it is private is manpower. Thus we thought we could use OpenNebula to identify if it is possible to identify if users can set up their on managed clouds. The idea came based on an experiment that we ran on Openstack Essex, where we for example developed a one line command so that a novice user could set up an entire virtual cluster with a couple of options such as a label and the number of worker nodes. This did set up one or more slurm clusters each with its own virtual worker nodes. Now we started thinking further. What if a user has a command such as fg-cloud-seeding -label gregorsCloud -IaaS OpenNebula -workers 12 This would than set up my private open nebula distribution on FG. Now if i add anther parameter that determines accessibility of the cloud I even could make it a public cloud. Recently we developed a new tool that allows us more easily to "redistribute" resources to different clouds and it may be the right time to look into how to best set up a "public" OpenNebula cloud with what I term cloud-shifting e.g. resources can be moved on demand into a particular cloud IaaS framework. This allows us for example to move resources from a batch queuing system to Eucalyptus, to OpenStack, naturally we are interested to do the same with OpenNebula as this seems to be a IaaS framework the OCCI community is often referring to. Any thoughts? What are the commands in OpenNebula that allow us to register and unregister a node from the cloud in open nebula? If we know these commands, we could add them to our tools and start thinking about what needs to be done to integrate OpenNebula. Furthermore, we are removing the dependency of our tools that we developed on the need for XCAT and Moab. This means one could deploy such tools also elsewhere. We work steadily towards this goal but probably need some more time, and than gradually improve its functionality and capability. Thoughts are much appreciated. Thanks Gregor

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Status on OCCI - Openstack Folsom
by Gregor von Laszewski 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

All: please could someone provide me with a status update on OCCI and Openstack Folsom distribution. We in FG are interested in pushing our next release out to the users, but are uncertain about the current status of the integration with Openstack. Thanks Gregor

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Re: [occi-wg] Mindmap with notes on F2F
by Andy Edmonds 07 Dec '12

07 Dec '12

Also here are pictures of the whiteboard used with detail on the monitoring discussions https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kg8omrht0byosnw/yPrX_iGm6J Andy Andy Edmonds Æ Senior Researcher Institute of Information Technology Zürich University of Applied Sciences http://www.cloudcomp.ch, @dizz On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Metsch, ThijsX <thijsx.metsch(a)intel.com>wrote: > Hi, > > Excuses for the long delay – and even now I wasn’t able to write down some > notes on the F2F mtg. Excuses for this – till I find time: attached is the > mind map I used to take notes. > > Cheers, > > -Thijs > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Intel Ireland Limited (Branch) > Collinstown Industrial Park, Leixlip, County Kildare, Ireland > Registered Number: E902934 > > This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for > the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution > by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended > recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. >

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Mindmap with notes on F2F
by Metsch, ThijsX 07 Dec '12

07 Dec '12

Hi, Excuses for the long delay - and even now I wasn't able to write down some notes on the F2F mtg. Excuses for this - till I find time: attached is the mind map I used to take notes. Cheers, -Thijs ------------------------------------------------------------- Intel Ireland Limited (Branch) Collinstown Industrial Park, Leixlip, County Kildare, Ireland Registered Number: E902934 This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies.

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