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HPC in the Cloud: Managing CERN: OpenNebula Team Tames the Cloud
by Alan Sill 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

Thought you would be interested in the following link. The article says "CERN hopes to move this initial private cloud to larger scale to add flexibility to its IT processes as well as offer a public cloud interface. CERN has successfully tested the EC2 API implementation of OpenNebula. New challenges in cloud computing management will be addressed." Has anyone been in touch with the CERN team regarding testing an OCCI implementation? Topic: Managing CERN: OpenNebula Team Tames the Cloud Link: http://www.hpcinthecloud.com/features/Managing-CERN-OpenNebula-Team-Tames-t… Alan

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Notes from our call
by Ross Cooney 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

Hi List, Here are some notes from a call we held today regarding OCCI and message queue technology, specifically AMQP. Attendees: Ross Cooney - StormMQ Eamon Walshe - StormMQ David Wragg - RabbitMQ Thijs Metsch -- OCCI Andy Edmonds -- OCCI Thijs gave us a full outline of the OCCI project and in particular the existing HTTP communication system. It was agreed that HTTP was a perfect fit for this management interface because: 1) HTTP is widely adopted, easy to use and well documented 2) HTTP interfaces are widely supported and HTTP resources are widely used by vendors in this space 3) HTTP is easy to parse, troubleshoot and extend It was also agreed that HTTP is not good at asynchronous communication and to get this to work properly often involves complicated polling mechanisms that are not optimal. Any message queue technology would help here...including AMQP. The advantages of developing an AMQP communications module that would sit beside the HTTP module as an option are: 1) Asynchronous communication would be trivial 2) AMQP would allow you to sent a request and get any number of responses (for example a single request to start 100 VM's could wait for all 100 responses from the VM's) 3) Complicated HTTP polling mechanisms would be a thing of the past 4) Additional functionality might be added in the future So, while advantageous, it was also felt that there isn't a groundswell of interest from adopters of OCCI to develop an AMQP communications module...put simply, it would be a nice thing to have, but at this stage nobody particularly wants it ;) However, we discussed the area of network or resource monitoring and felt that this would suit a message queue perfectly. It was agreed that while outside the scope of the OCCI remit, robust system monitoring is a prerequisite to wide scale cloud adoption. StormMQ is working on a AMQP based monitoring application that we plan to release as an open source project. Ross and Eamon from StormMQ will feed back to the group when this is available and perhaps this may be of interest to OCCI. Ross Cooney Commercial Director <mailto:ross.cooney@StormMQ.com> ross.cooney(a)StormMQ.com StormMQ Limited UK Office: Gateshead int'l Business Centre, Mulgrave Terrace, Gateshead, NE8 1AN, United Kingdom Telephone: 08453 712 567 Registered office: 78 Broomfield Road, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 1SS, United Kingdom StormMQ Limited is Registered in England and Wales under Company Number 07175657 StormMQ.com

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Re: [occi-wg] Introduction
by Edmonds, AndrewX 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

Welcome aboard Ross! If there's anything that we can help with and/or answer let us know J Andy From: occi-wg-bounces(a)ogf.org [mailto:occi-wg-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of Ross Cooney Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 6:22 PM To: occi-wg(a)ogf.org Subject: [occi-wg] Introduction Hi List, My name is Ross Cooney and I work for StormMQ, a cloud based message queue based around the open AMQP standard. We are members of the AMQP working group and very interested in open standards. I am interested in getting to understand the OCCI and how we can help. I will attend the conference call tomorrow, I am happy to give a brief introduction to the skills of the StormMQ team to see if we can help in any way. Cheers, Ross Cooney Commercial Director ross.cooney(a)StormMQ.com StormMQ Limited UK Office: Gateshead int'l Business Centre, Mulgrave Terrace, Gateshead, NE8 1AN, United Kingdom Telephone: 08453 712 567 Registered office: 78 Broomfield Road, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 1SS, United Kingdom StormMQ Limited is Registered in England and Wales under Company Number 07175657 StormMQ.com ------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Fwd: NIST Reference Architecture sub-teams proposal
by Alan Sill 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

Dear OCCI and OGSA folks, Please see the message below. Do we have a reference architecture, either for OCCI or OGSA web services, to propose for inclusion into the list of reference architectures being gathered by NIST? Please see the overall NIST working group pages at http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-cloud-computing/ for context. Thanks, Alan Begin forwarded message: > From: Hung Nguyen <Hung.Nguyen(a)nara.gov> > Date: January 19, 2011 7:43:24 AM CST > To: "matt.metheny(a)1ecg.com" <matt.metheny(a)1ecg.com>, "Dean.C.LandisII(a)aexp.com" <Dean.C.LandisII(a)aexp.com>, "Brian.Hughes(a)ca.com" <Brian.Hughes(a)ca.com>, "Paul.Lipton(a)ca.com" <Paul.Lipton(a)ca.com>, "bob.linehan(a)coremax.com" <bob.linehan(a)coremax.com>, "micheledrgon(a)dataprobity.com" <micheledrgon(a)dataprobity.com>, "thomas.wood(a)db.com" <thomas.wood(a)db.com>, "David.Kye(a)disa.mil" <David.Kye(a)disa.mil>, "eugene.luster1(a)gmail.com" <eugene.luster1(a)gmail.com>, "i.polyzos(a)gmail.com" <i.polyzos(a)gmail.com>, "jim.marino(a)gmail.com" <jim.marino(a)gmail.com>, "ken_j_roberts(a)hotmail.com" <ken_j_roberts(a)hotmail.com>, "andrey.vakulenko(a)hp.com" <andrey.vakulenko(a)hp.com>, "babakj(a)microsoft.com" <babakj(a)microsoft.com>, Gregg Brown <greggb(a)microsoft.com>, Hung Nguyen <Hung.Nguyen(a)nara.gov>, "jeremy.forman(a)oracle.com" <jeremy.forman(a)oracle.com>, "f.devaulx(a)prometheuscomputing.com" <f.devaulx(a)prometheuscomputing.com>, "ASankar(a)springcm.com" <ASankar(a)springcm.com>, "medwards(a)tmforum.org" <medwards(a)tmforum.org>, "Sill, Alan" <alan.sill(a)ttu.edu>, "katherine.s.goodier(a)ugov.gov" <katherine.s.goodier(a)ugov.gov>, "chrisfer(a)us.ibm.com" <chrisfer(a)us.ibm.com>, "swamchan(a)us.ibm.com" <swamchan(a)us.ibm.com>, "Nancy.Landreville(a)va.gov" <Nancy.Landreville(a)va.gov>, "cknowles(a)vmware.com" <cknowles(a)vmware.com>, "aha(a)zuehlke.com" <aha(a)zuehlke.com> > Cc: "Robert B. Bohn" <robert.bohn(a)nist.gov> > Subject: Reference Architecture sub-teams proposal > > Dear Reference Architecture team members, > > > On behalf of Bob Bohn and the NIST team, Gregg Brown and I would like to extend our welcomes to each and everyone of you. Thank you very much for volunteering to participate in the Reference Architecture analysis group. > > As you may be already aware, our task is to review the prepared document that was published to the NIST's twiki. Please follow this link to the document --> http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-cloud-computing/pub/CloudComputing/Refere… > > There are nine reference architectures listed in the document, and there may be others which weren't listed. Of the nine reference architectures, Gregg suggested that these architectures be organized into five different themes. We would like to suggest for each member to pick a functional characteristic or utility to work on. Additionally, each theme will need a leader. Please let Gregg and I know of your intention. > > 1.) RAs that incorporate the NIST service model > · 2.) Cloud Computing Use Cases > · 3.) IBM Cloud Reference > · 4.) CSA Cloud reference Model > · 7.) GSA Federal Cloud Computing Initiative > 2.) RAs that use software stacks > · 2.) Cloud Computing Use Cases > · 4.) CSA Cloud reference Model > 3.) RAs that focus on functional capabilities > · 1.) DMTF Cloud Service Reference Architecture > · 4.) CSA Cloud reference Model > · 6.) Open Security Alliance Secure Reference Models > · 7.) GSA Federal Cloud Computing Initiative > 4.) High technical abstraction > · 5.) Cisco Cloud Reference Architecture Model > · 9.) Elastra: A Cloud technology Reference Model for Enterprise Clouds > 5.) RAs with user roles as a focus > · 3.) IBM Cloud Reference > · 6.) Open Security Alliance Secure Reference Models > > A tight deadline has been published by the NIST team. There will be a lot of work in-front of us. > > > Below is a list of volunteered. In a next day or two, Gregg and I would like to have the sub-teams in-placed and ready to conduct analyses of the existence architectures. > Brian.Hughes(a)ca.com > > katherine.s.goodier(a)ugov.gov > > babakj(a)microsoft.com > > David.Kye(a)disa.mil > > bob.linehan(a)coremax.com > > thomas.wood(a)db.com > > ken_j_roberts(a)hotmail.com > > ASankar(a)springcm.com > > medwards(a)tmforum.org > > aha(a)zuehlke.com > > jim.marino(a)gmail.com > > f.devaulx(a)prometheuscomputing.com > > Nancy.Landreville(a)va.gov > > andrey.vakulenko(a)hp.com > > micheledrgon(a)dataprobity.com > > jeremy.forman(a)oracle.com > > cknowles(a)vmware.com > > swamchan(a)us.ibm.com > > Dean.C.LandisII(a)aexp.com > > matt.metheny(a)1ecg.com > > i.polyzos(a)gmail.com > > chrisfer(a)us.ibm.com > > Paul.Lipton(a)ca.com > > eugene.luster1(a)gmail.com > > alan.sill(a)ttu.edu > > greggb(a)microsoft.com > > Hung.nguyen(a)nara.gov > > Once again, thank you. > > Hung and Gregg. >

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NIST Cloud Interface Catalog - Cloud Computing TWiki
by Alan Sill 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

Folks, I have the feeling that potentially a large number of interfaces defined by OGF standards would be useful to list in the following cloud computing oriented catalog. To get things started, we have submitted a template (actually chosen in advance as the first one by the NIST SAJACC group) for the OCCI Interface standard. Please look through the mission statement and proposed template to see if we should list other interface standards already published by OGF (e.g., the OGSA WS-* or possibly the VOMS AC format, GLUE, etc.) as contributions to this process. Please also look around the other portions of this site to get (and possibly to join) some of the other NIST groups for further information and opportunities for feedback. Thanks, Alan Link: http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-cloud-computing/bin/view/CloudComputing/C…

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Introduction
by Ross Cooney 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

Hi List, My name is Ross Cooney and I work for StormMQ, a cloud based message queue based around the open AMQP standard. We are members of the AMQP working group and very interested in open standards. I am interested in getting to understand the OCCI and how we can help. I will attend the conference call tomorrow, I am happy to give a brief introduction to the skills of the StormMQ team to see if we can help in any way. Cheers, Ross Cooney Commercial Director <mailto:ross.cooney@StormMQ.com> ross.cooney(a)StormMQ.com StormMQ Limited UK Office: Gateshead int'l Business Centre, Mulgrave Terrace, Gateshead, NE8 1AN, United Kingdom Telephone: 08453 712 567 Registered office: 78 Broomfield Road, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 1SS, United Kingdom StormMQ Limited is Registered in England and Wales under Company Number 07175657 StormMQ.com

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Reminder: occi-wg concall tomorrow at 3pm UTC
by Thijs Metsch 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

Hi @all, Just a quick reminder - bridge details can be found here: http://forge.ogf.org/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.occi-wg/wiki/Teleconferen… Thanks, -Thijs

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Ruby OCCI Client Bindings
by Ignacio M. Llorente 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Hi You may be interested in this contribution to the OpenNebula community. http://blog.opennebula.org/?p=1234 Cheers, -- Ignacio M. Llorente, Full Professor (Catedratico): http://dsa-research.org/llorente DSA Research Group: web http://dsa-research.org and blog http://blog.dsa-research.org OpenNebula Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing: http://www.OpenNebula.org

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OCCI & Wikipedia
by Edmonds, AndrewX 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

Is there anyone here that might have the bandwidth to update the Wikipedia entry [1] for OCCI? Andy [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Cloud_Computing_Interface ------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Test client for OCCI
by Thijs Metsch 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

Hi, I hacked (literally) together some test client which tries to verify if an OCCI implementation is compliant to the specification. The code is neither perfect nor does it give a definite proof that your implementation is compliant to the spec. It will only say that if all tests run your implementation could be compatible. Nevertheless I wanted to share the code so people can use it, update it and enhance the functionalities. The code can be found in the repository of gridforge: http://forge.ogf.org/integration/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/tests/?root=occi… Cheers, -Thijs

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