October 2007 - ogsa-hpcp-wg

Steven Newhouse as co-chair of HPC Profile WG
by Marty Humphrey 17 Oct '07

17 Oct '07

[[ re-sending to try to avoid SPAM filter ]] Folks, Steven Newhouse has been doing a great job as essentially the co-chair of the HPC Profile WG. Id like to make this official. Please make any objections to this known by one week from today Wed Oct 24 2007. Thanks, Marty ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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***SPAM*** Steven Newhouse as co-chair of HPC Profile WG
by Marty Humphrey 17 Oct '07

17 Oct '07

Folks, Steven Newhouse has been doing a great job as essentially the co-chair of the HPC Profile WG. I'd like to make this official. Please make any objections to this known by one week from today - Wed Oct 24 2007. Thanks, Marty

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***SPAM*** IdM talk at Security Area Meeting
by Blair Dillaway 14 Oct '07

14 Oct '07

Hi All, I wanted to make sure the OGSA WG and HPCP WG members were aware of the invited talk we'll have at the Security Area meeting on Monday, the 15th, at 3:15PM in the Portland Room. Mike Jones, Microsoft's Director of Identity Partnerships, has agreed to join us to discuss Identity standards activity occurring outside the OGF and on-going efforts to ensure broad interoperability. Those of you who are interested in identity management, federations, and authentication should find this interesting. Regards, Blair Dillaway

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XML namespace for HPC Profile Application
by Christopher Smith 12 Oct '07

12 Oct '07

Hi all, I wanted to point something out that might have slipped peoples' notice. The final version of the HPC Profile Application extension for JSDL has a different namespace from the original we were using (this change came from the public comment period). The old namespace is: http://schemas.ggf.org/jsdl/2006/07/jsdl-hpcp while the new one is: http://schemas.ggf.org/jsdl/2006/07/jsdl-hpcpa (note trailing 'a') I noticed this while trying out the UVA compliance checker. Everyone might want to update their implementations. Another note for those who might not know. The JSDL, POSIX Application and HPC Profile Application schemas are available online at their namespace URLs. -- Chris

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Datasheet from SC06
by John Ehrig 12 Oct '07

12 Oct '07

Hi All, On our conference call today, we agreed to use the SC06 demo datasheet as a starting point for the SC07 version. Please see the attached doc and make your edits and comments and return to me. I'll combine all inputs and send around a first draft before our next call. I'm also attaching the press release from 06. Thanks, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org <http://www.ogf.orgopen/> Open Forum | Open Standards

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Meeting Notes
by Steven Newhouse 11 Oct '07

11 Oct '07

Present Steven (MS) Blair (MS) Glenn (UVa) Paulo & Luigi (INFN) Chris (Platform) John (OGF) Joel (OGF) Marketing At SC06 did a press release and a sign for booths participating in the interop demo. Add marketing as an agenda item for the session at OGF next week. The ByteIO and GIN interop activities are separate to the HPCBP activity. In addition do we want to work on an article for Grid Today (or elsewhere). Link into product announcements from organizations. Updates Glenn: Prototype extensions for activity credential and file staging. Some revision of the specifications. Chris: Updated implementation to current specification. Use PAM to authenticate users. Will be updating endpoint sometime soon. Paulo: Updating BES. Looking to implement file staging activity. Only support X.509 and gridProxyCertificates. Seeing how username & password can be used to contact normal FTP server. Demonstration at OMII-Europe & INFN. Steven: No change in implementation - still basic file handling and activity credential work in place. Would like a discussion around the linkage between file handling Experiences Document Glenn has been keeping a list that he will place on the wiki/sharepoint. NB: If we use the UVa Sharepoint we must put a link to it from the wiki. BES++ A HPCBP implementation on top of gSOAP is now available on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bespp/) Platform has open sourced their implementation. Chris looking for contributors. UVa implementation around BES++ uses file (data) staging using anonymous ftp, username/password ftp, GridFTP with proxy by using MyProxy. OGF Session Agenda (11am Monday) * SC07 demo planning * Discussion of extensions: Activity Credential, File Staging, Activity Filters * SC07 Marketing plans: OGF interop press release, product press releases, signs on booths * Participation in BES++

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Telecon - October 11th 2007 - NOTE NEW REGULAR TIME
by Steven Newhouse 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

Time: 9.30AM (Pacific), 12.30PM (East Coast), 5.30PM (UK) Call details: PIN - 2719140 USA: 866 500 6738 UK +44 118 909 2000 I'll try and supply further local numbers if people require them. Agenda 1. OGF IPR Notice 2. Agenda Bashing 3. Update on collaboration tool & conformance checker (UVa) 4. Report on status (All) 5. Contributions to the experiences document a. Review outline (http://www.ogf.org/pipermail/ogsa-hpcp-wg/2007-August/000389.html) 6. BES++ project on Souceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bespp/) 7. Any Other Business

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