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Information model presentation
by Fred Maciel 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

Hi, This is the presentation on information models being done in GGF16 (attached file). Regards, Fred Maciel

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URLs for OGSA info model session: BES profile and container model
by Ellen Stokes 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ogsa-wg/document/GGF16_OGSA_container_… https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ogsa-wg/document/GGF16_BES_Profile_-_I… Ellen Stokes STSM, Grid Computing TC Member, IBM Academy of Technology Austin, Texas tl 678 0552 outside +1 512 838 0552 stokese(a)us.ibm.com

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OGSA-WG Information Modeling session -- dial-in number
by Fred Maciel 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

Hi again, > As the second session of the OGSA-WG in GGF16 we will be > continuing > our discussion on information modeling. It's on Wednesday the 15th, at > 1:30 pm, on the Mycenae room. Here is the dial-in number for the session. It's an US number (sorry). Dial-in: Toll Free: +1 (888) 422-7120 International Access: +1 (608) 250-0194 Participant code: 693305 See you there, Fred Maciel Hitachi America R&D

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OGSA round table panel "Working with OGSA"
by Hiro Kishimoto 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

Hi all, OGSA-WG will hold "Working with OGSA" round table panel this afternoon. Please stop by Olympia A Room and join to this panel. Date: Monday 13th February Time: 1:30 - 3:00pm Venue: Olympia A Room "OGSA is the flagship architecture of GGF and one of its most active WGs. It has published a number of documents and more are in the pipeline. A number of fellow WGs are also busy refining parts of the architecture. But perhaps in some ways the group, its activities, and aims are a black box to many people in GGF. To bridge this communication gap this panel will explore the experiences of people working with OGSA; the expectations of people wishing to work with OGSA; as well as attempt to shed more light on the group's activities and objectives." Modelator: Malcolm Atkinson (University of Edinburgh) Panelist: JSDL (Steve McGough/Ali Anjomshoaa) OMII/BES (Steven Newhouse) Microsoft (Marvin Theimer) Nortel (Franco Travostino) OGSA-WG (Andrew Grimshaw) Agenda: 1:30 - 1:40 Welcome and OGSA update - Hiro Kishimoto 1:40 - 2:30 Position statement by Panelists (5-10 minutes each) 2:30 - 3:00 Open questions and discussions led by Malcolm Thanks, ---- Hiro Kishimoto

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Please come to the OGSA-WG Information Modeling session
by Fred Maciel 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

Hi all, As the second session of the OGSA-WG in GGF16 we will be continuing our discussion on information modeling. It's on Wednesday the 15th, at 1:30 pm, on the Mycenae room. We will review the information model for the container, so I'd like to ask the participation of people who are interested in this activity on the execution management design team and on the OGSA-BES-WG. Also, we will be discussing future steps and what information models we will be developing after the one for the container. We could target data or resource selection, so I'd like to ask also the participation people on the OGSA-D-WG and OGSA-RSS-WG who are interested in this activity. Information models are not part of the charter of your WGs and do not affect your specs, but the development of information models in the OGSA-WG's resource management design team needs the requirements and feedback of the area experts of the GGF, that is, people who participate in your WGs. BTW, I'm not cross-posting since I think that all interested people are in the OGSA-WG mailing list, but feel free to coss-post to other mailing lists if you find appropriate. By the way, I'll be talking about the modeling guidelines document, which describes the process by which we develop the models. The latest version can always be found at the URL above, and I'm looking for your feedback: http://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ogsa-wg/document/Modeling_Guidelines /en/ See you there, Fred Maciel

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IBM RSM academic/SDO license
by Hiro Kishimoto 11 Feb '06

11 Feb '06

Hi all, I am very happy to announce that Ellen Stokes and Mike Baskey did a GREAT job and closed the loop on licensing procedure. Many thanks Ellen and Mike! GGF is now on the list of standards organizations for the IBM RSM academic/SDO license (so folks can have access to the applications such as the Rational tools OGSA decided to use for info modeling and EMS sequence diagrams). Ellen has her name added to the approver list to shorten the approval time. For people to request access, this is what they need to do.... 1. go to www.ibm.com/university 2. On the right side of the web page under the membership box there is a link called 'apply now' 3. Click that link. 4. To be able to request access, you first need a userid and password....so if you don't have a universal IBM userid and password click on the link labeled 'register' and follow the instructions. 5. Once you have userid and password (or if you already have one), then you need to click on the link labeled 'step 2' to create an academic initiative membership by completing the membership application....follow the instructions after you click on that link. In the application form make sure you indicate that you are requesting this for GGF usage. 6. Once you submit the application, Ellen will be notified shortly thereafter to approve (and there is a backup to approve if she is not around), and once approved, you will receive approval notice and instructions on how to obtain the Rational tools. Thanks again, ---- Hiro Kishimoto

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JSDL Workshop at GGF16
by Ali Anjomshoaa 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

Dear colleagues, [My apologies for cross-posting] Just a quick announcement of the JSDL-WG Workshop at GGF16. Date: Wed. 15th Feb. Time: 08:30 - 12:00 Room: Mycenae The talks are in the schedule below. We all look forward to seeing you there and to your feedback and contributions towards our ongoing work in the JSDL-WG. Kind regards, Ali (on behalf of the JSDL-WG) JSDL-WG: https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/jsdl-wg/ JSDL-Spec: http://www.gridforum.org/documents/GFD.56.pdf -- ---------------------------------------------------- |epcc| - Ali Anjomshoaa EPCC, University of Edinburgh James Clerk Maxwell Building Mayfield Road E-mail: ali(a)epcc.ed.ac.uk Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ Phone: + 44 (0) 131 650 5818 United Kingdom Fax: + 44 (0) 131 650 6555 ------------------------------------------------------------- ---- GGF16, JSDL Workshop Schedule ---- 08:30 - Welcome and Introductions 08:35 - JSDL Tutorial Andreas Savva (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd, Japan) Steve McGough (LeSC, Imperial College London, UK) William Lee (Lesc, Imperial College London, UK) 09:20 - GridSAM presentation William Lee, (LeSC, Imperial College London, UK) 09:40 - NAREGI presentation Kazushige Saga (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) 10:00 - *** BREAK *** 10:30 - HPCEuropa presentation Ariel Oleksiak (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Centre, Poland) 10:50 - Japan Business Grid presentation Andreas Savva (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd, Japan) 11:10 - UniGrids presentation Michel Drescher (Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe, UK) 11:30 - Platform Computing presentation Christopher Smith (Platform Computing, USA) 11:50 - Conclusions and closing remarks 12:00 - END ----------

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Teleconference minutes - 1 February 2006
by Andreas Savva 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

Attached. Also https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ogsa-wg/document/minutes-20060201/en/1 -- Andreas Savva Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd OGSA Teleconference - 1 February 2006 ===================================== * Participants Mike Behrens (R2AD) Hiro Kishimoto (FJ) Allen Luniewski (IBM) Fred Maciel (Hitachi) Steve McGough (IC) Dejan Milojicic (HP) Takuya Mori (NEC) Andreas Savva (FJ) Chuck Spitz (CA) Jun Tatemura (NEC) Jem Treadwell (HP) Minutes: Andreas Savva * Summary of Actions Action: Andreas will check Greg's email again and followup with Hiro. Action: - Dejan(CDDLM) to provide a CDL for deploying and configuring BLAST - Steve/Andreas(JSDL) to provide a JSDL document for submitting a BLAST job Action: GGF16 panel followup (see detailed list below) * January F2F (01/19) ByteIO minutes approved with no changes * January 25 minutes approved with no changes * January 30 minutes approved with no changes * Basic security profile - Core and Secure channel - Takuya has issued a final call on the list. - Review and comment by next Monday ** "Status of memo" question to Greg No problem with changing the text, but it is not clear if the title could be changed also. Action: Andreas will check Greg's email again and followup with Hiro. ** WSRF BP 1.0 status - WSRF is entering the process towards becoming an OASIS standard - Tom proposed that the WSRF BP should be re-submitted once the WSRF specs become OASIS standards. - There is another document in the GGF pipeline (ByteIO spec) that uses the WSRF BP normatively. The desire is to publish the WSRF BP some time in advance of the end of the public comment of dependent documents. - Hiro proposed waiting until GGF16 or end of February before re-submission but not longer. (No decisions made.) ** RSM License: no update ** CDDLM discussion Jun sent out slides on CDL before the call and the group reviewed them. ** (2) Example 1: Application Server - 'Component provider' defines the components - And in this case also provides the instance of the component (component in the 'running' state) - 'Component user' in this case might also take on the role of a system provider. In other words, the 'component user' may be composing the system for himself or to provide a service to other users - There are some issues with terminology (but perhaps it is unavoidable). - Boundaries here are the components and the roles relative to components ** (3) Component description - CDL does not define how to relate configuration and resource parameters - There is also no requirement that such information be present. The interaction or combination is not defined and is probably an open issue that should be addressed by this group. - Some such information may be present as properties for reference purposes - The semantics of configurable parameters are not defined. It is possible to include semantic description in a separate document or as annotations, etc. - Since this level of description is still too abstract, it was proposed to show a concrete example of JSDL and CDL and how the two relate to each other. - Dejan also suggested doing an implementation fest: - Bring together people developing various components and do a 'reality check' by trying to combine the various components of the EMS architecture. (Different from an interoperability test which brings together people developing the same component.) - And do it as a regular event, e.g., at each GGF. - It was pointed out that the purpose of the 'EMS Scenarios' document is to drill down to that level. Doing a real example, e.g., BLAST, for CDL and JSDL could be useful as a next step. - Agreed to work through such an example at the next GGF. Action: - Dejan(CDDLM) to provide a CDL for deploying and configuring BLAST - Steve/Andreas(JSDL) to provide a JSDL document for submitting a BLAST job ** (4) System composition - Text in red are the results of a refinement of the CDL document - The deployment API expects that all the values in a CDL are instantiated by the time the CDL is submitted. There is no statement on how that refinement is done. ** (5) System template The document on the left is a user 'template' (in contrast, in this presentation component provider templates are yellow). This template is an intermediate description of the system and further refinement is shown on the right side. ** (6)-(8) - There was confusion on the objective of this second example, some of it stemming from the introduction of the term 'job'. The example may be seen as setting up a cluster with a DRM. - It is a more complex example, and it was agreed to concentrate first on the simple case described earlier. ** (9) Further Examples - Clarified that the server/machine/linux boxes essentially represent the same things in the slide. * OGSA(tm) EMS Architecture Scenarios - No objections to the proposal to change the name of the document. - Question about meaning of 'policy' appearing in some of the sequence diagrams (Section 2.5 and some of the Appendices). - 'Policy' is a placeholder for now. - The document is still changing and contains internal inconsistencies. * GGF16 Planning ** Panel: Monday 1:30 - 3:00 Discussed possible candidates for the panel: - JSDL: Steve or one of the other JSDL-WG chairs (ok) - EGEE: Steve will make initial contact with people in EGEE (and cc Hiro) - DAIS: Hiro to ask Malcom - Other possible candidates: - Hiro to ask someone from NAREGI (Japan), Globus (Ian) - Steven Newhouse (OMII) - Vendors: who? - Panel Moderator: Hiro to consult Dave S on candidates. - The panel should be at most 5 people, excluding the moderator. - Send proposal to Hiro on how to publicize the panel ** Information model session - Use the teleconf next Wednesday to prepare for the GGF session. ** GGF16 F2F meeting Agenda proposals: - CDDLM and EMS joint session - Other EMS scenarios (including RSS-WG etc) - Information Model - General session - In particular finalize dates/locations for April F2F and GGF17 F2F meeting * GGF17 F2F - Hiro has speculatively reserved a room both Monday and Saturday at the NAREGI office. * April F2F - April 3-7 seems to be the more popular choice at this moment - SF or London are equally popular

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Teleconference minutes - 8 February 2006
by Andreas Savva 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

Minutes attached. https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ogsa-wg/document/minutes-20060208/en/1 Have a good trip and see you at GGF16. -- Andreas Savva OSGA Teleconference minutes - 8 February 2006 ============================================= * Participants Hiro Kishimoto (Fujitsu) Fred Maciel (Hitachi) Mark Morgan (UVa) Takuya Mori (NEC) Andreas Savva (Fujitsu) Ellen Stokes (IBM) Ravi Subramaniam (Intel) Jem Treadwell (HP) Minutes: Andreas Savva * Summary of Actions Action: Hiro to upload the Profiles to the GGF Editor tracker Action: Hiro will post the panel proposal text to the list and followup with the identified candidates to confirm the final selection. * February 6 minutes approved with no changes * Monday teleconference information (dial-in numbers) will change after GGF16. - Many thanks to HP (Jeffrin) for providing the facilities so far. * Basic security profiles update - Final call finished last Monday - Some minor revisions from Hiro and Jem - Agreed that the profiles can be submitted to the GGF Editor Action: Hiro to upload the Profiles to the GGF Editor tracker * WSRF Basic Profile update - no update * RSM license - Ellen is following up. * Glossary - Data Federation: Accepted 'logical' and added "In OGSA," since this is an OGSA specific definition. - Re-worked definitions for "use case" and "scenarios" merging the two proposals. Jem will upload the document but will not issue a final call. There will be a combined OGSA 1.5 final call (Architecture and Glossary) when Andreas uploads the final version late this week, early next week. * Wikipedia - OGSA entry - Jem has updated the entry (OGSA). The motivation is just to make sure that the correct information is provided in that public forum. More detailed information will be maintained on the GGF site. * GGF16 planning ** Panel discussion - Reviewed Andreas' draft panel description, proposed balance and identified candidates for participants and moderator. - One proposal is to have two moderators, one from industry the other from academia. It is interesting but there was some uncertainty on how well the format would work. - Candidates so far are mostly from academia. Looking for more commercial/industry representatives. Possible candidates: - Tony Hey (MS) - Franco Travostino (Nortel) - David Martin (IBM) - /Someone from Univa/ Action: Hiro will post the panel proposal text to the list and followup with the identified candidates to confirm the final selection. ** Information model session agenda The session will be a working session focusing on the Modeling guidelines (Fred) and the container documents (Ellen) Proposed and accepted that it should be a bottom-up session, starting with the BES container to motivate the more general guidelines discussion---make it clear that the 'guidelines' is based off the process that came up with the container. It should be made very clear that the guidelines are formulated based on work actually done and are not a blue-sky description of an untried process. Expected audience for this session: EMS (mainly) and possibly Data - BES was initially chosen as a candidate since it is a simple(r) component in EMS. Along the same lines of thoughts a likely first candidate in data is the BYTEIO-WG---it deals with files. - It should also be emphasized that the RM design team is not trying to make more work for other WGs. The main work will be done in OGSA; but domain expert collaboration is needed. - A grid view of storage is another candidate (ref. SNIA) * Modeling Guidelines document review There was not sufficient time to review the document in detail. Some comments were to add - information on how to get access to tools (RSM license); - that the process has been used to come up with the BES container model (and is not a blue-sky approach); and - in the introduction that basing the work on CIM is a *proposal* (it is mentioned in the Status section but some people might not look at that section). ** F2F agenda review - Hiro is working to fill in logistical info (location and how to get there) - Agreed to put 'Next F2F' discussion earlier in the agenda. Sometime in the morning is better to make sure that most interested parties are present.

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Proposed agenda for Feb. 8th call
by Hiro Kishimoto 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

Hi all, The following is a proposed agenda for OGSA-WG telecon on Feb. 8th Wednesday from 4pm to 6pm (CST). Dial-in numbers for Wednesday: Free: +1-888-452-0308 Intl/Toll: +1-484-644-0505 PIN: 71815 Screen share service will be provided. URL: http://ogsa.glance.net Session key: 0208 See more explanation: http://www-unix.gridforum.org/mail_archive/ogsa-wg/2004/06/msg00077.html 1) Early discussion (10 min) Note taker assignment Roll call Telecon minutes approval (Feb. 6th) https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ogsa-wg/document/minutes-20060206/en/1 OGSA Basic Security Profile final call status (Takuya) IBM RSM academic/SDOs license program update (Jay) Agenda bashing 2) OGSA glossary 1.5 final review (20 min) Jem will lead the last three term definitions. - scenarios, usecase, data federation 3) 2) GGF16 prep (30 min) OGSA round table panel @ Monday > - Panel preparation: no update yet. > - Hiro is looking for participants. > - Proposals for candidates, etc, should be sent to Hiro before the > next call. OGSA back-to-back F2F meeting on Friday - Hiro will send out proposed agenda before the call. Updated attendees list https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ogsa-wg/document/OGSA-WG-GGF16-GGF17-A… 4) Information model discussion (60 min) > Fred updated the modeling guidelines document. It's starting to take > shape. The latest version can be found at: > > http://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ogsa-wg/document/Modeling_Guidelines > /en/ > > We will review this document on the teleconference next wednesday, so > please give a look. BTW, Ellen will post updates of her documents too. 5) Wrap up AOB <NEXT CALL> GGF16 (Athens): Feb. 13-16 OGSA-WG F2F meeting (NTUA @ Athens): Feb. 17 -- Hiro Kishimoto

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