July 2007 - wg-all - lists.ogf.org

OGF Member and Participant Survey
by John Ehrig 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

All OGF members and participants are encouraged to take our on-line member survey. The results of this survey will be used track our progress, improve our member services and help guide our strategy. We will publish the results in the August edition of our GridConnections Newsletter. The survey is only 12 questions and should take about 5 minutes to complete, so please take a moment to give us your very important feedback. Responses are completely anonymous. http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB226MYGL3JWL Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org

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New document published: Information Dissemination in the Grid Environment - Base Specifications
by Greg Newby 08 Jul '07

08 Jul '07

New OGF document published in the Recommendation track: GFD-R-P.110 Title: Information Dissemination in the Grid Environment - Base Specifications Authors/editors: S. Davey, V. Dialani, R. Fehling, S. Fisher, D. Gawlick, C. Kantarjiev, C. Madsen, S. Malaika, S. Mishra, M.Shankar Abstract: INFOD (Information Dissemination) provides a general means to determine which messages are to be sent from which publishers to which consumers based upon information kept in a registry. To support this, INFOD specifies interfaces that allow the characterization (in the registry) of publishers, consumers and various other components using vocabularies that are meaningful to members of the communities they belong to. INFOD makes use of a notify operation similar to that defined by the WS-Notification specification to send information between publishers and consumers. INFOD also extends the publish/subscribe paradigm by allowing consumers to be determined dynamically based on the message content. Additionally, INFOD allows subscribers to determine what defines an event and which messages should be created in response to these events. View and download OGF documents here: http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?final -- Greg Newby, OGF Editor Under the advice of the OGF's steering group, announcements of newly published documents, as well as those starting public comment, go to the wg-all mailing list. This is a meta-list of all people on all OGF lists. To manage your OGF list subscriptions, visit http://www.ogf.org/mailman/

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New document published: WS-Naming Specification
by Greg Newby 08 Jul '07

08 Jul '07

New OGF document published in the Recommendation track: GFD-R-P.109 Title: WS-Naming Specification Authors/editors: A. Grimshaw, D. Snelling Abstract: Past experience has led developers to the conclusion that successful distributed systems must provide robust forms of naming. Naming is the mechanism by which the concept of identity is maintained and gives endpoints in the system the ability to talk about other endpoints in a high- level, abstract way. Further, naming and dynamic name resolution are the means by which some of the classic distributed systems transparencies, such as location transparency and fault transparency, are achieved. This document follows the recommendations of "OGSA Profile Definition Version 1.0" [GFD.59] and describes an extension to the WS-Addressing [WS-Addressing] specification to include extensibility elements for abstract names and for resolvers, as well as port types for the WS- Naming resolution services. View and download OGF documents here: http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?final -- Greg Newby, OGF Editor Under the advise of the OGF's steering group, announcements of newly âpublished documents, as well as those starting public comment, go to the wg-all mailing list. This is a meta-list of all people on all OGF lists. To manage your OGF list subscriptions, visit http://www.ogf.org/mailman/

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New document published: Interoperability Testing for The GridRPC API Specification
by Greg Newby 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

New OGF document published in the Experimental track: GFD-E.102 Title: Interoperability Testing for The GridRPC API Specification Authors: Y. Tanimura, K. Seymour, E. Caron, A. Amar, H. Nakada, Y. Tanaka, F. Desprez Abstract: This document proposes a process of interoperability testing of the GridRPC API specification (GFD-R.52), which is submitted to the Global Grid Forum (GGF) recommendation track. Three independent implementations from different code bases, Ninf-G, GridSolve and DIET, are used for showing sufficient successful operational experiences. A strong belief that the specification is mature and will be useful is indicated through all the results of the test suites. -- Greg Newby (OGF Editor) (Apologies for the long string of announcements, but several documents had gone unannounced.)

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New document published: GridWay DRMAA 1.0 Implementation - Experience Report
by Greg Newby 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

New OGF document published in the Experimental track: GFD-E.104 Title: GridWay DRMAA 1.0 Implementation - Experience Report Authors: J. Herrera, E. Huedo, R. Montero, I. Llorente Abstract: This document reports about experiences made with running DRMAA working group compliance test for C bindings against GridWay 5.2 implementation of the Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA). GridWay (www.gridway.org) is an open source meta-scheduling technology that, on top of Globus services, performs job execution management and resource brokering. GridWay performs all the job scheduling and submission steps transparently to the end user and adapts job execution to changing Grid conditions by providing fault recovery mechanisms, dynamic scheduling, migration on-request, and opportunistic migration. This document also includes some implementation details of the DRMAA API, and remarks some special considerations made to implement the DRMAA standard on a Grid (Globus based). The main difficulties arise because the nature of the Grid itself, as opposed to a classical Distributed Resource Management System (DRMS), which provides a single system image where all resources are in the same administration domain. -- Greg Newby (OGF Editor)

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New document published: Web Services Agreement Specification (WS-Agreement)
by Greg Newby 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

New OGF document published in the Recommendation track. GFD-R-P.107 Title: "Web Services Agreement Specification (WS-Agreement)" Authors/editors: A. Andrieux, K. Czajkowski, A. Dan, K. Keahey, H. Ludwig, T. Kakata, J. Pruyne, J. Rofrano, S. Tuecke, M. Xu Abstract: This document describes Web Services Agreement Specification (WS-Agreement), a Web Services protocol for establishing agreement between two parties, such as between a service provider and consumer, using an extensible XML language for specifying the nature of the agreement, and agreement templates to facilitate discovery of compatible agreement parties. The specification consists of three parts which may be used in a composable manner: a schema for specifying an agreement, a schema for specifying an agreement template, and a set of port types and operations for managing agreement life-cycle, including creation, expiration, and monitoring of agreement states. View and download OGF documents here: http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?final -- Greg Newby, OGF editor ( This message is sent to all members of any OGF mailing list, as requested by the GFSG. To manage your other OGF mailing list subscriptions, visit http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo )

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OGF July 2007 Newsletter
by Steve Crumb 02 Jul '07

02 Jul '07

The July 07 GridConnections newsletter is here. Open the attached document or follow this link to view the newsletter. http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_enews.php?jul07 In this month's edition: * SAGA, JSDL, HPC Basic Profile and OGSA BES Specification Summaries Released * 2007/2008 NOMCOM Being Formed * OGF21 - CFP Deadline Nearing/Advanced Registration Opens/Sponsorship Opportunities * Take Our Mid-year Member Survey * GridWorld 2007 and GridAsia 2007 Report Out From Mark Linesch * Welcome New Organizational Member - NTT Communications * Documents Update * Last Chance to Reserve Space at OGF's Grid Pavilion at Next Generation Data Center * Other Upcoming Events * Join OGF Today * Closing Comments Regards, Steve Crumb Executive Director, OGF scrumb(a)ogf.org +1 312-895-5931 (new)

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