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New documents in public comment
by Greg Newby 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

To all OGF group members and affiliates: Several documents are now in public comment for the OGF document series, prior to publication. Please consider reading these documents, and providing your comments to the document authors via the link provided for each document. Brief comments are welcome, not only detailed analysis. Public comments are an excellent indication of community interest and support for a document. * Functional Components of Grid Service Provider Authorisation Service Middleware [will be available for comment shortly] * HPCBP Advanced Filter Extension * Policy for Supporting Grid and e-Science Education and Training * Towards Professional Grid Certification * Requirements on operating Grids in Firewalled Environments * Use of SAML to retrieve Authorization Credentials * Use of WS-TRUST and SAML to Access a Credential Validation Service All documents in public comment may be reached at this Web address: http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?public_comment We have also had some documents published recently, which will be the subject of a few other email messages from me. See you in Singapore for OGF24! -- Greg Newby, OGF Editor Dr. Gregory Newby, Chief Scientist of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Univ of Alaska Fairbanks-909 Koyukuk Dr-PO Box 756020-Fairbanks-AK 99775-6020 e: newby AT arsc.edu v: 907-450-8663 f: 907-450-8603 w: www.arsc.edu/~newby

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OGF25 Call for Session Proposals - EGEE User Forum/OGF25 & OGF-Europe's 2nd Int'l Event
by Joel Replogle 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

EGEE User Forum / OGF25 & OGF-Europe's 2nd International Event 2-6 March 2009, Catania, Italy (in the region of Sicily) Call for Session Proposals for the Joint Program & Tutorials - http:// www.ogf.org/OGF25/cfp.php "With grids enabling major scientific collaborations, the implications of green IT for data centers, and the enthusiasm of the IT industry for cloud computing, distributed computing is in a challenging phase of its evolution. Come to Catania to interact with the EGEE and OGF communities, and learn about these topics and more." -Martin Walker, Event Program Chair EGEE (http://www.eu-egee.org) OGF (http://www.ogf.org) and OGF- Europe (http://www.ogfeurope.org) invite you to submit session proposals for one of this year’s major distributed computing events, 2-6 June 2009 in Catania, Italy. The deadline to submit session proposals for the joint program is: 15 December 2008, notification will be provided by 15 January 2009. Submit your session proposal at http://www.ogf.org/OGF25/cfp.php The Program Committee is inviting session proposals for the joint program in the following topics/thematic areas: * Digital Libraries and Cultural Heritage * Digital Media and Digital Repositories * Collaborative Working Environments * Future Emerging Technologies * Green IT * Grids & Cloud Computing (interoperability, convergence, SOA aspects, user experiences, sustainability, industry analyst perspective) * Grid (issues, applications and technologies) * Networked, Smart and Virtual Organizations * Networking Topics (GLIF workshop, standards) * OGF specs: status and experience with implementations (e.g. HPC Basic Profile,..) * Open Source Technologies and Applications * Security and Identity Management * Software development for distributed computing Additionally, OGF and OGF-Europe are accepting proposals for multiple half-day or full-day tutorials with a hands-on focus and designed to enhance technology skills. Tutorial topics may include: * developing grid services * deploying grid tools * building grid applications * managing grid infrastructures * and other topics where skills can be taught and transferred to tutorial participants. OGF Chartered Group sessions and BoFs may also be requested. For more information on the event, please visit http://www.ogf.org/ OGF25 or http://www.ogfeurope.eu/egeeufogf25 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Director, Open Grid Forum replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org

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New documents in public comment
by Greg Newby 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

Several documents are now in public comment. Due to some problems with the Gridforge trackers, we extended a few public comment periods to allow sufficient time for comments. Please consider reading these documents, and providing your comments to the document authors via the link provided for each document. Brief comments are welcome, not only detailed analysis. Public comments are an excellent indication of community interest and support for a document. * ISV Remote Computing Usage Primer [will be available shortly] * GLUE Specification v. 2.0 * GLUE v. 2.0 - Reference Realizations to Concrete Data Models * Use of XACML Request Context to Obtain an Authorisation Decision * HPCBP Advanced Filter Extension * Functional Components of Grid Service Provider Authorisation Service Middleware * Implementation and Interoperability Experiences with the Job Submission Description Language (JSDL) 1.0 All documents in public comment may be reached at this Web address: http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?public_comment -- Greg Newby, OGF Editor

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