October 2012 - wg-all - lists.ogf.org

New document in public comment: URN Namespace for Network Resources
by Greg Newby 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

Dear OGF members and affiliates: A new document has begun public comment. Please consider reading and providing feedback. Brief affirmations are very useful to demonstrate community input and support. More detailed analysis is also, of course, welcome. All documents in public comment are accessible here: http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?public_comment This document has been newly added for public comment: * URN Namespace for Network Resources. F. Dijkstra, J. vd. Ham, via NML-WG. -- Greg Newby, OGF Standards Editor Dr. Gregory Newby, Director 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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New document published: Distributed Resource Management Application API Version 2
by Greg Newby 12 Dec '12

12 Dec '12

OGF Community: A new document has been published in the OGF series. All OGF documents (including some that are open for public comment!) may be found here: http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/ * GFD-R.194 "Distributed Resource Management Application API Version 2 (DRMAA)"[Obsoletes GFD.22, GFD.130 and GFD.133]. Via DRMAA-WG. P. Tröger, R. Brost, D. Gruber, M. Mamoński, D. Templeton Abstract: This document describes the Distributed Resource Management Application API Version 2 (DRMAA). It defines a generalized API to Distributed Resource Management (DRM) systems in order to facilitate the development of portable application programs and high-level libraries. The intended audience for this specification are DRMAA language binding designers, DRM system vendors, high-level API designers and meta-scheduler architects. Application developers are expected to rely on product-specific documentation for the DRMAA API implementation in their particular DRM system. -- Greg Newby, OGF Editor Dr. Gregory Newby, Director of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Univ of Alaska Fairbanks-909 Koyukuk Dr-PO Box 756020-Fairbanks-AK 99775-6020 e: gbnewby AT alaska.edu v: 907-450-8663 f: 907-450-8603 w: www.arsc.edu/~newby

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OGF-related events: ETSI Cloud Standards Coordination open event 4-5 Dec 2012; Cloud Plugfest 10-12 Dec 2012 and Cloudscape 27-28 Feb 2013
by Sill, Alan 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

Dear OGF members, Apologies for multiple messages to wg-all in one day (the one from Andre on OGF Redmine migration, and this one on events). I will try to compensate for this by squeezing announcements of two events - no, three! - in one message. The following announcement refers to the European Community Cloud Standards Coordination event to be held 4-5 Dec 2012 in Cannes, France. There will be a delegation from OGF attending (at least, multiple people have told us that they are interested in going) with official representation for OGF provided by Wolfgang Ziegler of the Fraunhofer-Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI), who is our OGF Area Director for Applications. Please contact Wolfgang for further information if you plan to attend. In addition, there will be the seventh in the series of Cloud Plugfest events, which are hands-on developer-oriented activities designed to promote interchange of information among developers on actual implementations in software of standards and to encourage exchange of practical implementation information, 10-12 Dec 2012 in Sophia-Antipolis, France with remote locations in Durham, North Carolina and optionally Boulder, CO, USA and Tokyo, Japan. Remote participation IS allowed but you have to register at http://cloudplugfest.org for this event. Note: while OGF is one of the sponsors for this event, along with ETSI and SNIA, this is a developer-oriented activity, not an OGF event and is not subject to the usual OGF restrictions (just like participation in any other general meeting). Instead, you are participating on your own just as you would do in a project meeting or other outside activity. The same consideration applies to participation in the CSC meeting and Cloudscape conference mentioned below. Finally, please put on your calendar to participate in the next in the series of Cloudscape meetings to be held 27-28 2013 in Brussels, Belgium. Many of you may already have been contacted to participate to represent your projects, and of course we always appreciate having OGF standards and processes highlighted in any presentation that you make. It is extremely important to highlight the progress that development and use of OGF standards allows you to make, and to come to OGF events to inexact with the community that is working on these topics in order to make this progress. OGF encompasses a thriving and active organization and community, so please do not be shy in highlighting the importance of OGF cloud- and grid-related standards in these and other meetings that you may attend! Also, please do not be shy in telling us how we can organize the OGF community processes and events in ways that will help you in your day-to-day and long-term visionary efforts. Alan Alan Sill, Ph.D Vice President of Standards, Open Grid Forum Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center Adjunct Professor of Physics Texas Tech University Begin forwarded message: ETSI announces the launch of the Cloud Standards Coordination (CSC), December 4-5 in Cannes, France By 2015, the worldwide market for cloud products and services is estimated to reach between € 50 bn and € 80 bn. Cloud computing is a factor for change thanks to an increased efficiency of computer infrastructure utilization and standardized offers leading to lower costs. In order to "Unleash the Potential of Cloud Computing" Europe gears up to tackle a series of challenges and the EC Communication on Cloud computing<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/cloudcomputing/docs/com/…>released on September 27, 2012 identifies cutting through the jungle of standards as a one of the key actions to foster mass adoption thanks to a trusted environment. To this end, ETSI is tasked to coordinate with partakers in the cloud standards ecosystems and devise standards roadmaps in support of EU critical policy in areas such as security, interoperability, data portability and reversibility. Supported by a membership of 750 organizations from 62 countries, a global network of partners, open and transparent processes, ETSI is launching the Cloud Standards Coordination in collaboration with a series of prominent players. PLEASE download the draft agenda<http://www.etsi.org/WebSite/document/Workshop/CSWS/CSC_draft_agenda20121029…> (29 October 2012) Be aware that this event is not a conference, but will feature a series of brainstorming sessions. Forget powerpoints and get ready to engage! Join industry players, standards setters, users and trade associations for the launch of the CSC in an open event on Tuesday 4 December (2pm) until Wednesday 5 December (6pm) 2012 and contribute to devising the Cloud standards roadmap in support of EU policy. Link: http://www.etsi.org/WebSite/NewsandEvents/201212_CLOUDSP.aspx ...................... For further information please contact: Margot Dor Strategy development mobile +33(0)6 8034 3416 office +33(0)4 9294 4910 margot.dor(a)etsi.org<mailto:margot.dor@etsi.org> www.etsi.org<http://www.etsi.org/> ETSI, 650 route des Lucioles 06921 Sophia Antipolis cdx France

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Document Migration GridForge -> Redmine
by Andre Merzky 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

Dear OGF Groups, Most groups have by now migrated their operations from GridForge to Redmine. Over the last days, we have been migrating documents from the various GridForge projects to the respective Redmine projects. We plan a similar migration of tracker items (sorry, we can't give a timeline for that, yet). A couple of notes about the document migration: - The documents (incl. the folder structure) have been moved into a separate folder on your redmine project's document module. That folder is named 'gridforge'. That way, the migrations would not collide with existing redmine documents. Note that you can move folders and documents to other folders, as needed. - For some GridForge projects, we do not have equivalent redmine projects. The respective documents have been moved to a separate archival project: http://redmine.ogf.org/dmsf/migration-archive Please let us know if you want to have access to that project, (it is publicly readable though), and if you want to have parts of that archive migrated to specific redmine projects. - We are aware of some problems, but decided not to delay the migration as several groups are waiting for the documents. Please let us know if you encounter faulty migrations. In particular, you may encounter folders which cannot be opened. Please pop me a note, and I'll make sure that this is getting fixed timely. Those problems should be rare though (so far 2 documents made trouble, out of O(100) checked). It is very likely that for many redmine accounts, permissions are not yet set correctly. In particular, chair and secretary roles may not yet be assigned to your account. Please let me know when you have trouble with permissions, and I'll flip the preciousss bitsesss... Best, Andre. -- Nothing is really difficult...

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email interruption
by Andre Merzky 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Dear OGF, we encountered and service interruption on one of our main machines which lasted from Friday until Sunday, which brought down the www server, mailing lists, and our central database. We are not sure if all emails made it through to the lists during that time period, and would like to ask you to check the respective list archives, as needed. Things should be back to normal by now, sorry for the 'inconvenience'. Obviously, we are trying to prevent similar outages in the future. Best regards, Andre. -- Nothing is really difficult...

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Reminder: Call For Papers: Springer JOGC Special Issue: Cloud Interoperability, Federation, Frameworks and APIs
by Sill, Alan 07 Oct '12

07 Oct '12

Please take note of the Nov. 30 deadline. Begin forwarded message: Date: October 6, 2012, 1:06:52 PM CDT Subject: [DistComp] Reminder: Call For Papers: Springer JOGC Special Issue: Cloud Interoperability, Federation, Frameworks and APIs Reminder: Papers are due Nov. 30 for this special issue. Call For Papers: Journal of Grid Computing Special Issue: Interoperability, Federation, Frameworks and Application Programming Interfaces for IaaS Clouds The Special Issue on Interoperability, Federation, Frameworks and Application Programming Interfaces for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Clouds will highlight foundational standards and application programmer interfaces (APIs) useful for large-scale, scalable distributed computing. This issue will provide the community with dedicated forum for presenting new research, development, and deployment efforts in running interoperable, federated IaaS cloud systems. Priority will be given to submissions that focus on presenting solutions to challenges faced by current and future infrastructure cloud toolkits and APIs, and on frameworks that allow their use across a broad range of platforms and user communities. Accepted papers will be published in the prestigious Springer Journal of Grid Computing (JOGC), which has impact factor 1,31. Link: http://cac.hpcc.ttu.edu/jogc/cloud-interop-2012/ Special Issue Guest Editors: * Alan Sill (alan.sill(a)ttu.edu<mailto:alan.sill@ttu.edu>), Texas Tech University & Open Grid Forum * Gabor Kecskemeti (kecskemeti.gabor(a)sztaki.mta.hu<mailto:kecskemeti.gabor@sztaki.mta.hu>), MTA SZTAKI, Hungary Editors-in-Chief: * Peter Kacsuk, Hungarian Academy of Sciences & University of Westminster * Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory For further information, see the attached flyer or visit the special issue web site at the link above.

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Last-minute news about OGF 36, and welcome to the Astro-CG!
by Sill, Alan 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

Dear OGF colleagues, As you have seen if you have registered (what??!? you haven't registered yet? then do it now, see below!), the schedule for OGF 36 in Chicago has been tweaked to align more closely with the eScience schedule, and to accommodate an additional session: - Wednesday lunch break is now 60 minutes, causing the first afternoon slot to start at 1pm. - The Wednesday morning session at 8:30 am is now the Green-IT BoF. - The NM/NMC draft discussion) has been merged into the NML-WG session on Monday, 3:30pm in 'Stetson E'. We look forward to seeing everyone in Chicago. If you have not yet registered, please do it now at http://www.ogf.org/OGF36/registration.php to get the pre-event full registration price rather than the on-site rates, which take effect October 5. For the current complete schedule, please see http://www.ogf.org/OGF36/schedule/ . We also take advantage of this opportunity to welcome the Astro-CG community group, which will hold its first official meeting at this OGF. For further details, please see the session link at http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/index.php?id=2534 Finally, we take note of the extensive visibility and play of OGF standards at many sessions during the recent EGI Technical Forum in Prague. For a representative example, please see the EGI FedCloud Task Force Demo presentation slides at https://indico.egi.eu/indico/getFile.py/access?contribId=91&sessionId=12&re… Note there are many related sessions at OGF 36 that you will not want to miss if you are involved in production infrastructures, federated cloud, inter-cloud, production grid or related work, or in the integration of advanced networking and software deployment methods into production grid and cloud infrastructures. We will also have a session explaining new development in OGF community and working group support tools, the new OGF Redmine, OGF processes and working group streamlining, engagement with other standardization activities, and interoperability topics. Again, we look forward to seeing you in Chicago, and safe travels! Alan Alan Sill, Ph.D Vice President of Standards, Open Grid Forum Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center Adjunct Professor of Physics, TTU ==================================================================== : Alan Sill, Texas Tech University Office: Drane 162, MS 4-1167 : : e-mail: Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu ph. 806-834-5940 fax 806-834-4358 : ====================================================================

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