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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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Fwd: [DistComp] Deadline extension for the Special Issue on Interoperability, Federation Frameworks and Application Programming Interfaces for IaaS Clouds
by Sill, Alan 30 Nov '12

30 Nov '12

Please consider a submission if your work is on any aspect of federated clouds or related distributed infrastructure as a service offerings. Alan Sill Co-guest editor and VP Standards, OGF Begin forwarded message: From: Gabor Kecskemeti <kecskemeti.gabor(a)sztaki.mta.hu<mailto:kecskemeti.gabor@sztaki.mta.hu>> Date: November 30, 2012, 10:46:18 AM GMT+01:00 To: <distributed-computing-announce(a)datasys.cs.iit.edu<mailto:distributed-computing-announce@datasys.cs.iit.edu>> Subject: [DistComp] Deadline extension for the Special Issue on Interoperability, Federation Frameworks and Application Programming Interfaces for IaaS Clouds --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Call for Papers *** Springer Journal of Grid Computing http://www.springer.com/journal/10723 Special Issue on Interoperability, Federation Frameworks and Application Programming Interfaces for IaaS Clouds http://cac.hpcc.ttu.edu/jogc/cloud-interop-2012/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, within the prestigious Springer Journal of Grid Computing, 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. Large commercial cloud providers and standards organizations, multi-user and multi- organization infrastructure providers and users are welcome to submit to this issue to provide formal descriptions of their existing and proposed solutions. The increasingly large range of choices and availability of IaaS toolkits has also allowed creation of cloud solutions and frameworks suitable for private deployment and practical use even on smaller scales. As a result, many academic infrastructure service providers have started to their transition to add cloud resources to their previously existing campus and shared grid deployments. To be successful, such solutions should also support the unification of cloud and/or cloud+grid solutions in a seamless, preferably interoperable way. Priority in selection will be given to papers that document and present measured comparisons or practical information on realistic, real-world solutions. We believe this venue will be an excellent place to help the community define the current state, determine future goals, and present architectures and service frameworks to achieve highly interoperable federated cloud infrastructures. PROPOSED EXAMPLE TOPICS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • Case studies of interoperable and federated solutions across multiple infrastructures • Application Programmer Interfaces and standards for interoperability and federation • Experience from operating infrastructure clouds as part of one or more federations • Practical experiences in energy-efficiency or other benefits from cloud federation • Virtual machine deployment and migration solutions across cloud boundaries • Federation-compatible service agreements, SLAs and quality of service control systems • Virtual machine scheduling and management algorithms in federated systems • Federation and interoperability challenges of mixed grid and cloud systems • Construction and management of cross-domain HPC virtual infrastructures • Accounting and identity management solutions that support federation-level models • Performance evaluation and comparison across multiple federated cloud systems • New programming models and standards for interoperable cloud computing systems • Scalability issues and comparisons of different cloud federation approaches • Security problems, considerations and solutions for hybrid mixed public/private clouds • Storage management, focusing on interoperability and multi cloud placement Important Dates --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • Papers Due: November 30, 2012 ----> Extended to December 15, 2012 • First Round Decisions: February 1, 2013 • Major Revisions if needed: April 1, 2013 • Second Round Decisions: June 1, 2013 • Minor Revisions if needed: July 15, 2013 • Final Decision: July 30, 2013 • Publication Date: September 2013 PAPER SUBMISSION --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished technical papers. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and relevance to the special issue topics of interest. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another workshop, conference or a journal, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the review process. Submitted papers may not exceed 20 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (1" margins), including figures, tables, and references; note that accepted papers will likely be between 15 to 20 pages, depending on a variety of factors. Manuscripts must be formatted along the guidelines for authors of the Journal of Grid Computing: http://www.springer.com/journal/10723 Manuscripts must be submitted online using the site: http://www.editorialmanager.com/grid Please indicate that your manuscript is targeted to the Cloud Federation special issue. Editors --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Gabor Kecskemeti Research Fellow Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems - www.lpds.sztaki.hu<http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu> MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute - www.sztaki.hu<http://www.sztaki.hu> Hungarian Academy of Sciences - www.mta.hu<http://www.mta.hu> Cloud computing group - https://www.lpds.sztaki.hu/CloudResearch Personal research webpage - http://users.iit.uni-miskolc.hu/~kecskemeti _______________________________________________ distributed-computing-announce mailing list distributed-computing-announce(a)datasys.cs.iit.edu<mailto:distributed-computing-announce@datasys.cs.iit.edu> http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/mailman/listinfo/distributed-computing-announce

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New document published: Distributed Resource Management Application API Version 2 (DRMAA) - C Language Binding
by Greg Newby 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

OGF Community: A new document has been published in the OGF series. All OGF documents (including any that are open for public comment) may be found here: www.ogf.org/gf/docs/ * GFD-R-P.198 " Distributed Resource Management Application API Version 2 (DRMAA) - C Language Binding." P. Tröger, R. Brobst, D. Gruber, M. Mamonski, A. Merzky, via DRMAA-WG. Abstract: This document describes the C language binding for the Distributed Resource Management Application API Version 2 (DRMAA). The intended audience for this specification are DRMAA Version 2 interface implementors. -- 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(a)alaska.edu v: 907-450-8663 f: 907-450-8603 w: people.arsc.edu/~newby

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Participation by OGF at the ETSI Cloud Standards Coordination meeting
by Sill, Alan 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

Dear all, As you know, Dec. 4-5 there will be a very important European Cloud Standards Coordination meeting to be held in Cannes, France and hosted by ETSI, which has recently been named by the European Commission as the central body to coordinate cloud standards policy and development activities on its behalf in Europe. http://etsi.org/csc Our delegation there will be led by Dr. Wolfgang Ziegler. There will also be a formal signing ceremony for the OGF-ETSI MoU approved both by the OGF Board of Directors and recently by the ETSI Board at their General Assembly. For those who plan to attend, please enter your name on the associated list at http://doodle.com/sfkdeigazutxtf5i to select sessions in which you want to be active, and also please look for each other and for Wolfgang and other OGF members at the CSC meeting. We appreciate you keeping the flame of open participation in standards development active and bright at meetings such as this. If you are interested in promoting implementations of our open standards in cloud settings, please also register for and participate in the Cloud Plugfest series we have been conducting successfully with SNIA and ETSI as partners (and we hope soon, participants also from implementers from DMTF), the next of which is Dec. 10-12, 2012 in multiple locations with remote participation possible upon registration -- which is due December 3! http://cloudplugfest.org Thanks for your time and participation in OGF and in projects that help to bring our standards into practice in the community. Alan Sill Vice President of Standards for the GFSG and OGF Standards Council

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Reminder: Public Comments due Nov. 24 on "URN Namespace for Network Resources"
by Sill, Alan 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

Dear OGF colleagues, As a reminder, the public comment period expires Nov. 24 on the following document. Please read and submit your comments by that time to ensure their inclusion, and the expeditious processing of this document Document: URN Namespace for Network Resources Author(s): F. Dijkstra, J. vd. Ham Type: INF Area: Infrastructure Group: NML-WG Public Comment End: 24 Nov, 2012 Link: http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/comment.php?id=390 Alan

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Important Update on recent OGF activity
by Steven Newhouse 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

Dear OGF Colleagues, The last 6 months have seen a number of changes in OGF that we need to bring you up to date with, 1. Joel Replogle: After many years of dedicated work within OGF Joel left OGF at the end of July 2012 for a new position within a different standards community. We wish him well and thank him for all of his work over the years and being one of the main regular public faces of OGF. The tasks previously undertaken by Joel (event organisation, IT support, membership, finance, administration, public relations) have been redistributed to part-time OGF staff (covering finance, administration and IT) and senior members of the community. Any OGF event organisation will now be undertaken by the local host (generally an organisation within the OGF community) or the existing conference secretariat if we are a track in a community meeting (see the next point for details). 2. Event Strategy: At the townhall meeting in Chicago we discussed how OGF would evolve its event strategy. Instead of joint events (such as the OGF 35 in Delft and OGF 36 in Chicago) we would move to holding events under our own control (such as the upcoming OGF37) or as co-located tracks in relevant community events. More announcements will be made about these soon. Our next event will be OGF37 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, 10-13th March 2013 - more details soon. This will not change the event structure from a participation perspective (apart from possibly lowering the fees), but will reduce the financial risk and the organization overhead for OGF. 3. Restructuring. Those of you who have been with GGF and OGF for many years that as we scaled up we moved from a single steering group to a Board of Directors complemented by standards and community councils to name a few. Our activities within OGF have now focused down to just a few active areas within the standards council which can now be managed by a single group. Therefore the Board will reduce its role to just that is needed to meet our legal requirements as a non-profit organisation (with at least a chair, treasurer and secretary) and all event planning and strategy discussions will take place in the Standards Council (previously known as the Grid Forum Steering Group - GFSG). 4. Leadership. The new strategy and structure is also coinciding with a change in leadership activities. I will be stepping down as the Chair of the OGF Board as it comes to its end in the current form. Andrew Grimshaw has agreed to take on the role of Board Chair in its new minimalist form so as to discharge its legal supervision of the OGF organisation. Alan Sill has agreed to continue his role of coordinating the standards activity through the GFSG. 5. Finances. The concentration of our community activities into just a few active areas means that our events are a lot smaller than they were previously - but potentially just as if not more productive - and we have had to adjust our business model accordingly. This was previously based around both organisational membership fees and event revenue but allowed us to support a number of staff working full and part time. The new event strategy and other changes that have taken place over the last 18 months means that are operation costs are much lower and can be supported by our current organisational membership and event revenue. These changes have put stabilised our income and expenditure and made future OGF operation sustainable and will allow us to expand our activities from this stable base. 5. Community. So what do all these changes mean? OGF has always been driven by its community and its members. Our goal remains to enable you to find community consensus in the standards that you need to build interoperable services that provide access to distributed computing infrastructures of all shapes and forms. This has not and will not change. Your support and engagement is needed just as before. Either as an active group member, leading a technical activity as a working group chair, or helping to drive the future direction of the organisation as an Area Director. I would encourage you to continue your contributions at all levels and to continue to grow the number and variety of OGF activities and standards. Steven Newhouse Chair, OGF Board

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UK takes huge step forward on Open Standards — Karsten on Free Software
by Sill, Alan 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

Thought you would be interested in the following link. Topic: UK takes major step towards competition, innovation in software market Link: https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/11/01/the-uks-new-open-standards-policy/ Alan Alan Sill, Ph.D Vice President of Standards, Open Grid Forum

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