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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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New document published: SAGA API Extension: Information System Navigator API
by Greg Newby 20 Jun '12

20 Jun '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: http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/ * GFD-R-P.195 "SAGA API Extension: Information System Navigator API." S.Fisher, A. Wilson. Via SAGA-WG Abstract: This document specifies an Information System Navigator API extension to the Simple API for Grid Applications (SAGA), a high level, application-oriented API for grid application development. This Information System Navigator API is motivated by a number of Use Cases collected by the OGF SAGA Research Group in GFD.70, and by requirements derived from those Use Cases, as specified in GFD.71. Though motivated by the need to allow users to find information about services additional to that available via the SAGA Service Discovery API it is not dependent upon the Service Discovery API and is applicable to any information system that can be mapped to an entity relationship model. -- 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: [Cloud Services Initiative] Call for Contribution for Use Cases and Metrics for Cloud End-to-End SLA Management Project [#172256]
by Alan Sill 23 Apr '12

23 Apr '12

Dear all, We (i.e., OGF) have started some joint liaison work between OGF and the Telecommunications Management Forum (TMForum) on service agreements, including service level agreement management (e.g., WS-Agreement and WS-Agreement Negotiation applications) and the overall context of cloud and other distributed computing service agreements. Ramin Yahyapour from GWDG has agreed to act as point of contact with TMForum on this topic, and others (for example, Wolfgang Ziegler from Frauhofer Institute) who are also members of both OGF and TMForum, or who are also interested in this topic, are welcome to contribute. Note that the link in the TMForum message below is only open to TMForum members, but we have a liaison agreement in place, so please contact Ramin if you would like to contribute. Matteo Turilli of the EGI Federated Cloud task force has also indicated some interest in this topic from the point of view of that project. Please forward any contribution you may have, or link to related outside work that might provide use cases or standards-oriented work on metrics for clouds and on grid and cloud service agreements, to Ramin and Matteo. In the meantime, I offer the following link to all who may find it useful to the current thinking of the OpenStack design community on cloud metrics, billing and monitoring. Similar links and contributions from those who may be working on similar cloud and grid software stack framework projects would be appreciated. Thanks! Alan OpenStack link: http://wiki.openstack.org/EfficientMetering Begin forwarded message: > From: Mary Amalfitano <bounce-MaryAmalfitano(a)community.tmforum.org> > Subject: [Cloud Services Initiative] Call for Contribution for Use Cases and Metrics for Cloud End-to-End SLA Management Project [#172256] > Date: April 23, 2012 1:18:48 PM CDT > To: "Sill, Alan" <alan.sill(a)ttu.edu> > Reply-To: Cloud Services Initiative <cloudcomputing(a)community.tmforum.org> > > Mary Amalfitano , Project Manager , TM Forum > > > Everyone, > > To help with the analysis of applicable existing standards and recommendations for the End-to-end SLA Management Technical Report, we are calling Use Cases, service models and SLA metrics that will help validate our work results. > > If someone has anything relevant to contribute, please do so using this form: > http://www.tmforum.org/Community/groups/cloud_computing_services/makeacontr… > > Best Regards, > Mary > > Cloud Services Initiative > Topics:Call for Contributions for Cloud End-to-End SLA Management, CloudSLAManagement, e2e-sla > > Shared In:1 Community > Shared In:Service Level Agreement Management : cloudsla > View thread online > > Please note, this discussion thread is shared across communities. Any replies that you make to this discussion thread, will be posted to all of the communities and topics listed above. > > > Full thread available online here: http://www.tmforum.org/community/groups/cloud_computing_services/forum/p/17… > This message was sent to Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu and follows the subscription preferences of your membership of the Cloud Services Initiative TM Forum Online Community. > > To unsubscribe immediately, please click here and click "Edit Collaboration Community Notifications". You will be prompted to log in if you are not logged in already. To cut down on email volume, you may also choose to receive your discussion notifications via a daily or weekly digest email as opposed to immediate separate emails. > > TM Forum, 240 Headquarters Plaza, East Tower, 10th Floor, Morristown, NJ 07960-6628, USA. Call +1 973 944 5100. info(a)tmforum.org >

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New document in public comment: Example set of DFDL 1.0 properties
by Greg Newby 22 Apr '12

22 Apr '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: * Example set of DFDL 1.0 properties -- 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: newby AT arsc.edu v: 907-450-8663 f: 907-450-8603 w: www.arsc.edu/~newby

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New document published: WS-Disagreement
by Andre Merzky 01 Apr '12

01 Apr '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.199 "WS-Disagreement" Via OGF Operations. A. Merzky, A. Papaspyrou April 1st 2012 https://www.ogf.org/documents/GFD.199.pdf Abstract: This document provides information to the grid community, proposing a standard for a WS-Disagreement protocol (WS-NO), to communicate disagreement messages between components, and also between humans. Andre Merzky, for OGF Operations -- Nothing is ever easy...

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