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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 in public comment: Distributed Resource Management Application API Version 2 (DRMAA) - C Language Binding
by Greg Newby 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '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: * Distributed Resource Management Application API Version 2 (DRMAA) - C Language Binding -- 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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OGF36 - Call for Session Proposals
by Andre Merzky 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

Dear OGF Community, OGF is pleased to announce the opening of the OGF36 Call for Session Proposals: http://www.ogf.org/OGF36/cfp.php OGF36 will occur in Chicago, Illinois from October 08-10, 2012, and will be co-located with eScience2012: http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/escience2012/ The OGF36 program committee seeks active participation from the world-wide community, and encourages the submission of session proposals that may include (but are not limited to) the following topics: - Identity Management and Virtual Organizations - Production Infrastructure Interoperability - Software Sustainability for Grids and Clouds - Green IT, Energy Efficiency - Inter-cloud interoperability and SLA management - Networking for Distributed Computing Infrastructures - Performance measurement of Grids and Clouds - Science Clouds at large scales - Grid and Cloud Security - Distributed Desktop Grid and Volunteer Computing - Emerging Distributed Infrastructure - Campus Grids and Clouds - Data Management in Grids and Clouds - Federated Infrastructure - OGF Chartered Group Sessions - Birds of a Feather (BoF) Sessions Deadline for Session Proposals: August 31, 2012 (notices by September 15). -------------------------------------------------------------------- office(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org PO Box 1738 T: +1-765-228-9068 Muncie, IN 47308 USA F: +1-815-927-6284

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Migration of OGF document preparation and code support, etc., from SourceForge to Redmine
by Sill, Alan 05 Jul '12

05 Jul '12

As mentioned in December during the migration to new overall hosting for OGF, and announced formally at the OGF 34 meeting in Oxford in March, OGF is in the process of migrating its support for working group document preparation, issue tracking, code and document repository and community wiki functions from SourceForge to a new community server based on Redmine. Andre Merzky has kindly agreed to lead the technical aspects of this move, coordinating with the OGF group leaders and standards council (GFSG) and OGF Board as needed. So far this move has been in a pilot phase, with a number of groups having made the move completely from GridForge based on SourceForge at forge.ogf.org to Redmine at redmine.ogf.org . To cut down on the problem of spam registrations that were a nuisance on the old GridForge, we are asking people to please register for a new account and to choose a good access password to go with it when registering to the new server. At this point, since things have gone fairly well, I would like to encourage all work groups and community groups in OGF to make the switch. As we develop more experience with the tools, more features may be added. For now, all of the basic functionality needed to support an OGF group is there. For groups that use repositories, you may notice that the default version control system used on the new system is git, not subversion. While Redmine does support svn and it can be installed, so far all of the groups that have moved have been happy to convert to using git, which is presently much more popular with developers. If this causes difficulty for your group, please let us know. A tool does exist to do the migration of content from svn to git to make this transition easier for your group. Send any questions to ogf-it(a)ogf.org or, in the case of organizational issues, to gfsg(a)ogf.org Thanks to Andre for leading this effort, and to all of the groups that have made the transition so far. 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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