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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: Cloud Plugfest September 2012 announcement, Open World Forum representation for OCCI and OGF October 2012
by Sill, Alan 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

Dear OGF WG members, In addition to the upcoming OGF 36 just mentiones, at which we hope to see as many of you as possible in person, please note that OGF continues to participate in and to co-sponsor the ongoing activities of the "Cloud Plugfest" series, the next of which is coming up September 17-19, 2012 in Sophia Antipolis, France and Santa Clara, USA as below. Note that remote participation is possible for the Cloud Plugfest events. If you are interested in participating in testing of OCCI on its own or with other standards, such as CDMI, OVF, DMTF's CIMI, etc., please visit the Cloud Plugfest web site at the link below and sign up for the mailing lists and/or register to participate in the events. We are also interested in gathering use cases for cloud computing in scientific and organizational settings of use to our community. If you have a use case that you wold like to see put forward in order to attract code developers or projects to try to demonstrate their ability to fill, please send a message to standards(a)ogf.org<mailto:standards@ogf.org> or to planners(a)cloudplugfest.org<mailto:planners@cloudplugfest.org> Finally, there is also interest in gathering as many OGF members as possible to attend the Open World Forum event to represent OCCI and other OGF cloud-applicable standards in a discussion with developers to take place in Paris, immediately after OGF 36 (don't forget OGF 36!). If you are interested in this, please send me mail at standards(a)ogf.org<mailto:standards@ogf.org> Alan Begin forwarded message: Cloud Plugfest - September 17 - 19, 2012 North America Santa Clara Convention Center Santa Clara, California Europe ETSI - Einstein Building Sophia Antipolis Cedex, FR Visit www.cloudplugfest.org<http://www.cloudplugfest.org/> The next Cloud Plugfest is to be held September 17 - 19, 2012. This is a “call for participation” for attendees and presenters. Participants may register to attend at the US or Europe location or remotely by dialing in. Register to attend - Click here<http://www.cloudplugfest.org/next-event/registration> -or- Click here<http://www.cloudplugfest.org/tools/plugfest-presentations> if you wish present material (presenters must also be registered participants) The goals of the Cloud Plugfest Series are to provide a collaborative environment with the appropriate testing tools needed for software developers and vendors to test their community-based open source or commercial implementations of CDMI, OCCI, OVF and other cloud-related standards. Cloud plugfests will help drive: • Interoperability between implementations of the same standard • Interoperability across different standards • Development of a cloud standards environment for the future of cloud All cloud implementers are invited to participate in person or remotely using web-based collaboration tools. Participants need not be members of SNIA, CSI, OGF or ETSI and the cost to attend in Europe and remotely is free. A small fee may be required for US participants. Visit the registration link details. Please visit the Cloud Plugfest<http://www.cloudplugfest.org/home> website for details about why your company should participate in this event. About Cloud Plugfests - The Cloud Plugfest Series was originated by the Open Grid Forum (OGF<http://www.ofg.com/>) and SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI<http://www.snia.org/forums/csi>) in 2011. This event is the 6th plugfest in that series and is proudly co-organized by OGF<http://www.ogf.org/>, SNIA and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI<http://www.etsi.org/>). We look forward to seeing you at the next Cloud Plugfest! Tom Mancuso Senior Program Manager, SMI Storage Networking Industry Association _______________________________________ SNIA Mobile: 719.491.2614 tom.mancuso(a)snia.org<mailto:tom.mancuso@snia.org> www.snia.org<http://www.snia.org/>

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Less than two weeks to go for Advance Registration for OGF 36 - register now!
by Sill, Alan 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

Dear OGF work groups, I know how much you and I enjoy getting together to solve problems in our community, and to make progress on the standards and technology that underly achieving such solutions. This is just a reminder that the schedule is progressing towards our get-together in Chicago, Illinois October 8-10, 2012, co-located with the IEEE e-Science 2012 conference, GLIF meeting, etc. In particular, the deadline for advance registration is September 8, less than two weeks away. Working groups should please make their meeting room requirements known to their group chairs and area directors. We have a Standards Council and Grid Forum Steering Group meeting this week (tomorrow) to discuss our session requests, which have to be finalized soon, as we expect the hotel meeting space to be very much in demand due to the ongoing multiple events. Please communicate with your group and area directors. Don't forget to register at the link below, and we look forward to seeing you in Chicago! http://ogf.org/OGF36/registration.php Alan Alan Sill 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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Reminder: OGF Public Comment period open for "An XACML Attribute and Obligation Profile for Authorization Interoperability in Grids"
by Sill, Alan 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

Dear OGF community, As a reminder, public comments for the document: An XACML Attribute and Obligation Profile for Authorization Interoperability in Grids are now open and due by September 28, 2012. We appreciate your attention to this document. Link: http://ogf.org/gf/docs/comment.php?id=389 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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New document published: Firewall Traversal Protocol
by Greg Newby 20 Aug '12

20 Aug '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.196 "Firewall Traversal Protocol (FiTP)," R. Niederberger via the Inffrastructure FVGA-WG. Abstract: Firewalls control traffic flows between internal and external communication partners. Mostly traffic from inside to outside is allowed, but traffic coming from outside must be explicitly configured. The rules which packets may traverse the firewall and which not are normally configured manually by firewall administrators. To speed up such kind of access list changes, it would be desirable to dynamically signal access requests and automatically change those access lists. Though some protocols are inspectable by firewalls already like FTP, SIP and H.323, a general protocol, which could be used for signaling dynamically required access rules, is not available until now. This paper proposes a standard protocol, which would allow such signaling in a secure manner. Firewalls which have installed a corresponding inspection module could be configured automatically, which would ease the configuration of such systems a lot. The proposed protocol (FiTP) can be used in two ways. First of all, a firewall aware of FiTP, could automatically allow connections signaled by authorized users. Secondly, an intermediate solution could be implemented, so that firewalls unaware of FiTP could be configured by the server process, which is the end point of the FiTP control connection. Via this approach a smooth transition would be possible. Installations having old firewall hard- and/or software could use the new protocol already, before installing a system which is FiTP enabled. -- 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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US NIST SAJACC interest group meeting and restart Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2:00-2:30 pm EST
by Sill, Alan 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

Dear all OGF working groups, Apologies for the spam if you receive this in more than one place. Those of you working in US settings, or who have an interest in following or participating the US government's ongoing cloud computing roadmap standards project organized by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), for which participation is open to all interested parties, may be interested in the cloud testing activities described below, or in one or more of the associated interoperability testing projects. I would like to see good participation and effort from all portions of the OGF standards community in these and/or similar efforts in other settings, and encourage you to register and to participate. We have already pointed out the EGI Federated Cloud task force, for example (http://www.egi.eu/infrastructure/cloud/) Beyond this, don't forget the upcoming deadlines to register for the OGF 36 and co-located IEEE eScience 2012 conference in Chicago - http://ogf.org/OGF36 - look forward to seeing you there! Alan Begin forwarded message: From: "Sill, Alan" <alan.sill(a)ttu.edu> Subject: NIST SAJACC interest group meeting and restart Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2:00-2:30 pm EST Date: August 17, 2012 2:30:32 PM CDT To: "cc_sajacc(a)nist.gov" <cc_sajacc(a)nist.gov> Cc: "Sill, Alan" <alan.sill(a)ttu.edu>, David Bernstein <david(a)cloudstrategypartners.com>, deepak vij <dvij_sj12(a)yahoo.com>, "Cloud Plugfest Planners" <planners(a)cloudplugfest.org>, "cmwg(a)dmtf.org" <cmwg(a)dmtf.org>, "occi-wg(a)ogf.org" <occi-wg(a)ogf.org> Dear NIST SAJACC working group, After much discussion with many interested parties, and some delays due to trying to get all of the support infrastructures in place for continued activity, I would like to propose to the group to restart some of the activities of the SAJACC group in use case definition and testing, with the goal of moving these activities beyond their initial atomic-level testing to include expanded and broader use case testing. NIST SAJACC interest group meeting Tuesday, Aug. 21 2012, 2:00-2:30 pm EST Join by Phone +1 (855) 834-4888 - Toll-free Conference ID: 34801340 The URL for the web conference tool for the meeting is: http://webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/sajacc In proposing this, I am aware especially of the presence of new resources and projects that will enable us to test cloud use cases at a higher level, and with more emphasis on broader-scale interoperability and standards testing. In particular, here are a few examples. It should also be said that this restart effort has the approval and support of NIST people involved in the previous effort, and that we will make every effort to continue the previous good organizational and participation guidelines and principles. -- The IEEE has a new inter-cloud testbed that is being created to support the p2301 and p2302 efforts. -- OGF, ETSI and SNIA are cooperating on the new "Cloud Plugfest" series (http://cloudplugfest.org) which is on its 6th event iteration and continues with ETSI providing formal testing tools and logistical support to the ongoing testing series. -- The National Science Foundation supports the FutureGrid project,which is led by Indiana University with several US universities and large-scale computing centers (University of Chicago, University of Florida, San Diego Supercomputing Center, Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Virginia,University of Tennessee, University of Southern California, Dresden, Purdue University, and Grid 5000) as partner sites. In this context we have proposed and had approved a Cloud Interoperability Testbed project, which is open for all interested parties to join. (https://portal.futuregrid.org/projects/176) -- The National Science Foundation has also funded an industry-supported Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC), led by the University of Florida and with current sites at the University of Arizona; Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and Mississippi State University and with site memberships under consideration at three other universities (Texas Tech University, the Univ. of Chicago and Indiana U.) with approval currently pending. (http://nsfcac.org) We intend to support the ongoing activities for SAJACC under the umbrella of the CAC if these projects are approved. Beyond this, there are interoperability efforts going on in several standards organizations, including the ITU-T, ISO, DMTF, OGF, ETSI, SNIA and related organizations such as the Cloud Standards Customer Council, Cloud Security Alliance, etc. that would merit our attention. I believe that it would be an ongoing service to the community to leverage the above activities in a way similar to the previous SAJACC efforts in order to define, describe, conduct (where possible), communicate, disseminate and document cloud interoperability efforts where they are relevant to the NIST cloud computing standards project mission. To do this, I would like to propose that we schedule an interest meeting to take place in the usual (though not recently used!) SAJACC meeting time of 2:00 pm Tuesday, Aug 21, with the goal of starting monthly or bi-weekly meetings of the full SAJACC group thereafter. To register for access to the NIST SAJACC working group TWiki and e-mail list, if you are new to this effort, please see the information and fill out the sign-up form by checking the "SAJACC" box at http://www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/workinggroups.cfm Other information: the NIST Cloud Computing web site is http://www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/ The SAJACC group information page is http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-cloud-computing/bin/view/CloudComputing/S… Further information on testing tools and access to related cooperating projects as discussed above will be given at the organizational interest meeting. If you have an interest in presenting any information at the meeting, please let me know. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me using the details below. I look forward to any and all input on this important topic. Please distribute this message as appropriate to any other interested parties, and I look forward to our conversation during the SAJACC meeting next Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2:00-2:30 pm EST. 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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Cloud Interoperability Testbed and EGI Federated Clouds Task Force projects, Cloud Plugfest series
by Sill, Alan 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

Dear OGF colleagues, I would like to invite further participation from OGF WG members, individually or collectively, in the following projects, each of which is a great forum for demonstrating OCCI and other OGF cloud-relevant standards, and are great places to get involved in cloud interoperability work in general. OGF has contact with, but does not (on purpose) completely control any of these projects - that's the whole point of interoperability, right? Other suggestions on how we can better organize our work on Cloud Interoperability after the successful BOF at OGF 34 (and some significant work on each of the above projects since then) would be welcome. Please get involved! - FutureGrid Cloud Interoperability Testbed: https://portal.futuregrid.org/projects/176 - EGI Federated Clouds Task Force: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Fedcloud-tf:FederatedCloudsTaskForce - Ongoing Cloud Plugfest series (last one held just prior to OGF 35): http://cloudplugfest.org 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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OGF36 is coming to Chicago!
by Sill, Alan 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

Dear OGF working group members, Please see the message below, which has also been sent to an extensive list of past and current OGF participants. A dedicated team of volunteers has been working hard to prepare a set or events at eScience and OGF 36 that I think you will enjoy. As many of you know who are working on our current standards, this is the time to step up to make the world aware of our work on standards for distributed computing, to develop these standards and to implement them in practice in important settings. OGF has accomplished a great deal. Now is the time to capitalize on this work, reconstitute it and to move forward. We urge you to make use of the details below to plan to attend OGF 36 in Chicago, Oct. 8-10 2012, and to join us between now and then in planning this event. Please contact your fellow working group members, chairs and area directors, and see the notes below for important tips on how to save yourself money on the combined OGF and eScience registration, and also by registering early to get the best possible overall rates. We look forward to seeing all of you in Chicago. Please do also pass this information on to interested colleagues. Alan Sill Vice President of Standards Open Grid Forum ------------------------------ Dear OGF Alum: You may not have attended an Open Grid Forum (OGF) event in a long time, but many of the standards that we have worked to achieve—from Grids to Clouds to Networking—are now in production. Open Grid Forum (OGF) events have brought our diverse community together, allowing us to communicate ideas and share our work. OGF will be holding its 36th conference from 8 to 10 October, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. Chicago is beautiful in October, and the city is one of the largest international hubs in the United States, offering easy access from anywhere in North America or Europe. Conference themes include: • Clouds & Cloud Standards • OGF Standards and Profiles in Production (for example in XSEDE): o JSDL, DRMAA o OGSA stack (OGSA-WSRF BP, OGSA BSP) o HPC Basic Profile, HPC File Staging Extensions o RNS, ByteIO, gridFTP, SRM o SAGA o VOMS, WS-Agreement • Networking • New work in clouds, production grid interoperability, delegation, networking, and so on. OGF36 is being held in conjunction with the 8th IEEE International eScience Conference, offering a rare opportunity to bring together the global community—representatives from business, governmental, scientific, and academic organizations—in an open forum for ideas and discussion. We encourage you to join us in Chicago for a chance to find out how OGF standards have been implemented, reunite with old colleagues, meet possible collaborators, and learn about new innovations. The registration form, as well as the detailed schedule, containing information about the speakers and programs can be found on the OGF website (http://www.ogf.org/OGF36/) NOTE: If you are also attending the 8th iEEE eScience Conference, remember to enter the OGF36 Discount Code, OGF36, to receive $100 off of your registration costs. See you in Chicago. Gina L. Corell, Ph.D. Communications Director The University of Virginia Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering UVACSE 434-243-1107 http://www.uvacse.virginia.edu/ _______________________________________________ ogf-alumni mailing list ogf-alumni(a)ogf.org<mailto:ogf-alumni@ogf.org> https://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-alumni

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