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

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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One document concluding Public Comment by the end of this week - please comment! Plus OGF 36 plans and other news
by Sill, Alan 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

Dear colleagues, The AuthZ Interop document concludes its public comment period at the end of this week, and has received only couple of comments so far: http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/comment.php?id=389 Please read this and consider any comments you might wish to provide by the end of the public comment period, Sept. 28. Beyond this, we look forward to seeing many of you out at the OGF 36 / IEEE e-Science / Microsoft e-Science / GLIF meetings coming up only two weeks from now in Chicago. The schedule is online at the following link: http://ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/index.php?event_id=25 We do have one or two other sessions that are being considered for addition to the Monday afternoon portion of the schedule, so please do check this page when you arrive to find out the latest updates. The sessions being considered include an introduction to the new OGF Redmine tools and options for improving and streamlining the OGF document production and review processes. (A tutorial about these procedures, which replaces the "OGF 101" usual introductory talk, is already scheduled right after the opening session as an aid for newcomers. These other sessions would augment this discussion to be designed for input and feedback, feature requests, community suggestions, etc., as well as exploration of the tools in more detail.) Other OGF News: Other OGF-related events are coming up, about which we will be sending you details shortly. We depend on energy and input from all of OGF to produce the best possible value and output for our community. We always get great feedback from others outside of OGF when they see the high quality of work that is produced by OGF, and are always looking for ways to improve our methods of communication and our output. If you don't have an OGF Redmine account yet, this system will be used to replace our SourceForge-based GridForge shortly, so please do sign up for an account on the new system at: http://redmine.ogf.org In addition to allowing us to leave large numbers of non-users of OGF who had accounts on the old system behind, the new system has many modern features to provide more or less the same functionality that we had in the old system with new tools, such as git repositories, an easier-to-use issue tracker, better integration with mailing lists, etc. We are also getting (great!) support for this for new groups and for old groups to transition to the new system from Andre Merzky in our OGF Operations team - so there is really no reason to delay if you have not already moved to the new OGF Redmine. We look forward to seeing everyone at OGF 36 in Chicago, and/or at future events, on the new tools and on the OGF working group lists! Yours sincerely, 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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JOGC Special Issue - Cloud Interoperability, Federation, Frameworks and APIs
by Sill, Alan 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

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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Upstream domain name services provider problem for ogf.org domains
by Sill, Alan 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

Dear OGF work group members, Melissa Osner and Andre Merzky from our OGF operations team have alerted us to the fact that there are problems with the domain name resolution for our ogf.org domains at the present time. This is just a note to let you know that we are aware of the problem. This appears to be a problem with our upstream DNS provider. The OGF web and mail services are still running and service should be restored to normal once the upstream provider resolves their problems. Those curious about the status can check the following link. http://www.facebook.com/MonikerSnap/posts/443546375698105 or just wait for services to be returned. If the outage is extended, we will look into alternatives for providing access. Alan Sill

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New document published: Example set of DFDL 1.0 properties
by Greg Newby 07 Sep '12

07 Sep '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-I.197 "Example set of DFDL 1.0 properties." S. Hanson via the DFDL-WG Abstract: This document provides a set of DFDL properties that can be used as defaults for creating DFDL schema. -- 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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OGF36 Early Registration Deadline is Saturday, 8 September 2012
by Andre Merzky 05 Sep '12

05 Sep '12

Dear OGF Community: OGF36 is almost a month away, and the early registration deadline expires after Saturday, 8 September 2012. To take advantage of the discounted registration fees, register now through this URL: http://www.ogf.org/OGF36/registration.php We have a terrific schedule of OGF group sessions and workshops. The preliminary schedule is available at URL: http://www.ogf.org/OGF36/schedule.php We would like to remind OGF group chairs and secretaries to schedule remaining session requests ASAP, as there are only about 10 free session slots remaining: http://www.ogf.org/OGF36/cfp.php OGF36 will be co-locating with several other events of interest: • GLIF All-hands meeting • eScience 2012 • Microsoft eScience Workshop This combined event is an opportunity to bring together our global community -- with representatives from business, governmental, scientific, and academic organizations- in an open forum for ideas and discussion. If you have already registered or are going to register to attend the IEEE eScience workshops and are now registering for OGF36, you are eligible for a $100 discount off of your OGF registration fee. Enter the OGF36 Discount Code: OGF36, when prompted after the registration type is selected on the OGF registration form. You will receive $100 off of your registration costs! We look forward to a very productive meeting. Additional OGF36 information is available at URL: http://www.ogf.org/OGF36/ See you in Chicago!

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