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Registration and Call for Session Proposals for OGF 40, 15-17 January 2014, Oxford, UK
by Sill, Alan 27 Dec '13

27 Dec '13

The 40th gathering of the Open Grid Forum will be held Wednesday, 15 January through Friday, 17 January 2014 on the campus of Oxford University in the United Kingdom. The Oxford e-Research Centre is helping to coordinate arrangements for this meeting. This meeting will follow closely after meetings earlier in the week of the EGI Federated Cloud project and will be closely scheduled to be convenient to attendees of the EUGridPMA and SCI groups to be held in Abingdon, no far away. We encourage all OGF working groups to meet. Registration for OGF-40 is open now. The OGF-40 program committee encourages the submission of session requests and proposals to supplement the program for the meeting. These may include, but are not limited to the following: • OGF Chartered Group Sessions • Birds of a Feather (BoF) Sessions • Tutorials • Interop / plugfest sessions • Federated Identity and Delegation • Data/Storage • 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 Information on registration, travel, lodging, and the Call for Session Proposals is available on the OGF web site at http://ogf.org or directly at the following link: http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-40

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New document published: SAGA API Bindings: Python
by Greg Newby 24 Dec '13

24 Dec '13

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/dokuwiki/doku.php/documents/documents Note that the OGF site is undergoing transition, and the link might change. You can always get to the documents page via a link on the main page at www.ogf.org. This also links to public comments, for any documents in public comment. * GFD-R-P.211, SAGA API Bindings: Python. A. Merzky, M. Santcroos, S. Fisher, O. Weidner via SAGA-WG. Abstract: This document provides information to the grid community, proposing a standard for a Python language binding to the Simple API for Grid Applications (SAGA). As a SAGA language binding, it depends upon the SAGA Core API Specication, the currently defined SAGA API extension packages and on the draft Resource API Extension. -- 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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New document published: European Middleware Initiative Execution Service – v2.0
by Greg Newby 24 Dec '13

24 Dec '13

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/dokuwiki/doku.php/documents/documents Note that the OGF site is undergoing transition, and the link might change. You can always get to the documents page via a link on the main page at www.ogf.org. This also links to public comments, for any documents in public comment. * GFD-I.210: European Middleware Initiative Execution Service – Version 2.0. M. Riedel, A. Konstantinov via PGI-WG. Abstract: The Production Grid Infrastructure (PGI) working group works on a well - defined set of standard profiles, and additional standard specifications if needed, for job and data management that are aligned with a Grid security and information model that addresses the needs of production Grid infrastructures. These needs have been identified in various international endeavors and are in many cases based on lessons learned obtained from the numerous activities in the Grid Interoperation Now (GIN) community group. Therefore, PGI can be considered as a spin-off activity of the GIN group in order to feed back any experience of using early versions of open standards (e.g. BES, JSDL, SRM, GLUE2, UR, etc.) in Grid production setups to improve the standards wherever possible. This particular document captures the a reasonable stable draft of the execution service specification of the European Middleware Initiative (EMI) that has been created based on many identified PGI concepts. A complementary implementation of this draft specification is provided by the EMI project including adoptions in ARC, gLite, and UNICORE. The goal of this document is to capture community practice and to have a foundation for a set of important standard specification updates to be addressed by the PGI set of profiles and/ or specifications of the corresponding related groups (e.g. BES, JSDL, etc.) -- 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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New document published: GLUE v. 2.0 - Reference Realization to XML Schema
by Greg Newby 24 Dec '13

24 Dec '13

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/dokuwiki/doku.php/documents/documents Note that the OGF site is undergoing transition, and the link might change. You can always get to the documents page via a link on the main page at www.ogf.org. This also links to public comments, for any documents in public comment. * GFD-R-P.209. GLUE v. 2.0 Reference Realization to XML Schema. S. Andreozzi and others, via GLUE-WG. Abstract: The GLUE 2 specification is an information model for Grid entities described in natural language enriched with a graphical representation using UML Class Diagrams. This document presents a realization of this information model as XML 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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Registration for OGF 40, 15-17 Jan 2014 in Oxford, UK
by Sill, Alan 17 Dec '13

17 Dec '13

Attention OGF participants! Registration for OGF 40, to be held 15-17 January 2014 in Oxford, UK is NOW OPEN! Registration Rates • Full Conference - £250.00 • Single Day - £125.00 per day The event starts at 9.00 on 15th January 2014 and finishes at 14.00 on 17th January 2014. Please register now at http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-40/registration Further information including a link to the Call for Session Proposals is online also at http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-40 We look forward to seeing everyone there in Oxford, and please register now!

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