March 2013 - wg-all - lists.ogf.org

New document in public comment: Grid Certificate Profile
by Greg Newby 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

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, of course, welcome. All documents in public comment are accessible here: http://redmine.ogf.org/projects/editor-pubcom/boards Note that this is an updated location, using OGF's new Redmine tracker system. Anyone may register for a Redmine username. There were a few problems with the trackers last week, but they have been addressed. Please let me know if you encounter troubles or anomalies viewing the documents, or submitting comments. This document is newly available for public comment: * Grid Certificate Profile, recommendation track document, via CAOPS-WG These documents were previously made available for public comment: * Usage Record 2.0, recommendations track document, via Usage Record WG * NML Base Schema version 1, recommendations track document, via Network Markup Language WG -- 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: gbnewby(a)alaska.edu v: 907-450-8663 f: 907-450-8603 w: people.arsc.edu/~newby >

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Invitation to participate in Workshop on Autonomic Management of Grid and Cloud Computing (co-sponsored by OGF)
by Sill, Alan 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Pursuant to the message sent yesterday on upcoming events, please see the attached call for papers for one of the workshops - AMGCC'13. OGF has agreed to be a media co-sponsor of this workshop, along with KISTI, who are the primary organizers. Best regards, Alan Alan Sill, Ph.D Vice President of Standards, Open Grid Forum

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OGF 38 and 39 and OGF events in June, July, August and September 2013
by Sill, Alan 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

Dear OGF colleagues, This is a slightly long message that I hope will be full of information. I am writing to bring you up to date on OGF events in the summer and early fall timeframe. Due to an incredible amount of activity on the part of our very active community, there are events that span many different venues in June, July, August and September in Europe and the US that follow hard on the heels of a productive spring at OGF 37 in Virginia and ISGC 2013 in Taipei and the upcoming EGI Community Forum April 8-12 in Manchester, UK. OGF 38 will be split between two different venues, with the networking and infrastructure groups attending the Terena Networking Conference (TNC2013) June 3-6 in Maastricht, Netherlands and XSEDE 2013 to take place July 22-25 in San Diego, California. In addition, there are two other events of interest roughly in this timeframe. TNC2013 - https://tnc2013.terena.org - will be hosted by SURFnet, the Dutch National Research and Education Network, and will be followed immediately with a special OGF/GLIF working meeting to take place Thursday afternoon June 6 and Friday morning June 7 in the same venue. We expect a very large portion of our networking community to take advantage of this opportunity and to be present for these multiple events. In addition, many topics in Maastricht to be covered by TNC2013 are of interest to our Federated Security and identity management working groups. There are discussions taking place about a special meeting there, or a gathering of OGF attendees who will also be present at TNC2013. If you are interested in the latter topics, please contact our Security Area Director, Jens Jensen. We expect this to be an extremely attractive venue for those interested in the specific topics covered by the TNC. XSEDE 2013 - https://www.xsede.org/web/xsede13 - will be the location for the bulk of the rest of the OGF 38 meetings. The XSEDE conference will be a large, richly varied one with events covering the range of tutorials, keynotes, student presentations of papers and posters, a visualization showcase and extensive job fair, biosciences day, events on scientific gateways, and a variety of science, technology, and Education/Outreach tracks. OGF meetings will have their own track and it will be possible for OGF attendees to participate in XSEDE track sessions and vice versa. This is a premium scientific event that should serve as a venue for direct engagement between OGF and important elements of our constituent and user communities. We strongly recommend that you register for either or both of the above portions of the OGF 38 event and take advantage of these extremely attractive opportunities to interact with your colleagues. Organizers at each of these events will be on hand to coordinate the OGF sessions and to help you interact with your OGF colleagues in an organized manner as we make progress on OGF work group tasks and items. These events will be followed by two other smaller but hopefully also very productive related activities of the community that are co-sponsored by OGF. The first of these is the next in our continuing series of Cloud Plugfest events - http://cloudplugfest.org - that will take place at the DMTF Alliance Partners Technical Symposium (APTS) July 22-26 in Portland, Oregon. While the first portion of this week overlaps with XSEDE 2013, remote options for attendance will be available, and the week will conclude with interoperability demonstrations that will highlight the progress of DMTF in achieving interoperability of its specifications with those of other standards organizations with which we also have ongoing interoperability demonstrations. This event will be of interest to our cloud-related working groups and should give a direct opportunity for comparison of work among various cloud-related standards working groups. The second of the summer special events is a special workshop on Autonomic Management of Grid and Cloud Computing (AMGCC’13)- http://acm-cac2013.cis.fiu.edu/workshop.shtm - to take place August 5, 2013 as part of the ACM Cloud and Autonomic Computing Conference August 5-9 in Miami, Florida. This workshop has an organizing committee that includes several prominent members of the OGF community, and is focused on topics of deep relevance to the conduct and inter-relationships between the cloud and grid communities. While the deadline for papers for the ACM CAC conference itself is nearly upon us (March 25), there is still a considerable window for submission of papers to the AMGCC’13 workshop, with papers due April 30, 2013. Please look over the topics of the workshop at http://htcaas.kisti.re.kr/index.php/AMGCC13 and consider a submission. Finally, it is not at all too early to make your plans and mark your calendars for the fall! OGF 39 will take place at the EGI Technical Forum September 16-20 in Madrid, Spain and will also be the location for another in our series of Cloud Plugfest interoperability events. This event will bring together a huge range of technical and implementation projects along with a community of users in a rich variety of topics. OGF has recently concluded negotiations with ETSI, SNIA and the OCEAN interoperability project to host a Cloud Plugfest as part of a joint Cloud Interoperability Week to take place at and be co-located with the EGI TF. We also expect to carry out a full OGF event there, with working group meetings and interactive demos and tutorials, and community events to take full advantage of the opportunity to interact with the EGI technical community. This should be a large and active event. We will keep you apprised of web sites and deadlines as they become available. For those of you in portions of the globe that are not covered by the above events, we invite information on opportunities to locate a full OGF or events and workshops that we can draw to the attention of the community that can give us opportunities to gather to pursue productive work on topics of interest. Please help us keep our calendar as full as the upcoming months promise to be! Best regards, Alan Sill VP of Standards, OGF on behalf of the GFSG

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Reminder to upload your talks and materials for OGF 37
by Sill, Alan 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Area directors, group chairs and organizers for the last OGF conference: Please upload your slides and talk materials as appropriate to the OGF 37 pages. If you have difficulty doing this, please contact Andre or myself and we can get these uploaded. We are in the process of working on a way to replace these pages with ones that are based on the new OGF tool set. Meanwhile many of our colleagues and your group members do find it convenient to look over slides and presentations and other material from the OGF meetings - which I found very productive this last time especially, so there is good reason for you to take action on this. Again, please feel free to ask for help if you need it to get these posted. Alan and Andre

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Reminder: Procedure for Public Comments - OGF Redmine
by Sill, Alan 18 Mar '13

18 Mar '13

Dear OGF working group and community group members, This is just a community reminder that we have moved our Public Comment process to the OGF Redmine. Currently we have three documents in public comment: Usage Record 2.0 (Recommendations Track) https://redmine.ogf.org/projects/editor-pubcom/boards/2 NML Base Schema Version 1 (Recommendations Track) https://redmine.ogf.org/projects/editor-pubcom/boards/3 Grid Certificate Profile (Recommendations Track [update]) https://redmine.ogf.org/projects/editor-pubcom/boards/8 The location of the public comments area in general, as now linked on the OGF web site, is: https://redmine.ogf.org/projects/editor-pubcom/boards Each public comment forum has an initial entry that gives the public comment period closing date, and if you click on that entry, will have within it a link to the document itself as well as an abstract and a link to follow to enter your comments. An account on the OGF Redmine is required to enter comments; these are free and you can log on if needed through a variety of social media login methods, as well as by creating an account directly. Any OGF member or in fact any person willing to sign up for an OGF Redmine account can submit comments to any forum. For people who wish to remain anonymous, please send your comments to public_comments(a)ogf.org -- they will be added to the respective forum anonymously. Further guidelines for use are contained in an overall message at the top level of the public comment forums area: https://redmine.ogf.org/boards/7/topics/5 Thanks for reading these documents, and for your comments, which will help to improve them further. Alan ------- Alan Sill, Ph.D Vice President of Standards, Open Grid Forum Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center Adjunct Professor of Physics, TTU

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GridForge in ReadOnly mode...
by OGF IT 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

GridForge retires! After years of service, our all-beloved GridForge [1] has been put into ReadOnly mode. All group operations are now moved to our Redmine installation [2]. Please contact OGF support at it(a)ogf.org if you need further details, or if you need access to non-public parts of GridForge. [1] : http://forge.ogf.org/ [1] : http://redmine.ogf.org/ --

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New documents in public comment: Usage Record 2.0 and NML Base Schema
by Greg Newby 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Dear OGF members and affiliates: Two new documents have 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://redmine.ogf.org/projects/editor-pubcom/boards Note that this is an updated location, using the new Redmine tracker system. Anyone may register for a Redmine username. These documents hav been newly added for public comment: * Usage Record 2.0, recommendations track document, via Usage Record WG * NML Base Schema version 1, recommendations track document, via Network Markup Language WG -- 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: gbnewby(a)alaska.edu v: 907-450-8663 f: 907-450-8603 w: people.arsc.edu/~newby

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PLEASE READ: OGF37 REMINDER AND INTERNET CONNECTION DETAILS
by OGF Events 03 Mar '13

03 Mar '13

OGF37 : Monday March 11, 2013 - Wednesday March 13, 2013 Greetings from Charlottesville! OGF37 is upon us...just one more week to go! Open Grid Forum’s 37th conference, the first one of 2013, will be held March 11-13 at the University of Virginia (UVA) Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. For those of you that have already registered, we are looking forward to welcoming you all to Charlottesville and to another OGF event. For those of you that haven’t registered, we just wanted to remind you that the full/regular registration deadline is fast approaching and will close on Thursday 7th March , 2013. The registration form and the detailed schedule, containing information about the speakers and programs can be found on the official OGF37 website (http://www.ogf.org/OGF37/) Please note that the on-site registration prices will begin on March 8th and end on March 14th, 2013. Don’t forget to also register for your free seat at the OGF reception at Monticello via http://www.uvacse.virginia.edu/events/open-grid-forum-monitcello-tour-and-r… OGF37 : Internet Connection Announcement All participants will be provided with wireless guest account pin codes, which will enable their access to UVA's wireless accounts throughout the duration of the conference. Those presenting demos and/or tutorials will also be granted access to UVA's wired accounts (as well as wireless accounts). However, those intending on bringing laptops as well, please note that we have VGA and HDMI connections and not all adapters are compatible with our system. Therefore we suggest that you back up all presentations on a flash drive (hence the information can be copied- not moved- to the UA desktop's provided) and if at all possible, please send a copy of your presentation to Gina Corell (glc2z(a)virginia.edu) or Kurleen John (kkj5p(a)virginia.edu) by Wednesday, March 6th 2013 so that preparations may be made before the event. See you at OGF37! Warmest Regards, The OGF Board

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