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Reminder: Call for Session Proposals - OGF 38 sessions at XSEDE 13, July 22-25, 2013, in San Diego, California
by OGF Events 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

Dear OGF working group members, OGF-38b will be co-located with the XSEDE 13 conference, July 22-25, 2013, in San Diego, California, USA. http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-38b/ The OGF-38b program committee seeks active participation from the community, and encourages the submission of session proposals that may include (but are not limited to) the following topics: - 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 Infrastrucutre - OGF Chartered Group Sessions - Birds of a Feather (BoF) Sessions There will be no separate charge or registration for OGF. OGF is currently slated to have a single track of rooms, and we will organize session requests to make best use of this track. If necessary, we can pursue additional rooms, but would first like to see the expected turnout and utilization for the space we have reserved. Please get your requests in as soon as is reasonable so that we can determine if more than one track is needed. Please select the most appropriate session type for your proposal, whether it is a "Workshop", "Presentation", "OGF Chartered Group", "OGF Birds of a Feather" or "OGF Area Meeting". The link to the call for session requests response is on the page linked below. Please contact us at events(a)ogf.org if you have any questions. http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-38b/call_for_session_propos… Regards, Andrew Grimshaw Chair, OGF Board

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New document in public comment: EMI Execution Service
by Greg Newby 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '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. This document is newly available for public comment: * EMI Execution Service, informational track, via PGI-WG These documents were previously made available for public comment, and are still available for comment: * ISOD Service Provisioning, community practice, via ISOD-RG * GLUE v. 2.0 XML Schema, recommendation track, via GLUE-WG * SAGA Python Bindings, recommendation track, via SAGA-RG -- 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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Final call for papers: The first international workshop FedICI'2013, Federative and interoperable cloud infrastructures
by Sill, Alan 07 Jun '13

07 Jun '13

The first international workshop FedICI'2013 Federative and interoperable cloud infrastructures August 26 2013, Aachen, Germany organized in conjunction with Euro-Par 2013 Call for papers Workshop theme: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud systems allow the dynamic creation, destruction and management of Virtual Machines (VM) on virtualized clusters. IaaS clouds provide a high-level of abstraction to the end user that allows the creation of on-demand services through a pay as you go infrastructure combined with elasticity. As a result, many academic infrastructure service providers have started transitions to add cloud resources to their previously existing campus and shared grid deployments. To complete such solutions, they should also support the unification of multiple cloud and/or cloud and grid solutions in a seamless, preferably interoperable way. Hybrid, community or multi-clouds may utilize more than one cloud system, which are also called as a cloud federations. The management of such federations raise several challenges and open issues that require significant research work to be done in this area. This workshop will provide a dedicated forum for sharing the latest results, exchanging ideas and experiences, presenting new research, development and management of interoperable, federated IaaS cloud systems. The aim of the workshop is to help the community with defining the current state, determining further goals and presenting architectures and service frameworks to achieve highly interoperable federated cloud infrastructures. Priority will be given to submissions that focus on presenting solutions to interoperability and efficient management challenges faced by current and future infrastructure clouds. Selection will prioritize papers that document and present measured comparisons or practical information on realistic, real-world solutions. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation and relevance to the topics of interest. Scope: Papers may be submitted on any topic relevant to the theme of the workshop, including but not limited to: - Case studies of interoperable and federated solutions across multiple infrastructures including mixed grid and cloud systems - Application programming interfaces and standards for interoperability and federation - Federation-compatible service agreements, SLAs and quality of service systems - Virtual machine scheduling, management and deployment algorithms in federated systems (considering multi-objective solutions, scalability, energy efficiency etc.) - Accounting, identity management and security solutions that support federation-level models - Legal issues and data privacy in federated Cloud management - Performance evaluation, prediction and comparison of federated cloud systems - Storage management, focusing on interoperability and multi cloud placement - Novel IaaS architectures incorporating federative constructs in their foundations - Virtual appliance marketplaces and repositories meeting the demands and serving multi-cloud systems Authors are required to submit original, unpublished research or overviews on Federative and interoperable cloud infrastructures. Manuscripts should be limited to 10 pages in Springer LNCS format and submitted through the EasyChair submission system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fedici2013) Accepted papers that are presented at the workshop will be published in revised form in a special Euro-Par Workshop Volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series after the Euro-Par conference. Important dates: Deadline for paper submission: May 31, 2013 extended to June 10, 2013 Author notification: July 8, 2013 Camera ready paper due: July 28, 2013 Workshop: August 26, 2013 The program committee: Chair: Gabor Kecskemeti Co-chairs: Radu Prodan, Attila Kertesz, Attila Csaba Marosi Members: Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Eddy Caron, Salvatore Distefano, Gilles Fedak, Francesc Guim, Eduardo Huedo Cuesta, Daniele Lezzi, Nader Mohamed, Zsolt Nemeth, Ariel Oleksiak, Anne-Cecile Orgerie, Simon Ostermann, Dana Petcu, Ivan Rodero, Matthias Schmidt, Alan Sill, Gergely Sipos, Domenico Talia, Massimo Villari. Workshop webpage: http://www.dps.uibk.ac.at/~gabor/FedICI13/<http://www.dps.uibk.ac.at/%7Egabor/FedICI13/>

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