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

New document published: On-Demand Infrastructure Services Provisioning Best Practices
by Greg Newby 17 Sep '13

17 Sep '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/gf/docs/ * GFD-CP.208 "On-Demand Infrastructure Services Provisioning Best Practices" P. Brzozwski, S. Campbell, T. Coulouarn, Y. Demchenko, F. Dijkstra, M. Giertych, JAG. Espin, E. Grasa, C. Guok, J. vd. Ham, R. Krzywania, T. Kudoh, M. Lemay, A. Takefusa, A. Willner, Y. Xin, via ISOD-WG Abstract: Abstract: The aim of this document is to provide an overview of best practices in on-demand provisioning of infrastructure services that includes both traditional Network Resources Provisioning Systems (NRPS) and emerging Cloud based infrastructure services. These provisioning processes must be both sufficiently explicit and flexible to dynamically instantiate complex task or project oriented infrastructures comprising of compute, storage, and application resources, as well network infrastructures interconnect them. The proposed document summarises discussions among members of the OGF ISoD Research Group and aims to facilitate conversations on achieving interoperability, and effective use and development of modern and future infrastructure services provisioning systems. -- 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: Network Markup Language Base Schema version 1
by Greg Newby 17 Sep '13

17 Sep '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/gf/docs/ * GFD-R-P.206 "Network Markup Language Base Schema version 1" J. vd. Ham, F. Dijkstra, R. Łapacz, J. Zurawski, via NML-WG Abstract: This document describes a set of normative schemas which allow the description of computer network topologies. -- 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: Activity Instance Description Specification, Version 1.0
by Greg Newby 17 Sep '13

17 Sep '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/gf/docs/ * GFD-R-P.203 "Activity Instance Description Specification, Version 1.0." P. Wieder, A. Papaspryou, A. Savva, D. Fellows, via JSDL-WG Abstract: The purpose of this document is to specify the syntax and semantics of the Activity Instance Description. An "activity", in this context, is a unit of work to be executed on a distributed system. It can be a job, a task, a data processing operation, a data access operation, an application execution, a program execution or a Web Service invocation. The Activity Instance Description captures the information related to this unit of work. Systems built based on this specification can provide a holistic view of an activity, for example for monitoring, auditing or checkpointing purposes. The specification pursues two different but complementary objectives: (i) it specifies a generic and extensible framework to capture the information related to an activity; and (ii) it specializes this generic framework using a number of Open Grid Forum specifications. -- 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 documents in public comment
by Greg Newby 16 Sep '13

16 Sep '13

Dear OGF Community: 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, 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. These documents are newly available for public comment: * DFDL v1.0 Revision, recommendation track, via DFDL-WG * DFDL v1.0 Experience, experimental track, via DFDL-WG * DFDL v1.0 Rev. Experience, experimental track, via DFDL-WG This document was previously made available for public comment, and is still available for comment: * Grid Certificate Profile, recommendation track, via CAOPS-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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New document published: Usage Record - Format Recommendation [Obsoletes GFD.98]
by Greg Newby 16 Sep '13

16 Sep '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/gf/docs/ * GFD-R-P.204 " Usage Record - Format Recommendation." A. Cristofori, J. K. Nilsen, J. Gordon, M. Jones, J. A. Kennedy, R. Müller-Pfefferkorn. Via UR-WG. This document obsoletes #GFD.98 Abstract: For resources to be shared, sites must be able to exchange basic accounting and usage data in a common format. This document describes a common format which enables the exchange of basic accounting and usage data from different resources. This record format is intended to facilitate the sharing of usage information, particularly in the area of the accounting of jobs, computing, memory, storage and cloud usage but with a structure that allows an easy extension to other resources. This document describes the Usage Record components both in natural language form and annotated XML. This document does not address how these records should be used, nor does it attempt to dictate the format in which the accounting records are stored. Instead, it defines a common exchange format. Furthermore, nothing is said regarding the communication mechanisms employed to exchange the records, i.e. transport layer, framing, authentication, integrity, 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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OGF 39 session schedule, Cloud Plugfest / Cloud Interoperability Week workshop and tutorial sessions at EGI Technical Forum 2013
by Sill, Alan 11 Sep '13

11 Sep '13

Dear OGF working group members, The full set of OGF 39 sessions is now posted as part of the online schedule for all sessions at the EGI Technical Forum 2013 next week, 16-20 September 2013, in Madrid. Please check for your sessions sung the online link: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=1417#all Those who are attending EGI TF 2013 in person can also download the Conference4Me app at http://conference4me.eu/download (available for iOS or Android), from which you will be able to browse the complete program and select and organize your own session agenda. For more information on this, see the EGI TF page on this topic at http://tf2013.egi.eu/programme/ During the week OGF will also be co-sponsoring a major event, the Cloud Interoperability Week, consisting of sessions held Monday through Wednesday at the SNIA Storage Developers Conference in Santa Clara, California and a workshop, tutorials and testing sessions held Wednesday through Friday at the EGI TF 2013 in Madrid. OGF is working with a number of important standards organizations as well as the OW2 open source community and the OCEAN FP7 project to carry out this week of interoperability activities. The workshop and tutorial agendas are online on the CloudPlugfest.org site at the links below: http://www.cloudplugfest.org/cloud-interoperability-week/workshop There will be tutorials on installing and running five different OCCI-enabled cloud software stacks -- CompatibleOne, ProActive, CloudStack, OpenNebula and OpenStack and managing them through OCCI tools during the tutorial sessions on Thursday, for which the agenda is as follows: http://www.cloudplugfest.org/cloud-interoperability-week/detailed-program (This is after most of the EGI TF sessions and after the OGF 39 ones, so we hope that most of you will be able to attend if you are interested in hands-on experiences with experts on each of these software stacks.) Attendance at these Cloud Plugfest sessions is free for those who have already registered through cloudplugfest.org separately, or for those who are registered to attend the EGI Technical Forum. Please let me, Andre Merzky, or Andrew Grimshaw know if you have any questions on the OGF 39 sessions or on our co-located activities. We look forward to seeing all of you from OGF who are in attendance at the EGI TF and OGF 39 next week! Alan Sill VP of Standards, OGF

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