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OGF news, OGF NomCom and Fwd: SC14 Workshop Proposals due February 7th
by Sill, Alan 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

Dear OGF community, We had a terrific set of meetings over the three days of OGF 40 and associated meetings of the IGTF EUGridPMA and SCI working groups and EGI Federated Cloud that were co-located in Oxford or nearby in Abingdon Jan. 15-18. Much progress was made by all of the working groups that met there, and much benefit from the associated co-location. We expect to organize working group meetings also at the XSEDE 2014 conference and will be in touch with you about other meeting locations that have been discussed. The NSI-WG in particular will be looking for opportunities to take its newly completed work now in public comment into implementation and will be organizing sessions and engagement opportunities, we understand, at different conferences. The OCCI, GLUE and BES groups also continue to be very involved in implementation work and we are considering possible changes to the organization of OGF and its activities to further support such implementations in an even stronger way. To this end, please take note of the call for workshops at SuperComputing 2014, which is nearing its final deadline for proposals next week Friday, Feb. 7 2014. If you are doing work within OGF that needs to be exposed to a broad community for input and/or adoption, or if you are doing interesting work of any kind that would be appropriate for a workshop at SC'14, we hope you will respond. Please also feel free to call to our attention other opportunities of this kind to get our work (your work) into public view and to help people adopt and take appropriate advantage of your results. OGF will be happy to consider requests for co-locaing meetings and/or scheduling workshops (such as the successful Cloud Plugfest series) at conferences, or for hosting a stand-alone OGF meeting at your institution. Please contact me, Andre or the OGF Board chaired by Andrew Grimshaw or any member of the Grid Forum Steering Group with your suggestions and ideas. Finally, OGF has also formed a new Nominating Committee (NomCom) chaired by Andre Merzky with the charge to communicate with all of the current Area Directors and GFSG members, find places in which open positions now exist or may exist in the near future, make suggestions to the OGF Board for replacements and generally to make suggestions for improvement and tuning of the OGF community, research and working group structure. Please communicate with Andre at merzky dot net if you have any questions or would like to serve on the nominating committee. With best regards, Alan Sill VP of Standards Begin forwarded message: From: SC Newsletter <sc-newsletter(a)group.supercomputing.org<mailto:sc-newsletter@group.supercomputing.org>> Subject: SC14 Workshop Proposals due February 7th Date: January 31, 2014 at 2:28:32 PM CST To: SC Newsletter <sc-newsletter(a)group.supercomputing.org<mailto:sc-newsletter@group.supercomputing.org>> Reply-To: <sc-newsletter-leave(a)group.supercomputing.org<mailto:sc-newsletter-leave@group.supercomputing.org>> [SC14 Email Header]<http://sc14.supercomputing.org/> Workshop Submissions: Last Call! Proposals due Feb 7, 2014 Only 7 days left until the workshop submissions close on February 7! Submissions Site: https://submissions.supercomputing.org<https://submissions.supercomputing.org/> With almost 30 workshops hosted every year, the SC Workshop Program expands the knowledge base of practitioners and researchers in HPC by providing a focused, in-depth venue for presentations, discussion and interaction. Each workshop submission will be peer-reviewed with a focus on submissions that will inspire deep and interactive ideas in a variety of HPC topics. Workshops are an integral part in supporting the SC's technical program. We look forward to a new SC with the latest workshops available from our HPC community. For more information, please see: http://goo.gl/i6L4xP New in SC14, the Technical Program encourages submissions related to education, training and professional development to prepare a large and diverse HPC workforce. [http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5528/10930087474_4a07b2bb32.jpg] Upcoming Dates -Workshop Submission Deadline: February 7 -Notification of Workshop Acceptance: March 28 _______________________________________________ sc-newsletter mailing list sc-newsletter(a)group.supercomputing.org<mailto:sc-newsletter@group.supercomputing.org> http://lists.group.supercomputing.org/mailman/listinfo/sc-newsletter

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New document in public comment: Open Cloud Computing Interface - JSON Rendering
by Greg Newby 18 Jan '14

18 Jan '14

Dear OGF Community: 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: * Open Cloud Computing Interface - JSON Rendering. Recommendation track, via OCCI-WG. This document was available previously, and is still open to public commenet: * NSI Connection Service v2. Recommendation track, via NMI-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 in public comment: NSI Connection Service v2j
by Greg Newby 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Dear OGF Community: 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: * NSI Connection Service v2, Recommendation track, via NMI-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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OGF-40, calling in to OGF sessions
by OGF Events 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

We will be sharing selected WG sessions via google hangout -- please join at the URL listed in the event schedule, at http://www.ogf.org/

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Fwd: [Fedcloud-tf] Travel to the event
by OGF Events 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

Dear OGF participants, FYI, the travel advice below may still apply for travels to OGF-40 on Tuesday/Wednesday. Best regards, OGF event management. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Wallom <david.wallom(a)oerc.ox.ac.uk> Date: Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 4:33 PM Hello All, Due to localised flooding around Oxford I would recommend that attendees use the Oxford airline bus to get from airports to Oxford. The train is currently operating a significantly reduced service on the line to Oxford airport people would come in from and so could cause delays etc. Looking forward to seeing everyone next week. Regards David -- =========================================== Dr David Wallom Associate Director, Oxford eResearch Centre University of Oxford 7 Keble Road Oxford OX1 3QG UK Tel: 01865 610601 ===========================================

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Session Schedule for OGF-40
by OGF Events 09 Jan '14

09 Jan '14

Dear OGF members, the final session schedule for OGF-40 is now published at [1]. As announced before, you will find all other relevant meeting information at [2]. We look forward to meet you in Oxford next week! Best regards, your OGF. [1] http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-40/schedule [2] http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-40/

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The History of the Grid: Comments invited (via Ian Foster)
by Sill, Alan 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

Dear OGF colleagues, In addition to the message just sent regarding OGF 40 and the associated meetings in Oxford and nearby in Abingdon, we would like to call to your attention the following article and blog post by Ian Foster requesting comments regarding the history of the grid and asking for critiques and potential additions or corrections to this article. I am sure that both Ian and Carl would appreciate all responses to this request. For further information, please follow the links below. "The History of the Grid: Comments invited: Two years ago, Carl Kesselman and I published a rather lengthy paper that purports to recount the "history of the grid." (I. Foster, C. Kesselman, The History of the Grid (PDF), in Cloud Computing and Big Data, IOS Press, Amsterdam , 2013; 37 pages, 176 references). We believe that this paper includes useful material. We also know that it can be much improved, and to that end we plan a second edition. We invite suggestions for improvements. For example: What did we get wrong? What work did we forget to mention? What do you see as the most important accomplishments of the grid community? The most important influences? The most egregious failures? Please feel free to email directly (See “Contact" in the menu on the page linked below) or make a comment. Reference line number(s), if you can. We cannot promise to address every suggestion, but we will consider them all carefully." Links: http://www.ianfoster.org/wordpress/2014/01/01/history-of-the-grid/ http://www.ianfoster.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/History-of-th… Alan

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Schedule posted and logistical details for OGF-40 in Oxford
by Sill, Alan 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

Dear OGF colleagues, As announced previously, the 40th gathering of the Open Grid Forum and its working groups will be held Wednesday, 15 January through Friday, 17 January 2014 on the campus of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, hosted by the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC)<http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/>. This message is to update you as to the current schedule and other logistical details for this small but very important meeting. Complete details are available at the OGF web site at http://www.ogf.org and the event page at http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-40 for your convenience. [cid:09D389A9-C3E8-4186-A5AD-7D707187E6F7@ttu.edu] Venue Details Mathematical Institute<http://www.ox.ac.uk/roq/maths.html> University of Oxford Radcliffe Observatory Quarter Woodstock Road Oxford OX2 6GG All OGF working groups are encouraged to meet. This event should be of special interest to the Security and Infrastructure Areas, including our OCCI and other cloud-related working and community groups, taking advantage of meetings earlier in the week of the the EUGridPMA meeting nearby in Abingdon<http://kelsey.web.cern.ch/kelsey/venue.html> and the EGI Federated Cloud face-to-face meeting in Oxford<https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1986>. The complete OGF-40 schedule is linked here.<http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-40/schedule> Information on travel<http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-40/travel> and lodging<http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-40/lodging> for attendance at OGF-40 is also available. For convenience for those attending the EUGridPMA and SCI meetings earlier in the week and staying at The Cosener's House in Abingdon, this map<http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/lib/exe/fetch.php/events/coseners-house-to-oxfo…> shows one of several ways to use public transport to traverse the distance to the OGF-40 security meetings in Oxford, with an approximate travel time of 45 minutes. Further details are available on that meeting’s transportation information page<http://kelsey.web.cern.ch/kelsey/transportation.html>. Register now for OGF-40 at this link.<http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modi…> The Call for Session Proposals<http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-40/call_for_session_proposa…> has now been closed, but special requests for rooms and sessions might still be accommodated; please check with the organizers using our Contact link<http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/contact>. If you have questions about meetings that might still be arranged, please contact your area director<http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/about/steering_group>. We look forward to seeing you in Oxford and in Abingdon, as appropriate, for this important set of meetings. Your OGF events organization team

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New Years greetings and new items of note for OGF
by Sill, Alan 01 Jan '14

01 Jan '14

Happy New Year OGF participants! Here are a couple of quick notes regarding our ongoing activities: - We (meaning you) completed and published a large number of OGF documents last year. A complete list including all recent updates is available at the usual historical link, http://ogf.org/documents - You may notice that this URL redirects automatically to its new home on the dokuwiki that now hosts most of the OGF pages. We made this switch late last year after a tremendous amount of work by your operations team including especially Andre Merzky, Greg Newby as Editor and myself to move, reorganize and also archive and keep available most of the old OGF pages in read-only mode for future reference. We made this switch primarily to improve the security and long-term maintainability of the OGF site, and also to permit hosting of "show-off" pages and tutorials prepared by our groups for our most popular and successful standards. As time goes on and we (that means you, coordinated through your group leads and area directors) fill out these pages and expand this material, we hope that the features that the new site supports will provide valuable resources for your projects and our stakeholder community. - Registration for OGF 40, 15-17 Jan 2014 in Oxford, UK is still open and lodging, transportation and associated co-located event details are linked from the OGF 40 event pages at http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-40 Or just visit the OGF home page at http://ogf.org and click on the "Events" link in the navigation sidebar to get there. We hope you will register and also will take the time to explore the new site and to either send suggestions for further additional improvements or (better!) volunteer to help your group and area to get its materials on the web. Note that these new ogf.org<http://ogf.org> features are intended to supplement the working group areas in the OGF Redmine at http://redmine.ogf.org used for document production, internal group organization, issue trackers and wikis, etc., not to replace them. Our intent was and is to have a more stable and easy to use platform for producing and hosting the externally-facing web site for OGF that we can grow and adapt to the community. Again, please register for OGF 40 and look over the new site. Happy New Year and we hope to see many of you in a couple of weeks in Oxford. Alan Sill VP of Standards Open Grid Forum

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