November 2014 - wg-all - lists.ogf.org

Happy Thanksgiving and OGF news
by Sill, Alan 27 Nov '14

27 Nov '14

Dear colleagues, First, Happy Thanksgiving for those in the US and expatriates who are celebrating this family-oriented treasured holiday. I thought this would be a good time to bring you up to speed on some updates and news for OGF. Please take note of these events and of your opportunities for participation. - OGF will be co-sponsoring general Interoperability demonstrations and recording for all relevant projects at the Interoperability Demo Days 11-12 December and virtual Cloud Plugfest 8-12 Dec. 2014 at and immediately after the Utility and Cloud Computing conference 8-11 Dec. in London. Co-sponsors for this event include the Cloud Standards Customer Council, OGF, the US National Science Foundation Cloud and Autonomic Computing Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, the European Grid Initiative Federated Cloud project, the CloudWatch project, and the Storage Networking Industry Association, and opportunities for additional sponsorships are open. The results of demonstrations presented at or submitted through this event will be recorded and made available by Primeur Magazine and by the CloudWatch project. For further information and/or to register to attend either the Interoperability Demos or to participate in the virtual Cloud Plugfest or to present a demo, please visit the CloudPlugfest.org web site and/or send a message to planners(a)cloudplugfest.org - IMPORTANT: OGF 43 is planned for March 25-27, 2015 to be co-located with the GENI Engineering Conference 23-26 March and Global Lambda Interconnect Facility (GLIF) meeting 26-27 March at the Hilton Crystal City, VA, just across the river from Washington DC. A demonstration event for networking software is being planned, and subsequent Cloud Plugfest and distributed computing interoperability events similar to the above are in the works and in the last stages of being planned. Please SAVE THE DATE for this event and these activities, at which we expect to be able to provide meeting rooms for all interested OGF groups. We would like in particular to promote strong interaction between the federated identity management and certificate authority operations groups, the networking and cloud (e.g., OCCI) infrastructure groups, the applications communities and working production cloud and grid infrastructure projects to compare notes and move forward at this event. We have moved OGF 43 from its previously planned location at the University of Virginia to be able to take advantage of this co-location opportunity. Look for and please participate in (I.e., respond to) a Call for Session Proposals for this event soon. Proposals for future OGF events at an EGI meeting in May, and/or at or near HPDC '15 in Portland in June with several associated events, and/or at XSEDE 2015 in St. Louis in July have been received and are being evaluated. We would also like to recruit offers for hosting for an OGF meeting in the fall 2015 and for a winter or early 2016 location and venue. Please send your suggestions or opinions on these events to events(a)ogf.org or pass them on through your group leaders or area directors (if you feel appropriate) after discussion. Finally, but not least, please send us your suggestions for new groups, area directors and other OGF positions, areas in which OGF can usefully deploy its resources to organize and document new emerging practices in large-scale utility and distributed computing, or otherwise continue to serve the community in an active way. As a personal and deeply felt note, this organization was built by and for the community and its continuation depends on good ideas, like the ones mentioned above, to remain relevant in the fast-changing world of new technologies. We remain very confident of your inventiveness and in the value of having an open, free, community-based forum based on the best possible principles for documenting and making available recipes for the best practices in distributed computing. Please help us by participating and writing documents and implementations to make this organization that you have built the best possible forum of its type, and write down what you are doing for publication as described at http://ogf.org/documents for the dissemination of your work and the benefit of the community. Please participate in the work and community groups and feel free to suggest new ones for continued useful work and discussion. Best regards for a great holiday for those celebrating, and I hope to see you in London or at one or more of the above events! Alan Alan Sill VP Standards, OGF Director, Cloud and Autonomic Computing Center at TTU Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center Adjunct Professor of Physics, Texas Tech Univeristy (On my way to CERN at the moment)

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Fwd: [DistComp] CFP: IEEE Intercloud 2015 Workshop @ IC2E 2015 - 4th Int'l Workshop on Cloud Computing Interclouds, Multiclouds, Federations, & Interoperability
by Sill, Alan 27 Nov '14

27 Nov '14

Dear OGF colleagues, Please take note of the following workshop, which will take place roughly two weeks before OGF 43, which will be co-located with the GENI Engineering Conference and GLIF meeting in Washington DC. Those working in these areas may wish to submit a paper to the IEEE workshop before the December 7 deadline. Thanks and best regards, Alan Begin forwarded message: From: David Bernstein <david.bernstein(a)ieee.org<mailto:david.bernstein@ieee.org>> Date: November 26, 2014 at 3:38:04 PM CST To: <distributed-computing-announce(a)datasys.cs.iit.edu<mailto:distributed-computing-announce@datasys.cs.iit.edu>> Subject: [DistComp] CFP: IEEE Intercloud 2015 Workshop @ IC2E 2015 - 4th Int'l Workshop on Cloud Computing Interclouds, Multiclouds, Federations, & Interoperability [image: Picture] [image: Picture] [image: Picture] ------------------------------ *CALL FOR PAPERS* *IEEE Fourth International Workshop on **Cloud Computing* *Interclouds, Multiclouds, Federations, and Interoperability* *(Intercloud 2015)* *Tempe, Arizona, USA, March 9 – 13, 2015in conjunction withthe IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2015)* ------------------------------ Advances in processing, communication and systems/middleware technologies have led us to new paradigms and platforms for computing – in the form of Cloud Computing That in its own turn creates a basis for the Big Data and Data intensive technologies. Cloud Computing from Cloud Service Providers is a burgeoning market with a wide variety to choose from, including some of the most notable names in Internet and IT today. Cloud Computing is the go-to platform now for datacenter architecture, scalable application hosting, new application development, and mobile app platform. While cloud Computing enjoys a certain amount of application – or application architecture – portability, there are not really any interoperability standards or common practices in place. Security, SLA, and other concerns are still active areas of interest. Also, while Cloud Computing is different from Grid Computing, there is some Federation and Interoperability in the Grid community, are these appropriate to the Cloud Computing space. It is widely believed that the whole space of Clouds, Grids, and the Intercloud will federate and eventually converge. Looking even further backwards, there are lessons to be learned from the early Internet work as well as Mobile Telephony. Looking forwards, Cloud Federation Management as well as SDN are both key to making this happen. This workshop aims at providing a forum to bring together researchers for sharing and exchanging Cloud computing related research, technologies, experience, and lessons for building Clouds with Intercloud, Multicloud, Federation, and Interoperability capabilities, standards, services, and management techniques. Topics of interest include: - Theory, frameworks, methodologies, architecture for Interclouds, Multiclouds, Federations, and Interoperability - Cloud Federation and Interoperability Protocols - Cloud Federation Management - Trust, Security, Identity for Interclouds, Multiclouds, Federations, and Interoperability - Virtual Private Cloud, IP-SEC, MPLS techniques for Domain Management - Grid Federation and Interoperability Protocols, Lessons Learned, As Applied to Clouds - Experimental Results of Distributed/Multiple Datacenter Cloud Coordination and Interoperability - Theory or Experimental Results of SDN used for Federations, and Interoperability - Semantic Web Services Definitions for Clouds Resources and Management - Using Big Data techniques to solve Federation Constraint based Resource Matching - Mobile Roaming applications for for Interclouds, Multiclouds, Federations, and Interoperability - Cloud and Grid Federation governance and regulatory issues - Traffic and load balancing across Federated and Interoperable Clouds - QoS/SLA in Federated and Interoperable Clouds - PaaS for Interclouds, Multiclouds, Federations, and Interoperability - Interoperable cloud based infrastructures for Big Data applications - Management operations, discovery, configuration, provisioning - Geo-balancing for Interclouds, Multiclouds, Federations, and Interoperability - Compliance, Reference Definitions and Semantics, for Interclouds, Multiclouds, Federations, and Interoperability - Testbeds for Interclouds, Multiclouds, Federations, and Interoperability ------------------------------ *PAPER SUBMISSION* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format. The full manuscript should be at most 7 pages. All papers should be in PDF. http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=intercloud2015 A paper submitted cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the entire time it is considered, and it must be substantially different from any previously published work. All submissions are peer-reviewed. The IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services will publish accepted papers. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, technical clarity and presentation. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and presented at the workshop. If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the organizer. *IMPORTANT DATES* - Papers due: Sunday December 7th, 2014 AOE <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth> - Notification of Acceptance: January 19th, 2015 - Camera ready paper due: February 1st, 2015 *WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS* David Bernstein Founder/Chief Architect, IEEE P2302 Intercloud Standards Working Group and Global Testbed Project Cloud Strategy Partners, LLC Silicon Valley, California E-mail: david *at* cloudstrategypartners.com<http://cloudstrategypartners.com> Yuri Demchenko University of Amsterdam Science Park 904 1098XH Amsterdam The Netherlands Email: y.demchenko *at* uva.nl<http://uva.nl> Chunming Rong University of Stavanger NO- 4036, Stavanger, Norway E-mail: chunming.rong *at* uis.no<http://uis.no> _______________________________________________ distributed-computing-announce mailing list distributed-computing-announce(a)datasys.cs.iit.edu<mailto:distributed-computing-announce@datasys.cs.iit.edu> http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/mailman/listinfo/distributed-computing-announce

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Interoperability Demo Days and Cloud Plugfest event Dec. 11-12 at and after UCC 2014 in London, and OGF meeting opportunities
by Sill, Alan 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

Dear OGF colleagues, This note is to call your attention to an event to take place at and immediately following the Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC) conference in London in early December 2014, and to invite your participation as well as that of any projects in which you are involved. The event will take place December 11 and 12, 2014 beginning on the last day of the UCC 2014 conference and extending one day beyond it at the same hotel. The event will be entitled “Interoperability Demo Days” and will consist of demonstrations of software, infrastructure and standards that promote or include interoperable features by design that are practical for use in real-world implementations. The event is incorporated into the agenda of the UCC 2014 conference as shown at the link below, beginning Thursday and extending past the end of the conference through Friday Dec. 12. http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/conference-programme/ Attendance will be free to all UCC 2014 attendees on Thursday; those who would like to attend that day who are not already UCC registrants should register for a day pass at the usual conference rates. This portion is intended to be convenient for those who are already conference attendees. We strongly encourage registration for the UCC event Dec. 8-11, 2014, which includes many special workshops and paper sessions on topics of interest to distributed and high performance utility and cloud computing. Registration, venue and other practical information on the location is available at the link below: http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/venue/ Those who would like to extend their stay to attend the Interoperability Demo and Cloud Plugfest on Friday, Dec. 12 can do so at no cost and do not need to register for UCC thanks to sponsorships we have arranged. This portion (Friday only) does not require a UCC 2014 registration. At this event we hope to show the results of many projects that have interoperability among their goals. The event is open to all, and a presentation request can be made by sending an email message to planners(a)cloudplugfest.org or by replying to this message. Separate announcements will also be going out from the cooperating sponsoring organizations, which can be found on the Cloud Plugfest web site at http://cloudplugfest.org for example, to members of their constituent communities. We would like to emphasize that presentation is open to all projects and organizations through a selection process to be run by the planning committee to ensure applicability to the announced goals of the event. Additional meeting time for OGF and related groups may also be available at the conference and at this event. If you have a group that would like to meet, please let us know directly by replying to this email. A virtual Cloud Plugfest will also take place electronically during this week, with a wrap-up session and planning for future Cloud Plugfests to take place Friday during the final portion of the program. If you would like to participate in any or all of the above events, or have further questions about the Interoperability Demo Days, Cloud Plugfest or options for additional OGF meetings, please reply to this message or send a message to standards(a)ogf.org or planners(a)cloudplugfest.org as appropriate. For questions about the UCC 2014 conference, please see the web site at http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/ Alan Sill VP of Standards, Open Grid Forum on behalf of the organizers

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New document published: Data Format Description Language (DFDL) v1.0 Experience Document 2 Empty, Missing, Defaults, Arrays
by Greg Newby 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

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/ogf/doku.php/documents/documents The new document: * GFD-E.215, "Data Format Description Language (DFDL) v1.0 Experience Document 2 Empty, Missing, Defaults, Arrays." S. Hanson. Via DFDL-WG. Abstract: This document provides experience information to the OGF community on the original Data Format Description Language (DFDL) 1.0 specification (GFD-R-P.174). It describes shortcomings experienced in the area of 'missing' elements, default value handling, repeating elements and sequence separator suppression. All resulting errata have been incorporated into a revised Data Format Description Language (DFDL) 1.0 specification (GFD-R-P.207) which obsoletes GFD-R-P.174. -- Greg Newby, OGF Editor Gregory Newby, Manager of the Supercomputing Core Laboratory. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. E: greg.newby(a)kaust.edu.sa M: +966 54 470 1773 O: +966 12 808 0678 Building 1 East-Room 3407, 4700-Thuwal, Jeddah 23955-6900. ksl.kaust.edu.sa

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New document published: Data Format Description Language (DFDL) v1.0 E xperience Document 1 Errata for DFDL v 1.0 Specification GFD.174
by Greg Newby 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

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/ogf/doku.php/documents/documents The new document: * GFD-E.214. "Data Format Description Language (DFDL) v1.0 Experience Document 1 Errata for DFDL v1.0 Specification GFD.174." S. Hanson. Via DFDL-WG. Abstract: This document provides experience information to the OGF community on the original Data Format Description Language (DFDL) 1.0 specification (GFD-P-R.174). It lists and describes the non-editorial errata identified in the DFDL 1.0 specification. It contains all errata up to 2014-09-09. All such errata have been incorporated into a revised Data Format Description Language (DFDL) 1.0 specification (GFD-R-P.207), which henceforth obsoletes GFD-R-P.174. -- Greg Newby, OGF Editor Gregory Newby, Manager of the Supercomputing Core Laboratory. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. E: greg.newby(a)kaust.edu.sa M: +966 54 470 1773 O: +966 12 808 0678 Building 1 East-Room 3407, 4700-Thuwal, Jeddah 23955-6900. ksl.kaust.edu.sa

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New document published: Data Format Description Language (DFDL) v1.0
by Greg Newby 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Specification Reply-To: gbnewby(a)petascale.org Fcc: =ed 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/ogf/doku.php/documents/documents The new document: * GFD-R-P.207, "Data Format Description Language (DFDL) v1.0 Specification." M. Beckerle & S. Hanson. Via DFDL-WG. Abstract: This document provides a definition of a standard Data Format Description Language (DFDL). This language allows description of text, dense binary, and legacy data formats in a vendor-neutral declarative manner. DFDL is an extension to the XML Schema Description Language (XSDL). -- Greg Newby, OGF Editor Gregory Newby, Manager of the Supercomputing Core Laboratory. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. E: greg.newby(a)kaust.edu.sa M: +966 54 470 1773 O: +966 12 808 0678 Building 1 East-Room 3407, 4700-Thuwal, Jeddah 23955-6900. ksl.kaust.edu.sa

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Fwd: URGENT need to register experts in GD for JTC 1/SC 38/WG 4 and WG 5
by Sill, Alan 10 Nov '14

10 Nov '14

Dear OGF working group and community members, Please see the notice below. If you would like to participate in the ISO/IEC + ITU-T joint technical committee 1 sub-committee 38 "Distributed Applications Platforms and Services" work groups mentioned below, or any other related ones also calling for expert contributions, please contact your national body representative and express your interest as soon as possible. The long list of email addresses included below should allow you to zero in on the appropriate contact information for your country. OGF also has a technical liaison agreement with JTC1 that can allow us to specify representatives. If you would like to participate through this avenue to represent OGF at these meetings where appropriate, please let me or Andrew Grimshaw know. Alan Sill VP of Standards Open Grid Forum Begin forwarded message: > From: Lisa Rajchel <livelinkisotc(a)iso.org> > Subject: URGENT need to register experts in GD for JTC 1/SC 38/WG 4 and WG 5 > Date: November 5, 2014 at 9:49:24 AM CST > To: <jerome.hoerold(a)ilnas.etat.lu>, <uehara-eiji(a)meti.go.jp>, <extranetbn(a)afnor.org>, <isosd(a)scc.ca>, <qredekop.isosd(a)scc.ca>, <laurent.wahl(a)ilnas.etat.lu>, <nicolas.domenjoud(a)ilnas.etat.lu>, <monja.korter(a)standards.org.au>, <tomas.jirak(a)unmz.cz>, <morimoto-satomi(a)meti.go.jp>, <saruhashi-atsuko(a)meti.go.jp>, <e-iso(a)jsa.or.jp>, <isot(a)ansi.org>, <isoadmin(a)standards.co.nz>, <liux(a)sac.gov.cn>, <raymond.sachsen(a)ilnas.etat.lu>, <cgeraghty.isosd(a)scc.ca>, <tkina(a)sii.org.il>, <ggrant.isosd(a)scc.ca>, <sten(a)ds.dk>, <iso.imp(a)cni.cz>, <xingr(a)sac.gov.cn>, <bj(a)ds.dk>, <standard(a)kats.go.kr>, <jisc-iso(a)meti.go.jp>, <mg(a)ds.dk>, <simon.downe(a)din.de>, <donald.deutsch(a)oracle.com>, <onnchee(a)infotectsecurity.com>, 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<jungbo(a)kats.go.kr>, <syl(a)etri.re.kr>, <ivan(a)ispras.ru>, <38japan(a)itscj.ipsj.or.jp>, <bbennett(a)itic.org>, <tuomas.nurmela(a)tieto.com>, <sgolovin-tc22(a)itstandard.ru>, <master(a)kisi.or.kr>, <kari.hiekkanen(a)tkk.fi>, <lars.grondahl(a)vero.fi>, <beckers(a)nbn.be>, <owenwong(a)ogcio.gov.hk>, <jean.berube(a)idegenic.com>, <roman.grahle(a)din.de>, <amsenga(a)gmail.com>, <terry.landers(a)microsoft.com>, <mia.lindberg(a)sis.se>, <gatesray(a)rogers.com>, <olivier.teitgen(a)afnor.org>, <tya(a)cbr.ru>, <gfernandez(a)unit.org.uy>, <jimacfie(a)microsoft.com>, <litd(a)bis.org.in>, <jkbosnjak(a)iss.rs>, <zhangyn(a)cesi.ac.cn>, <lbarra(a)itic.org>, <jgarner(a)itic.org>, <anne.cassidy(a)bsigroup.com>, <ho_buaey_qui(a)ida.gov.sg>, <fabrizio.tacca(a)uni.com>, <mb(a)ds.dk>, <mlopez(a)aenor.es>, <kli(a)standard.no>, <bjs(a)standard.no>, <francois.coallier(a)etsmtl.ca>, <volker.jacumeit(a)din.de>, <cuschieri(a)iso.org>, <bengt.rydstedt(a)sis.se>, <alan.sill(a)ttu.edu>, <thorpe(a)oss.com>, <lucas.colet(a)lu.pwc.com>, <martin.uhlherr(a)din.de>, <ronald.haude(a)din.de>, <klaskey(a)mitre.org>, <laurali(a)microsoft.com>, <Padma.r(a)tcs.com>, <mike_edwards(a)uk.ibm.com>, <peter(a)peterfbrown.com>, <david.wallom(a)oerc.ox.ac.uk>, <a.fuchsberger(a)microsoft.com>, <wbumpus(a)vmware.com>, <leo.leger(a)snia.org>, <mark(a)carlson.net>, <babakj(a)microsoft.com>, <tianhuirong(a)mail.ritt.com.cn>, <olivier.dubuisson(a)orange.com>, <jcarl(a)ansi.org>, <jamie.clark(a)oasis-open.org>, <lcrescencio(a)inlac.org>, <colin.langtry(a)itu.int>, <babap(a)attglobal.net>, <armin.wappenschmidt(a)secunet.com>, <timothy(a)schoechle.org>, <witold.suryn(a)etsmtl.ca>, <agnes.simai(a)standards.org.au>, <sseitz(a)ansi.org>, <jooran(a)ksa.or.kr>, <lrajchel(a)ansi.org>, <krystyna.passia(a)din.de>, <sdesaute(a)ansi.org>, <takahashi(a)iso.org>, <csc(a)iso.org> > Reply-To: Lisa Rajchel <lrajchel(a)ansi.org> > > Hi Everyone, > > As a reminder, ISO has created eCommitttee folders on livelink for the new JTC 1/SC 38/WG 4 and WG 5. > > Experts MUST be entered into Global Directory to be considered a member of the WG and to receive documents. National Bodies are responsible for ensuring that their expert appointments are up to date; Liaison Organizations work via ITTF to maintain their expert members. If the expert is NOT in Global Directory for the particular WG, he/she will not receive documents and will NOT be considered a member of the WG. > > Please ensure that you enter your experts for JTC 1/SC 38/WG 4 and WG 5 urgently as I have documents to post. Your experts will not be able to submit or receive contributions for or attend the December 2014 electronic WG meetings if they are not in Global Directory. > > thank you > Lisa > > >

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