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Journal of Grid Computing, Volume 12, Issue 1 - Springer
by Sill, Alan 18 Apr '14

18 Apr '14

OGF colleagues, FYI, the editors of the Journal of Grid Computing requested a special issue some time ago on cloud computing federation, API development and associated topics, which has now been recruited, assembled, reviewed extensively and published. Many of the articles in this issue may be of interest to members of the OGF community, some of whom are authors. Thanks very much to my hard-working co-editor for this issue, Gabor Kecskemeti, for carrying much of the weight of assembling it and communicating on many associated details with the reviewers and authors. Hope you will find the results to be of interest. If you have ideas for other special issues and topics, please communicate with the JOGC contacts as listed on the web site. Alan http://link.springer.com/journal/10723/12/1/page/1

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XSEDE14 and OGF 41 Call for Session Proposal Submission Deadlines - Act now!
by Sill, Alan 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

Dear OGF colleagues, Please take note of the XSEDE 2014 submission deadlines discussed below. Visualization Showcase abstracts, Birds of a Feather proposals and poster abstracts—including student poster abstracts—are due on April 21. Additionally, student travel grant applications are due the same day. In addition, please note that OGF has a Call for Session Proposals open at the OGF web site at the link below. While there is not an explicit deadline, we are under practical limitations to finalize our room requests and would for this reason appreciate receiving your working group and community group session requests as soon as possible. At this time, we anticipate receiving requests from the GLUE, JSDL, BES and other related working groups and expect to receive session proposals from groups in the Security and Data areas also, such as FedSec, Identity Delegation, CAOPS, etc. Other session requests and BOFs are welcome. Please send them in via the link for this purpose in the page linked below. http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-41 Alan SIll, VP of Standards Open Grid Forum [XSede header]<https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward?emailId=51425&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.xs…> XSEDE14 Submission Deadlines Registration opens April 21 Visualization Showcase abstracts, Birds of a Feather proposals and poster abstracts—including student poster abstracts—are due on April 21. Additionally, student travel grant applications are due the same day. Details about these opportunities are available in the Call for Participation posted at https://conferences.xsede.org/xsede14/call-for-participation<https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward?emailId=51425&url=https%3A%2F%2Fconfer…>. Farnam Jahanian, assistant director for the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation, will be the keynote speaker at the conference. XSEDE14 registration, schedule and other information can all be found at xsede.org/xsede14<https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward?emailId=51425&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.xs…>. The XSEDE14 date for open registration will be April 21. XSEDE14 will take place in Atlanta from July 13-18, 2014 at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis and will showcase the discoveries, innovations, challenges and achievements of those who utilize and support XSEDE resources and services, as well as other digital resources and services throughout the world. The theme of XSEDE14 is “Engaging Communities,” to engage both traditional users of digital resources and people who have not traditionally used digital resources but would benefit from their usage. About XSEDE The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) is the most advanced, powerful, and robust collection of integrated advanced digital resources and services in the world. It is a single virtual system that scientists can use to interactively share computing resources, data, and expertise. XSEDE accelerates scientific discovery by enhancing the productivity of researchers, engineers, and scholars by deepening and extending the use of XSEDE’s ecosystem of advanced digital services and by advancing and sustaining the XSEDE advanced digital infrastructure. XSEDE is a five-year, $121-million project and is supported by the National Science Foundation. ### For more information contact: Travis Tate Media Communications Coordinator XSEDE tbtate(a)illinois.edu<mailto:tbtate@illinois.edu> 217-377-2205 [XSede Footer]<https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward?emailId=51425&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.xs…> [https://illinois.edu/emailer/opened.gif?emailId=51425&emailAddress=alan.sil…]

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OGF sites are not vulnerable to Heartbleed
by Sill, Alan 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

OGF has tested its servers with respect to vulnerabilities related to CVE-2014-0160 (the now famous "Heartbleed" bug in certain OpenSSLversions) and has not found anything to be vulnerable directly in any of its services. Your access to ogf.org and to OGF working group support features and repositories on the OGF Redmine are and should remain to be OK with respect to the problems created by this bug. Alan Sill VP of Standards Open Grid Forum

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