Dear OGF community participants,
As sent to the conference attendees, the OGF session details have now been posted to the EGI conference Indico schedule, including opening remarks, Open Cloud Computing Interface working group sessions, meetings of the Federated Security community group, Identity Delegation, VOMS Processing and Certificate Authority Operations working groups (including IGTF topics), and room assignments for the Cloud Interoperability Plugfest sessions for hands-on testing and development.
Thursday: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=2452#20150521
Friday: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=2452#20150522
Opportunities will be given during the Cloud Plugfest for remote participation and an invitation is hereby extended to the community to provide and to share access to testbeds that are suited for use in this part of the program. (Please note that this will be the 16th event in this long-running testing series, and that opportunities will exist to continue the testbed work on a long-running basis as a further outgrowth of this program.)
Please enjoy the rest of the EGI conference if you are attending, and we look forward to seeing you at the OGF sessions. If you are remote, please feel free to contact me regarding Cloud Plugfest remote participation details, which will also be posted to the cloudplugfest.org<http://cloudplugfest.org> and ogf.org<http://ogf.org> web sites. If you have resources that can be shared or made available for testing, please also feel free to send the info. As in previous Cloud Plugfests, a spreadsheet of available testing instances will be made available to all participants.
Alan Sill
VP of Standards
Open Grid Forum
Dear OGF colleagues,
Welcome to the EGI 2015 attendees! We hope to see many participants in the community at the EGI conference (including OGF 44 and Cloud Plugfest 16) taking place all this week in Lisbon. This is an exciting event.
Looking ahead to the future, we are planning an OGF presence at several upcoming events and already have plans in discussion to be present at next year's EGI conference in Kraków, Poland.
Closer to hand, we have invitations to host OGFs at the ICCAC 2015 conference, part of the Foundations and Applications of Self* Computing (FAS*) 2015 set of co-located conferences, September 21-15 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts USA (see info below), and at the 8th IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing 2015 conference December 7-10, 2015 in Cyprus (http://cyprusconferences.org/ucc2015/)
Links for the FAS* conferences are below, and calls for OGF session proposals will be posted shortly if these events are approved and adopted by the Grid Forum Steering Group, which should take place in the near future. We will post more information on all of these events as soon as it becomes available. We encourage you to contact us to help with the organization of OGF meetings and activities at these events. It is essential to know ahead of time about any plans for OGF community and working group meetings that can be planned to support your work.
Meanwhile we would like to call your attention to the submission information and deadlines for these conferences (for example, the abstract registration deadline, which is TODAY for the CAC 2015 conference) and related logistical information, and to call your attention to the AMGCC 2015 workshop, which OGF co-sponsors. Please help with your contributions and support to make these events successful.
Alan Sill
VP of Standards
Open Grid Forum
Conference links:
- CAC 2015 (Sep. 21-15, 2015; Boston Marriott Hotel, Cambridge MA):
http://www.autonomic-conference.org
- SASO 2015 (same venue and dates):
https://saso2015.mit.edu/
- P2P 2015 (same venue and dates):
http://wan.poly.edu/p2p2015/
About the AMGCC workshop at CAC 2015:
Each year since its inception OGF has co-sponsored the workshop on Advanced Management of Grid and Cloud Computing (AMGCC), which is described in the information below.
CFP: The 3rd International Workshop on Autonomic Management of Grid and Cloud Computing (AMGCC'15)
* Co-located with the International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing 2015 (CAC 2015),
* Cambridge, MA, USA -- September 21, 2015<x-apple-data-detectors://1>
AMGCC'15 workshop (http://htcaas.kisti.re.kr/wiki/index.php/AMGCC15) will be held in Cambridge on September 21, 2015<x-apple-data-detectors://3>, in conjunction with the International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC 2015) (http://www.autonomic-conference.org/)
Grid computing leverages enormous computing resources scattered over the internet in order to integrate and form a large-scale computing platform to solve grand-scale problems. Grid computing also has had great influence on the cloud computing besides the virtualization technology which logically decouples the physical computing resources with the computing system. Consequently, the cloud computing provides cost-effective, fast, and unlimited virtualized resources for large-scale applications. Cloud computing is also used as “utility computing” where the computing services are provided on-demand and as needs based. Thus, it is commonly deployed for various applications these days.
Managing hybrid, virtualized computing resources in a large-scale cloud computing environments, however, still leaves a lot of research to be conducted. Furthermore, autonomous managements of resources in such a large scale federated hybrid computing infrastructures are crucial. In this workshop, we would like to bring researcher around the world to discuss and communicate the challenges and research results in the design, implementation, and evaluation of novel autonomous hybrid cloud resource management systems, and the theory and practice of cloud and grid resource management.
[Topics of Interests]
Topics include, but are not limited to:
+ Autonomic Workflow and Resource Management in Cloud and Grid
+ Autonomous and Adaptive Management of Virtualized Resources
+ High Performance Grid and Cloud
+ Security, Privacy, and Compliance Management for Hybrid Utility Computing
+ Performance and Usage Monitoring in Hybrid Infrastructures
+ Autonomic Resource Discovery and Scheduling in Cloud and Grid
+ Service-based Autonomic Management in Cloud and Grid
+ Hybrid Cloud Resource Provisioning Orchestration
+ Adaptive Resource Provisioning and Adjustment in Grid and Cloud
+ Autonomics in High Performance Cloud Computing
+ Cloud/Grid Workload Profiling and Autonomic Deployment Control
+ Fault tolerance and Reliability in Hybrid Utility Computing
+ Federation, Bridging, and Bursting of Grid and Cloud Resources
[Important Dates]
* Paper submission: June 01, 2015<x-apple-data-detectors://5> (Extended)
* Notification of acceptance: June 14, 2015<x-apple-data-detectors://6>
* Camera-ready paper: July 1, 2015<x-apple-data-detectors://7>
* Workshop: September 21, 2015<x-apple-data-detectors://8>
[Paper Submission Guideline]
Submitted papers must include original work and may not be under consideration for another workshop, conference, or journal.?Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop. Papers are limited to 8 pages in standard IEEE proceedings format.?The 8-page PDF format of the paper must be submitted online at the paper submission site before the deadline (May 18th, 2015).
* Extended Paper for Journal Version
Selected papers presented at the AMGCC’15 workshop will be invited to a special issue in the Springer Cluster Computing Journal, indexed by the SCIE, JCR, and SCOPUS rank (http://link.springer.com/journal/10586) In AMGCC’14, ~70% of the presented papers were invited to publish in the journal.
[Workshop Co-Chairs]
Hyeonsang Eom, Seoul National University, Korea
Soonwook Hwang, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Korea
[Technical Program Committee]
Jaeyoung Choi, Soongsil University, Korea
Ewa Deelman, Information Sciences Institute/University of Southern California, USA
Sandro Fiore, CMCC Supercomputing Center, Italy
Ricardo Graciani Diaz, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Hyeonsang Eom, Seoul National University, Korea
Eric Heien, Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics/University of California, Davis, USA
Jik-Soo Kim, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Korea
Yoonhee Kim, Sookmyung Women’s University, Korea
Jae W. Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Myungho Lee, Myongji University, Korea
Young Choon Lee, University of Sydney, Australia
Raffaele Montella, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
Taiga Nakamura, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan
Beomseok Nam, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Sangmi Lee Pallickara, Colorado State University, USA
Sungyong Park, Sogang University, Korea
Yoshio Tanaka, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Tezuka Taro, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Ananta Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), USA
Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Justin M Wozniak, Argonne National Lab, USA
Heon Y Yeom, Seoul National University, Korea
[Contacts]
For any inquiries about the workshop or paper submission, please contact
Hyeonsang Eom, Seoul National University, hseom(a)snu.ac.kr<mailto:hseom@snu.ac.kr>
Soonwook Hwang, KISTI, hwang(a)kisti.re.kr<mailto:hwang@kisti.re.kr>
Dear OGF community,
Next week Thursday and Friday we have two days of meetings planned, focusing on the session requests we have received for the Security Area groups (Federated Security community group, Certificate Authority Operations working group, Identity Delegation and VOMS Processing working groups) and two sessions for the OCCI working group, as well as a Cloud Plugfest taking place as an ongoing activity both in-person and remotely all day Thursday and Friday. We also have a request for joint sessions between the Security Area groups and an EGI project, with room for other such joint sessions with these groups and/or the OCCI group and other EGI projects.
We expect a great deal of interaction to take place between OGF groups and the EGI Federated Cloud and its project participants. There are many other active OGF groups in various areas, including some that met recently at OGF 43 and also will be meeting soon elsewhere (e.g., the NSI group, which will be meeting at another conference also in Portugal within a month), so other activity is definitely going on; but these are the groups that have let us know of plans to be present at OGF 44.
Before posting the final schedule, we would like to issue one more final request for session requests or proposals using the link for this purpose on the OGF web site:
https://www.ogf.org/ogf/doku.php/events/ogf-44/call_for_session_proposals
Please include any further requests for joint sessions with EGI projects and any ideas for BoFs or meetings that are not described above. We would like this week, including the EGI conference meetings that will take place earlier during the week as well as the OGF portion, to be as useful to you as possible.
I look forward to seeing you there!
Alan
Alan Sill
VP of Standards
Open Grid Forum
http://www.ogf.org
Dear OGF Community:
Several OGF 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.
These documents are newly available for public comment:
* NSI Network Service Agent Description Document
* OCCI - Core document
* OCCI - Compute Resource Templates Profile
* OCCI - HTTP Protocol
* OCCI - JSON rendering
* OCCI - Monitoring
* OCCI - Infrastructure
* OCCI - Platform
* OCCI - SLAs
* OCCI - Text rendering
This document previously underwent public comment, and is now back in
public comment with a number of updates:
* Grid Certificate Profile
This document is nearing the end of its public comment period:
* GLUE v 2.0 - JSON Schema
The schema itself is here:
http://schemas.ogf.org/glue/2014/11/spec_2.0_r1/
All documents in public comment are accessible here:
http://redmine.ogf.org/projects/editor-pubcom/boards
Note that public comments are received via the Open Grid Forum Redmine instance. Anyone may register for a Redmine username.
-- Greg Newby, OGF Standards Editor
--
Gregory Newby Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer / Chef de la Technologie
gbnewby(a)computecanada.ca / (c) 907.347.9575 / (f) 416.907.1555
36 York Mills Road, Suite/Unité 505, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M2P 2E9
www.computecanada.ca / www.calculcanada.ca / @ComputeCanada
Dear colleagues,
The European Telecommunication Standards Institute, ETSI, is conducting a survey in the context of the second phase of its Cloud Standards Coordination activity that has, in the latter portion of the survey, several questions that are relevant to knowledge and interest on particular cloud standards. It would be helpful to highlight any real experience you and your organization have with cloud standards in the field, including but not limited to OGF standards.
To make your opinions known, please follow the link below and fill out answers on behalf of your effort or organization.
There are several preliminary questions that you will encounter before reaching the section on cloud standards. Please answer as best fits your situation and continue on through the survey. Don't worry if not all of these questions are completely relevant to your particular conditions, but please continue on through the survey.
Thanks for contributing your input.
Link for the survey:
http://csc.etsi.org/phase2/survey.html
Thanks very much in advance,
Alan Sill
VP of Standards
Open Grid Forum
http://www.ogf.org
