September 2016 - wg-all - lists.ogf.org

Cloud Plugfest 24 taking place September 19-22 - free for on-site and remote participation!
by Sill, Alan 16 Sep '16

16 Sep '16

Dear OGF community, Please take note of the following Cloud Plugfest testing event. This is a nearly all-week informal set of testing and prototyping sessions at which new code, techniques and methods are demonstrated and used for all types of cloud interoperability and standards implementation testing. The event is open to all and requires only a free registration and agreement to a participation agreement. (Nearly everything presented there is actually open source or completely free of restrictions, and I have never seen a case in any of these events in which the NDA was actually enforced. It is there only to protect you if you want to bring something to the event, or someone else who might want to do so, that is not yet ready for public release, and these days almost everyone works in an open-source way, so use of that clause is a vanishingly small probability.) This is a great event for students, new and experienced researchers and code developers on shared infrastructure projects to attend. It is the 24th event in this series, and this series has produced some great software that is integrated into a wide variety of production-quality projects. The purpose is not to impress or market, but to give developers and cloud researchers a chance to learn and use emerging technology before it is ready for production. OGF supports this event and is one of the long-standing co-organizers. We have held Cloud Plugfest events at many OGF meetings and at meetings of related collaborating and affiliated organizations. Please register at http://cloudplugfest.org and let the organizers know at planners(a)cloudplugfest.org<mailto:planners@cloudplugfest.org> if you have any questions. Alan Sill, President, OGF On behalf of the Cloud Plugfest organizers ----- Event information below ----- CloudWATCH2 & SNIA Cloud Interoperability Plugfest 24 Sept. 19-21 2016 The CloudWatch2 project is pleased to announce its cooperation with SNIA to host and organise a Cloud Interoperability Plugfest<http://www.cloudplugfest.org/> colocated with SNIA Storage Developer Conference 2016<http://www.snia.org/events/storage-developer> in Santa Clara, CA, USA from 19 - 22 September 2016. ________________________________ While the F2F part of the plugfest is provided by the organisers of SDC2016 targeting show visitors, it is also open for remote participation by other members of the standards community. Also, as it is tradition with Cloud Interoperability Plugfests, participation is *not* limited to testing against standards originating from the organising standards development body (in this case, SNIA) - the network of SDOs is closely knit, and support each other through liaison and interop events. So, you are just as welcome if you would like to test interoperability on standards stewarded not only by SNIA, but also (in no particular order) OGF, OASIS, DMTF, ETSI, IEEE, and many, many more. The common goal here is interoperability, not competition among SDOs! Participation is open to anyone and free of charge, either as an SDC2016 visitor or from remote, with the only requirement being to register at the website http://www.cloudplugfest.org/. Prepare your participation with a safe test environment (so as to not impede the production environment if things go wrong), hang out in the main chatroom to get started and take it from there! Connection and comms details will be provided to participants in due time. What is a "plugfest", and what does it have to do with interoperability? In a nutshell, a plugfest is an event where developers of independently written software come together to find out whether and how well their code works with other developers' code - they plug their software into each other and see what will happen. Figuratively speaking, if the test environment doesn't go up in flames, then the two software components are close enough to interoperate with each other, and more formalised testing can commence. If the test results are what was intended, then these two software packages interoperate - often, this is governed and measured against publicly defined specifications (or in short, standards) such as HTML, HTTP, SOAP, OCCI, CDMI, and many other examples. As this is a Cloud Interoperability Plugfest, we are going to focus on open standards in that area, such as OCCI, CDMI, CIMI, TOSCA, CAMP, XACML, SAML, X.509 profiles. Why should I participate? In essence, these events are shared quality assurance activities: Cloud Interoperability Plugfests are a safe environment to test your code's degree of conformance with the respective standard, and how well it interoperates with other implementations of the same standard. Ideally, standards would be interpreted identically by all implementers, and hence all implementations would interoperate, but often enough that is utopia (though standards authors work very hard to minimise this). Such situations, where tests fail, the analysis of the failures can discover shortcomings in the standard document itself, illustrate discrepancies in interpretation, or in formal testing settings, errors in the test suite used. I don't want to get embarrassed by e.g. failing on interoperability, or don't even want my participation known for a number of reasons, is that possible? Yes. Plugfests have a long history of commercial participation, which would not have been possible hadn't every participant accepted the NDA protecting the event. In short, the NDA forbids any participant to use any information or insight gathered at these events for any other activity but improving their own software's standards conformance and interoperability. However, without going too much into legal details, it is possible for participants to agree on public release of bespoke information gathered at plugfests for as long as the publication does not compromise confidentiality towards other participants.

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CFP : The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT), Shanghai, China
by Sill, Alan 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

Please take note of the following call for papers for a conference associates with UCC 2016. Dear Alan, I will be grateful if you can please help us disseminate the event by sharing this call for papers within your networks and mailing lists. Please also encourage your group members and colleagues to consider submitting papers to BDCAT being held in Shanghai, China in December 2016. Best regards Ashiq Anjum Call for Papers The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT) Date: December 6-9, 2016 Location: Shanghai, China Website: http://computing.derby.ac.uk/bdcat2016/ Important Dates: - Paper Submission Due: 30 July, 2016 --> extended to 31 August, 2016 - Author Notification: 21 August, 2016 - Final Manuscript Due: 21 September, 2016 The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT) is an annual international conference. The first two events were held in London (BDC 2014) and Cyprus (BDC 2015) respectively. In 2016, the conference has been expanded to explicitly include applications and renamed as BDCAT 2016. The conference aims to provide a platform for researchers to present their new discoveries, developments, results, as well as the latest trends in big data computing, technologies and applications. BDCAT 2016 will be held in conjunction with the 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2016) at Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: I. Big Data Science Big Data Analytics Innovative Data Science Models and Approaches Data Science Practice and Experience Algorithms for Big Data Novel Big Data Search Techniques Innovative data and Knowledge Engineering approaches Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Approaches for Big Data Big Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices Experience reports in Solving Large Scale Data Science Problems II. Big Data Infrastructures and Platforms Scalable computing models, theories, and algorithms In-Memory Systems and platforms for Big Data Analytics Programming Systems for Big Data Cyber-Infrastructures for Big Data Performance evaluation reports for Big Data Systems Fault tolerance and reliability of Big Data Systems I/O and Data management Approaches for Big Data Energy-efficient Algorithms Storage Systems (including file systems, NoSQL, and RDBMS) Resource management Approaches for Big Data Systems Many-Task Computing Many-core computing and accelerators III. Big Data Security and Policy Big Data Archival and Preservation Big Data Management Policies Data Privacy Data Security Big Data Provenance Ethical and Anonymization Issues for Big Data Big Data Compliance and Governance Models IV. Big Data Applications Experience Papers with Big Data Application Deployments Big Data Applications for Internet of things Scientific application cases studies on Cloud infrastructures Big Data Applications at Scale Data streaming applications Mobile Applications of Big Data Big Data in Social Networks Healthcare Applications such as Genome processing and analytics Enterprise Applications V. Visualization of Big Data Visual Analytics Algorithms and Foundations Graph and Context Models for Visualization Analytical Reasoning and Sense-making on Big Data Visual Representation and Interaction Big Data Transformation, and Presentation Honorary Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Beng Chin OOI, National University of Singapore, Singapore Programme Committee Chairs Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK (Email: a.anjum(a)derby.ac.uk<mailto:a.anjum@derby.ac.uk>) Zhao Xinghui, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, USA Programme Committee Vice Chairs Ilkay Altintas, University of California, San Diego, USA Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Guangjie Han, Hohai University, China Zhangbing Zhou, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China Local Organizing Chair Cheng Wong, Tongji University, China Programme Committee Members <too long> Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the following templates (latex, pdf, doc). Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the BDCAT 2016 paper submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdsea2016) Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the conference PC Chair for more information. Selected papers from BDCAT 2016 will be invited to extend and submit to the Special Issue on Big Data Computing in the IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transaction on Big Data and other leading journals.

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Cloud Plugfest 24 to take place 19-22 September 2016 with opportunities for in-person and remote participation
by Sill, Alan 05 Sep '16

05 Sep '16

Dear OGF working and community groups, Well-timed for the imminent release of the OCCI 1.2 specification set (which was done some time ago but got delayed for trivial numbering and copyright text issues), I'd like to call your attention to Cloud Interoperability Plugfest 24 to take place from 19 - 22 September 2016, co-sponsored the CloudWatch2 project as a virtual event and physically colocated with Storage Networking Industry Association's Storage Developer Conference 2016 taking place at that time in Santa Clara, CA, USA. As is the tradition with Cloud Interoperability Plugfests, participation is *not* limited to testing against standards originating from the organizing standards development body (in this case, SNIA). Per the organizers, "you are just as welcome if you would like to test interoperability on standards stewarded not only by SNIA, but also (in no particular order) OGF, OASIS, DMTF, ETSI, IEEE, and many, many more." The common goal here is interoperability and hands-on testing, If you will have implementations to test for OGF or other standards, for example OCCI, CDMI, CIMI, TOSCA, CAMP, XACML, SAML, X.509 profiles, or against anything that is useful in the context of your collaboration or cyber-infrastructure project (standards-based or not!), please register and feel free to make use of the test platforms we will make available for this event, which include special interoperability test projects in the CloudLab and Chameleon frameworks, Participation is open to anyone and free of charge, either as an in-person SDC2016 visitor (guest passes for Cloud Plugfest participation in person are available for free in limited quantities), or from remote locations, with the only requirement being to register at the website http://www.cloudplugfest.org/. We thank the CloudWatch2 project and SNIA for co-sponsoring this event. If you have something you would like to see tested or instantiated for others to test at this or a future Cloud Plugfest event, please contact the Cloud Plugfest planners (which include OGF representation) at planners(a)lcoudplugfest.org<mailto:planners@lcoudplugfest.org> and consider signing up for this event or for information on future events at http://cloudplugfest.org Alan Sill, Ph.D Interim Senior Director, High Performance Computing Center Director, NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing Adjunct Professor of Physics, Texas Tech University Visiting Professor of Distributed Computing, University of Derby President, Open Grid Forum ==================================================================== : Alan Sill, Texas Tech University Office: Drane 159, MS 4-1167 : : e-mail: Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu<mailto:Alan.Sill@ttu.edu> ph. 806-834-5940 fax 806-834-4358 : ====================================================================

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