- wg-all - lists.ogf.org

OGF 42 schedule and CAC 2014 schedule published; last day for early-bird registration is TODAY Friday 15 Aug; NSI-WG plans
by Sill, Alan 15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14

Dear OGF 42 participants and interested parties, Attached is the OGF 42 schedule for the week of 8-12 September 2014, including shared workshop, registration, reception and conference banquet information for the co-located CAC 2014 conference. If your group needs any adjustments to your scheduled times, please contact us as soon as possible. This schedule is also shown on the OGF home page at http://www.ogf.org and on the OGF 42 schedule page at http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-42/schedule We remind you that the last day for early registration for these co-located and co-registered events is TODAY, Friday August 15, and after this date the regular registration fees will apply. The schedule for the CAC conference itself is available at http://autonomic-conference.org Note that the OGF NSI working group and its associated activities will be held two weeks later at the Nordunet 2014 conference rather than at OGF 42 itself. The schedule for that event is available at https://events.nordu.net/display/NORDU2014/Programme and for additional information on the NSI-WG plans at that meeting, please contact Guy Roberts, Guy.Roberts(a)dante.net<mailto:Guy.Roberts@dante.net> Please note that the CloudWATCH project will have a concertation Thursday, September 11 in Brussels, for which reason the OCCI and related cloud sessions have been scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, and that the Security area groups will meet Friday Sep. 12 to allow time for people to get to these sessions who will be attending the EUGridPMA meeting earlier that week in Prague. The CloudWATCH project will also be sponsoring another in our series of Cloud Plugfest events also September 25, co-organized with EGI.eu<http://EGI.eu> and Fraunhofer FOKUS, to take place in Amsterdam. Information on that event is available at http://www.cloudwatchhub.eu/cloudwatch-cloud-plugfest-and-standards-profile… Overall it is a very busy September We look forward to seeing you at one or more of these OGF and related events! Alan, Andrew and Andre for the OGF Events team [cid:8BD114CB-340E-47E5-B009-06AA71F7C863@gateway.2wire.net]

1 0

Request for feedback: Cloud Plugfest and Implementation Groups Day Dec. 12, 2014 following / in association with UCC 2014
by Sill, Alan 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Dear OGF folks, We are putting the final touches on OGF 42 plans for the colocation with the Cloud and Autonomic Computing conference and associated parallel events Sep. 1-12 in London and should have that schedule published for you shortly. As a reminder, the early registration for this event, which includes all activities of both OGF and the CAC 2014 conference sessions including the associated breaks, poster session and social events as described on the CAC 2014 site, has been extended to August 15. In planning for this event we heard from many who liked the co-location because they will be at one r another of the co-located conferences, and from others who would prefer a less expensive OGF-only location for some meetings. It is hard to do both, but we think we have found an another such location. At nearly the same location in early December is the Utility and Cluster Computing conference (UCC 2014, http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/ ), which will have over a dozen associated workshops (18 at last count, including one that Morris Reidel and I are co-chairing as indicated below - see http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/workshops/ for details). While encouraging attendance at all of the associated events of interest and encouraging both talking about OGF technologies and promoting the submission and production of new OGF work along the lines of the topics discussed there (e.g., new informational, community practice or experimental documents, etc.), we do not have any plans to hold an OGF per se as part of UCC 2014. The location of Imperial College, which is near the UCC 2014 venue, is possibly available to us for example the day after the conference ends, which would be Friday Dec. 12, and if so we would like to assess the interest of the community in holding one or more OGF sessions there after completion of the UCC 2014. This could be done at very low comparative cost and could make a quite handy location to hold things like a Cloud Plugfest and other meetings, concentrating for example this time on implementations of interest to our community (both of OGF and non-OGF technologies) and exploration of new, fast-moving technologies like application of grid methods in container and cloud settings, etc. If you would be interested in attending such a low-cost extension to follow after the activities of the UCC 2014 conference, please let me know or communicate your thoughts through your group leader or area director. Feel free to discuss this with your colleagues for example on any OGF group list you may be on before responding. For now, I'd like to call your attention to one of the workshops for UCC 2014 co-chaired by Morris Reidel and myself that is very much in the spirit of the topics discussed above, and invite you to send in a submission by the September 15, 2014 deadline: First International Workshop on Standards and Pre-Standards Topics in Clouds, Big Data and Data Analytics (SCBDA) To be held in conjunction with 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2014) London, UK, 8th – 11th December 2014 Website: http://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/EN/Expertise/Workshops/Conferences/scbda-2… Submissions should be sent via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scbda14 (This event calls for a Cloud Plugfest anyway, so it would be easy to make this coincident with the OGF event mentioned above.) Alan

1 1

New document in public comment: Network Services Framework v2.0
by Greg Newby 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '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: * Network Services Framework v2.0. Informational track, via NSI-WG. -- Greg Newby, OGF Standards 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

1 0

Regular rates in effect after Aug. 1 for OGF 42 at CAC 2014 London Sep. 8-12, 2014 - REGISTER NOW for early rates
by Sill, Alan 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

Dear OGF colleagues, This is a reminder that the registration deadline for early rates is Aug. 1 for the CAC 2014 conference including OGF 42. We expect a large number of OGF groups as detailed in previous messages to meet during this conference. Links to the co-located events and to the Call for Session Requests (including BoFs, special group meetings, requests for new or special groups, etc.) are on the OGF web site at https://www.ogf.org/ogf/doku.php/events/ogf-42 . Please submit any remaining session requests as soon as possible so that we can finalize the schedule. So that we can plan the meeting rooms to best advantage, please take advantage of the information provided there and register as soon as possible at the link below. https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1569519 Further information and a table of rates is at http://cac2014.cis.fiu.edu/registration.shtm . Hopefully the information provided in earlier mailings will allow you to choose among full-week or 1-, 2- or 3-day pass rates as needed. OGF and IEEE members qualify for reduced rates. Save yourself or your organization some money and register now at the available early rates. Note: If you have any questions about your OGF membership status, please let us know. Further details on membership are at https://www.ogf.org/ogf/doku.php/members/ . There are two categories: organizational members and individual memberships. Individual memberships may be earned by attending a minimum of two OGF events per year, or by paying an annual membership fee of $200. Individual memberships are not required to attend or to participate in OGF meetings, but qualify the member for reduced rates at OGF all-hands stand-alone meetings and carry other membership benefits. If you think you qualify as an OGF member but are not certain, please go ahead and register at the OGF rate and we can clear up your membership status in person at the event itself. Hope to see you in London, and please get the above taken care of as soon as possible! Open Grid Forum Open Forum | Open Standards http://www.ogf.org

1 1

Final call for session proposals for OGF 42 at CAC 2014 London Sep. 8-12, 2014 - REGISTER NOW for early rates before Aug. 1
by Sill, Alan 25 Jul '14

25 Jul '14

OGF Folks, Short summary of this message: - Final Call for Session Requests for OGF 42 in London - Registration rates go up Aug. 1 for the CAC conference including OGF 42 - register now for best rates! - Details on the schedule so that you can plan your travel arrangements Details: The registration deadline for early rates of Aug. 1 for the CAC 2014 conference is fast approaching. At this time we have session requests from OCCI, DRMAA (both individually and together), JSDL, BES, GLUE2 and several of the Security groups (FedSec, IDEL, CAOPS etc.) thought he exact session dates for the later are not completely determined. We also have BoF suggestions for sessions on "Use of Container Technology in Grids and Clouds" and for a repeat of our BoF on Identity Management Technologies from OGF 41, as well as some possible others still being finalized. If there is interest for other sessions, now is the time to get the corresponding requests in. We will also have a demonstration and tutorial from the DFDL group, which will be an extended session that we hope a large number of people will attend. (Don't forget that the NSI-WG and other related OGF networking groups will be meeting at the NorduNet conference later in the month instead of at OGF-42 this time.) In terms of schedule, our plans at present are to concentrate OGF meetings Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of the week with optional single sessions Monday and Friday, and use parallel sessions during the middle of the week as needed to get all of the group meetings done. We will also have an OGF Town Hall and OGF plenary meeting, including a report of the Nominating Committee and other open-mike sessions as needed, most likely Wednesday. The Cloud-related portions of the meeting will be clustered early in the week to allow those who may need to go to Brussels for the CloudWATCH concertation Thursday; and consequently the JSDL, BES, GLUE and other sessions will be scheduled Wednesday and Thursday. We hope to extend meeting room space to Friday despite the workshop that day to allow the Security Area group meetings to be held in the latter part of the week as some who would like to attend those meetings will be tied up earlier in the week at another meeting in Poland. Overall it looks like a full week packed with meetings or activities at the co-located conferences, with the sessions grouped as closely as possible by themes to allow those who want to attend on one-, two- or three-day passes to get the most our of their registration. Don't forget that a full-week registration at CAC 2014 will cover attendance at all OGF and CAC sessions, including the workshops Monday and Friday on cloud security and on autonomic management of grids and clouds, respectively. Links to the co-located conferences and to the Call for Session Requests (including BoFs, special group meetings, requests for new or special groups, etc.) are on the OGF web site at https://www.ogf.org/ogf/doku.php/events/ogf-42 . Please submit any remaining session requests as soon as possible so that we can finalize the schedule. Also please note that the registration site is open for the event at the link below. Early rates expire Aug. 1 and the cost goes up substantially at that point, so please take advantage of the information provided above and register as soon as possible. https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1569519 Further information and a table of rates is at http://cac2014.cis.fiu.edu/registration.shtm . Hopefully the above information will allow you to choose among full-week or 1-, 2- or 3-day pass rates as needed. Please note that the IEEE rate applies to OGF members also. If you have any questions about your membership status, please let us know. Further details on membership are at https://www.ogf.org/ogf/doku.php/members/ . There are two categories: organizational members and individual memberships. Individual memberships may be earned by attending a minimum of two OGF events per year, or by paying an annual membership fee of $200. Individual memberships are not required to attend or to participate in OGF meetings, but qualify the member for reduced rates at OGF all-hands stand-alone meetings and carry other membership benefits. If you have any questions and think you qualify as an OGF member but are not sure, please register at the OGF rate and we can clear up your membership status in person at the event itself. Hope to see you in London, and please get the above taken care of as soon as possible! Open Grid Forum Open Forum | Open Standards http://www.ogf.org

1 0

Preliminary information for OGF 42 8-12 Sep 2014 in London, and a reminder of the schedule for OGF 41
by Sill, Alan 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

Dear colleagues, Many of you especially in Europe may be on vacation or about to leave, so it is important to call your attention right away to the information on OGF 42 to take place the week of 8-12 September in London: https://www.ogf.org/ogf/doku.php/events/ogf-42 . The time is now to make your plans to attend this event, book your lodging and look into attending the co-located conferences mentioned on that page. We have been able to arrange for OGF members to register at the same rate as IEEE members for the CAC 2014 conference. 1-, 2-, and 3-day passes are available, and these options (including the full-week registration) will also allow access to all OGF meetings that take place on the day or days covered. For those who plan to attend OGF meetings and portions of the conference, which also includes two associated topical workshops as described on the event page, these are good options. Session requests are still coming in. We will continue to work on the schedule and will look into the option for an OGF-only rate for those who do not plan on attending any of the co-located conference sessions. At this point it looks like a full week or at minimum, multiple days of OGF meetings will take place. It is not completely certain that we can arrange an OGF-only rate, but we will continue to try. Meanwhile, the discounted full conference rate mentioned above includes access to both the CAC 2014 and to OGF 42, which represents a good value and provides a basis for cost planning that will certainly cover all options. In terms of schedule, at this point we can expect to have multiple meetings of the DRMAA and OCCI working groups, both individually and as a separate set of sessions for joint work, multiple sessions of the GLUE, JSDL and BES groups, as well as VOMS-Proc, Federated Security and CAOPS - the latter possibly in joint sessions by video coordinated with attendees of the EUGridPMA meeting going on in the first part of that week in Poland. There will also be a demonstration and tutorial on use of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL), for which both open source and commercial implementation work exists and that is seeing a lot of recent activity and uptake. Other working group meetings are possible - please get your session requests in ASAP so that we can finalize the exact days for each of these meetings. In addition, we expect to see considerable activity regarding implementations, with a possible Cloud Plugfest or planning meeting for Cloud Plugfest events later that month in other locations, and meetings of existing or newly forming implementation community groups, especially those surrounding OCCI. The week is already pretty full, but there is time to put additional BoF, working group and/or community group requests in at the link above. We remind you that anyone can request a session and/or ask to form a new group and would be happy to help you through this process. We welcome inquiries about other implementation community groups or other new pre-standards exploratory groups that may wish to form around topics of interest. Please also get these in as soon as possible. Note that the NSI working group will be meeting later that month in Uppsala at the NorduNet conference, and is also interested in ramping up its efforts very considerably on implementations. Nearer term, we look forward to seeing all who are in attendance this week (July 13-18) at XSEDE' 14 and at the associated OGF 41 meetings. To see a list of attendees at the conference, visit the link http://xsede14.sched.org/directory/attendees and to connect your sched.org<http://sched.org/> account to social media, you can enter the appropriate information on the http://xsede14.sched.org/profile page. Please tweet, post, contribute to or otherwise follow events at the meeting by social media using the #XSEDE14 and/or #OGF41 hashtags. Thank you for your attention to this update. Please take advantage of the above information and/or call it to the attention of your OGF colleagues, and please take action to book your lodging and make your arrangements to attend OGF 42 as appropriate. Best regards, and please take action on the above, - Andrew, Andre and Alan for the OGF events team

1 0

Call for Session Proposals: OGF 42 at CAC 2012, 8-12 Sep 2014 in London
by Sill, Alan 14 Jul '14

14 Jul '14

Open Grid Forum 42 at CAC 2014, London, UK: OGF will meet with all appropriate working groups at the International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC 2014)<http://autonomic-conference.org/> to take place September 8-12, 2014 at Imperial College<http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/campusinfo/southkensington> in London, UK. Registration for CAC 2014<https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1569519> includes and covers attendance at all OGF 42 co-located sessions. Other co-located conferences for this event include the 8th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2014)<http://www.iis.ee.imperial.ac.uk/saso2014/> and the 14th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P’14)<http://www.p2p-conference.org/p2p14/>. In addition to the other activities at these conferences, OGF will host its own BOF and tutorial sessions, working group and community implementation group meetings on topics related to OGF technologies in a wide variety of areas in advanced distributed computing. OGF is co-sponsoring the 2nd International Workshop on Autonomic Management of high performance Grid and Cloud Computing (AMGCC’14)<http://htcaas.kisti.re.kr/wiki/index.php/AMGCC14> co-located there, to take place on Friday, September 12, 2014, and note that the CAC 2014 conference also includes the 2014 International Workshop on Autonomic Cloud Cybersecurity (ACC '14)<http://sesar.di.unimi.it/ACC2014/> to take place Monday, September 8. Many OGF group sessions have already been planned, including meetings of the DRMAA, OCCI, JSDL, BES and GLUE working groups, several implementation community groups and a tutorial and demonstration for implementations of the DFDL standard. For details on how to request further OGF sessions at this meeting, see the Call for Session Proposals<http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-42/call_for_session_proposa…>. For further information, visit the OGF 42 event information page at http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-42 Alan Sill, VP of Standards for the OGF Events team Open Grid Forum Open Forum | Open Standards http://www.ogf.org

1 0

Preliminary information for OGF 42 8-12 Sep 2014 in London, and a reminder of the schedule for OGF 41
by Sill, Alan 13 Jul '14

13 Jul '14

Dear colleagues, Many of you especially in Europe may be on vacation or about to leave, so it is important to call your attention right away to the information on OGF 42 to take place the week of 8-12 September in London: https://www.ogf.org/ogf/doku.php/events/ogf-42 . The time is now to make your plans to attend this event, book your lodging and look into attending the co-located conferences mentioned on that page. We have been able to arrange for OGF members to register at the same rate as IEEE members for the CAC 2014 conference. 1-, 2-, and 3-day passes are available, and these options (including the full-week registration) will also allow access to all OGF meetings that take place on the day or days covered. For those who plan to attend OGF meetings and portions of the conference, which also includes two associated topical workshops as described on the event page, these are good options. Session requests are still coming in. We will continue to work on the schedule and will look into the option for an OGF-only rate for those who do not plan on attending any of the co-located conference sessions. At this point it looks like a full week or at minimum, multiple days of OGF meetings will take place. It is not completely certain that we can arrange an OGF-only rate, but we will continue to try. Meanwhile, the discounted full conference rate mentioned above includes access to both the CAC 2014 and to OGF 42, which represents a good value and provides a basis for cost planning that will certainly cover all options. In terms of schedule, at this point we can expect to have multiple meetings of the DRMAA and OCCI working groups, both individually and as a separate set of sessions for joint work, multiple sessions of the GLUE, JSDL and BES groups, as well as VOMS-Proc, Federated Security and CAOPS - the latter possibly in joint sessions by video coordinated with attendees of the EUGridPMA meeting going on in the first part of that week in Poland. There will also be a demonstration and tutorial on use of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL), for which both open source and commercial implementation work exists and that is seeing a lot of recent activity and uptake. Other working group meetings are possible - please get your session requests in ASAP so that we can finalize the exact days for each of these meetings. In addition, we expect to see considerable activity regarding implementations, with a possible Cloud Plugfest or planning meeting for Cloud Plugfest events later that month in other locations, and meetings of existing or newly forming implementation community groups, especially those surrounding OCCI. The week is already pretty full, but there is time to put additional BoF, working group and/or community group requests in at the link above. We remind you that anyone can request a session and/or ask to form a new group and would be happy to help you through this process. We welcome inquiries about other implementation community groups or other new pre-standards exploratory groups that may wish to form around topics of interest. Please also get these in as soon as possible. Note that the NSI working group will be meeting later that month in Uppsala at the NorduNet conference, and is also interested in ramping up its efforts very considerably on implementations. Nearer term, we look forward to seeing all who are in attendance this week (July 13-18) at XSEDE' 14 and at the associated OGF 41 meetings. To see a list of attendees at the conference, visit the link http://xsede14.sched.org/directory/attendees and to connect your sched.org<http://sched.org/> account to social media, you can enter the appropriate information on the http://xsede14.sched.org/profile page. Please tweet, post, contribute to or otherwise follow events at the meeting by social media using the #XSEDE14 and/or #OGF41 hashtags. Thank you for your attention to this update. Please take advantage of the above information and/or call it to the attention of your OGF colleagues, and please take action to book your lodging and make your arrangements to attend OGF 42 as appropriate. Best regards, and please take action on the above, - Andrew, Andre and Alan for the OGF events team

1 0

XSEDE'14 OGF sessions posted
by Sill, Alan 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

Dear OGF participants and members, The list of OGF sessions for the XSEDE'14 conference next week in Atlanta has been updated with session descriptions. To see these on your laptop or desktop or other large-screen device, visit this link: http://xsede14.sched.org/overview/type/open+grid+forum To view the sessions on your mobile device, follow or enter the short link below: http://bit.ly/ogf-41 Also of interest at this conference are several sessions having to do with portal and user support technologies, high performance computing and network technologies, many of which are based on OGF technologies including perfSONAR, SAGA, etc., and topics that remain of interest long-term in OGF, such as a BoF on credential management and another on EGI-XSEDE cooperative projects, a session on integration of UNICORE with XSEDE, and an OGF-sponsored BoF on identity management technologies that we hope you will attend. We look forward to seeing all of you who are in attendance at XSEDE' 14. To tweet or otherwise follow events at the meeting by social media, use the #XSEDE14 and/or #OGF41 hashtags, and be sure to follow @OGFStandards on Twitter and send us any information you would like to see posted! To see a list of attendees at the conference, visit the link http://xsede14.sched.org/directory/attendees and to connect your sched.org account to social media, you can enter the appropriate information on the http://xsede14.sched.org/profile page. If you know of a project or personal account that OGF should follow, please send the information to standards(a)ogf.org and/or call it to the attention of your colleagues. Also don't forget to check out the information on OGF 42 to take place in early September in London: https://www.ogf.org/ogf/doku.php/events/ogf-42 - Andrew, Andre and Alan for the OGF events team

1 0

Reminder on upcoming OGF events
by Sill, Alan 03 Jul '14

03 Jul '14

Dear OGF colleagues, The OGF working groups continue to make progress on documents of importance to the community. As a reminder: OGF’s second event in 2014 will be OGF 41<http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-41>, to take place during the XSEDE conference<https://conferences.xsede.org/> July 13-18 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The OGF scheduled group meetings<http://xsede14.sched.org/overview/type/open+grid+forum> will run from Tuesday the 14th of July through Thursday the 17th. For details see the OGF 41<http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-41> pages. We will follow this event fairly closely with OGF 42<http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-42>, to take place at Imperial College<http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/campusinfo/southkensington> September 8-12 in London, UK. This event is co-located with several other important workshops and conferences, as described on the OGF 42 event pages<http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-42>. Further details on the exact logistics of registration for OGF 42 will be coming up shortly. Further out, we are looking at hosting a Cloud Plugfest at the UCC 2014 conference to take place in London in December, in addition to the workshops that will take place there, and invite further comments and discussion. In the Spring, we are planning once again to have an OGF all-hands meeting, most likely to take place in Charlottesville, Virginia. We look forward to seeing you at these events! - Andre, Alan and Andrew for the OGF events team Open Grid Forum Open Forum | Open Standards http://www.ogf.org

1 0