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Fwd: [Fedcloud-tf] Travel to the event
by OGF Events 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

Dear OGF participants, FYI, the travel advice below may still apply for travels to OGF-40 on Tuesday/Wednesday. Best regards, OGF event management. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Wallom <david.wallom(a)oerc.ox.ac.uk> Date: Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 4:33 PM Hello All, Due to localised flooding around Oxford I would recommend that attendees use the Oxford airline bus to get from airports to Oxford. The train is currently operating a significantly reduced service on the line to Oxford airport people would come in from and so could cause delays etc. Looking forward to seeing everyone next week. Regards David -- =========================================== Dr David Wallom Associate Director, Oxford eResearch Centre University of Oxford 7 Keble Road Oxford OX1 3QG UK Tel: 01865 610601 ===========================================

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Session Schedule for OGF-40
by OGF Events 09 Jan '14

09 Jan '14

Dear OGF members, the final session schedule for OGF-40 is now published at [1]. As announced before, you will find all other relevant meeting information at [2]. We look forward to meet you in Oxford next week! Best regards, your OGF. [1] http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-40/schedule [2] http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-40/

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The History of the Grid: Comments invited (via Ian Foster)
by Sill, Alan 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

Dear OGF colleagues, In addition to the message just sent regarding OGF 40 and the associated meetings in Oxford and nearby in Abingdon, we would like to call to your attention the following article and blog post by Ian Foster requesting comments regarding the history of the grid and asking for critiques and potential additions or corrections to this article. I am sure that both Ian and Carl would appreciate all responses to this request. For further information, please follow the links below. "The History of the Grid: Comments invited: Two years ago, Carl Kesselman and I published a rather lengthy paper that purports to recount the "history of the grid." (I. Foster, C. Kesselman, The History of the Grid (PDF), in Cloud Computing and Big Data, IOS Press, Amsterdam , 2013; 37 pages, 176 references). We believe that this paper includes useful material. We also know that it can be much improved, and to that end we plan a second edition. We invite suggestions for improvements. For example: What did we get wrong? What work did we forget to mention? What do you see as the most important accomplishments of the grid community? The most important influences? The most egregious failures? Please feel free to email directly (See “Contact" in the menu on the page linked below) or make a comment. Reference line number(s), if you can. We cannot promise to address every suggestion, but we will consider them all carefully." Links: http://www.ianfoster.org/wordpress/2014/01/01/history-of-the-grid/ http://www.ianfoster.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/History-of-th… Alan

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Schedule posted and logistical details for OGF-40 in Oxford
by Sill, Alan 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

Dear OGF colleagues, As announced previously, the 40th gathering of the Open Grid Forum and its working groups will be held Wednesday, 15 January through Friday, 17 January 2014 on the campus of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, hosted by the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC)<http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/>. This message is to update you as to the current schedule and other logistical details for this small but very important meeting. Complete details are available at the OGF web site at http://www.ogf.org and the event page at http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-40 for your convenience. [cid:09D389A9-C3E8-4186-A5AD-7D707187E6F7@ttu.edu] Venue Details Mathematical Institute<http://www.ox.ac.uk/roq/maths.html> University of Oxford Radcliffe Observatory Quarter Woodstock Road Oxford OX2 6GG All OGF working groups are encouraged to meet. This event should be of special interest to the Security and Infrastructure Areas, including our OCCI and other cloud-related working and community groups, taking advantage of meetings earlier in the week of the the EUGridPMA meeting nearby in Abingdon<http://kelsey.web.cern.ch/kelsey/venue.html> and the EGI Federated Cloud face-to-face meeting in Oxford<https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1986>. The complete OGF-40 schedule is linked here.<http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-40/schedule> Information on travel<http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-40/travel> and lodging<http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-40/lodging> for attendance at OGF-40 is also available. For convenience for those attending the EUGridPMA and SCI meetings earlier in the week and staying at The Cosener's House in Abingdon, this map<http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/lib/exe/fetch.php/events/coseners-house-to-oxfo…> shows one of several ways to use public transport to traverse the distance to the OGF-40 security meetings in Oxford, with an approximate travel time of 45 minutes. Further details are available on that meeting’s transportation information page<http://kelsey.web.cern.ch/kelsey/transportation.html>. Register now for OGF-40 at this link.<http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modi…> The Call for Session Proposals<http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-40/call_for_session_proposa…> has now been closed, but special requests for rooms and sessions might still be accommodated; please check with the organizers using our Contact link<http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/contact>. If you have questions about meetings that might still be arranged, please contact your area director<http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/about/steering_group>. We look forward to seeing you in Oxford and in Abingdon, as appropriate, for this important set of meetings. Your OGF events organization team

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New Years greetings and new items of note for OGF
by Sill, Alan 01 Jan '14

01 Jan '14

Happy New Year OGF participants! Here are a couple of quick notes regarding our ongoing activities: - We (meaning you) completed and published a large number of OGF documents last year. A complete list including all recent updates is available at the usual historical link, http://ogf.org/documents - You may notice that this URL redirects automatically to its new home on the dokuwiki that now hosts most of the OGF pages. We made this switch late last year after a tremendous amount of work by your operations team including especially Andre Merzky, Greg Newby as Editor and myself to move, reorganize and also archive and keep available most of the old OGF pages in read-only mode for future reference. We made this switch primarily to improve the security and long-term maintainability of the OGF site, and also to permit hosting of "show-off" pages and tutorials prepared by our groups for our most popular and successful standards. As time goes on and we (that means you, coordinated through your group leads and area directors) fill out these pages and expand this material, we hope that the features that the new site supports will provide valuable resources for your projects and our stakeholder community. - Registration for OGF 40, 15-17 Jan 2014 in Oxford, UK is still open and lodging, transportation and associated co-located event details are linked from the OGF 40 event pages at http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-40 Or just visit the OGF home page at http://ogf.org and click on the "Events" link in the navigation sidebar to get there. We hope you will register and also will take the time to explore the new site and to either send suggestions for further additional improvements or (better!) volunteer to help your group and area to get its materials on the web. Note that these new ogf.org<http://ogf.org> features are intended to supplement the working group areas in the OGF Redmine at http://redmine.ogf.org used for document production, internal group organization, issue trackers and wikis, etc., not to replace them. Our intent was and is to have a more stable and easy to use platform for producing and hosting the externally-facing web site for OGF that we can grow and adapt to the community. Again, please register for OGF 40 and look over the new site. Happy New Year and we hope to see many of you in a couple of weeks in Oxford. Alan Sill VP of Standards Open Grid Forum

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Registration and Call for Session Proposals for OGF 40, 15-17 January 2014, Oxford, UK
by Sill, Alan 27 Dec '13

27 Dec '13

The 40th gathering of the Open Grid Forum will be held Wednesday, 15 January through Friday, 17 January 2014 on the campus of Oxford University in the United Kingdom. The Oxford e-Research Centre is helping to coordinate arrangements for this meeting. This meeting will follow closely after meetings earlier in the week of the EGI Federated Cloud project and will be closely scheduled to be convenient to attendees of the EUGridPMA and SCI groups to be held in Abingdon, no far away. We encourage all OGF working groups to meet. Registration for OGF-40 is open now. The OGF-40 program committee encourages the submission of session requests and proposals to supplement the program for the meeting. These may include, but are not limited to the following: • OGF Chartered Group Sessions • Birds of a Feather (BoF) Sessions • Tutorials • Interop / plugfest sessions • Federated Identity and Delegation • Data/Storage • Identity Management and Virtual Organizations • Production Infrastructure Interoperability • Software Sustainability for Grids and Clouds • Green IT, Energy Efficiency • Inter-cloud interoperability and SLA management • Networking for Distributed Computing Infrastructures • Performance measurement of Grids and Clouds • Science Clouds at large scales • Grid and Cloud Security • Distributed Desktop Grid and Volunteer Computing • Emerging Distributed Infrastructure • Campus Grids and Clouds • Data Management in Grids and Clouds • Federated Infrastructure Information on registration, travel, lodging, and the Call for Session Proposals is available on the OGF web site at http://ogf.org or directly at the following link: http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-40

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New document published: SAGA API Bindings: Python
by Greg Newby 24 Dec '13

24 Dec '13

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/dokuwiki/doku.php/documents/documents Note that the OGF site is undergoing transition, and the link might change. You can always get to the documents page via a link on the main page at www.ogf.org. This also links to public comments, for any documents in public comment. * GFD-R-P.211, SAGA API Bindings: Python. A. Merzky, M. Santcroos, S. Fisher, O. Weidner via SAGA-WG. Abstract: This document provides information to the grid community, proposing a standard for a Python language binding to the Simple API for Grid Applications (SAGA). As a SAGA language binding, it depends upon the SAGA Core API Specication, the currently defined SAGA API extension packages and on the draft Resource API Extension. -- Greg Newby, OGF Editor Dr. Gregory Newby, Director of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Univ of Alaska Fairbanks-909 Koyukuk Dr-PO Box 756020-Fairbanks-AK 99775-6020 e: gbnewby(a)alaska.edu v: 907-450-8663 f: 907-450-8603 w: people.arsc.edu/~newby

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New document published: European Middleware Initiative Execution Service – v2.0
by Greg Newby 24 Dec '13

24 Dec '13

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/dokuwiki/doku.php/documents/documents Note that the OGF site is undergoing transition, and the link might change. You can always get to the documents page via a link on the main page at www.ogf.org. This also links to public comments, for any documents in public comment. * GFD-I.210: European Middleware Initiative Execution Service – Version 2.0. M. Riedel, A. Konstantinov via PGI-WG. Abstract: The Production Grid Infrastructure (PGI) working group works on a well - defined set of standard profiles, and additional standard specifications if needed, for job and data management that are aligned with a Grid security and information model that addresses the needs of production Grid infrastructures. These needs have been identified in various international endeavors and are in many cases based on lessons learned obtained from the numerous activities in the Grid Interoperation Now (GIN) community group. Therefore, PGI can be considered as a spin-off activity of the GIN group in order to feed back any experience of using early versions of open standards (e.g. BES, JSDL, SRM, GLUE2, UR, etc.) in Grid production setups to improve the standards wherever possible. This particular document captures the a reasonable stable draft of the execution service specification of the European Middleware Initiative (EMI) that has been created based on many identified PGI concepts. A complementary implementation of this draft specification is provided by the EMI project including adoptions in ARC, gLite, and UNICORE. The goal of this document is to capture community practice and to have a foundation for a set of important standard specification updates to be addressed by the PGI set of profiles and/ or specifications of the corresponding related groups (e.g. BES, JSDL, etc.) -- Greg Newby, OGF Editor Dr. Gregory Newby, Director of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Univ of Alaska Fairbanks-909 Koyukuk Dr-PO Box 756020-Fairbanks-AK 99775-6020 e: gbnewby(a)alaska.edu v: 907-450-8663 f: 907-450-8603 w: people.arsc.edu/~newby

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New document published: GLUE v. 2.0 - Reference Realization to XML Schema
by Greg Newby 24 Dec '13

24 Dec '13

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/dokuwiki/doku.php/documents/documents Note that the OGF site is undergoing transition, and the link might change. You can always get to the documents page via a link on the main page at www.ogf.org. This also links to public comments, for any documents in public comment. * GFD-R-P.209. GLUE v. 2.0 Reference Realization to XML Schema. S. Andreozzi and others, via GLUE-WG. Abstract: The GLUE 2 specification is an information model for Grid entities described in natural language enriched with a graphical representation using UML Class Diagrams. This document presents a realization of this information model as XML Schema. -- Greg Newby, OGF Editor Dr. Gregory Newby, Director of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Univ of Alaska Fairbanks-909 Koyukuk Dr-PO Box 756020-Fairbanks-AK 99775-6020 e: gbnewby(a)alaska.edu v: 907-450-8663 f: 907-450-8603 w: people.arsc.edu/~newby

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Registration for OGF 40, 15-17 Jan 2014 in Oxford, UK
by Sill, Alan 17 Dec '13

17 Dec '13

Attention OGF participants! Registration for OGF 40, to be held 15-17 January 2014 in Oxford, UK is NOW OPEN! Registration Rates • Full Conference - £250.00 • Single Day - £125.00 per day The event starts at 9.00 on 15th January 2014 and finishes at 14.00 on 17th January 2014. Please register now at http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-40/registration Further information including a link to the Call for Session Proposals is online also at http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-40 We look forward to seeing everyone there in Oxford, and please register now!

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