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Reminders for OGF 38a and 38b and workshops; plus News Release: DMTF, ETSI, OASIS, OCEAN, OGF, OW2 and SNIA Announce Cloud Interoperability Week co-located in part with OGF 39
by Sill, Alan 16 May '13

16 May '13

Dear OGF colleagues, As a reminder, the deadline is coming up to register to attend the OGF/GLIF meeting to be held immediately following the Terena Networking Conference (TNC2013) in Jun win Maastricht, which we have designated as "OGF 38a", and also regular registration rates end soon for XSEDE 2013 to be held July 22-25 in San Diego, California. Links to information for these events are below. http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-38a http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-38b We also have news about the Cloud Interoperability Week to be held in conjunction with OGF 39, co-located with the EGI Technical Forum. On behalf of the cooperating group of cloud standards organizations and open source communities sponsoring this event, I would like to call your attention to the press release just put out by DMTF, ETSI, OASIS, OCEAN, OGF, OW2 and SNIA to announce their joint Cloud Interoperability Week Sep. 16-20, 2013: http://www.cloudplugfest.org/cloud-interoperability-week/press-release-1 This is a significant development in that multiple cloud-oriented SDOs are cooperating on interoperability demonstrations, workshops and conferences in cooperation with user communities and projects in the open source and commercial communities. Registration information for this event will be posted as soon as it is available. OGF encourages, endorses and promotes participation in this event, part of which will be co-located with OGF's 39th all-hands face-to-face meeting (OGF39) September 16-18, 2013 and the EGI Technical Forum in Medilla, Spain. The workshop and associated Cloud Plugfest are expected to continue through the rest of that week, and there will be a parallel Cloud Plugfest activities in conjunction with the SNIA Storage Developers Workshop that same week in Santa Clara, California. We would like to invite the OGF community and associated or related projects to participate energetically and enthusiastically in the Cloud Plugfest activities and to propose further sessions and locations at which further events like this can be held. If your working group would like to meet at any or all of the above events, or if you would like information about hosting birds-of-a-feather sessions or organizational sessions for new groups or efforts, please contact events(a)ogf.org or standards(a)ogf.org Finally, we would like to remind you once more about the two special workshops we have endorsed this summer: http://htcaas.kisti.re.kr/index.php/AMGCC13 http://www.dps.uibk.ac.at/~gabor/FedICI13/ WIth the summer and fall now well in hand, we would like to invite proposals and ideas for OGF 40, to be held in the winter 2013 to early spring 2014 time frame, and for subsequent events. With best regards, Alan Sill, Ph.D Vice President of Standards, Open Grid Forum

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Early registration deadline coming up May 5 for XSEDE'13 = OGF38 part b PLUS information on OGF38 a and b
by Sill, Alan 02 May '13

02 May '13

Dear colleagues, A noted in earlier messages, OGF’s second event of 2013, OGF-38, will be held in two parts. - OGF38a, June 6-7, will be co-located with and immediately following the Terena Networking ConferenceJune 3-6, 2013 in Maastricht, Netherlands. http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-38a - OGF38b will be co-located with and part of XSEDE-2013, which takes place July 22-25, 2013 in San Diego, California, USA. http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-38b We have updated the information on the events pages and added some detail about OGF 38a and OGF 38b. OGF 39 will follow in September 2013, co-located with the EGI Technical Forum. Note that the early registration deadline for XSEDE'13 is this Sunday, May 5 -- remarkably early! The TNC2013 registration price break deadline is also not too far away (May 24). Registration is NOT necessary for TNC2013 in order to attend the OGF38a OGF/GLIF joint event, but may make sense for those interested in this topic anyway to attend. Registration IS necessary to attend XSEDE'13 for OGF 38b. You may notice that the pages linked above are part of a new system we are bringing up under the guidance and direction of Andre Merzky that will eventually replace the old manual script-based pages for OGF. As time goes on, we will be filling out even more detail on this new set of pages and they will take over from the previous pages. We are excited about the opportunity this will provide to showcase OGF technologies and standards in a more flexible way in the future. Stay tuned for more information on this topic. Alan Sill Vice President of Standards, Open Grid Forum

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New document in public comment: Grid Certificate Profile
by Greg Newby 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Dear OGF members and affiliates: 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. There were a few problems with the trackers last week, but they have been addressed. Please let me know if you encounter troubles or anomalies viewing the documents, or submitting comments. This document is newly available for public comment: * Grid Certificate Profile, recommendation track document, via CAOPS-WG These documents were previously made available for public comment: * Usage Record 2.0, recommendations track document, via Usage Record WG * NML Base Schema version 1, recommendations track document, via Network Markup Language WG -- Greg Newby, OGF Standards 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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CFP: The 1st International Workshop on Federative and Interoperable Cloud Infrastructures (FedICI 2013), and OGF reminders
by Sill, Alan 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

Dear OGF working group members, Please take note of the following workshop to be added to the already rich and interesting crop of summer activities. This workshop fills a nice position in the range of US and European activities that we have already called to your attention, and because of its obvious interest to members of the OGF community, the GFSG and Board have agreed to co-sponsor and promote attendance at this event. As a reminder, please take note of the OGF 38 working group official meetings at TNC 2013 joint with GLIF for our networking communities (Maastricht in June), and the OGF working group tracks that will include formal meeting sessions at the XSEDE 2013 conference in San Diego in July, already called to your attention, and to the 1st International Workshop on Autonomic Management of Grid and Cloud Computing (AMGCC’13) involving many OGF people at the ACM Cloud and Autonomic Computing Conference (CAC 2013), Miami, Florida, USA August 5-August 9, 2013: http://htcaas.kisti.re.kr/index.php/AMGCC13 In addition to the above very full set of activities, we are also encouraging our cloud and related groups to take advantage of the FedICI'2013 "Federative and Interoperable Cloud Infrastructures" workshop described below. This workshop should provide an interesting opportunity to focus on these topics and possibly offer shorter travel time for many who are not able to make it across the Atlantic for the other, slightly differently focused workshop mentioned above. http://www.dps.uibk.ac.at/~gabor/FedICI13/ OGF 39 will take place not too much later (in Madrid, September 2013) will constitute a major opportunity for us to get all OGF working groups back together. OGF 39 will take place in a setting co-located with the EGI Technical Forum, and will feature a full set of working group meetings and include a Cloud Plugfest that will be part of a "Cloud Interoperability Week" co-sponsored by several major SDOs and related projects. This will be an opportunity to pull together all we have learned and once again come back together for a full OGF. We hope, given their great spacing and spread in geography and in time, that at least one of the above events will be convenient to you. Please make plans therefore to attend one or more of these intermediate workshops, if you are involved in some of the targeted activities, and at least one or both of the OGF 38 or 39 formal events, which are the venues for our working group meeting sessions. Links to registration and other information have been sent out in previous wg-all messages and will be posted on the OGF web site shortly. Thanks for all you are doing individually and in your group efforts. It really shows in the quality and quantity of recent OGF publication output -- see http://redmine.ogf.org/projects/editor-pubcom/boards/ for three more in public comment and please do comment! More are in the pipeline like these to continue your remarkably productive streak of progress. Best Regards, Alan Sill VP of Standards for the Grid Forum Steering Group Begin forwarded message: From: Gabor Kecskemeti <gkecskem(a)dps.uibk.ac.at> Subject: [DistComp] CFP: The first international workshop FedICI'2013, Federative and interoperable cloud infrastructures Date: March 28, 2013 10:56:25 AM CDT To: <distributed-computing-announce(a)datasys.cs.iit.edu> The first international workshop FedICI'2013 Federative and interoperable cloud infrastructures August 26 or 27 2013, Aachen, Germany organized in conjunction with Euro-Par 2013 Call for papers Workshop theme: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud systems allow the dynamic creation, destruction and management of Virtual Machines (VM) on virtualized clusters. IaaS clouds provide a high-level of abstraction to the end user that allows the creation of on-demand services through a pay as you go infrastructure combined with elasticity. As a result, many academic infrastructure service providers have started transitions to add cloud resources to their previously existing campus and shared grid deployments. To complete such solutions, they should also support the unification of multiple cloud and/or cloud and grid solutions in a seamless, preferably interoperable way. Hybrid, community or multi-clouds may utilize more than one cloud system, which are also called as a cloud federations. The management of such federations raises several challenges and open issues that require significant research work to be done in this area. This workshop will provide a dedicated forum for sharing the latest results, exchanging ideas and experiences, presenting new research, development and management of interoperable, federated IaaS cloud systems. The aim of the workshop is to help the community with defining the current state, determining further goals and presenting architectures and service frameworks to achieve highly interoperable federated cloud infrastructures. Priority will be given to submissions that focus on presenting solutions to interoperability and efficient management challenges faced by current and future infrastructure clouds. Selection will prioritize papers that document and present measured comparisons or practical information on realistic, real-world solutions. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation and relevance to the topics of interest. Scope: Papers may be submitted on any topic relevant to the theme of the workshop, including but not limited to: - Case studies of interoperable and federated solutions across multiple infrastructures including mixed grid and cloud systems - Application programming interfaces and standards for interoperability and federation - Federation-compatible service agreements, SLAs and quality of service systems - Virtual machine scheduling, management and deployment algorithms in federated systems (considering multi-objective solutions, scalability, energy efficiency etc.) - Accounting, identity management and security solutions that support federation-level models - Legal issues and data privacy in federated Cloud management - Performance evaluation, prediction and comparison of federated cloud systems - Storage management, focusing on interoperability and multi cloud placement - Novel IaaS architectures incorporating federative constructs in their foundations - Virtual appliance marketplaces and repositories meeting the demands and serving multi-cloud systems Authors are required to submit original, unpublished research or overviews on Federative and interoperable cloud infrastructures. Manuscripts should be limited to 10 pages in Springer LNCS format and submitted through the EasyChair submission system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fedici2013) Accepted papers that are presented at the workshop will be published in revised form in a special Euro-Par Workshop Volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series after the Euro-Par conference. Important dates: Deadline for paper submission: May 31, 2013 Author notification: July 8, 2013 Camera ready paper due: July 28, 2013 Workshop: August 26 or 27, 2013 The program committee: Chair: Gabor Kecskemeti Co-chairs: Radu Prodan, Attila Kertesz, Attila Csaba Marosi Workshop webpage: http://www.dps.uibk.ac.at/~gabor/FedICI13/

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Important: Liaison Statement from ITU-T JCA-Cloud to OGF and request for rapid feedback
by Sill, Alan 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Dear OGF working group members, As you know, we have ramped up our level of engagement with a number of standards roadmap efforts and with other standards organizations involved in cloud computing and/or in other areas of interest to participants in the OGF community. One result of these engagements is below. We are being asked to provide a reply from OGF as to existing standards and other related working group deliverables that are in progress, along with their timescales and deliverable items, for collection and use in the ITU-T cloud standards roadmap. Please see the attached PDF, which explains the conditions of the request and has links that you can follow to currently available material. Please do NOT submit your work directly, but instead follow the example format to send a copy of your proposed entries to me for collation and aggregation into a single OGF response. I need your response to this by no later than a week from now, April 15, 2013 by email - earlier is better. Please discuss this and reply as soon as possible. Thanks, Alan Sill VP of Standards, OGF Begin forwarded message: From: "Kurakova, Tatiana" <tatiana.kurakova(a)itu.int<mailto:tatiana.kurakova@itu.int>> Subject: Liaison Statement from ITU-T JCA-Cloud to OGF Date: April 8, 2013 4:27:42 AM CDT To: "Sill, Alan" <alan.sill(a)ttu.edu<mailto:alan.sill@ttu.edu>> Cc (multiple recipients) Dear Mr.Sill, On behalf of ITU-T JCA-Cloud Chairman, Ms. Monique Morrow, I am pleased to send you the communication from the ITU-T Joint Coordination Activity on Cloud Computing group. Please find enclosed the Liaison Statement agreed by JCA-Cloud at its last meeting (26 February 2013, Geneva, Switzerland) for OGF. It is for your action. In a view that the next JCA-Cloud meeting was brought forward by few days, I would solicit your reply on 17 April latest. Thank you for acknowledging the receipt. Best regards, Tatiana Kurakova, TSB secretariat for JCA-Cloud International Telecommunication Union Place des Nations CH-1211, Geneva 20 Switzerland Tel.: +41 22 730 51 26 Fax: +41 22 730 58 53

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Invitation to participate in Workshop on Autonomic Management of Grid and Cloud Computing (co-sponsored by OGF)
by Sill, Alan 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Pursuant to the message sent yesterday on upcoming events, please see the attached call for papers for one of the workshops - AMGCC'13. OGF has agreed to be a media co-sponsor of this workshop, along with KISTI, who are the primary organizers. Best regards, Alan Alan Sill, Ph.D Vice President of Standards, Open Grid Forum

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OGF 38 and 39 and OGF events in June, July, August and September 2013
by Sill, Alan 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

Dear OGF colleagues, This is a slightly long message that I hope will be full of information. I am writing to bring you up to date on OGF events in the summer and early fall timeframe. Due to an incredible amount of activity on the part of our very active community, there are events that span many different venues in June, July, August and September in Europe and the US that follow hard on the heels of a productive spring at OGF 37 in Virginia and ISGC 2013 in Taipei and the upcoming EGI Community Forum April 8-12 in Manchester, UK. OGF 38 will be split between two different venues, with the networking and infrastructure groups attending the Terena Networking Conference (TNC2013) June 3-6 in Maastricht, Netherlands and XSEDE 2013 to take place July 22-25 in San Diego, California. In addition, there are two other events of interest roughly in this timeframe. TNC2013 - https://tnc2013.terena.org - will be hosted by SURFnet, the Dutch National Research and Education Network, and will be followed immediately with a special OGF/GLIF working meeting to take place Thursday afternoon June 6 and Friday morning June 7 in the same venue. We expect a very large portion of our networking community to take advantage of this opportunity and to be present for these multiple events. In addition, many topics in Maastricht to be covered by TNC2013 are of interest to our Federated Security and identity management working groups. There are discussions taking place about a special meeting there, or a gathering of OGF attendees who will also be present at TNC2013. If you are interested in the latter topics, please contact our Security Area Director, Jens Jensen. We expect this to be an extremely attractive venue for those interested in the specific topics covered by the TNC. XSEDE 2013 - https://www.xsede.org/web/xsede13 - will be the location for the bulk of the rest of the OGF 38 meetings. The XSEDE conference will be a large, richly varied one with events covering the range of tutorials, keynotes, student presentations of papers and posters, a visualization showcase and extensive job fair, biosciences day, events on scientific gateways, and a variety of science, technology, and Education/Outreach tracks. OGF meetings will have their own track and it will be possible for OGF attendees to participate in XSEDE track sessions and vice versa. This is a premium scientific event that should serve as a venue for direct engagement between OGF and important elements of our constituent and user communities. We strongly recommend that you register for either or both of the above portions of the OGF 38 event and take advantage of these extremely attractive opportunities to interact with your colleagues. Organizers at each of these events will be on hand to coordinate the OGF sessions and to help you interact with your OGF colleagues in an organized manner as we make progress on OGF work group tasks and items. These events will be followed by two other smaller but hopefully also very productive related activities of the community that are co-sponsored by OGF. The first of these is the next in our continuing series of Cloud Plugfest events - http://cloudplugfest.org - that will take place at the DMTF Alliance Partners Technical Symposium (APTS) July 22-26 in Portland, Oregon. While the first portion of this week overlaps with XSEDE 2013, remote options for attendance will be available, and the week will conclude with interoperability demonstrations that will highlight the progress of DMTF in achieving interoperability of its specifications with those of other standards organizations with which we also have ongoing interoperability demonstrations. This event will be of interest to our cloud-related working groups and should give a direct opportunity for comparison of work among various cloud-related standards working groups. The second of the summer special events is a special workshop on Autonomic Management of Grid and Cloud Computing (AMGCC’13)- http://acm-cac2013.cis.fiu.edu/workshop.shtm - to take place August 5, 2013 as part of the ACM Cloud and Autonomic Computing Conference August 5-9 in Miami, Florida. This workshop has an organizing committee that includes several prominent members of the OGF community, and is focused on topics of deep relevance to the conduct and inter-relationships between the cloud and grid communities. While the deadline for papers for the ACM CAC conference itself is nearly upon us (March 25), there is still a considerable window for submission of papers to the AMGCC’13 workshop, with papers due April 30, 2013. Please look over the topics of the workshop at http://htcaas.kisti.re.kr/index.php/AMGCC13 and consider a submission. Finally, it is not at all too early to make your plans and mark your calendars for the fall! OGF 39 will take place at the EGI Technical Forum September 16-20 in Madrid, Spain and will also be the location for another in our series of Cloud Plugfest interoperability events. This event will bring together a huge range of technical and implementation projects along with a community of users in a rich variety of topics. OGF has recently concluded negotiations with ETSI, SNIA and the OCEAN interoperability project to host a Cloud Plugfest as part of a joint Cloud Interoperability Week to take place at and be co-located with the EGI TF. We also expect to carry out a full OGF event there, with working group meetings and interactive demos and tutorials, and community events to take full advantage of the opportunity to interact with the EGI technical community. This should be a large and active event. We will keep you apprised of web sites and deadlines as they become available. For those of you in portions of the globe that are not covered by the above events, we invite information on opportunities to locate a full OGF or events and workshops that we can draw to the attention of the community that can give us opportunities to gather to pursue productive work on topics of interest. Please help us keep our calendar as full as the upcoming months promise to be! Best regards, Alan Sill VP of Standards, OGF on behalf of the GFSG

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Reminder to upload your talks and materials for OGF 37
by Sill, Alan 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Area directors, group chairs and organizers for the last OGF conference: Please upload your slides and talk materials as appropriate to the OGF 37 pages. If you have difficulty doing this, please contact Andre or myself and we can get these uploaded. We are in the process of working on a way to replace these pages with ones that are based on the new OGF tool set. Meanwhile many of our colleagues and your group members do find it convenient to look over slides and presentations and other material from the OGF meetings - which I found very productive this last time especially, so there is good reason for you to take action on this. Again, please feel free to ask for help if you need it to get these posted. Alan and Andre

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Reminder: Procedure for Public Comments - OGF Redmine
by Sill, Alan 18 Mar '13

18 Mar '13

Dear OGF working group and community group members, This is just a community reminder that we have moved our Public Comment process to the OGF Redmine. Currently we have three documents in public comment: Usage Record 2.0 (Recommendations Track) https://redmine.ogf.org/projects/editor-pubcom/boards/2 NML Base Schema Version 1 (Recommendations Track) https://redmine.ogf.org/projects/editor-pubcom/boards/3 Grid Certificate Profile (Recommendations Track [update]) https://redmine.ogf.org/projects/editor-pubcom/boards/8 The location of the public comments area in general, as now linked on the OGF web site, is: https://redmine.ogf.org/projects/editor-pubcom/boards Each public comment forum has an initial entry that gives the public comment period closing date, and if you click on that entry, will have within it a link to the document itself as well as an abstract and a link to follow to enter your comments. An account on the OGF Redmine is required to enter comments; these are free and you can log on if needed through a variety of social media login methods, as well as by creating an account directly. Any OGF member or in fact any person willing to sign up for an OGF Redmine account can submit comments to any forum. For people who wish to remain anonymous, please send your comments to public_comments(a)ogf.org -- they will be added to the respective forum anonymously. Further guidelines for use are contained in an overall message at the top level of the public comment forums area: https://redmine.ogf.org/boards/7/topics/5 Thanks for reading these documents, and for your comments, which will help to improve them further. Alan ------- Alan Sill, Ph.D Vice President of Standards, Open Grid Forum Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center Adjunct Professor of Physics, TTU

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GridForge in ReadOnly mode...
by OGF IT 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

GridForge retires! After years of service, our all-beloved GridForge [1] has been put into ReadOnly mode. All group operations are now moved to our Redmine installation [2]. Please contact OGF support at it(a)ogf.org if you need further details, or if you need access to non-public parts of GridForge. [1] : http://forge.ogf.org/ [1] : http://redmine.ogf.org/ --

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