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CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS FOR OGF37
by OGF Events 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

Call for Demonstrations The organizers of OGF 37 invite software teams to demonstrate cloud and grid infrastructures, software systems, and applications at the Open Grid Forum 37, March 11-13 in Charlottesville Virginia. These 75-minute demonstrations will be held concurrently on Tuesday, March 12. During the demonstration period, each team will give its presentation three times, with a 5 minute break between sessions. Participants will attend a demonstration of their choice for twenty minutes, have five minutes to move to another demonstration, see a second demonstration, and then move again to observe a third demonstration. This format will allow attendees to see three different demonstrations and will give demonstrators a reasonable period of time to present their project. Each demonstration team will be provided with a conference room (small rooms hold 10, larger ones 15), projection system, Ethernet, and Polycom phone system if needed. To apply for a demonstration slot, please send a half-page abstract by February 15, 2013 to glc2z(a)virginia.edu. The abstract should clearly state the problem the software addresses, the OGF standards, if any, that are supported, and what attendees can expect to learn. Gina L. Corell, Ph.D. Communications Director The University of Virginia Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering UVACSE 434-243-1107 http://www.uvacse.virginia.edu/

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OGF37: Call for Session Proposals
by OGF Events 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

online form for session proposals: http://ogf.org/OGF37/cfp.php The OGF37 program committee seeks active participation from the community, and encourages the submission of session proposals that may include (but are not limited to) the following topics: 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 Infrastrucutre OGF Chartered Group Sessions Birds of a Feather (BoF) Sessions In addition, there are opportunities for Plugfest Demonstrations and Tutorials. To Submit suggested proposal or session requests, please visit the OGF37 website at http://www.ogf.org/OGF37/ Note that you will need to log in (using your Gridforge username and password) to submit a Group Session request. OGF Session Types: OGF Chartered Groups and BoF Session: A session for an OGF Chartered Group to make progress according to the group's charter. Note that you will need to log in (using your Gridforge username and password) to submit a Group Session request. Birds of a Feather' (BoF): An informal discussion on a specific issue or subject, usually with the intent of forming a chartered group. OGF Area Meeting: A meeting called by the Area Directors of a particular OGF Area, usually a meeting with the chairs of the Chartered Groups in that Area.

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PLEASE READ: Announcing OGF 37 11-13 March, 2013 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.
by Sill, Alan 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

Dear Open Grid Forum Working Group members, The Open Grid Forum (OGF) is organizing its 37th global conference on 11-13 March, 2013 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. It is our first event of the year and as such we would like to have an especially powerful and productive impact. Not to mention that Charlottesville will be beautiful in the spring and traveling to Charlottesville is also extremely affordable. From any of the major airports in Europe, flights average 675 Euros and hotel rooms average 110 Euros per night. OGF conferences offer open forums that build the community, explore trends, share best practices and consolidate these best practices into standards. The OGF conference will be filled with many speakers, along with information-packed workshops and will be attended by leading business, government, The registration form and the detailed schedule, containing information about the speakers and programs can be found on the official OGF37 website (http://www.ogf.org/OGF37/) See you in Charlottesville! Sincerely yours, The OGF Team

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New document published: Web Services Data Access and Integration – The RDF(S) Realization (WS-DAIRDFS) RDF(S) Querying Specification, Version 1.0
by Greg Newby 15 Jan '13

15 Jan '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/gf/docs/ * GFD-R-P.200 "Web Services Data Access and Integration â€“ The RDF(S) Realization (WS-DAIRDFS) RDF(S) Querying Specification, Version 1.0," I. Kojima, S. M. Pahlevi, S. Lynden, via DAIS-WG. Abstract: Data resources play a significant role in many applications across multiple domains. Web services provide implementation neutral facilities for describing, invoking and orchestrating collections of networked resources. The OGF (Open Grid Forum) Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA), and its associated specifications, define consistent interfaces through web services to components of the grid infrastructure. Both the web and grid communities stand to benefit from the provision of consistent and agreed web service interfaces for data resources and the systems that manage them. This document presents a specification for a collection of querying interfaces for RDF(S) data resources, which extends interfaces defined in the Web Services Data Access and Integration document [WS-DAI]. It also presents interfaces for handling RDF graphs in RDF(S) data resources. This specification can be applied in regular web services environments or as part of a grid fabric. -- 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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Save the Dates for 2013 OGF meetings and associated events! Also Happy Holidays for 2012 and best wishes for the New Year
by Sill, Alan 22 Dec '12

22 Dec '12

Dear OGF members, We are grateful for the work you have done over the past year. Speaking personally for a moment, I hope that as appropriate, you have had a great Hanukkah or will have a Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, end of year celebration or whatever celebration is appropriate for your particular choice of faith (or choice not to have one!); it is a true privilege to know each and every one of you. This has been a year of growth of the appreciation of OGF and its role in the standards landscape, and readjustment financially as we deal with more people participating in our activities remotely, less in in-person meetings, and adjustment to the broadened cloud, grid and distributed computing standards landscape. I think that the Big Data field, next on the growth horizon and clearly one in which the OGF community has much to say, is still in expansion but will be in need of our collective talents and skills in bringing community-based tools to that area of work in the near future; fortunately this is an area in which OGF already has a strong track record in related data transmission, interface and format description standards. This note is partly to let you know the following dates that have been put forward by the OGF Board, and of its decision to put more of the responsibility for organizing and bringing together OGF meetings into the Grid Forum Steering Committee and the Standards Council, which consists of your Area Directors. We hope that this will improve communication between the groups in each area and the organizing efforts, and will be a good match to the OGF Board's corresponding decision to base more of our events based on university campuses and other no-risk venues, where we can be sure to carry them out without existential impact to OGF if the event is not within budget. We think that this set of decisions places OGF on a sound, strong footing for the future. As you may also know, Steven Newhouse has decided to step down as OGF Board Chair after years of contributions at that level, and Andrew Grimshaw has agreed to take on this role as his replacement. These are the dates that have been discussed. The first is firm for OGF37 , and the announcement for it should go up on the OGF web site shortly. The rest remain to be confirmed, and this is your opportunity to communicate either directly with us or through your group chair and area director about your preferences, but we would like you to know about them at the earliest opportunity. OGF37 - University of Virginia - March 10-13th 2013 OGF38 - Maastericht, NL, 3-6th June 2013 - collocated with the Terena Networking Conference OGF39 - EGI Technical Forum - September 2013, Location TBC In addition, we expect to have another in the continuing series of Cloud Plugfest events that we have been co-organizing with ETSI and SNIA at or near OGF 37 (still under discussion), and there are several other events in series that have had significant OGF input that will take place, including Cloudscape V in Brussels Feb. 27-28, the OGF co-sponsored IEEE Cloudcom conference series, OGF sessions at the Open Science Grid All-Hands meeting to take place possibly by video (since the OSG AHM will take place on roughly the same dates as OGF37 in another city), and other opportunities for working group individual meetings or sessions during other conference series. Our interactions with the ISGC series have been light this year, but we hope to return on our bi-annual pattern to and OGF event at ISGC 2014 and will be in communication with you about this as needed during the upcoming year. 2013 will also include some other opportunities for Cloud Plugfest developer-oriented events. In 2013 these will include the following, in addition to OGF37 already mentioned: The Distributed Management Task Force Alliance Partners Technical Symposium, July July 22 - 26th in Portland, OR, USA (OGF is an Alliance Partner of DMTF.) The Storage Networking Industry Association Storage Developers Conference - Sept 16-20th in Santa Clara, CA, USA (OGF has a Memorandum of Understanding with SNIA and has worked together with it on the Cloud Plugfests for the past 2 years; opportunities may exist to expand this arrangement.) (The DMTF APTS is occurring on dates also occupied by the XSEDE 2013 conference, but we are not in control of the timing, so will probably try to send people and/or encourage them to attend both events.) Finally, on behalf of the GFSG and Standards Council, I would like to say that we wish you the very best in 2013 and hope that the communication door will remain open (carrier pigeon, LinkedIn, Twitter and other social media or direct communication are welcome also!) for your ideas on how we can help continue to tune and improve our interactions with the OGF community. The past year has seen a switch to this leaner structure, the replacement of the OGF Sourceforge-based GridForge with the new Redmine tools, several productive events and a continuing steady stream of OGF documents published in our series. We hope 2013 will prove to be even more successful -- and look for a call for nominations for new OGF Area Directors and other leadership positions in the near future! Yours with deep appreciation, gratitude and respect, Alan Alan Sill, Ph.D Vice President of Standards, Open Grid Forum Site Director, Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing at TTU and Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center Adjunct Professor of Physics, Texas Tech University

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Re: [wg-all] [ogf-board] Request for input for OGF submissions to the ITU-T Joint Coordination Activity on Cloud Computing
by Craig Lee 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

David, Thanks for your update on these docs/efforts. Imho, part of the theme of our response to ITU is to demonstrate that the OGF community understands federation management issues! --Craig On 12/18/12 3:50 AM, David Chadwick wrote: > Hi Craig > > GFD.159 > the OASIS XACML TC has recently published a draft which shows how to > make a RESTful call to an XACML PDP. I am going to propose that > OpenStack adopts this (not sure what response I will get since it is XML > not JSON). If we go the restful route for cloud, then we should write a > supplementary short bit of text to say how GFD.159 and the OASIS draft > can fit together. We may also need a spec to say how an XACMLv2 request > context can be transferred as JSON rather than XML, since the OASIS > XACML group are only doing an XACMLv3 JSON spec. > > GFD.158 > This is the pull model for credentials. I think in our work with > OpenStack and VOMS we will use the push model instead. Note sure how > many systems support pulling credentials. > > GFD.157 > Not sure if any implementation other than PERMIS supports this. It seems > that many implementations do credential validation in the PEP rather > than in a separate service, and then they do not properly do credential > validation - they simply check the signature of the SAML assertion and > if it is OK, they say fine, the attributes are OK (which effectively > means that all IDPs are trusted to issue all attributes). > > regards > > David > > On 17/12/2012 23:52, Craig Lee wrote: >> Alan, >> >> I concur with all of your suggested documents. While these are >> presumably supposed to be cloud standards, I assume that we can propose >> standards that are arguable "cloud-relevant". (DFDL, WS-Agreement and >> WS-Agreement-Negotiation would all be in this category.) >> >> If federation and distributed resource management is a strong suit for >> OGF, and since it's relevant to federated clouds, what about the >> following documents concerning security and federation management: >> >> GFD.159 Use of XACML Request Context to Obtain an Authorisation >> Decision P-REC >> >> GFD.158 Use of SAML to retrieve Authorization Credentials P-REC >> >> GFD.157 Use of WS-TRUST and SAML to access a Credential Validation >> Service P-REC >> >> These are all P-RECs. In fact, in terms of "preparing our submission", >> do we want to pursue a "theme" of cloud federation as being the major >> value that OGF brings to the table? There are other INFO and CP docs >> that we could reference. >> >> What do others think? >> >> --Craig >> >> On 12/17/12 10:48 AM, Sill, Alan wrote: >>> Dear OGF Standards Council members and all area work group members, >>> >>> We have received the following formal invitation to contribute to the >>> ITU-T Joint Coordination Activity on Cloud Computing Cloud Standards >>> Roadmap effort, as described further in the attached document. >>> >>> --- >>> >>> Liaison Statement from ITU-T JCA-Cloud to OGF >>> >>> Source: JCA-Cloud >>> Title: Invitation to contribute to the cloud computing roadmap >>> population >>> >>> LIAISON STATEMENT >>> >>> For action to: ITU-T Study Groups SG 2, SG 5, SG 11, SG 12, SG 13, SG >>> 15, SG 16, SG 17, CT-CCVOCAB, CT-CCRA, TMForum, OMG-CSCC, ISMA, ISO/IEC >>> JTC1 SCs 6, 7, 27 and 38, OASIS, MEF, *OGF*, DMTF, CSA, SNIA, GICTF, >>> ISACA, ATIS CSF, ETSI TC Cloud, ETSI TC LI, IEEE Cloud Profiles Working >>> Group, IEEE Intercloud Working Group, IETF, BBF >>> >>> Agreed to at JCA-Cloud meeting (Geneva, 31 October 2012) >>> >>> Deadline: 18 February 2013 >>> >>> --- >>> >>> If there are no objections, I would like to propose to submit, without >>> loss of or change to the OGF copyright statement, the following OGF >>> published standards documents: >>> >>> DFDL (applicable to interchange of data between Software as a Service >>> application) >>> >>> GFD.174 <http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.174.pdf> Data Format >>> Description >>> Language (DFDL) v1.0 Specification >>> >>> GFD.190 <http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.190.pdf> Mapping between >>> DFDL 1.0 >>> Infoset and XML Data Model >>> >>> >>> WS-Agreement and WS-Agreement-Negotiation (applicable to service >>> agreement and SLA expression and parameter negotiation) >>> >>> GFD.192 <http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.192.pdf> Web Services >>> Agreement >>> Specification (WS-Agreement) >>> >>> GFD.193 <http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.193.pdf> WS-Agreement >>> Negotiation >>> Version 1.0 >>> >>> >>> OCCI 1.1 Core, Infrastructure and HTTP Rendering (applicable to >>> Infrastructure as a Service control and federation, with possible >>> applications to Platform as a Service and Software as a Service Clouds, >>> and also to software-defined networking infrastructure control) >>> >>> GFD.183 <http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.183.pdf> Open Cloud Computing >>> Interface - Core >>> >>> GFD.184 <http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.184.pdf> Open Cloud Computing >>> Interface - Infrastructure >>> >>> GFD.185 <http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.185.pdf> Open Cloud Computing >>> Interface - RESTful HTTP Rendering >>> >>> >>> In addition, I invite the OGF community to propose other documents for >>> submission, or to complete work on documents that can be referenced in a >>> summary to be submitted to ISO and the ITU-T, along with other cloud >>> roadmap efforts. For the purposes of this ITU-T submission, please take >>> note of the deadline and of the fact that it will take some time to >>> prepare our OGF documentation to accompany the submissions. >>> >>> If you have any questions, please feel free to explore the links below, >>> which can be accessed if you create yourself a guest account, and to >>> take note of the submissions already made by other participating >>> liaisons from other standards organizations. >>> >>> Thanks very much, and please let me hear from you. >>> >>> Alan Sill >>> OGF VP of Standards (acting as ITU-T JCA-Cloud liaison for 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: *December 17, 2012 12:17:24 PM CST >>>> *To: *"Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu <mailto:Alan.Sill@ttu.edu>" >>>> <Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu <mailto:Alan.Sill@ttu.edu>> >>>> *Cc: *"mmorrow(a)cisco.com <mailto:mmorrow@cisco.com>" >>>> <mmorrow(a)cisco.com <mailto:mmorrow@cisco.com>>, "Lee, Chae Sub (TIES)" >>>> <chae-sub.lee(a)ties.itu.int <mailto:chae-sub.lee@ties.itu.int>>, >>>> "jamil.chawki(a)orange.com <mailto:jamil.chawki@orange.com>" >>>> <jamil.chawki(a)orange.com <mailto:jamil.chawki@orange.com>>, >>>> "li.mingdong(a)zte.com.cn <mailto:li.mingdong@zte.com.cn>" >>>> <li.mingdong(a)zte.com.cn <mailto:li.mingdong@zte.com.cn>>, >>>> "dibrack(a)microsoft.com <mailto:dibrack@microsoft.com>" >>>> <dibrack(a)microsoft.com <mailto:dibrack@microsoft.com>>, 이강찬 >>>> (chan(a)etri.re.kr <mailto:chan@etri.re.kr>) <chan(a)etri.re.kr >>>> <mailto:chan@etri.re.kr>> >>>> >>>> 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 (31 >>>> October 2012) for OGF. It is for action before 18 February 2013. >>>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ogf-board mailing list >>> ogf-board(a)ogf.org >>> https://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-board >>> >> -- >> The wg-all mailing list is an umbrella list for all >> OGF mailing lists. If you are subscribed to any OGF >> mailing list, you will receive mails to wg-all. >> >> You can unsubscribe from this list on >> >> http://www.ogf.org/cgi-bin/perl/unsubscribe-wg-all.pl >> >> wg-all mailing list >> wg-all(a)ogf.org >> https://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/wg-all

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Request for input for OGF submissions to the ITU-T Joint Coordination Activity on Cloud Computing
by Sill, Alan 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

Dear OGF Standards Council members and all area work group members, We have received the following formal invitation to contribute to the ITU-T Joint Coordination Activity on Cloud Computing Cloud Standards Roadmap effort, as described further in the attached document. --- Liaison Statement from ITU-T JCA-Cloud to OGF Source: JCA-Cloud Title: Invitation to contribute to the cloud computing roadmap population LIAISON STATEMENT For action to: ITU-T Study Groups SG 2, SG 5, SG 11, SG 12, SG 13, SG 15, SG 16, SG 17, CT-CCVOCAB, CT-CCRA, TMForum, OMG-CSCC, ISMA, ISO/IEC JTC1 SCs 6, 7, 27 and 38, OASIS, MEF, OGF, DMTF, CSA, SNIA, GICTF, ISACA, ATIS CSF, ETSI TC Cloud, ETSI TC LI, IEEE Cloud Profiles Working Group, IEEE Intercloud Working Group, IETF, BBF Agreed to at JCA-Cloud meeting (Geneva, 31 October 2012) Deadline: 18 February 2013 --- If there are no objections, I would like to propose to submit, without loss of or change to the OGF copyright statement, the following OGF published standards documents: DFDL (applicable to interchange of data between Software as a Service application) GFD.174<http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.174.pdf> Data Format Description Language (DFDL) v1.0 Specification GFD.190<http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.190.pdf> Mapping between DFDL 1.0 Infoset and XML Data Model WS-Agreement and WS-Agreement-Negotiation (applicable to service agreement and SLA expression and parameter negotiation) GFD.192<http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.192.pdf> Web Services Agreement Specification (WS-Agreement) GFD.193<http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.193.pdf> WS-Agreement Negotiation Version 1.0 OCCI 1.1 Core, Infrastructure and HTTP Rendering (applicable to Infrastructure as a Service control and federation, with possible applications to Platform as a Service and Software as a Service Clouds, and also to software-defined networking infrastructure control) GFD.183<http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.183.pdf> Open Cloud Computing Interface - Core GFD.184<http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.184.pdf> Open Cloud Computing Interface - Infrastructure GFD.185<http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.185.pdf> Open Cloud Computing Interface - RESTful HTTP Rendering In addition, I invite the OGF community to propose other documents for submission, or to complete work on documents that can be referenced in a summary to be submitted to ISO and the ITU-T, along with other cloud roadmap efforts. For the purposes of this ITU-T submission, please take note of the deadline and of the fact that it will take some time to prepare our OGF documentation to accompany the submissions. If you have any questions, please feel free to explore the links below, which can be accessed if you create yourself a guest account, and to take note of the submissions already made by other participating liaisons from other standards organizations. Thanks very much, and please let me hear from you. Alan Sill OGF VP of Standards (acting as ITU-T JCA-Cloud liaison for 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: December 17, 2012 12:17:24 PM CST To: "Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu<mailto:Alan.Sill@ttu.edu>" <Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu<mailto:Alan.Sill@ttu.edu>> Cc: "mmorrow(a)cisco.com<mailto:mmorrow@cisco.com>" <mmorrow(a)cisco.com<mailto:mmorrow@cisco.com>>, "Lee, Chae Sub (TIES)" <chae-sub.lee(a)ties.itu.int<mailto:chae-sub.lee@ties.itu.int>>, "jamil.chawki(a)orange.com<mailto:jamil.chawki@orange.com>" <jamil.chawki(a)orange.com<mailto:jamil.chawki@orange.com>>, "li.mingdong(a)zte.com.cn<mailto:li.mingdong@zte.com.cn>" <li.mingdong(a)zte.com.cn<mailto:li.mingdong@zte.com.cn>>, "dibrack(a)microsoft.com<mailto:dibrack@microsoft.com>" <dibrack(a)microsoft.com<mailto:dibrack@microsoft.com>>, 이강찬 (chan(a)etri.re.kr<mailto:chan@etri.re.kr>) <chan(a)etri.re.kr<mailto:chan@etri.re.kr>> 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 (31 October 2012) for OGF. It is for action before 18 February 2013. 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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New document in public comment: URN Namespace for Network Resources
by Greg Newby 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

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 also, of course, welcome. All documents in public comment are accessible here: http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?public_comment This document has been newly added for public comment: * URN Namespace for Network Resources. F. Dijkstra, J. vd. Ham, via NML-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: newby AT arsc.edu v: 907-450-8663 f: 907-450-8603 w: www.arsc.edu/~newby

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New document published: Distributed Resource Management Application API Version 2
by Greg Newby 12 Dec '12

12 Dec '12

OGF Community: A new document has been published in the OGF series. All OGF documents (including some that are open for public comment!) may be found here: http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/ * GFD-R.194 "Distributed Resource Management Application API Version 2 (DRMAA)"[Obsoletes GFD.22, GFD.130 and GFD.133]. Via DRMAA-WG. P. Tröger, R. Brost, D. Gruber, M. Mamoński, D. Templeton Abstract: This document describes the Distributed Resource Management Application API Version 2 (DRMAA). It defines a generalized API to Distributed Resource Management (DRM) systems in order to facilitate the development of portable application programs and high-level libraries. The intended audience for this specification are DRMAA language binding designers, DRM system vendors, high-level API designers and meta-scheduler architects. Application developers are expected to rely on product-specific documentation for the DRMAA API implementation in their particular DRM system. -- 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 AT alaska.edu v: 907-450-8663 f: 907-450-8603 w: www.arsc.edu/~newby

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Fwd: [DistComp] Deadline extension for the Special Issue on Interoperability, Federation Frameworks and Application Programming Interfaces for IaaS Clouds
by Sill, Alan 30 Nov '12

30 Nov '12

Please consider a submission if your work is on any aspect of federated clouds or related distributed infrastructure as a service offerings. Alan Sill Co-guest editor and VP Standards, OGF Begin forwarded message: From: Gabor Kecskemeti <kecskemeti.gabor(a)sztaki.mta.hu<mailto:kecskemeti.gabor@sztaki.mta.hu>> Date: November 30, 2012, 10:46:18 AM GMT+01:00 To: <distributed-computing-announce(a)datasys.cs.iit.edu<mailto:distributed-computing-announce@datasys.cs.iit.edu>> Subject: [DistComp] Deadline extension for the Special Issue on Interoperability, Federation Frameworks and Application Programming Interfaces for IaaS Clouds --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Call for Papers *** Springer Journal of Grid Computing http://www.springer.com/journal/10723 Special Issue on Interoperability, Federation Frameworks and Application Programming Interfaces for IaaS Clouds http://cac.hpcc.ttu.edu/jogc/cloud-interop-2012/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Special Issue on Interoperability, Federation Frameworks and Application Programming Interfaces for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Clouds will highlight foundational standards and application programmer interfaces (APIs) useful for large- scale, scalable distributed computing. This issue will provide the community with dedicated forum, within the prestigious Springer Journal of Grid Computing, for presenting new research, development, and deployment efforts in running interoperable, federated IaaS cloud systems. Priority will be given to submissions that focus on presenting solutions to challenges faced by current and future infrastructure cloud toolkits and APIs, and on frameworks that allow their use across a broad range of platforms and user communities. Large commercial cloud providers and standards organizations, multi-user and multi- organization infrastructure providers and users are welcome to submit to this issue to provide formal descriptions of their existing and proposed solutions. The increasingly large range of choices and availability of IaaS toolkits has also allowed creation of cloud solutions and frameworks suitable for private deployment and practical use even on smaller scales. As a result, many academic infrastructure service providers have started to their transition to add cloud resources to their previously existing campus and shared grid deployments. To be successful, such solutions should also support the unification of cloud and/or cloud+grid solutions in a seamless, preferably interoperable way. Priority in selection will be given to papers that document and present measured comparisons or practical information on realistic, real-world solutions. We believe this venue will be an excellent place to help the community define the current state, determine future goals, and present architectures and service frameworks to achieve highly interoperable federated cloud infrastructures. PROPOSED EXAMPLE TOPICS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • Case studies of interoperable and federated solutions across multiple infrastructures • Application Programmer Interfaces and standards for interoperability and federation • Experience from operating infrastructure clouds as part of one or more federations • Practical experiences in energy-efficiency or other benefits from cloud federation • Virtual machine deployment and migration solutions across cloud boundaries • Federation-compatible service agreements, SLAs and quality of service control systems • Virtual machine scheduling and management algorithms in federated systems • Federation and interoperability challenges of mixed grid and cloud systems • Construction and management of cross-domain HPC virtual infrastructures • Accounting and identity management solutions that support federation-level models • Performance evaluation and comparison across multiple federated cloud systems • New programming models and standards for interoperable cloud computing systems • Scalability issues and comparisons of different cloud federation approaches • Security problems, considerations and solutions for hybrid mixed public/private clouds • Storage management, focusing on interoperability and multi cloud placement Important Dates --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • Papers Due: November 30, 2012 ----> Extended to December 15, 2012 • First Round Decisions: February 1, 2013 • Major Revisions if needed: April 1, 2013 • Second Round Decisions: June 1, 2013 • Minor Revisions if needed: July 15, 2013 • Final Decision: July 30, 2013 • Publication Date: September 2013 PAPER SUBMISSION --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished technical papers. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and relevance to the special issue topics of interest. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another workshop, conference or a journal, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the review process. Submitted papers may not exceed 20 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (1" margins), including figures, tables, and references; note that accepted papers will likely be between 15 to 20 pages, depending on a variety of factors. Manuscripts must be formatted along the guidelines for authors of the Journal of Grid Computing: http://www.springer.com/journal/10723 Manuscripts must be submitted online using the site: http://www.editorialmanager.com/grid Please indicate that your manuscript is targeted to the Cloud Federation special issue. Editors --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Issue Guest Editors • Alan Sill (alan.sill(a)ttu.edu<mailto:alan.sill@ttu.edu>), Texas Tech University & Open Grid Forum • Gabor Kecskemeti (kecskemeti.gabor(a)sztaki.mta.hu<mailto:kecskemeti.gabor@sztaki.mta.hu>), MTA SZTAKI, Hungary Editors-in-Chief • Peter Kacsuk, Hungarian Academy of Sciences & University of Westminster • Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Gabor Kecskemeti Research Fellow Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems - www.lpds.sztaki.hu<http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu> MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute - www.sztaki.hu<http://www.sztaki.hu> Hungarian Academy of Sciences - www.mta.hu<http://www.mta.hu> Cloud computing group - https://www.lpds.sztaki.hu/CloudResearch Personal research webpage - http://users.iit.uni-miskolc.hu/~kecskemeti _______________________________________________ distributed-computing-announce mailing list distributed-computing-announce(a)datasys.cs.iit.edu<mailto:distributed-computing-announce@datasys.cs.iit.edu> http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/mailman/listinfo/distributed-computing-announce

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