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Don't forget to register for OGF 35 and the Cloud Plugfest!
by Alan Sill 31 May '12

31 May '12

Just a quick reminder to all work groups: Don't forget to register for OGF 35 in Delft, and the pre-event Cloud Plugfest the preceding Thursday through Saturday in Amsterdam at the Science Park! OGF35 Technical University Delft Delft, Netherlands June 17-19, 2012 OGF 35 (June 17-19, 2012) will be co-located with the HPDC 2012 conference (June 18-22) in Delft, Netherlands. Every effort will be made to schedule group meetings at times most convenient for each group keeping in mind the overall schedule of the conference. All OGF working groups are encouraged to meet at OGF 35 and to participate actively in the co-located workshops and conference events. The OGF35 Schedule is available here Register Now for OGF35! For questions, send email to registration(a)ogf.org. Information on the Cloud Plugfest is available at CloudPlugfest.org Here's more on the latter topic. We're really excited about this series, which seems to have gathered good uptake from the OGF-related developer community and to be a good way to engage with other organizations. Please look into this topic and register. Remote participation is possible for this plugfest event! About Cloud Plugfests: The Cloud Interoperability Plugfest series (or "Cloud Plugfests" for short) originated out of community-based interoperability efforts and was selected by the OGF and SNIA in 2011 as a method to exchange information and to encourage interoperability on implementations of relevant cloud standards. It has since expanded to include a variety of support tools provided by these organizations and by ETSI to support the community. The Cloud Plugfest series is open to participation by other standards organizations, individual developers, and software framework projects. Space will be provided on this site upon request for links to information on any effort designed to promote interoperability and the adoption of cloud standards for the betterment of the cloud standards ecosystem. For more information, please see the Introduction, Mission and Goals, Project Updates and Tools pages.

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Fwd: [DistComp] CFP: 8th IEEE International Conference on eScience -- Chicago IL USA, October 8th-12 2012
by Alan Sill 27 May '12

27 May '12

This is the conference associated with OGF 36: http://ogf.org/OGF36 Please note the submission deadlines in the announcement below. Begin forwarded message: > CALL FOR PAPERS > > 8th IEEE International Conference on eScience > http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/escience2012/ > October 8-12, 2012 > Chicago, IL, USA > > Researchers in all disciplines are increasingly adopting digital tools, techniques and practices, often in > communities and projects that span disciplines, laboratories, organizations, and national boundaries. > The eScience 2012 conference is designed to bring together leading international and interdisciplinary > research communities, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. The > conference serves as a forum to present the results of the latest applications research and product/tool > developments and to highlight related activities from around the world. Also, we are now entering the > second decade of eScience and the 2012 conference gives an opportunity to take stock of what has > been achieved so far and look forward to the challenges and opportunities the next decade will bring. > > A special emphasis of the 2012 conference is on advances in the application of technology in a > particular discipline. Accordingly, significant advances in applications science and technology will be > considered as important as the development of new technologies themselves. Further, we welcome > contributions in educational activities under any of these disciplines. > > As a result, the conference will be structured around two e-Science tracks: > > • eScience Algorithms and Applications > • eScience application areas, including: > • Physical sciences > • Biomedical sciences > • Social sciences and humanities > • Data-oriented approaches and applications > • Compute-oriented approaches and applications > • Extreme scale approaches and applications > • Cyberinfrastructure to support eScience > • Novel hardware > • Novel uses of production infrastructure > • Software and services > • Tools > The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and will be made > available online through the IEEE Digital Library. Selected papers will be invited to submit extended > versions to a special issue of the Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)journal. > > SUBMISSION PROCESS > Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 8 pages of > double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 > manuscript guidelines. (Up to 2 additional pages may be purchased for US$150/page) > > Templates are available > from http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. > > Authors should submit a PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer > to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=escience2012 > > (Note that paper submitters also must submit an abstract in advance of the paper deadline. This should > be done through the same site where papers are submitted.) > > It is a requirement that at least one author of each accepted paper attend the conference. > > IMPORTANT DATES > > Abstract submission (required): 4 July 2012 > Paper submission: 11 July 2012 > Paper author notification: 22 August 2012 > Camera-ready papers due: 10 September 2012 > Conference: 8-12 October 2012 >

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Updated OGF document templates
by Greg Newby 24 May '12

24 May '12

For authors/editors and leaders of OGF groups, please be aware there is a new OGF copyright statement. This slight revision, which the OGF Board approved, follows. The new statement improves understanding of the conditions that apply to derived documents and should be used on all future OGF publications. -------- This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are included as references to the derived portions on all such copies and derivative works. The published OGF document from which such works are derived, however, may not be modified in any way, such as by removing the copyright notice or references to the OGF or other organizations, except as needed for the purpose of developing new or updated OGF documents in conformance with the procedures defined in the OGF Document Process, or as required to translate it into languages other than English. OGF, with the approval of its board, may remove this restriction for inclusion of OGF document content for the purpose of producing standards in cooperation with other international standards bodies. The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be revoked by the OGF or its successors or assignees. ------- The OGF document templates have been updated, and may be found here: OGF Author Guidelines and Templates https://forge.ogf.org/sf/docman/do/listDocuments/projects.ggf-editor/docman… -- 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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OGF35 Early Registration Deadline Friday, 25 May 2012
by Joel Replogle 23 May '12

23 May '12

OGF Community - OGF35 is under a month away, and the early registration deadline expires after Friday, 25 May 2012. Register now through this URL: www.ogf.org/OGF35/registration.php The schedule is available at: www.ogf.org/OGF35/schedule.php We are excited to be co-locating with the HPDC'12 event, and look forward to a very productive meeting. Additional OGF35 information: www.ogf.org/OGF35 Also, immediately in advance of the OGF35 event, we are hosting a plugfest in Amsterdam to promote standards interoperability. The cloud plugfest is the next in an on-going series of plugfest meetings involving developers implementing OGF's OCCI and SNIA's CDMI standards. More information may be found here: www.cloudplugfest.org See you in Delft! Thanks, Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, OGF replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org PO Box 1738 T: +1-765-228-9068 Muncie, IN 47308 USA F: +1-815-927-6284 Upcoming Events: OGF35 * June 17-19, 2012 * Delft, The Netherlands * www.ogf.org/OGF35 OGF36 * October 8-12, 2012 * Chicago IL, USA * www.ogf.org/OGF36

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Notices for OGF 35 and OGF 36; Pre-OGF35 Plugfest plans; Call for papers - DMTF SVM 2012
by Alan Sill 09 May '12

09 May '12

Dear OGF working group members, Pursuant to our liaison relationship and work register, DMTF has asked us to distribute the following information about their annual academic alliance workshop. 6th International DMTF Academic Alliance Workshop on Systems and Virtualization Management: Standards and the Cloud 26 October 2012 Las Vegas, Nevada USA http://dmtf.org/svm12 This conference will occur approximately two weeks after our own OGF36 (Chicago, IL USA, October 8-10, 2012), which will be held, according to current plans, in conjunction with eScience 2012 with workshops (including the Microsoft eScience Workshop) on 8-9 October and the main conference events on 10-12 October. Venue details are still being settled. http://www.ogf.org/OGF36/ http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/escience2012/ Regarding DMTF and SVM12, please note that academic membership including participation in one DMTF working group is available at no cost upon application to individual academic members. The attached file contains the minimal information needed to request academic membership. Note we also have an ongoing work register related to OCCI that is currently dormant, but could be reactivated at any time. DMTF continues to make progress towards publication of CIMI, its cloud infrastructure management interface, which is closely related to OCCI in principle. We continue to look for volunteers within the OGF community who are willing to spend time comparing the published features of CIMI with OCCI for the benefit of both communities. Paper submissions to SVM12 on any topic of interest to yourself would be welcomed. Please see the notes in the messages below for details. Finally, please take note that registration is now available (in Euros!) for OGF 35 in Delft June 17-19, 2012 just prior to the High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) 2012 conference in the same location: OGF 35 site: http://www.ogf.org/OGF35/ Online Schedule: http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/index.php?event_id=24 Registration: http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1099588 HPDC site: http://www.hpdc.org/2012/ Conference schedule: http://www.hpdc.org/2012/program/conference-program/ Registration: http://www.hpdc.org/2012/registration/ Please take note of all appropriate deadlines for the above events. We do expect to hold a pre-conference Plugfest to promote interoperability among implementations and interchange among developers prior to OGF 35. Details of the event are still being finalized and will be announced shortly. What we know so far is that this will include a Cloud Plugfest - the fifth in our series coordinated with members of the standards community - and that the pre-event plug-fest will be held in Amsterdam during the last portion of the week immediately prior to the OGF35/HPDC'12 event. A further announcement will be made shortly, once some room coordination details are worked out. Yours sincerely, Alan Sill, Ph.D Vice President of Standards, Open Grid Forum Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center Adjunct Professor of Physics, TTU ------- On May 8, 2012, at 6:00 AM, Mark Carlson wrote: Alan, I appreciate you sending the SVM call for papers to your membership (latest enclosed). I think it would be fine to post your call for papers to our academic list as well. We have had good success partnering with CNSM as our authors and audiences have common research interests. When it comes to cloud though we should involve them in the discussions of whether we could align several of our cloud related academic conferences around the same location and time period. Basically have them back to back to back at the same venue to leverage room blocks, etc. for the organizers and travel for the speakers/attendees. -- mark From: Shannon Keith <shannon(a)woldconsulting.com> Subject: 6th International DMTF Workshop on Systems and Virtualization Management: Standards and the Cloud - SVM 2012 - (Submission extension to May 21st) Date: May 3, 2012 11:24:04 PM CDT To: "ac(a)dmtf.org" <ac(a)dmtf.org>, "wg-academic(a)dmtf.org" <wg-academic(a)dmtf.org>, "svm11(a)dmtf.org" <svm11(a)dmtf.org>, "svm11_program(a)dmtf.org" <svm11_program(a)dmtf.org> We have decided to extend the paper submission deadline to May 21, 2012. ============================================================ 6th International DMTF Workshop on Systems and Virtualization Management: Standards and the Cloud SVM 2012 http://dmtf.org/svm12 26 October 2012 Conference on Network and Service Management Las Vegas, Nevada USA Call for Papers and Call for Posters The DMTF Academic Alliance announces the creation of the sixth workshop dedicated to academic research on standards and new technologies for systems and virtualization management. This event comes in addition to the technical and developers' events organized for several years by the DMTF, and will take place on October 26th in Las Vegas, Nevada USA. We will be holding a poster session in addition to the workshop. The primary theme of SVM 2012 will be "Systems and Virtualization Management: Standards and the Cloud". With the advent and increasing popularity of Cloud Computing, systems management and virtualization management technology has taken on increasing importance. The goal of SVM 2012 is to illuminate related standards and research issues, covering areas such as: what are the implications of standards for virtualization in Cloud Computing, what advances in information models and protocols aid in managing Clouds, what new problems will we incur when managing Cloud offerings and services, and how management itself might benefit from virtualization and the Cloud. Submissions on topics related to managing Clouds, virtualization of distributed resources/services and work in management standardization are thus particularly encouraged. Papers submitted to SVM'12 must not have been published, accepted for publication, or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Virtualization Management of Compute Clouds Management of Storage Clouds Use of Virtualization for Management Management of Green Cloud Computing Virtualization Management Key management issues Infrastructure for management Managing IaaS infrastructure Use and extension of management standards System management techniques Network, Server, and Desktop management Information models for management Instrumentation and metrics for management Diagnostics and Fault management Management Behavior and State modeling Web services and SOA Managing SaaS infrastructure Web services based management Development and use of management protocols Use of SOA in management of distributed systems New management paradigms Management automation Policy-based management Experience implementing and deploying management technology Security Security management Cloud security Best practices for security metrics Privacy and Data Protection on Cloud Computing Monitoring Cloud Computing Submission for Papers ========== Authors are requested to submit either long or short papers via the conference submission software: Long papers presenting research results (up to 8 pages in IEEE 2-column format, excluding references) Short papers describing research work-in-progress or position statements (up to 4 pages in IEEE 2-column format, excluding references) Please submit your papers to the conference submission Web site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=svm12 Submission for Posters ========== Authors of accepted papers to SVM 2012 are encouraged to submit a poster on the same topic as their paper. People are also encouraged to submit a poster, even without submitting a paper to the workshop. Presenters are requested to submit an abstract (250-1000 words) of their poster via the conference submission Web site https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=svm12postersession Tall posters can be 36" wide by 48" long Wide posters can be 48" wide by 36" long Important Dates ========== Deadlines are the same for papers and posters. Paper Registration: 21 May 2012 Submission Deadline: 21 May 2012 Notification of Acceptance: 6 July 2012 Camera Ready Papers and Posters (Easy Chair + Proceedings): 3 August 2012 The DMTF values input from the academic world and is open to providing information to faculty and students who are studying and researching management standards. The Academic Alliance membership is a free membership for individuals of accredited institutions of higher learning. Academic Alliance Members have access to the DMTF members-only Web pages and member email lists. Academic Alliance Members are eligible to participate in DMTF working groups as non-voting members, and in the DMTF Marketing and Technical Committees as non-voting members. For more information on how to become an Academic Alliance Member, please contact DMTF Administration (http://dmtf.org/contact)

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OGF35 Registration and Schedule now available
by Joel Replogle 06 May '12

06 May '12

OGF Community - The 35th OGF event, OGF35 will be held in Delft, the Netherlands from June 17-19, 2012. Based on the program, this OGF event will be a significant one in the mission of promoting the adoption of distributed computing (Cloud, Grid, etc) through standards and best practices. The schedule for OGF35 is now online at: www.ogf.org/OGF35/schedule.php Registration is also available at: www.ogf.org/OGF35/registration.php Register now for OGF35! Travel, hotel and venue information is also on the OGF35 website: www.ogf.org/OGF35 See you in Delft! Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, OGF replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org PO Box 1738 T: +1-765-228-9068 Muncie, IN 47308 USA F: +1-815-927-6284 Upcoming Events: OGF35 * June 17-19, 2012 * Delft, The Netherlands * www.ogf.org/OGF35 OGF36 * October 8-12, 2012 * Chicago IL, USA * www.ogf.org/OGF36

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Fwd: [Cloud Services Initiative] Call for Contribution for Use Cases and Metrics for Cloud End-to-End SLA Management Project [#172256]
by Alan Sill 23 Apr '12

23 Apr '12

Dear all, We (i.e., OGF) have started some joint liaison work between OGF and the Telecommunications Management Forum (TMForum) on service agreements, including service level agreement management (e.g., WS-Agreement and WS-Agreement Negotiation applications) and the overall context of cloud and other distributed computing service agreements. Ramin Yahyapour from GWDG has agreed to act as point of contact with TMForum on this topic, and others (for example, Wolfgang Ziegler from Frauhofer Institute) who are also members of both OGF and TMForum, or who are also interested in this topic, are welcome to contribute. Note that the link in the TMForum message below is only open to TMForum members, but we have a liaison agreement in place, so please contact Ramin if you would like to contribute. Matteo Turilli of the EGI Federated Cloud task force has also indicated some interest in this topic from the point of view of that project. Please forward any contribution you may have, or link to related outside work that might provide use cases or standards-oriented work on metrics for clouds and on grid and cloud service agreements, to Ramin and Matteo. In the meantime, I offer the following link to all who may find it useful to the current thinking of the OpenStack design community on cloud metrics, billing and monitoring. Similar links and contributions from those who may be working on similar cloud and grid software stack framework projects would be appreciated. Thanks! Alan OpenStack link: http://wiki.openstack.org/EfficientMetering Begin forwarded message: > From: Mary Amalfitano <bounce-MaryAmalfitano(a)community.tmforum.org> > Subject: [Cloud Services Initiative] Call for Contribution for Use Cases and Metrics for Cloud End-to-End SLA Management Project [#172256] > Date: April 23, 2012 1:18:48 PM CDT > To: "Sill, Alan" <alan.sill(a)ttu.edu> > Reply-To: Cloud Services Initiative <cloudcomputing(a)community.tmforum.org> > > Mary Amalfitano , Project Manager , TM Forum > > > Everyone, > > To help with the analysis of applicable existing standards and recommendations for the End-to-end SLA Management Technical Report, we are calling Use Cases, service models and SLA metrics that will help validate our work results. > > If someone has anything relevant to contribute, please do so using this form: > http://www.tmforum.org/Community/groups/cloud_computing_services/makeacontr… > > Best Regards, > Mary > > Cloud Services Initiative > Topics:Call for Contributions for Cloud End-to-End SLA Management, CloudSLAManagement, e2e-sla > > Shared In:1 Community > Shared In:Service Level Agreement Management : cloudsla > View thread online > > Please note, this discussion thread is shared across communities. Any replies that you make to this discussion thread, will be posted to all of the communities and topics listed above. > > > Full thread available online here: http://www.tmforum.org/community/groups/cloud_computing_services/forum/p/17… > This message was sent to Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu and follows the subscription preferences of your membership of the Cloud Services Initiative TM Forum Online Community. > > To unsubscribe immediately, please click here and click "Edit Collaboration Community Notifications". You will be prompted to log in if you are not logged in already. To cut down on email volume, you may also choose to receive your discussion notifications via a daily or weekly digest email as opposed to immediate separate emails. > > TM Forum, 240 Headquarters Plaza, East Tower, 10th Floor, Morristown, NJ 07960-6628, USA. Call +1 973 944 5100. info(a)tmforum.org >

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New document in public comment: Example set of DFDL 1.0 properties
by Greg Newby 22 Apr '12

22 Apr '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: * Example set of DFDL 1.0 properties -- 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: newby AT arsc.edu v: 907-450-8663 f: 907-450-8603 w: www.arsc.edu/~newby

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New document published: WS-Disagreement
by Andre Merzky 01 Apr '12

01 Apr '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.199 "WS-Disagreement" Via OGF Operations. A. Merzky, A. Papaspyrou April 1st 2012 https://www.ogf.org/documents/GFD.199.pdf Abstract: This document provides information to the grid community, proposing a standard for a WS-Disagreement protocol (WS-NO), to communicate disagreement messages between components, and also between humans. Andre Merzky, for OGF Operations -- Nothing is ever easy...

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OGF35 Call for Session Proposals
by Joel Replogle 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

Dear OGF Community - OGF is please to announce the opening of the OGF35 Call for Session Proposals: http://www.ogf.org/OGF35/cfp.php OGF35 will occur in Delft, The Netherlands from June 17-19, 2012, and will be co-located with HPDC 2012. OGF35 will have an emphasis on chartered group sessions and BoFs, and encourage participation in the HPDC workshops on the two days of overlap. The OGF35 program committee seeks active participation from the world-wide community, and encourages the submission of session proposals that may include (but are not limited to) the following topics: • 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 Deadline for Session Proposals: April 20, 2012 (notices by April 27) Please view and respond to the cfp at: http://www.ogf.org/OGF35/cfp.php Thanks, Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, OGF replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org PO Box 1738 T: +1-765-228-9068 Muncie, IN 47308 USA F: +1-815-927-6284 Upcoming Events: OGF35 * June 17-19, 2012 * Delft, The Netherlands * www.ogf.org/OGF35 OGF36 * October 8-12, 2012 * Chicago IL, USA * www.ogf.org/OGF36

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