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New documents in public comment
by Greg Newby 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

OGF members and affiliates: Three documents have begun public comment. Please consider reading and providing feedback on them. 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 These documents are currently in public comment: * Network Services Framework. Informational document via NSI-WG. * Translating From DCN to NDL and Back Again. Informational document via NML-WG. * SAGA API Extension: Message API. Proposed recommendation document via SAGA-WG. -- Greg Newby, OGF Editor

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Fwd: Please note - NIST SP 800-146, DRAFT Cloud Computing Synopsis and Recommendations - comments due June 13
by Alan Sill 17 May '11

17 May '11

FYI, please see information below and make comments. Alan Begin forwarded message: > From: "Sokol, Annie W." <annie.sokol(a)nist.gov> > Date: May 17, 2011 10:02:33 AM MDT > To: Multiple recipients of list <cc_standards(a)nist.gov> > Subject: Please note - SP 800-146, DRAFT Cloud Computing Synopsis and Recommendations - comments due June 13 > Reply-To: "cc_standards(a)nist.gov" <cc_standards(a)nist.gov> > > > May 12, 2011 > > http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsDrafts.html > > SP 800-146 > > DRAFT Cloud Computing Synopsis and Recommendations > > The cloud computing research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting public comments on a draft of its most complete guide to cloud computing to date. > > Draft Special Publication 800-146, NIST Cloud Computing Synopsis and Recommendations explains cloud computing technology in plain terms and provides practical information for information technology decision makers interested in moving into the cloud. Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources-for example networks, servers, storage, applications and services-that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. > > Comments for this draft should be sent to 800-146comments(a)nist.gov by June 13, 2011. > > To view the press release from NIST's Public Business and Affairs office regarding this draft, please go to this NIST page: > http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/20110512_cloud_guide.cfm . > > Draft-NIST-SP800-146.pdf (1.9 MB) > > From: cc_standards(a)nist.gov [mailto:cc_standards@nist.gov] On Behalf Of Sokol, Annie W. > Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 4:21 PM > To: CC_STANDARDS > Subject: RE: CCSRWG 15th Teleconference, May 19, 2011 > > > > > May 12, 2011 > > Dear All: > > At our meeting today, we did not finish reviewing all the comments. Therefore, we decided to call another teleconference next Thursday to finish reviewing the proposed disposition of comments (from page 11). > > > NIST Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap Working Group Meeting #15 > Thursday, May 19, 2011, 1300-1500 ET > > The dial-up number for this meeting is as follows: > Toll Free: 866-507-7813 > Passcode: 5949635 > > Web conference tool: http://webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/CCSRWG > > Please review the proposed disposition of comments (NIST_CCSRWG-073) in preparation for this meeting: http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-cloud-computing/bin/view/CloudComputing/S… > > > NIST CCSRWG – 071, List of registered members > NIST CCSRWG – 072, Draft Charter > NIST CCSRWG – 073, Proposed Comment Disposition on 11th Working Draft > NIST CCSRWG – 076, Draft Agenda for 15th Teleconference > > VR, > Annie Sokol > > Date > Description > Due > Thursday, May 12, 2011 > (1:00 P.M. ET) > Meeting # 14 > http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-cloud-computing/bin/view/CloudComputing/S… > > Thursday, May 19, 2011 > (1:00 P.M. ET) > Meeting # 15 > http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-cloud-computing/bin/view/CloudComputing/S… > > Monday, May 23, 2011 > Approved disposition of comments posted > > Monday, May 23, 2011 > 12th Working Draft posted > Comments due June 6, 2011 > Monday, June 6, 2011 > Comments due on 12th Working Draft > > Wednesday, June 13, 2011 > Proposed disposition of comments posted > > Thursday, June 30, 2011 > (1:00 P.M. ET) > Meeting # 16 > http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-cloud-computing/bin/view/CloudComputing/S… > > Tuesday, July 5, 2011 > > First Edition Posted > > > > > >

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NIST CCSRWG Eleventh Working Draft for your review and comments
by Alan Sill 06 May '11

06 May '11

Dear OGF work group members, I have held off posting this to WG-All up to now in order to reduce traffic on the mail lists. This NIST "Standards Roadmap" working document has now reached an advanced stage, however, and I would like to invite anyone in OGF who has comments to please read it and IMPORTANTLY: provide comments to be given to the NIST working group on the US Federal Government cloud standards roadmap using the attached form. I encourage involvement from members of the OGF community in this and the similar European Community SIENA effort, which has its own procedures that are familiar to many of you, or other global, local or regional standards roadmap efforts. Comments can be sent directly to the editors via Annie, or follow the TWiki links given below . You can join the TWiki or any of the related NIST working groups if desired using the form at http://www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/workinggroups.cfm Other links of interest: NIST Cloud Computing Program site: http://www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/ NIST Cloud Collaboraton TWiki: http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-cloud-computing/bin/view/CloudComputing/W… Please do review this and help us to represent our OGF work and standards well. Also don't forget to mark your calendars to attend OGF 32 in Salt Lake City this coming July 15-18 in association with Teragrid 2011 (July 18-21): http://ogf.org/OGF32 Thanks, and please note the May 9 reply-by date for this document! Alan Alan Sill, Ph.D Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center Adjunct Professor of Physics, TTU Vice President of Standards, Open Grid Forum ==================================================================== : Alan Sill, Texas Tech University Office: Drane 162, MS 4-1167 : : e-mail: Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu ph. 806-742-4350 fax 806-742-4358 : ==================================================================== Begin forwarded message: > From: "Sokol, Annie W." <annie.sokol(a)nist.gov> > Date: May 6, 2011 12:08:59 PM CDT > To: Multiple recipients of list <cc_standards(a)nist.gov> > Subject: CCSRWG Eleventh Working Draft for your review and comments > Reply-To: "cc_standards(a)nist.gov" <cc_standards(a)nist.gov> > > > > > May 6, 2011 > > Dear All: > > This is a gentle reminder to provide your comments, if any, on the > Eleventh Working Draft of NIST Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap > document. The comment disposition will be discussed on the > teleconference call, 1:00 P.M. ET, Thursday, May 12, 2011. The next > version of this document will be considered as the first edition of > the NIST Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap document. > > Moving forward from that point, we have uploaded a revision to the > charter. This attached draft will be reviewed at next week > teleconference as well. > > Regards, > Annie Sokol > > > From: cc_standards(a)nist.gov [mailto:cc_standards@nist.gov] On Behalf > Of Sokol, Annie W. > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 2:23 PM > To: CC_STANDARDS > Subject: RE: CCSRWG Eleventh Working Draft for your review and > comments > > > > > > > > May 2, 2011 > > Dear All: > > As according to schedule provided below, attached are the following > documents: > 1) Eleventh Working Draft NIST Cloud Computing Standards > Roadmap (Draft without Tracking) > 2) Eleventh Working Draft NIST Cloud Computing Standards > Roadmap (Draft with Tracking) > 3) Comment Template for submission of your comments (please > provide specific text for proposed changes) > The Eleventh Working Draft incorporated approved disposition of > comments from 10th Working Draft (NIST_CCSRWG_069 Approved > Disposition of comments for Tenth Working Draft is available on > Twiki for your reference) > > These documents are also available on the Twiki http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-cloud-computing/bin/view/CloudComputing/S… > . Please provide your comments on or before Monday, May 9, 2011 > (COB ET). > > Thank you. > > > > > Date > Description > Due > Monday, May 2, 2011 > 11th Working Draft Posted > Comments due Monday, May 9, 2011 > Monday, May 9, 2011 > Comments on the 11th Working Draft due > > Wednesday, May 11, 2011 > Proposed disposition of comments posted > > Thursday, May 12, 2011 > (1:00 P.M. ET) > Meeting # 14 > http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-cloud-computing/bin/view/CloudComputing/S… > > Monday, May 16, 2011 > > First Edition Posted > > > > > > >

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Link posted for OGF32 July 15-18, 2011 Salt Lake City, USA: save the dates!
by Alan Sill 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

Dear OGF working groups and members: Here is the link for OGF 32. Save the dates! OGF32 Salt Lake City, Utah USA July 15-18, 2011 OGF32 will be co-located with Teragrid 11 in Salt Lake City, Utah July 15-18, 2011. Teragrid 11 will take place during the subsequent week, July 18-21, 2011, with a day of overlap and possible other working group meetings during the Teragrid week. (We do hope to get most of OGF 32 done during the 15th-18th, though.) OGF32 will feature OGF chartered group and BoF sessions, as well as presentations and workshops on various topics in distributed computing. In addition, we plan to host a joint "International Workshop on Science Agency Uses of Clouds and Grids" at the same location on the overlap day between OGF 32 and TG'11, July 18 2011 at the same location. Link: http://ogf.org/OGF32/ Hope to see everyone there! Just FYI, here are some other upcoming meetings and work: OGF 33 is being planned for Lyon in September, and OGF 34 is being discussed. In addition, we have a variety of opportunities for OGF work groups to meet at co-sponsored and joint events that are not full OGF meetings but may allow you opportunities to participate and meet with your working group partners. These include the IEEE CloudCom 2011 meeting in Athens Nov. 29 - Dec. 1, and closer at hand, a full meeting of all OGF cloud-related groups at the DMTF Alliance Partners meeting May 16-20 in Boulder, Colorado. There will also be SIENA meetings and other work group opportunities of interest. Our standards and related OGF documents come from the processes that start at meetings like these, and we are very interested in seeing and promoting continuous progress for the benefit of the community on these work products. If you haven't taken a look at our OGF output recently, you might be interested in looking at http://ogf.org/documents and noting just how extraordinarily productive you as an OGF community and as individual participants have been lately. Don't forget also to check on what needs current attention in the Public Comment area! I hope to see all of you at one event or another. Please participate -- this is your effort, your productivity and your community! Thanks, Alan ---------- Alan Sill, Ph.D Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center Adjunct Professor of Physics, TTU VP of Standards, Open Grid Forum

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Final registration deadline for Workshop on High Performance Applications of Cloud and Grid Tools immediately following Globus World 2011 and CCA'11
by Alan Sill 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

FINAL REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Please register no later than Tuesday, April 12 to attend this event! Immediately following Globus World 2011 and CCA'11, the Open Grid Forum sponsored by the US Department of Energy office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research would like to invite you to attend the separate Workshop on High Performance Applications of Cloud and Grid Tools (HPACG) April 14, 2011, to be held at the same location. The event is open to all participants and will last form 8:30 to noon. About the workshop: We have attracted a number of talks from high-profile current projects and believe that you will find these topics to be both timely and important. We expect to have presentations on the Nimbus and Cumulus projects from Argonne, security and authN/authZ topics from the Fermi Cloud, information on the use of Condor at the scale of tens of thousands of processors running both on Amazon EC2 and on Open Science Grid, recent work from the Open Grid Forum including the recently released Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) and other newly released standards; detailed information on high-speed on-demand networking from Internet2, and use of Clouds for advanced digital library search engines (the CiteSee project). In addition, we will have a roundtable on current status of these tools to avoid this being simply "another set of talks." We are very pleased with the quality, type and breadth of the Workshop and hope that your plans (or local proximity) can allow you to stay until Thursday. Information on the workshop, including a registration form is available at the Workshop site. Please do register if you plan to attend. http://ogf.org/HPACG There is no charge for attendance, and we hope you will attend on Thursday morning from 8:30 to noon, with lunch provided. For the organizing committee, Alan Sill Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center Adjunct Professor of Physics, TTU VP of Standards, Open Grid Forum

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OCCI Core & Models and Infrastructure documents released
by Sill, Alan 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

Dear OGF Board and WG participants: We would like to inform you that the Open Cloud Computing Interface Core & Models and Infrastructure specification documents, GFD.183 and GFD.184, were published today as OGF Proposed Recommendations and are now available for downloading on the <http://ogf.org/documents> http://ogf.org/documents site. We are very proud of all of the accomplishments of all OGF work groups and of the entire OGF document series. Thank you for all of your work, regardless of the work group or area in which you are making contributions. OCCI represents the work of a dedicated set of participants that deserves highlighting, however, and that opens up a significant set of opportunities for new work in OGF in the area of cloud computing. Here for your information is some of the text that we have been using in announcing the release of the first two documents in the series. The next document covering the HTTP rendering just completed its public comment period and should be completed and ready for publication shortly. OCCI is a general-purpose set of specifications for cloud-based interactions with resources in a way that is explicitly vendor-independent, platform-neutral and can be extended to solve a broad variety of problems in cloud computing. The OCCI specification set is a product of the Open Grid Forum. OGF is a leading development organization for open standards in the area of distributed networking, computing and storage with an emphasis on technologies for large-scale distributed computing. OGF develops its standards through an open process that gathers input and contributions from the community and refines them through peer review and public comment to produce standards, guidance and information of value to the community through the Grid Final Document (GFD) series. We are very proud of OCCI and think that it provides an important and timely set of contributions to cloud computing technology that is already gathering great interest and rapid evidence of adoption by a broad range of participants in the cloud computing community. Congratulations to the OCCI working group and its participants. More information can be found on the OGF and OCCI working group sites at <http://ogf.org/> http://ogf.org and <http://occi-wg.org/> http://occi-wg.orgrespectively. Please let me know if you have any further questions. Thanks, Alan Sill VP of Standards Open Grid Forum

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Registration for HPACG workshop April 14
by Alan Sill 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Workshop on High Performance Applications of Cloud and Grid Tools Update: Registration We have a registration page up now as linked at the following location. At this point we are planning a morning and an afternoon session, with the morning session devoted to presentations and discussion on cloud and grid tools and the afternoon one devoted to a planning meeting for the upcoming larger OGF 32 / Teragrid 2011 one on Clouds and Grids in Science Agency Missions. http://www.ogf.org/HPACG/registration.php The morning session will go from 8:30 am to noon, including breaks, and a lunch will be provided for all participants. The afternoon one is for those we have asked to help serve on the planning committee for the next workshop, and will last from 1 to 3 pm. While attendance at the workshop itself is free, we request you to register in advance in order to allow us to plan adequately for breaks and the meal. Information on the workshop itself is available at the following link: http://www.ogf.org/HPACG/ Please pass this information on to others who may be interested. We hope to see you at the workshop. Please send any questions you may have to registration(a)ogf.org Alan Sill, Ph.D Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center Adjunct Professor of Physics TTU ==================================================================== : Alan Sill, Texas Tech University Office: Drane 162, MS 4-1167 : : e-mail: Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu ph. 806-742-4350 fax 806-742-4358 : ====================================================================

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UPDATED: Workshop Announcement: High Performance Applications of Cloud and Grid Tools, April 14, 2011 following Globus World and CCA'11
by Alan Sill 26 Mar '11

26 Mar '11

Workshop on High Performance Applications of Cloud and Grid Tools April 14, 2011 Argonne National Laboratory, Building 240 Conference Center, near Chicago, Illinois, USA http://www.ogf.org/HPACG/ (Immediately following Globus World 2011 April 11-12 and CCA'11 April 13 in the same location) Updated with registration and travel assistance details: see information below. Objective The objective of this workshop is to improve on the state of use of software tools designed for access, administration, job management, input/output standardization, performance optimization of job submission and execution, and other aspects of management of high performance computing resources by multiple users through incorporation of the latest advances in cloud and grid development tools. The workshop will be focused specifically on tools in use or that could be used to produce and maintain production infrastructures for large-scale projects in scientific computing. Goals 1. Gather authors, maintainers, users and interested parties for production cloud and grid infrastructure tools. Survey the existing state of these tools with regard to use and implementation of existing cloud and grid standards. 2. Update participants on current US government and international efforts to promote cloud computing usage and associated efforts on related standards development, promotion and adoption. 3. Focus the talents of the community on options for cloud-to-grid and grid-to-cloud interoperability, high performance applications of existing tools and applicability of OGF and other emerging standards, and gather input from attendees regarding the current state of their projects with respect to these topics. Using the resulting input, explore options for future development that can be achieved on a short-term basis. 4. Serve as a planning forum for a larger-scale workshop and forum aimed at evaluating, encouraging and promoting communication on this topic broadly across US-funded science agency computing projects and among their related international partners. Workshop Organizers The co-organizers for this workshop are OGF and Argonne National Laboratory. Contact Information Questions and requests for participation may be directed to: Joel Replogle Executive Director, Open Grid Forum (765) 228-9068 replogle(a)ogf.org Melissa Osner Program Manager, Open Grid Forum osner(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org Alan Sill Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center Drane 162, Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409-1167 (806) 742-4350 Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu http://www.hpcc.ttu.edu Ian Foster Director, Computation Institute Professor, Department of Computer Science Argonne National Laboratory 9700 Cass Ave., Building 240 Argonne, IL 60439 (630) 252-4619 foster(a)mcs.anl.gov http://www.mcs.anl.gov Details and Registration: To register for this workshop, please visit the following link: http://www.ogf.org/HPACG/ or send e-mail to registration(a)ogf.org with the subject line "HPACG Workshop" For the co-located preceding events, see http://www.globusworld.org for the April 11-12 events, and http://cca11.org for the Cloud Computing Applications conference. *Please note that attendance at this workshop on Thursday is free, and that it is not necessary to register for or to attend either CCA'11 or Globus World to attend.* Attendees at the previous events, of course, are welcome to and are invited to stay on for this workshop. Travel Assistance: A limited amount of travel assistance is available for attendees who have relevant material to present but who are not otherwise able to attend. For details, please contact the workshop organizers. For any questions to the organizers regarding this workshop or other related topics, or to propose or request a presentation at this workshop, please get in touch with the organizers using the contact information above.

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Workshop Announcement: High Performance Applications of Cloud and Grid Tools, April 14, 2011 following Globus World and CCA'11
by Alan Sill 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

Workshop on High Performance Applications of Cloud and Grid Tools April 14, 2011 Argonne National Laboratory, Building 240 Conference Center, near Chicago, Illinois, USA (Immediately following Globus World 2011 April 11-12 and CCA'11 April 13 in the same location) Objective The objective of this workshop is to improve on the state of use of software tools designed for access, administration, job management, input/output standardization, performance optimization of job submission and execution, and other aspects of management of high performance computing resources by multiple users through incorporation of the latest advances in cloud and grid development tools. The workshop will be focused specifically on tools in use or that could be used to produce and maintain production infrastructures for large-scale projects in scientific computing. Goals 1. Gather authors, maintainers, users and interested parties for production cloud and grid infrastructure tools. Survey the existing state of these tools with regard to use and implementation of existing cloud and grid standards. 2. Update participants on current US government and international efforts to promote cloud computing usage and associated efforts on related standards development, promotion and adoption. 3. Focus the talents of the community on options for cloud-to-grid and grid-to-cloud interoperability, high performance applications of existing tools and applicability of OGF and other emerging standards, and gather input from attendees regarding the current state of their projects with respect to these topics. Using the resulting input, explore options for future development that can be achieved on a short-term basis. 4. Serve as a planning forum for a larger-scale workshop and forum aimed at evaluating, encouraging and promoting communication on this topic broadly across US-funded science agency computing projects and among their related international partners. Workshop Organizers The co-organizers for this workshop are OGF and Argonne National Laboratory. Contact Information Questions and requests for participation may be directed to: Joel Replogle Executive Director, Open Grid Forum (765) 228-9068 replogle(a)ogf.org Melissa Osner Program Manager, Open Grid Forum osner(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org Alan Sill Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center Drane 162, Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409-1167 (806) 742-4350 Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu http://www.hpcc.ttu.edu Ian Foster Director, Computation Institute Professor, Department of Computer Science Argonne National Laboratory 9700 Cass Ave., Building 240 Argonne, IL 60439 (630) 252-4619 foster(a)mcs.anl.gov http://www.mcs.anl.gov Details and Registration: See http://www.globusworld.org for the April 11-12 events, and http://cca11.org for the Cloud Computing Applications conference Details on workshop registration will be sent shortly; meanwhile please indicate "Will attend high performance applications workshop" in the box for "Special requirements" in the CCA'11 site when registering there if you will also be a CCA'11 attendee. Send any questions to the workshop organizers above.

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Video coordinates for today's OCCI demo - going on NOW! at OGF 31 in Taipei
by Sill, Alan 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

As mentioned at the OGF 31 meeting, we are conducting an OCCI tutorial that is available by video: 1) Connect to the following IP address by H.323: 117.103.105.175 Your H.323 client muct have the capability to enter numbers via a keypad or scroll by arrows in the meetings listed 2) Enter the OCCI meeting by scrolling and entering the OCCI entry, or direct to meeting ID 0122# 3) PIN for the meeting is 0121# I have also bridged this to an EVO meeting for those familiar with this system. The coordinates are as follows: Meeting "OCCI demo" in the "Universe" EVO community Meeting password is 0121 The tutorial is going on now. Please mute if you connect, to avoid disturbing the meeting - the audio is for presenters only. Hope this is of interest!

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