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New OGF document: GFD-I.092: Use-Cases and Requirements for Grid Checkpoint and Recovery
by Greg Newby 08 May '07

08 May '07

GFD-I.092: Use-Cases and Requirements for Grid Checkpoint and Recovery. R. Badia et al., via GridCPR-WG. Abstract: This document describes use-cases to be addressed by the Grid Checkpoint and Recovery Working Group (GridCPR WG). The scenarios are also used to determine a set of requirements for these standards. Read this document here: http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?final Several more published documents to follow. As OGF's Editor, I'm happy to make you aware of these documents, which represent significant accomplishments for the groups involved. The GFSG believes it is in the OGF community's membership to be aware of new documents as they are published. You are getting this message to wg-all because you are on one of the many OGF mailing lists. The wg-all list is is a metalist. -- Greg Newby, OGF Editor

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Two new documents in public comment
by Greg Newby 07 May '07

07 May '07

Greetings from the OGF20 in Manchester, UK. I'd like to alert you to two new documents that have started public comment. Please find all documents in public comment here: http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?public_comment For the recommendation track: JSDL HPC Profile Application Extension, Version 1.0. M. Humphrey et al., via JSDL-WG. JSDL SPMD Application Extension, Version 1.0. A. Savva, via JSDL-WG. These documents were previously announced, and are still available for public comment: Information track Grid - Distributed Computing at Scale; An overview of Grid and the Open Grid Forum. M. Linesch. Experimental track An Experiment for Event Dissemination on Grid Environment for Sensor Network. E. Huh, via INFOD-WG. Recommendation track OGSA Basic Execution Service Version 1.0. I. Foster et al., via OGSA-BES-WG. Community practice Nomination Committee (NOMCOM) Process Charter. R. Yahyapour et al. via GFSG. Your help in reading and commenting on these documents will be most welcome. It is not necessary to be an WG member or expert to provide useful feedback. -- Greg Newby (OGF Editor) Dr. Gregory Newby, Chief Scientist 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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Three new documents in public comment
by Greg Newby 06 May '07

06 May '07

Three new documents have started public comment. Please find all documents in public comment here: http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?public_comment Information track Grid - Distributed Computing at Scale; An overview of Grid and the Open Grid Forum. M. Linesch. Experimental track An Experiment for Event Dissemination on Grid Environment for Sensor Network. E. Huh, via INFOD-WG. Recommendation track OGSA Basic Execution Service Version 1.0. I. Foster et al., via OGSA-BES-WG. This document was announced previously: Community practice Nomination Committee (NOMCOM) Process Charter. R. Yahyapour et al. via GFSG. Your help in reading and commenting on these documents will be most welcome. It is not necessary to be an WG member or expert to provide useful feedback. -- Greg Newby (OGF Editor) Dr. Gregory Newby, Chief Scientist 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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OGF downtime 6pm-midnight CDT today
by Joel Replogle 29 Apr '07

29 Apr '07

All - We will be having some downtime for the OGF servers today from 6pm-midnight CDT. The outage will effect www.ogf.org and forge.gridforum.org, and likely won't last the entire scheduled time. Thanks, Joel ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- Joel Replogle - Manager of Standards, Open Grid Forum replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org

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Last Chance to Register and Save
by john.ehrig＠ogf.org 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

The deadline for saving up to $100 on OGF20/EGEE User Forum registration is this Friday, April 27 at midnight US Central time. With over 700 grid leaders, technologists, and users registered, you won't want to miss the premier grid and distributed computing event of the year. Register today by visiting <http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php> http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php. The OGF20/EGEE User Forum is being held May 7-11 in Manchester, UK. The five day program includes an exciting array of opportunities for attendees to learn, outreach, network, and contribute to the work of our international grid community. Highlights will include: * OGF Group Sessions - continuing the standards and best practice work of our community while contributing to deployment success and global adoption; * OGF Enterprise Workshops - bringing together industry-specific experts to workshop requirements and examine adoption issues; * OGF eScience Workshops - exploring grid technology application in a variety of Academic and Scientific endeavors; * EGEE User Forum - providing opportunities for discussions between users and Grid service providers, as well as the chance to interactively demonstrate prototypes and production applications; * Grids Mean Business Industry Track - highlighting the advantages of Grid technology to IT leaders and Managers in a variety of commercial sectors; * OGF/EGEE plenary day - bringing users and standards bodies together to ensure that the future of the Grid is complemented by the establishment of key standards To view the full program schedule, visit <http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/?event_id=7> http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/?event_id=7 For hotel and lodging information, please visit http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_lodging_ogf20.php We look forward to seeing you in Manchester! OGF and EGEE wish to thank the following sponsors and partners: Premier Sponsors: * Grid Computing Now! * HP * Microsoft * UK eScience * Interactive European Grid Project Standard Sponsors: * Akogrimo * BalticGrid * BEinGrid * BREIN * CoreGRID * Excelian Limited * Force10 Networks * Fraunhofer * Health-e Child * Interactive Grid and Instruments: CSIC, Poznan, Karlsruhe and CNIT * NextGRID * Oracle * OMII - Europe * Platform Computing * Technische Universitat Berlin * Unicore Forum Media Sponsors: * ComputerworldUK * Techworld * GridToday Event Partners: * UK eScience * University of Manchester * Grid Computing Now! * NCeSS * CoreGRID REGISTER TODAY AND SAVE! Simply visit <http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php> http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php. Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org <http://www.ogf.orgopen/> Open Forum | Open Standards

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OGF20/ EGEE User Forum Program Highlights
by John Ehrig 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Register this week for OGF20 and save up to $100 <http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php> http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php. Join the 800 Grid leaders and technologists gathering at this event being held May 7-11 in Manchester, UK. The five day program includes an exciting array of opportunities for attendees to learn, outreach, network, and contribute to the work of our international grid community. Highlights include: Keynote presentations from Grid luminaries including Tony Hey (Microsoft), Peter Coveney (University College London), and Mario Campolargo (European Commission). The Grids Mean Business Track running on Tuesday, May 8th and Wednesday, May 9th, and will feature Paul Strong, e-Bay, as a keynote speaker, together with a selection of grid innovators and champions from the UK and around the world. The track will showcase grid in action and allow attendees to learn from their peers who are reaping the benefits of grid computing technologies. Many of the speakers will feature case studies, generating a real sense of "can do" led by these early adopters. Following the Grids Mean Business track, all attendees are welcome and encouraged to attend the OGF20 Enterprise requirements, best practices and developer and vendor adoption sessions being held on Thursday, May 10th. The Best Practices working session will review and discuss the draft document "Best practices to efficiently deploy and manage my Enterprise Grid infrastructure". The end result of this activity will be the publication of the first in a series of Enterprise Best Practice documents by the OGF. OGC-OGF Collaboration Workshop will identify and produce standard, grid-enabled geospatial information tools in the context of a service-oriented architecture. There will be presentations from key stakeholders and potential adopters followed by a panel session to get rough consensus on specific activities, such as harmonizing the OGC Reference Model with emerging web services. The 2nd International Workshop on Campus and Community Grids will provide a balanced view of connectivity issues between local, regional, national and international grid endeavours and call on the experiences of the grid community to ensure that issues are not missed. With the success of interoperability between National infrastructures, it is important to expand and connect existent Campus Grid systems to the national grids. The Program will also include dozens of chartered group sessions advancing grid specifications, other eScience and Enterprise-related workshops, and a series of sessions examining Grid issues in the Education and Training field. Without a doubt, this will be the biggest and most encompassing Grid event of the year. To view the full program schedule visit <http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/?event_id=7> http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/?event_id=7 We look forward to seeing you in Manchester! OGF and EGEE wish to thank the following sponsors and partners: Premier Sponsors: * Grid Computing Now! * HP * Microsoft * UK eScience * Interactive European Grid Project Standard Sponsors: * Akogrimo * BalticGrid * BEinGrid * BREIN * CoreGRID * Excelian Limited * Force10 Networks * Fraunhofer * Health-e Child * Interactive Grid and Instruments: CSIC, Poznan, Karlsruhe and CNIT * NextGRID * Oracle * OMII - Europe * Platform Computing * Technische Universitat Berlin * Unicore Forum Media Sponsors: * ComputerWorld * Techworld * GridToday Event Partners: * UK eScience * University of Manchester * Grid Computing Now! * NCeSS * CoreGRID REGISTER TODAY AND SAVE! Simply visit <http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php> http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php. Regards, John Ehrig OGF Marketing Manager john.ehrig(a)ogf.org 925-275-6677

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OGF20 - Register Now and Save
by john.ehrig＠ogf.org 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Register today and join the 800 Grid leaders and technologists gathering at the OGF20 and EGEE User Forum event being held May 7-11 in Manchester, UK. It is not too late to save up to $100 on registration, go to <http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php> http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php. Without a doubt, this will be the biggest and most encompassing Grid event of the year. Highlights include: *Group Sessions* - gain insight and influence the standards and best practice work of our community and contribute to global adoption and deployment *Enterprise Workshops* - examine requirements and issues in leading Grid vertical user segments including Finance, Pharma, Auto and Aerospace *eScience Workshops* - explore new grid technologies including Dynamic Service Levels, Computational Steering and Service-Oriented Utilities and the application of grids in Arts and Humanities, Astronomical Science, Geospatial Science and Campus and Community Grids *Grids Mean Business* - 2-day IT industry program with case studies, panel discussions and selected talks demonstrating examples of successful deployments and highlighting the advantage of using Grid technology in a variety of commercial sectors *Insightful Keynotes* - presentations from Grid luminaries including Tony Hey (Microsoft), Peter Coveney (University College London), Mario Campolargo (European Commission), Paul Strong (eBay), Mark Linesch (OGF) and Bob Jones (EGEE) *Solution Showcase* - Grid exhibits, poster sessions and demonstrations highlighting key applications and technologies *EGEE User Forum* - providing opportunities for in-depth discussions between users and EGEE service providers, as well as prototype and production applications And much more. To view the full program schedule visit <http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/?event_id=7> http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/?event_id=7 We look forward to seeing you in Manchester! OGF and EGEE wish to thank the following sponsors and partners: Premier Sponsors: * Grid Computing Now! * HP * Microsoft * UK eScience * Interactive European Grid Project Standard Sponsors: * Akogrimo * BalticGrid * BEinGrid * BREIN * CoreGRID * Fondazione Gerolamo Gaslini (Health-e Child) * Force10 Networks * Fraunhofer * Interactive Grid and Instruments: CSIC, Poznan, Karlsruhe and CNIT * NextGRID * OMII - Europe * Platform Computing * Unicore Forum Event Partners: * UK eScience * University of Manchester * Grid Computing Now! * NCeSS * CoreGRID REGISTER TODAY AND SAVE! Simply visit <http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php> http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php. Regards, John Ehrig OGF Marketing Manager john.ehrig(a)ogf.org 925-275-6677

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April 07 GridConnections Newsletter
by john.ehrig＠ogf.org 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

The April 07 GridConnections newsletter is here. Open the attached document or follow this link http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_newsletter.php to view the newsletter. In this month's edition: * Newly Formed Groups - Grid and Virtualization and Reference Model * OGF20 Update - Lodging Deadline is 4/6 * OGF Leadership Awards - Nominees Needed * Documents In Public Comment * Welcome New Organizational Member - eBay * Other Upcoming Events * Closing Comments Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org <http://www.ogf.orgopen/> Open Forum | Open Standards

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OGF20 - 500+ Registrations and Growing
by john.ehrig＠ogf.org 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Over 500 people have already registered for OGF20/EGEE User Forum and over 20 organizations have signed up for exhibition space and sponsorships. Don't miss out - this will be the major grid event of 2007! Our keynote speakers will include: * Tony Hey, Corporate VP Technical Computing, Microsoft * Peter Coveney, Director of the Centre of Computational Science, University College London * Mario Campolargo, Head of Unit GEANT and eInfrastructures, European Commission, DG Information Society and Media * Mark Linesch, OGF President * Bob Jones, EGEE President. The following workshop sessions have been announced: * 2nd International Workshop on Campus and Community Grids: Continuing Interoperability * Computational Steering on the Grid * eArts and eHumanities - eScience technologies and methodologies in Arts and Humanities research * OGC-OGF Collaboration Workshop * Evolution of Grids Towards Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities (SOKUs) * Dynamic Service Level Agreements * Adoption of Grid Technologies in Astronomical Science This event will also include Standards, Enterprise and e-Science group sessions, 'Grids Means Business' Industry track, an exhibit, poster and demonstration hall and networking/social activities. Useful Links: Registration - <http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php> http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php Lodging - <http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_lodging_ogf20.php> http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_lodging_ogf20.php Sponsorships - <http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_sponsorship_ogf20.php> http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_sponsorship_ogf20.php Program - http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_program_ogf20.php OGF and EGEE wish to thank the following sponsors and partners: Premier Sponsors: * Grid Computing Now! * HP * Microsoft * UK eScience Standard Sponsors: * Akogrimo * BalticGrid * BEin Grid * BREIN * CoreGRID * GridPP * Fondazione Gerolamo Gaslini (Health-e Child) * Force10 Networks * Fraunhofer * Interactive European Grid Project * NextGRID * OMII - Europe * Platform Computing * Unicore Forum Event Partners: * University of Manchester * NCeSS * National e-Science Centre John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org <http://www.ogf.orgopen/> Open Forum | Open Standards

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OGF downtime this evening 7:00-9:00pm CDT
by Joel Replogle 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

All - There will be a brief downtime for OGF systems this evening 7-9pm CDT for minor server adjustments. This will include www.ogf.org and forge.gridforum.org (gridforge). The downtime will likely take less time than we have allotted. Thanks, Joel ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- Joel Replogle - Manager of Standards, Open Grid Forum replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org

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