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Fwd: Call for papers, lightning talks, and panel topics: 2nd International Workshop on Data Center Automation, Analytics, and Control
by Sill, Alan 06 Sep '18

06 Sep '18

Dear OGF Work Groups and Community Groups, Please look over, and if possible help distribute, the following announcement for a workshop on data center automation analytics, and control topics to any lists you feel would be suited to its contents. Since the last mailing on this, the date has now been scheduled for Monday, Nov. 12 from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm. OGF technologies are in scope with respect to many of the inter-data-center topics, including automation of workload distribution, energy efficiency, and standards for data center automation. The committee is also receptive to in any topics for panels or suggestions for lightning talks or invited speakers . As you can see from the topics listed, we are aiming for a broad scope in exploring modern usage for tools and techniques that lend themselves to improving operational efficiency and management in data centers, including academic data center operations. Thanks for any input, and hope to see you at SC’18 in Dallas! — Alan -------------------- DAAC 2018 (http://daac-workshop.org<http://daac-workshop.org/>) Monday, November 12 at the SuperComputing 2018 conference<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsc18.supercomputing.org&sa=D&snt…> in Dallas, Texas The 2nd International Industry/University Workshop on Data-center Automation, Analytics, and Control This workshop is the continuation of a highly successful series introduced in 2017 at the 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC)<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.depts.ttu.edu%2Fcac%2Fconferen…> conference held in Austin, Texas. The DAAC workshop series is focused on fostering discussion among industry, academic, and national laboratory participants and promoting collaboration on solutions for automated data centers and associated data center analytics and control issues. The objective is to promote and stimulate community's interactions to address some of most critical challenges in automation, analytics, and control specifically aimed for the needs of large-scale data centers in high-performance and other forms of highly scaled computing. the 2018 workshop will be held Monday, Nov. 12 in room D170 at Supercomputing'18<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsc18.supercomputing.org%2Fpresen…>. * Submission Deadline: September 17, 2018 * Author Notification: October 1, 2018 * Camera-ready Submission: October 15, 2018 * Workshop: Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, 9:00 am = 5:30 pm<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsc18.supercomputing.org%2Fpresen…> Manuscript submissions must be received by the announced submission deadline. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Further details on the publication instructions and registration information will be published on the DAAC website. Format: Papers: * Authors are requested to submit papers electronically. * Submissions are limited to 5 pages using 10 pt fonts in the IEEE format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ieee.org%2Fconferences%2Fpub…>). * The 5-page limit includes figures, tables, references and appendices. Lightning Talks: * Short talks covering recently breaking topics may be submitted for presentation only. * Journal publication will not be guaranteed for these talks if accepted, but slides will be accepted to be made available online. * Submit an abstract and up to one-page description using the templates linked above and the submission link below. Panel Participation and Topics: * Submit a proposal for a panel topic, or volunteer to participate on a panel, using the submission link below. * Prepare an abstract and up to one-page description using the templates linked above and the submission link below, or contact the organizers<mailto:info@daac-workshop.org> for additional information. * All topics related to the main theme of the workshop are in scope. Submission Link: Submissions should be made on the submissions.supercomputing.org<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsubmissions.supercomputing.org&s…>web site. To submit your paper, please use the following link, or click on the DAAC link on the "submission Forms" tab there, after logging in to that site: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/?page=Submit&id=SC18WorkshopDAAC&sit…<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsubmissions.supercomputing.org%2…> Journal Special Issue: All the accepted DAAC-2018 workshop papers will be invited to extend the manuscripts to be considered for a Special Issue on Data-center Automation, Analytics, and Control of the Springer Cluster Computing: the Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications (Impact Factor 2.04 in 2016). This special issue is dedicated for the papers accepted in the DAAC workshop. The submission to this special issue is by invitation only. This workshop will provide a forum to discuss fundamental issues on real-time operation of highly automated data centers, including methods to provision, debug, analyze and control data center equipment and to improve how machines are operated, monitored, and used. Topics to be covered will include how software stacks are deployed and provisioned, how data is processed and transferred in real time from the data center to the cloud as well as challenges in design and implementation of novel automated data center architectures and systems. New methods, techniques, hardware, software, and standards for data center automation and control will be discussed and in scope. * Design and implementation of hardware for large-scale data center operation * Artificial intelligence methods to detect and respond to shifting workloads * Integration of cloud software stack design and data center operations * Real-time monitoring architectures and systems * Data analytics infrastructures for data centers * Data movement within and between large-scale data center implementations * Debugging operational issues in multi-level data centers * Data collection, analytics, security and management for data centers * Techniques for on-demand virtual machine image or container provisioning * Mining sensor data collected from large-scale sensing deployments * Big data analytics in large data center sensor networks * Sensor systems for remote and real-time monitoring of data center equipment * Scheduling for distributed systems within and among data centers * Optimizing energy use in multi-tenant data center deployments * Emergency response methods for automated protection of equipment * Control software frameworks for handling large numbers of machines * Custom design of software and hardware to optimize operation in data centers General Chairs: * Alan Sill (Texas Tech University) * Yong Chen (Texas Tech University) Industrial Chairs: * Jon Hass (Dell) * Jeff Hilland (HPE) Program Chairs: * Dong Dai (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) * Tim Cockerill (Texas Advanced Computing Center) Publicity Chair: * Elham Hojati (Texas Tech University) Proceeding Chair: * Mai Zheng (Iowa State University) Contact: * info(a)daac-workshop.org<mailto:nfo@daac-workshop.org> Technical Program Committee: * Dmitry Duplyakin (University of Utah) * Raj Kettimuthu (Argonne National Laboratory) * Devesh Tiwari (Northeastern University) * Hiroya Matsuba (RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan) * Hirotaka Ogawa (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan) * Shin-ichiro Takizawa (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan) * Zhengchun Liu (University of Chicago) * Xiaoli Gong (Nankai University, China) * Shuibing He (Wuhan University, China) * Dazhao Cheng (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) * Jin Xiong (Institute of Computing Technology, China) * Keiji Yamamoto (RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan) * Lingfang Zeng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) * Bing Xie (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

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Fwd: [DFDL-WG] Apache Daffodil (Incubating) release 2.2.0
by Sill, Alan 05 Sep '18

05 Sep '18

Forwarding on this news from the DFDL working group with congratulations to the Apache Daffodil developer team on this release! More on DFDL is available at https://www.ogf.org/dfdl Begin forwarded message: From: Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl(a)gmail.com<mailto:mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com>> Subject: [DFDL-WG] Apache Daffodil (Incubating) release 2.2.0 Date: September 5, 2018 at 2:00:44 PM CDT To: DFDL-WG <dfdl-wg(a)ogf.org<mailto:dfdl-wg@ogf.org>> The Apache Daffodil (incubating) community is pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.0. Release notes and downloads are available at: https://daffodil.apache.org/releases/2.2.0/<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdaffodil.a…> Daffodil is an open source implementation of the DFDL (Data Format Description Language) specification that uses DFDL schemas to parse fixed format data into an infoset, which is most commonly represented as either XML or JSON. This allows the use of well-established XML or JSON technologies and libraries to consume, inspect, and manipulate fixed format data in existing solutions. Daffodil is also capable of the reverse by serializing or "unparsing" an XML or JSON infoset back to the original data format. For more information about Daffodil visit: https://daffodil.apache.org/<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdaffodil.a…> Regards, The Apache Daffodil Team Mike Beckerle | OGF DFDL Workgroup Co-Chair | Tresys Technology | www.tresys.com<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tresys.…> Please note: Contributions to the DFDL Workgroup's email discussions are subject to the OGF Intellectual Property Policy<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ogf.org…> -- dfdl-wg mailing list dfdl-wg(a)ogf.org<mailto:dfdl-wg@ogf.org> https://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/dfdl-wg

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Call for papers, lighning talks, and panel topics: 2nd International Workshop on Data Center Automation, Analyitcs, and Control
by Sill, Alan 04 Sep '18

04 Sep '18

DAAC 2018 (http://daac-workshop.org) Monday, November 12 at the SuperComputing 2018 conference<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsc18.supercomputing.org&sa=D&snt…> in Dallas, Texas The 2nd International Industry/University Workshop on Data-center Automation, Analytics, and Control This workshop is the continuation of a highly successful series introduced in 2017 at the 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC)<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.depts.ttu.edu%2Fcac%2Fconferen…> conference held in Austin, Texas. The DAAC workshop series is focused on fostering discussion among industry, academic, and national laboratory participants and promoting collaboration on solutions for automated data centers and associated data center analytics and control issues. The objective is to promote and stimulate community's interactions to address some of most critical challenges in automation, analytics, and control specifically aimed for the needs of large-scale data centers in high-performance and other forms of highly scaled computing. * Submission Deadline: September 17, 2018 * Author Notification: October 1, 2018 * Camera-ready Submission: October 15, 2018 Manuscript submissions must be received by the announced submission deadline. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Further details on the publication instructions and registration information will be published on the DAAC website. Format: Papers: * Authors are requested to submit papers electronically. * Submissions are limited to 5 pages using 10 pt fonts in the IEEE format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ieee.org%2Fconferences%2Fpub…>). * The 5-page limit includes figures, tables, references and appendices. Lightning Talks: * Short talks covering recently breaking topics may be submitted for presentation only. * Journal publication will not be guaranteed for these talks if accepted, but slides will be accepted to be made available online. * Submit an abstract and up to one-page description using the templates linked above and the submission link below. Panel Participation and Topics: * Submit a proposal for a panel topic, or volunteer to participate on a panel, using the submission link below. * Prepare an abstract and up to one-page description using the templates linked above and the submission link below, or contact the organizers<mailto:info@daac-workshop.org> for additional information. * All topics related to the main theme of the workshop are in scope. Submission Link: Submissions should be made on the submissions.supercomputing.org<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsubmissions.supercomputing.org&s…>web site. To submit your paper, please use the following link, or click on the DAAC link on the "submission Forms" tab there, after logging in to that site: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/?page=Submit&id=SC18WorkshopDAAC&sit…<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsubmissions.supercomputing.org%2…> Journal Special Issue: All the accepted DAAC-2018 workshop papers will be invited to extend the manuscripts to be considered for a Special Issue on Data-center Automation, Analytics, and Control of the Springer Cluster Computing: the Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications (Impact Factor 2.04 in 2016). This special issue is dedicated for the papers accepted in the DAAC workshop. The submission to this special issue is by invitation only. This workshop will provide a forum to discuss fundamental issues on real-time operation of highly automated data centers, including methods to provision, debug, analyze and control data center equipment and to improve how machines are operated, monitored, and used. Topics to be covered will include how software stacks are deployed and provisioned, how data is processed and transferred in real time from the data center to the cloud as well as challenges in design and implementation of novel automated data center architectures and systems. New methods, techniques, hardware, software, and standards for data center automation and control will be discussed and in scope. * Design and implementation of hardware for large-scale data center operation * Artificial intelligence methods to detect and respond to shifting workloads * Integration of cloud software stack design and data center operations * Real-time monitoring architectures and systems * Data analytics infrastructures for data centers * Data movement within and between large-scale data center implementations * Debugging operational issues in multi-level data centers * Data collection, analytics, security and management for data centers * Techniques for on-demand virtual machine image or container provisioning * Mining sensor data collected from large-scale sensing deployments * Big data analytics in large data center sensor networks * Sensor systems for remote and real-time monitoring of data center equipment * Scheduling for distributed systems within and among data centers * Optimizing energy use in multi-tenant data center deployments * Emergency response methods for automated protection of equipment * Control software frameworks for handling large numbers of machines * Custom design of software and hardware to optimize operation in data centers General Chairs: * Alan Sill (Texas Tech University) * Yong Chen (Texas Tech University) Industrial Chairs: * Jon Hass (Dell) * Jeff Hilland (HPE) Program Chairs: * Dong Dai (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) * Tim Cockerill (Texas Advanced Computing Center) Publicity Chair: * Elham Hojati (Texas Tech University) Proceeding Chair: * Mai Zheng (Iowa State University) Contact: * info(a)daac-workshop.org<mailto:nfo@daac-workshop.org> Technical Program Committee: * Dmitry Duplyakin (University of Utah) * Raj Kettimuthu (Argonne National Laboratory) * Devesh Tiwari (Northeastern University) * Hiroya Matsuba (RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan) * Hirotaka Ogawa (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan) * Shin-ichiro Takizawa (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan) * Zhengchun Liu (University of Chicago) * Xiaoli Gong (Nankai University, China) * Shuibing He (Wuhan University, China) * Dazhao Cheng (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) * Jin Xiong (Institute of Computing Technology, China) * Keiji Yamamoto (RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan) * Lingfang Zeng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) * Bing Xie (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

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OGF: New documents in public comment: NSI v2.1
by Greg Newby 31 Aug '18

31 Aug '18

Dear OGF Community: Two related OGF documents are now available for public comment. Please consider reading and providing feedback. Brief affirmations are very useful to demonstrate community input and support. More detailed analysis is, of course, welcome. The documents newly available for public comment are: * NSI Connection Service v2.1 This is a Recommendation Track document, with a 60-day public comment period. When published, it will obsoletes GFD #212. https://redmine.ogf.org/projects/editor-pubcom/boards/41 * NSI Connection Service v2.0 to v2.1 Delta This is an Informational Track document, with a 30-day public comment. It describes the changes implemented by the Recommendation Track document above, and therefore the OGF Standards Council intends to publish the two documents simultaneously. https://redmine.ogf.org/projects/editor-pubcom/boards/42 Access all documents and the public comment forum trackers here: http://redmine.ogf.org/projects/editor-pubcom/boards Note that public comments are received via the Open Grid Forum Redmine instance. Anyone may register for a Redmine username. - Greg Newby, OGF Standards Editor -- Gregory Newby Ph.D. Chief Technology Officer / Chef de la Technologie gbnewby(a)computecanada.ca / (o) 416.228.1234 (f) 416.907.1555 (c) 613.334.8373 155 University Avenue, Suite 302, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 3B7 www.computecanada.ca / www.calculcanada.ca / @ComputeCanada

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IEEE/ACM UCC 2018 - deadline extension
by Sill, Alan 06 Aug '18

06 Aug '18

Please note that the IEEE/ACM UCC and BDCAT conferences are to be held in Zurich, Switzerland this coming December (17-20), and this could be a useful location and venue for ongoing OGF meetings. Please let us know of any groups that would like to meet, and we will try to arrange some rooms. Groups that could usefully meet include GLUE, DFDL, NSI, OCCI, and others. Contact your area directors or send a message to standards(a)ogf.org<mailto:standards@ogf.org> or president(a)ogf.org<mailto:president@ogf.org>. Alan Sill, Ph.D Managing Director, High Performance Computing Center Co-Director, NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing Adjunct Professor of Physics, Texas Tech University President, Open Grid Forum ==================================================================== : Alan Sill, Texas Tech University Office: Drane 159, MS 4-1167 : : e-mail: Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu<mailto:Alan.Sill@ttu.edu> ph. 806-834-5940 fax 806-834-4358 : ==================================================================== Begin forwarded message: From: Tim Cockerill <cockerill(a)tacc.utexas.edu<mailto:cockerill@tacc.utexas.edu>> Subject: [Chameleon-users] IEEE/ACM UCC 2018 -deadline extension Date: August 6, 2018 at 7:50:52 AM CDT To: "users(a)chameleoncloud.org<mailto:users@chameleoncloud.org>" <users(a)chameleoncloud.org<mailto:users@chameleoncloud.org>> The Chameleon team would like to inform you about the extended deadline for IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing UCC-2018, which is now August 15. http://www.ucc-conference.org/pages/ucc-2018-call-for-papers.html<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ucc-con…> Call for Papers Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of Cloud and Utility computing, including design and analysis of distributed and centralized Cloud systems, datacenter design and engineering, economic and market models for cloud systems, revenue and business models and their applications in scientific and commercial deployments. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: · Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds · Cloud business and legal implications beyond technology · Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS) · Cloud large-scale foundations for Big Data, IoT, and real-time analytics · Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, and monitoring · Cloud-native application design and engineering · Cloud, Fog and edge/mobile devices management, hierarchy models, and business models · Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated · Economic and business models of Clouds and services · HPC and the Cloud · Innovative cloud applications and experiences · Integration of Cloud systems with edge and IoT devices · Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds · Networking for clouds and data centres · Performance analysis and modeling of cloud systems and applications · Policy languages and programming models · Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing · Resource management and scalability: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, and elasticity · Security, trust and privacy in Clouds · Utility-driven platforms for Clouds · Utility-driven models and mechanisms for interclouds / federations · Virtualization, containerization, composition, orchestration and other enablers _______________________________________________ Chameleon Users mailing list Manage your subscription at https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.cham…

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Good news from OGF regarding your data and participation with respect to international regulations
by Sill, Alan 25 May '18

25 May '18

Dear Open Grid Forum mailing list members and participants, By now you will be quite worn out from reading and where necessary relying to various messages from organizations all over he world that are trying to comply with policy changes required for compliance with recent changes to international and individual state jurisdiction regulations. The good news is that no actions on your part are required to remain an active member of the OGF community. The Grid Forum Steering Group has reviewed the OGF policies with respect to these changes and has come to the following conclusions. As with the policies of many large organizations, these will be subject to review and revision as our collective understanding of the applicability and implications of these requirements evolve, and as the regulations themselves continue to evolve and mature. For the moment, to comply with the recent changes introduced by the European GDPR and State of California requirements with respect to information tracking and disclosure, we would like to convey to you the following information: 1. OGF has a clear intellectual property rights policy in place since that governs all contributions and communications. The relevant text, which covers the major points required to be addressed by the above regulations, has been in place since 2006 and can be accessed at the "OGF IPR policy link" at the page below. It is our interpretation that this policy meets all GDPR requirements regarding information permissions granted to OGF by all participants in OGF activities. These are clearly spelled out in detail and available to you for your review. 2. OGF does not have any current arrangements with business partners or any other external parties that require or enable data sharing. OGF's web sites track visitors for legitimate purposes of security and to allow response to and mitigation of potential intrusions, and does not use such information for marketing purposes. We do maintain records, largely in paper form, consisting of participation and permission records that allow OGF to verify agreement of OGF in-person meeting participants with the OGF IPR policy mentioned above. 3. Participation in an OGF email list or other electronic communication by you is also covered by the IPR policy, as explicitly stated on our web site and in the policy itself. This condition was in place from the outset of the initiation of these resources, and does not require a further update to comply with the GDPR. 4. The Data Protection Officer for OGF is currently Dr. Wolfgang Ziegler, our Vice President for Community, who can be reached for purposes of responding to any data protection issues at community(a)ogf.org<mailto:community@ogf.org> Due to the nature of OGF as an open standards and best practices documentation organization, your participation explicitly grants OGF the right to retain certain identifying information, including your signatures on the IPR policy agreements necessary for the organization to operate in an open public way. OGF reserves the right to retain this information to comply with legal requirements associated with its document development and assembly process. You do have the right to request access to the information that OGF holds for you, which consists of your membership in our email lists and the permissions granted to OGF by you in past meetings. You may unsubscribe from any individual OGF email list by following the links at the bottom of the list. You can also sign up for, or at your preference, change your email address or unsubscribe from any OGF email list by going to https://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo and selecting the list. Each such page includes methods unsubscribe from the list, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options according to your preferences. We hope the above information answers any questions you may have regarding use of your data by OGF and your rights to control communications from us. If you have any further questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact us at it(a)ogf.org<mailto:it@ogf.org> or to write to me personally at president(a)ogf.org<mailto:president@ogf.org> Sincerely, Alan Sill, President, Open Grid Forum

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Grants for Standards Experts - StandICT.eu Open Calls - Deadline 29 May
by Wolfgang Ziegler 22 May '18

22 May '18

Dear all, we are writing to highlight a great funding opportunity for standards specialists that we trust would be relevant for many of you. With a total funding of €1.4 million, the StandICT.eu Open Calls offer a unique opportunity to EU standards specialists to apply for grants to support various types of contributions to ICT international and national standardisation activities. The initiative aims to ensure that the EU plays a key role in making ICT services and technologies interoperable, secure and benchmarked. The 1st of 10 Open Calls targets standards specialists working on key ICT standardisation priorities is open until the 29th May, midnight CEST. . To view the full list of topics addressed, the call evaluation criteria and how to apply, please visit https://www.standict.eu/OpenCalls/1st-Open-Call. Mini-grants of up to EUR 8000 are offered to support activities such as participation to workshops or events (e.g., participant, observer, presentation) or longer term commitments such as contribution to standards documentation (e.g. liaison to WG, comments on standards drafts, membership fees). For more details you can also consult the Open Call FAQs https://www.standict.eu/faqs-open-calls Running in parallel with the Open Calls, StandICT.eu has also launched a call for external evaluators. For more details visit https://www.standict.eu/call- evaluators. This call is open for applications of both European and non-European experts. For any questions, please feel free to get in touch with us at contact(a)standict.eu Best regards Wolfgang -- Dr. Wolfgang Ziegler Fraunhofer-Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI) Schloss Birlinghoven, D-53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany https://www.scai.fraunhofer.de/en/about-us/staff/ziegler.html Tel: +49 2241 14 2258; Fax: +49 2241 14 42258 Public key available at pki.fraunhofer.de/Web-CA?operation=directory-search&name=wolfgang+ziegler StandICT - Supporting European Experts Presence in International Standardisation Activities in ICT www.standict.eu, www.linkedin.com/in/standict, twitter: @Stand_ICT elasticLM - Software License Technology for Grids, Clouds, SOA www.elasticlm.com Fortissimo - Enabling Manufacturing SMEs to benefit from High Performance, Computer-based Simulations: www.fortissimo-project.eu

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Special issue on Reengineering Cloud Data Centers—Call for Papers - IEEE Cloud Computing
by Sill, Alan 06 Jan '18

06 Jan '18

Dear OGF working groups and community groups, Please see the following request for papers for a special issue of IEEE Cloud Computing on the topic of "Reengineering Cloud Data Centers” . Josef Spillner of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences and I are co-editing this issue. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • Robust engineering of data center equipment for automated operations • Cloud software stacks, platforms and support infrastructures • Support for critical, failure-intolerant applications such as emergency management • Data center automation, analytics, and control • Internal security for multi-tenant operations • Secure remote control and communication infrastructures • Container and virtualization technologies • Distributed multi-data-center operations • Power systems and close control for energy-efficient operations • Management of workflows to achieve energy savings • Remote management and data center monitoring systems • Autonomic systems for error detection, correction, and failover • Engineering data center equipment for wider tolerance in environmental operating conditions • Extremely large, and extremely small data centers, edge computing topologies • Methods to improve and generalize control of data center equipment • Standards and protocols for data center operations • Hardware and software optimization • Regulation and international standards • Educating the workforce in data center design and operation principles Submission Deadline: 3 March 2018 Publication Date: November/December 2018 Link: http://publications.computer.org/cloud-computing/2017/12/09/reengineering-c… Please distribute this announcement to your colleagues and others who might be interested in submitting articles to be reviewed for this issue. Thanks, Alan Alan Sill, Ph.D Senior Director, High Performance Computing Center Co-Director, NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing Adjunct Professor of Physics, Texas Tech University President, Open Grid Forum ==================================================================== : Alan Sill, Texas Tech University Office: Drane 159, MS 4-1167 : : e-mail: Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu<mailto:Alan.Sill@ttu.edu> ph. 806-834-5940 fax 806-834-4358 : ====================================================================

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New documents published for NWI-WG, #232-235
by Greg Newby 20 Nov '17

20 Nov '17

Dear OGF Community: Four new documents have been published by OGF. All OGF documents (including any that are open for public comment) may be found here: www.ogf.org/ogf/doku.php/documents/documents These documents were provided by the NSI Working Group: GFD #232: NSI Authentication and Authorization Authors: H. Trompert, J. MacAuley Abstract: This document outlines security requirements placed on Network Service Agents (NSA) when participating in the Network Services Interface (NSI) Connection Service (CS) protocol. It describes in detail how the NSI CS security attributes should be used to deliver integration with end-user authentication and authorization mechanisms. GFD #233: Applying Policy in the NSI Environment Authors: J. MacAuley, T. Kudoh, C. Guok, G. Roberts Abstract: This document describes an approach to applying policy to the Network Services Interface (NSI) Connection Service protocol. GFD #234: Network Service Interface Signaling and Path Finding Authors: J. MacAuley, C. Guok, G. Roberts Abstract: This document provides a discussion of the signaling and path finding models supported by the NSI protocol. GFD #235: Error Handling in NSI CS 2.1 Authors: J. MacAuley, T. Kudoh, C. Guok Abstract: This document describes a set of standard error codes for the NSI CS protocol [GFD.212]. Each error code is formaly defined to ensure consistent error reporting through detailed error explanations and example XML elements. - Greg Newby, OGF Editor -- Gregory Newby Ph.D. Chief Technology Officer / Chef de la Technologie gbnewby(a)computecanada.ca / (o) 416-228-1234 (f) 416-907-1555 (c) 613-334-8373 155 University Avenue, Suite 302, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 3B7 www.computecanada.ca / www.calculcanada.ca / @ComputeCanada

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Fwd: [ASGC] Last 3 days to deadline - ISGC2018 Abstracts Submission Deadline (Monday, 13 November 2017)
by Sill, Alan 10 Nov '17

10 Nov '17

Please consider a submission to ISGC 2018, as described below Begin forwarded message: From: Vicky Huang - TWGrid <vic(a)twgrid.org<mailto:vic@twgrid.org>> Date: November 10, 2017 at 3:58:24 AM CST To: Vicky Huang <vic(a)twgrid.org<mailto:vic@twgrid.org>>, Vicky-gmail <vic.gtalk(a)gmail.com<mailto:vic.gtalk@gmail.com>> Subject: [ASGC] Last 3 days to deadline - ISGC2018 Abstracts Submission Deadline (Monday, 13 November 2017) Subject: ISGC2018 Submission Deadline - Monday, 13 November 2017 [Apologize if you receive multiple postings]

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