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Information requested on Research Software Development and Engineering
by Sill, Alan 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

Dear OGF participants, Checking with Dan, this is still of interest. Please respond if appropriate to the following request for information needed to catalog and encourage research efforts aimed towards development of reliable and efficient scientific software. If your group and/or you personally are working in the area of scientific programming, you may be interested in this topic and I encourage you to add your efforts to the list. OGF would be happy to support creation of a working group or groups, and to provide repositories, catalogs wiki and email support to such groups. Please contact me, Jens Jensen, Wolfgang Ziegler or any of the other OGF group or area leaders if you are interested in receiving any assistance. Alan Sill Begin forwarded message: From: "Katz, Daniel S" <dskatz(a)illinois.edu<mailto:dskatz@illinois.edu>> Subject: [Cascmem] Research Software Engineers Date: September 20, 2016 at 11:19:08 AM CDT To: "cascmem(a)casc.org<mailto:cascmem@casc.org>" <cascmem(a)casc.org<mailto:cascmem@casc.org>> Dear all, As part of work for the WSSSPE workshop, we in the UK Community of Research Software Engineers would like to build a list of all “research software engineering” groups in universities around the world. We are looking for institutions which, in addition to any HPC facility services, also provide services to help researchers with the development of readable, reliable and efficient scientific software. We’re particularly interested in the provision of longer-term collaborative software development consultancy services to research, rather than specific short term support for the use of specific local HPC facilities. We’re building this list at www.rse.ac.uk/international.html<http://www.rse.ac.uk/international.html> , and you can either add a link to your group there by github pull request, or by directly emailing me at j.hetherington(a)ucl.ac.uk<mailto:j.hetherington@ucl.ac.uk>. If your institution doesn’t yet provide such a pool of scientific programmers, but you would like to try and set one up, we would love to help support the expansion of a similar function in the US – the universities of Cambridge, Manchester, Sheffield, and Southampton, and University College London have recently set up such teams, and it seems to be going well. -- Dr James Hetherington Head of Research Software Development Research IT Services And Honorary Lecturer Department of Computer Science University College London Tel: 07946868834 Site: http://bit.ly/ucl-rsd Twitter: @uclrcsoftdev @jamespjh Skype: ucgajhe -- Daniel S. Katz Assistant Director for Scientific Software and Applications, NCSA Research Associate Professor, ECE Research Associate Professor, iSchool University of Illinois (217) 244-8000 d.katz(a)ieee.org<mailto:d.katz@ieee.org> or dskatz(a)illinois.edu<mailto:dskatz@illinois.edu> http://danielskatz.org<http://danielskatz.org/>

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New document published: Interoperable Certificate Profile
by Greg Newby 31 Oct '16

31 Oct '16

Dear OGF Community: A new document has 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 This new document is a Proposed Recommendation, via the CAOPS Working Group. It obsoletes GFD #125: GFD.225.pdf Interoperable Certificate Profile D.L. Groep, M. Jones, J. Jensen, M. Helm, M. Sova, S. Rea, R. Karlsen-Masur, U. Epting - 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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New documents in public comment: NSI
by Greg Newby 31 Oct '16

31 Oct '16

Dear OGF Community: Two OGF documents have begun 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 Authentication and Authorization, via NSI-WG * NSI Error Codes, via NSI-WG Both are Recommendation Track documents, with a 60-day public comment period. All documents in public comment are accessible 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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Cloud Plugfest 24 taking place September 19-22 - free for on-site and remote participation!
by Sill, Alan 16 Sep '16

16 Sep '16

Dear OGF community, Please take note of the following Cloud Plugfest testing event. This is a nearly all-week informal set of testing and prototyping sessions at which new code, techniques and methods are demonstrated and used for all types of cloud interoperability and standards implementation testing. The event is open to all and requires only a free registration and agreement to a participation agreement. (Nearly everything presented there is actually open source or completely free of restrictions, and I have never seen a case in any of these events in which the NDA was actually enforced. It is there only to protect you if you want to bring something to the event, or someone else who might want to do so, that is not yet ready for public release, and these days almost everyone works in an open-source way, so use of that clause is a vanishingly small probability.) This is a great event for students, new and experienced researchers and code developers on shared infrastructure projects to attend. It is the 24th event in this series, and this series has produced some great software that is integrated into a wide variety of production-quality projects. The purpose is not to impress or market, but to give developers and cloud researchers a chance to learn and use emerging technology before it is ready for production. OGF supports this event and is one of the long-standing co-organizers. We have held Cloud Plugfest events at many OGF meetings and at meetings of related collaborating and affiliated organizations. Please register at http://cloudplugfest.org and let the organizers know at planners(a)cloudplugfest.org<mailto:planners@cloudplugfest.org> if you have any questions. Alan Sill, President, OGF On behalf of the Cloud Plugfest organizers ----- Event information below ----- CloudWATCH2 & SNIA Cloud Interoperability Plugfest 24 Sept. 19-21 2016 The CloudWatch2 project is pleased to announce its cooperation with SNIA to host and organise a Cloud Interoperability Plugfest<http://www.cloudplugfest.org/> colocated with SNIA Storage Developer Conference 2016<http://www.snia.org/events/storage-developer> in Santa Clara, CA, USA from 19 - 22 September 2016. ________________________________ While the F2F part of the plugfest is provided by the organisers of SDC2016 targeting show visitors, it is also open for remote participation by other members of the standards community. Also, as it is tradition with Cloud Interoperability Plugfests, participation is *not* limited to testing against standards originating from the organising standards development body (in this case, SNIA) - the network of SDOs is closely knit, and support each other through liaison and interop events. So, you are just as welcome if you would like to test interoperability on standards stewarded not only by SNIA, but also (in no particular order) OGF, OASIS, DMTF, ETSI, IEEE, and many, many more. The common goal here is interoperability, not competition among SDOs! Participation is open to anyone and free of charge, either as an SDC2016 visitor or from remote, with the only requirement being to register at the website http://www.cloudplugfest.org/. Prepare your participation with a safe test environment (so as to not impede the production environment if things go wrong), hang out in the main chatroom to get started and take it from there! Connection and comms details will be provided to participants in due time. What is a "plugfest", and what does it have to do with interoperability? In a nutshell, a plugfest is an event where developers of independently written software come together to find out whether and how well their code works with other developers' code - they plug their software into each other and see what will happen. Figuratively speaking, if the test environment doesn't go up in flames, then the two software components are close enough to interoperate with each other, and more formalised testing can commence. If the test results are what was intended, then these two software packages interoperate - often, this is governed and measured against publicly defined specifications (or in short, standards) such as HTML, HTTP, SOAP, OCCI, CDMI, and many other examples. As this is a Cloud Interoperability Plugfest, we are going to focus on open standards in that area, such as OCCI, CDMI, CIMI, TOSCA, CAMP, XACML, SAML, X.509 profiles. Why should I participate? In essence, these events are shared quality assurance activities: Cloud Interoperability Plugfests are a safe environment to test your code's degree of conformance with the respective standard, and how well it interoperates with other implementations of the same standard. Ideally, standards would be interpreted identically by all implementers, and hence all implementations would interoperate, but often enough that is utopia (though standards authors work very hard to minimise this). Such situations, where tests fail, the analysis of the failures can discover shortcomings in the standard document itself, illustrate discrepancies in interpretation, or in formal testing settings, errors in the test suite used. I don't want to get embarrassed by e.g. failing on interoperability, or don't even want my participation known for a number of reasons, is that possible? Yes. Plugfests have a long history of commercial participation, which would not have been possible hadn't every participant accepted the NDA protecting the event. In short, the NDA forbids any participant to use any information or insight gathered at these events for any other activity but improving their own software's standards conformance and interoperability. However, without going too much into legal details, it is possible for participants to agree on public release of bespoke information gathered at plugfests for as long as the publication does not compromise confidentiality towards other participants.

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CFP : The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT), Shanghai, China
by Sill, Alan 05 Sep '16

05 Sep '16

Please take note of the following call for papers for a conference associates with UCC 2016. Dear Alan, I will be grateful if you can please help us disseminate the event by sharing this call for papers within your networks and mailing lists. Please also encourage your group members and colleagues to consider submitting papers to BDCAT being held in Shanghai, China in December 2016. Best regards Ashiq Anjum Call for Papers The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT) Date: December 6-9, 2016 Location: Shanghai, China Website: http://computing.derby.ac.uk/bdcat2016/ Important Dates: - Paper Submission Due: 30 July, 2016 --> extended to 31 August, 2016 - Author Notification: 21 August, 2016 - Final Manuscript Due: 21 September, 2016 The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT) is an annual international conference. The first two events were held in London (BDC 2014) and Cyprus (BDC 2015) respectively. In 2016, the conference has been expanded to explicitly include applications and renamed as BDCAT 2016. The conference aims to provide a platform for researchers to present their new discoveries, developments, results, as well as the latest trends in big data computing, technologies and applications. BDCAT 2016 will be held in conjunction with the 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2016) at Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: I. Big Data Science Big Data Analytics Innovative Data Science Models and Approaches Data Science Practice and Experience Algorithms for Big Data Novel Big Data Search Techniques Innovative data and Knowledge Engineering approaches Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Approaches for Big Data Big Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices Experience reports in Solving Large Scale Data Science Problems II. Big Data Infrastructures and Platforms Scalable computing models, theories, and algorithms In-Memory Systems and platforms for Big Data Analytics Programming Systems for Big Data Cyber-Infrastructures for Big Data Performance evaluation reports for Big Data Systems Fault tolerance and reliability of Big Data Systems I/O and Data management Approaches for Big Data Energy-efficient Algorithms Storage Systems (including file systems, NoSQL, and RDBMS) Resource management Approaches for Big Data Systems Many-Task Computing Many-core computing and accelerators III. Big Data Security and Policy Big Data Archival and Preservation Big Data Management Policies Data Privacy Data Security Big Data Provenance Ethical and Anonymization Issues for Big Data Big Data Compliance and Governance Models IV. Big Data Applications Experience Papers with Big Data Application Deployments Big Data Applications for Internet of things Scientific application cases studies on Cloud infrastructures Big Data Applications at Scale Data streaming applications Mobile Applications of Big Data Big Data in Social Networks Healthcare Applications such as Genome processing and analytics Enterprise Applications V. Visualization of Big Data Visual Analytics Algorithms and Foundations Graph and Context Models for Visualization Analytical Reasoning and Sense-making on Big Data Visual Representation and Interaction Big Data Transformation, and Presentation Honorary Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Beng Chin OOI, National University of Singapore, Singapore Programme Committee Chairs Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK (Email: a.anjum(a)derby.ac.uk<mailto:a.anjum@derby.ac.uk>) Zhao Xinghui, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, USA Programme Committee Vice Chairs Ilkay Altintas, University of California, San Diego, USA Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Guangjie Han, Hohai University, China Zhangbing Zhou, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China Local Organizing Chair Cheng Wong, Tongji University, China Programme Committee Members <too long> Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the following templates (latex, pdf, doc). Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the BDCAT 2016 paper submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdsea2016) Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the conference PC Chair for more information. Selected papers from BDCAT 2016 will be invited to extend and submit to the Special Issue on Big Data Computing in the IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transaction on Big Data and other leading journals.

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Cloud Plugfest 24 to take place 19-22 September 2016 with opportunities for in-person and remote participation
by Sill, Alan 05 Sep '16

05 Sep '16

Dear OGF working and community groups, Well-timed for the imminent release of the OCCI 1.2 specification set (which was done some time ago but got delayed for trivial numbering and copyright text issues), I'd like to call your attention to Cloud Interoperability Plugfest 24 to take place from 19 - 22 September 2016, co-sponsored the CloudWatch2 project as a virtual event and physically colocated with Storage Networking Industry Association's Storage Developer Conference 2016 taking place at that time in Santa Clara, CA, USA. As is the tradition with Cloud Interoperability Plugfests, participation is *not* limited to testing against standards originating from the organizing standards development body (in this case, SNIA). Per the organizers, "you are just as welcome if you would like to test interoperability on standards stewarded not only by SNIA, but also (in no particular order) OGF, OASIS, DMTF, ETSI, IEEE, and many, many more." The common goal here is interoperability and hands-on testing, If you will have implementations to test for OGF or other standards, for example OCCI, CDMI, CIMI, TOSCA, CAMP, XACML, SAML, X.509 profiles, or against anything that is useful in the context of your collaboration or cyber-infrastructure project (standards-based or not!), please register and feel free to make use of the test platforms we will make available for this event, which include special interoperability test projects in the CloudLab and Chameleon frameworks, Participation is open to anyone and free of charge, either as an in-person SDC2016 visitor (guest passes for Cloud Plugfest participation in person are available for free in limited quantities), or from remote locations, with the only requirement being to register at the website http://www.cloudplugfest.org/. We thank the CloudWatch2 project and SNIA for co-sponsoring this event. If you have something you would like to see tested or instantiated for others to test at this or a future Cloud Plugfest event, please contact the Cloud Plugfest planners (which include OGF representation) at planners(a)lcoudplugfest.org<mailto:planners@lcoudplugfest.org> and consider signing up for this event or for information on future events at http://cloudplugfest.org Alan Sill, Ph.D Interim Senior Director, High Performance Computing Center Director, NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing Adjunct Professor of Physics, Texas Tech University Visiting Professor of Distributed Computing, University of Derby 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 in public comment: NSI, DRMAA
by Greg Newby 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

Dear OGF Community: Several OGF documents have begun 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. These documents are newly available for public comment: * Applying Policy in the NSI environment, via NSI-WG. * Distributed Resource Management Application API Version 2 (DRMAA), via DRMAA-WG * Distributed Resource Management Application API Version 2 (DRMAA) - C Language Binding, via DRMAA-WG If you see a deadline of July 31, note that the deadline will be extended to a full 90 days (approximately September 14). All documents in public comment are accessible 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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UCC 2016 deadline extension and Associated event opportunities
by Sill, Alan 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

Dear OGF groups, We have been encouraged to hold another in the series of Cloud Plugfests at the Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2016) conference, for which the Call for Papers has just been extended - see announcement below - and at which a number of related workshops will also be held Please see the information on this important conference at the web site, and let me or other OGF officers know if you would like to propose any related OGF group meetings at this or other upcoming conferences. Thanks, Alan Sill President Open Grid Forum ------------ 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2016) December 6-9, 2016 - Tongji University - Shanghai, China - Call for Papers Website: http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2016/ Context and Scope: Cloud Computing delivers computational resources ondemand as services that are commoditized and delivered comfortably analogous to traditional utilities such as electricity, gas, water and telephony. Cloud service offerings for compute, storage and communication resources as well as for hosted software and data are growing at a tremendous rate. It is essential to understand how to effectively transform these services into Utilities that provide value to both users and providers. There is also increasing interest from commercial providers to offer business and revenue models around the services they offer. Understanding how these models could be used to provide utility for users, intermediary brokers (aggregators) and providers is also an area of active research. UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility and provides an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and growing field. UCC 2016, to be held in Shanghai, reflects the need to bring academics and industrial researchers together to discuss how to improve existing services and how to bring new applications into the cloud. This will be the 9th UCC in a successful conference series of community-driven events. Previous events were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010 & UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), Chicago, USA (UCC 2012), Dresden, Germany (UCC 2013), London, UK (UCC 2014), and Limassol, Cyprus (UCC 2015). UCC 2016 will have a co-located 3rd International Conference on Big Data Computing Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2016). Website: http://computing.derby.ac.uk/bdcat2016/ 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, data centre 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: • Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing, including pricing and service models • Policy languages and programming models, such as cloud-native and cloud-enabled applications • Utility-driven models and mechanisms for Cloud federations • Autonomic techniques for Cloud applications • Utility-/comfort-driven platforms for Clouds • Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds • Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated • Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS) • Virtualization technologies and other enablers • Economic models and scenarios of use • Scalability and resource management: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, parallelism and elasticity, as well as marketplaces • Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, performance models and monitoring • Applications: games, social networks, scientific computing (e-science) and business, as well as large- scale foundations for Big Data and analytics • Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds • Beyond technology: Cloud business and legal implications, such as security, privacy, trust and jurisdiction especially in Utility contexts Important Dates: Workshop proposals due: 08 May, 2016 Tutorial proposals due: 03 July, 2016 (see separate calls for workshops, tutorials and other tracks) Paper submissions due: 20 July, 2016 ** extended ** Notification of acceptance: 21 August, 2016 Camera ready papers due: 21 September, 2016 Early registration deadline: 21 September, 2016 Paper Submission: Submitted manuscripts should be structured of high technical quality and may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. Borderline papers may be accepted as short papers but all submissions must be full papers. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, USA, and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library, as well as through the ACM Digital Library. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. Manuscripts must be received in EasyChair by July 03, 2016. 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. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors. Further details on the publication and registration regulations are published on the UCC website and need to be followed. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. There is NO student rate for the author who is responsible for registration for his/her published paper. If you have more than one accepted paper, you have to register for each one individually. There is no discount if you have two or more papers accepted. Presentation of an accepted paper at the conference is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore. Templates: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2016 Awards and Special Issues: One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to reputable journals for special issues. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at the conference webpage. Program Committee Chairs: • Josef Spillner, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland • Alan Sill, Texas Tech University, USA Technical Programme Committee: • Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University • Nasro Allah, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences P. R. China • Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK • Marcos Assuncao, Inria, LIP, ENS Lyon • Thomas Beach, Cardiff University • Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna • Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University • Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas • Peter Bloodsworth, National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Pakistan • Ivona Brandic, TU Wien • Andrey Brito, UFCG • Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington • Rodrigo Calheiros, The University of Melbourne • Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Tim Cockerill, Texas Advanced Computing Center • Jean-Pierre Corriveau, School of Computer Science, Carleton University • Jörg Domaschka, Institute of Information Resource Management, Ulm University • Andrew Edmonds, ZHAW • Mohsen Farid, University of Derby • Flavio Frattini, RisLab • Lee Gillam, University of Surrey • Rob Gillen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory • Sebastian Götz, Technische Universät Dresden • Madhu Govindaraju, SUNY Binghamton • Neil Chue Hong, Software Sustainability Institute, EPCC, University of Edinburgh • Geir Horn, University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences • Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia • Jesús Omana Iglesias, Nokia Bell Labs • Bahman Javadi, University of Western Sydney • Samee Khan, North Dakota State University • Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit • Shinji Kikuchi, Fujitsu Laboratories • Kyong Hoon Kim, Gyeongsang National University • Ryan Ko, University of Waikato • Paul Krause, University of Surrey • Marc Lacoste, Orange Labs • Alex Sim Lawrence, Berkeley National Laboratory • Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation • Philipp Leitner, University Of Zurich • Jianxin Li, Beihang University • Zhangxi Lin, Texas Tech University • Raquel Lopes, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande • Fabio López-Pires, Itaipu Technological Park • Richard McClatchey, University of the West of England • Andrew Stephen Mcgough, Durham University • Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology • Peter Membrey, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University • Kashif Munir, UOHB • Mukesh Chandra Negi, Tech Mahindra • Shrideep Pallickara, Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University • Sangmi Pallickara, Colorado State University • George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus • Manish Parashar, Rutgers University • Siani Pearson, HP Labs • Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck • Khaled Salah, Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research • Siraj A. Shaikh, Coventry University • Ruppa Thulasiram, University of Manitoba • Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Universidad de Zaragoza • Adel Toosi, The University of Melbourne • Carlos A. Varela, Rensselaer Polytecnic Institute • Massimo Villari, University of Messina • Daniel Waddington, Samsung Electronics • David Walker, Cardiff University • Ramin Yahyapour, GWDG - University of Göttingen • Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University

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OGF mailing list status update - please resubmit messages sent Dec. 17-20 to OGF lists
by Sill, Alan 20 Dec '15

20 Dec '15

Dear OGF group members and participants, First, a quick apology before an update about the mailing lists. I had hoped to use this time of year to send a positive message of encouragement and thanks for all you have done over the past year to advance our community and its associated workshops, group meetings, preparation of documents and other activities. Please take this as a first draft of that message. We really have done a lot, despite not meeting in a dedicated conference this year. Much of the progress has been in individual groups, and I hope to get together with Jens Jensen as VP of Standards and Wolfgang Ziegler as VP of Community to compare notes and send out a more coherent summary shortly. For now, though, it is my duty to report to you that the annual Christmas hackers have been at it again. Despite repeated hardening of our OGF resources, and a large amount of work that has been done by several people including Andre Merzky and the operators of our hosted OGF services at Indiana University, it seems an annual ritual that a new wave of attacks comes about this time of year, forcing us to spend some of our personal holidays fending off and dealing with a new wave of mischief. This time it was a wave of mailman email list subscription spam, which caused a denial of service on the OGF mailman lists and caused us to lose all messages sent between December 17 early and now. A set of updates and new mitigations has been put in place, and the offending user patterns have been banned from all lists. If you are receiving this message now, it is an indication that the mailing lists are working again and we encourage you to re-submit any messages to your favorite list that may have been lost over the past three days due to this denial of service. It remains only to thank you once again for all you have done for the Open Grid Forum and to encourage you to continue to make progress going forward. behind the scenes, some exciting developments have taken place to set in place some better tools for integration of OGF tools and processes into the open science, open source and open access communities. I hope that over the next year you will begin to see the fruits of this labor, much of which has been done by Andre and others with input from several others, including the GFSG. Have a great holiday period, and please look for another update on OGF matters from all of your OGF officers sometime soon! Alan ----- Alan Sill, Ph.D Vice President of Standards, Open Grid Forum Interim Senior Director, High Performance Computing Center Site Director, National Science Foundation Cloud and Autonomic Computing Center Adjunct Professor of Physics, TTU

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Please help support the Cloud Plugfest in Paris
by Sill, Alan 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

Dear OGF folks, Our colleagues in Paris have decided to go ahead with the Cloud Plugfest 22 activities planned for this week in association with OW2Con’15 and the Paris Open Source Summit. Please help support them through your participation in the ongoing OCCI, CIMI, CDMI, TOSCA and related open cloud standards testing activities they are undertaking. If you have an instance you can make available for testing, or if you would like to access any of the test instances, please contact Jean at the coordinates below. Also please check on the link below for existing material you can read, and contact Jean if you would like to assist more. Our hearts are all in Paris this week, as well as in Beirut and other locations that have been visited by the scourge of violence and conflict. Perhaps efforts at cooperative work and research can help in some small way to lessen the effect of such discouraging dis-harmony. Alan Begin forwarded message: From: Jean Parpaillon <jean.parpaillon(a)inria.fr<mailto:jean.parpaillon@inria.fr>> Date: November 16, 2015 at 7:19:01 AM CST To: "Sill, Alan" <alan.sill(a)ttu.edu<mailto:alan.sill@ttu.edu>> Cc: "info(a)cloudplugfest.org<mailto:info@cloudplugfest.org>" <info(a)cloudplugfest.org<mailto:info@cloudplugfest.org>>, "planners(a)cloudplugfest.org<mailto:planners@cloudplugfest.org>" <planners(a)cloudplugfest.org<mailto:planners@cloudplugfest.org>>, "management-office(a)ow2.org<mailto:management-office@ow2.org>" <management-office(a)ow2.org<mailto:management-office@ow2.org>>, "alan.sill(a)cloudplugfest.org<mailto:alan.sill@cloudplugfest.org>" <alan.sill(a)cloudplugfest.org<mailto:alan.sill@cloudplugfest.org>>, "stephane.lauriere(a)ow2.org<mailto:stephane.lauriere@ow2.org>" <stephane.lauriere(a)ow2.org<mailto:stephane.lauriere@ow2.org>> Subject: Re: Plugfest on Schedule or Cancelled? Dear Alan, all, The plugfest is currently starting. We have updated the information for participation. They have been centralized here: https://tc.main.ow2.org/bin/view/wiki/Cloud_Plugfest_2015-11 Don't hesitate to update the list of available running instances during the whole duration of the plugfest, by replying to this mail. Cheers, Jean -- Jean Parpaillon -- Research Engineer - DiverSE team OW2 Technology Council Chairman Director @ OW2 Consortium OCCIware Strategic Orientation Committee Chairman -- Phone: +33 6 30 10 92 86 im: jean.parpaillon(a)gmail.com<mailto:jean.parpaillon@gmail.com> skype: jean.parpaillonn linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanparpaillon

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