Dear OGF working group members, Please take note of the following workshop to be added to the already rich and interesting crop of summer activities. This workshop fills a nice position in the range of US and European activities that we have already called to your attention, and because of its obvious interest to members of the OGF community, the GFSG and Board have agreed to co-sponsor and promote attendance at this event. As a reminder, please take note of the OGF 38 working group official meetings at TNC 2013 joint with GLIF for our networking communities (Maastricht in June), and the OGF working group tracks that will include formal meeting sessions at the XSEDE 2013 conference in San Diego in July, already called to your attention, and to the 1st International Workshop on Autonomic Management of Grid and Cloud Computing (AMGCC’13) involving many OGF people at the ACM Cloud and Autonomic Computing Conference (CAC 2013), Miami, Florida, USA August 5-August 9, 2013: http://htcaas.kisti.re.kr/index.php/AMGCC13 In addition to the above very full set of activities, we are also encouraging our cloud and related groups to take advantage of the FedICI'2013 "Federative and Interoperable Cloud Infrastructures" workshop described below. This workshop should provide an interesting opportunity to focus on these topics and possibly offer shorter travel time for many who are not able to make it across the Atlantic for the other, slightly differently focused workshop mentioned above. http://www.dps.uibk.ac.at/~gabor/FedICI13/ OGF 39 will take place not too much later (in Madrid, September 2013) will constitute a major opportunity for us to get all OGF working groups back together. OGF 39 will take place in a setting co-located with the EGI Technical Forum, and will feature a full set of working group meetings and include a Cloud Plugfest that will be part of a "Cloud Interoperability Week" co-sponsored by several major SDOs and related projects. This will be an opportunity to pull together all we have learned and once again come back together for a full OGF. We hope, given their great spacing and spread in geography and in time, that at least one of the above events will be convenient to you. Please make plans therefore to attend one or more of these intermediate workshops, if you are involved in some of the targeted activities, and at least one or both of the OGF 38 or 39 formal events, which are the venues for our working group meeting sessions. Links to registration and other information have been sent out in previous wg-all messages and will be posted on the OGF web site shortly. Thanks for all you are doing individually and in your group efforts. It really shows in the quality and quantity of recent OGF publication output -- see http://redmine.ogf.org/projects/editor-pubcom/boards/ for three more in public comment and please do comment! More are in the pipeline like these to continue your remarkably productive streak of progress. Best Regards, Alan Sill VP of Standards for the Grid Forum Steering Group Begin forwarded message: From: Gabor Kecskemeti Subject: [DistComp] CFP: The first international workshop FedICI'2013, Federative and interoperable cloud infrastructures Date: March 28, 2013 10:56:25 AM CDT To: The first international workshop FedICI'2013 Federative and interoperable cloud infrastructures August 26 or 27 2013, Aachen, Germany organized in conjunction with Euro-Par 2013 Call for papers Workshop theme: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud systems allow the dynamic creation, destruction and management of Virtual Machines (VM) on virtualized clusters. IaaS clouds provide a high-level of abstraction to the end user that allows the creation of on-demand services through a pay as you go infrastructure combined with elasticity. As a result, many academic infrastructure service providers have started transitions to add cloud resources to their previously existing campus and shared grid deployments. To complete such solutions, they should also support the unification of multiple cloud and/or cloud and grid solutions in a seamless, preferably interoperable way. Hybrid, community or multi-clouds may utilize more than one cloud system, which are also called as a cloud federations. The management of such federations raises several challenges and open issues that require significant research work to be done in this area. This workshop will provide a dedicated forum for sharing the latest results, exchanging ideas and experiences, presenting new research, development and management of interoperable, federated IaaS cloud systems. The aim of the workshop is to help the community with defining the current state, determining further goals and presenting architectures and service frameworks to achieve highly interoperable federated cloud infrastructures. Priority will be given to submissions that focus on presenting solutions to interoperability and efficient management challenges faced by current and future infrastructure clouds. Selection will prioritize papers that document and present measured comparisons or practical information on realistic, real-world solutions. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation and relevance to the topics of interest. Scope: Papers may be submitted on any topic relevant to the theme of the workshop, including but not limited to: - Case studies of interoperable and federated solutions across multiple infrastructures including mixed grid and cloud systems - Application programming interfaces and standards for interoperability and federation - Federation-compatible service agreements, SLAs and quality of service systems - Virtual machine scheduling, management and deployment algorithms in federated systems (considering multi-objective solutions, scalability, energy efficiency etc.) - Accounting, identity management and security solutions that support federation-level models - Legal issues and data privacy in federated Cloud management - Performance evaluation, prediction and comparison of federated cloud systems - Storage management, focusing on interoperability and multi cloud placement - Novel IaaS architectures incorporating federative constructs in their foundations - Virtual appliance marketplaces and repositories meeting the demands and serving multi-cloud systems Authors are required to submit original, unpublished research or overviews on Federative and interoperable cloud infrastructures. Manuscripts should be limited to 10 pages in Springer LNCS format and submitted through the EasyChair submission system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fedici2013). Accepted papers that are presented at the workshop will be published in revised form in a special Euro-Par Workshop Volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series after the Euro-Par conference. Important dates: Deadline for paper submission: May 31, 2013 Author notification: July 8, 2013 Camera ready paper due: July 28, 2013 Workshop: August 26 or 27, 2013 The program committee: Chair: Gabor Kecskemeti Co-chairs: Radu Prodan, Attila Kertesz, Attila Csaba Marosi Workshop webpage: http://www.dps.uibk.ac.at/~gabor/FedICI13/