Dear OGF Members and Participants: Many OGF members and technical contributors are participating next week at the SuperComputing 07 show, including a number of OGF working groups and member organizations that will be hosting interoperability demonstrations using OGF specifications and specifications-in-development. These demonstrations will show the HPC community how OGF standards are addressing many of their critical interoperability issues. This represents a significant new phase for OGF - moving from the creation of standards to demonstrating interoperability and adoption in science and business. The published and draft specifications being demonstrated include: * HPC Basic Profile, including Basic Execution Service (BES) and Job Submission Description Language (JSDL) * Simple API for Grid Applications (SAGA) * Grid Storage Management (GSM) * Grid Remote Procedure Call (GridRPC) * Grid Information Retrieval (GIR) * Resource Namespace Service (RNS) * Grid File Transfer Protocol2 (FTP2) * Information Dissemination (INFOD) * Network Mark-up Language (NML) and Network Measurements (NM) Numerous organizations will be participating in the demonstrations including Altair Engineering, EGEE, Forschungszentrum Julich, Hungarian Grid Competence Centre, IBM, INFN, Internet2, KISTI, KnowARC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, OMII-UK, OMII-Europe, Microsoft, NIC, Platform Computing, UK e-Science, University of Tsukuba and University of Virginia eScience Group. As you can see, a great deal of hard work was involved in creating these specifications and putting the demonstrations together. Congratulations to the many OGF members and contributors involved in making this happen! If you would like to read more about the SC07 demonstrations, please see the attached overview flyer which provides a brief description of each demo. Also attached are more detailed flyers on the HPC Basic Profile and GIN demonstrations. Last but not least, OGF Sponsor XtreemOS invites all interested developers and users to the Grid Operating Systems Community BoF at SC07 on Tuesday, Nov 13, 2007 from 12:15 - 1:15PM to discuss the current state as well as future directions for grid operating systems and middleware. Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org