Dear OGF working group members, Pursuant to our liaison relationship and work register, DMTF has asked us to distribute the following information about their annual academic alliance workshop. 6th International DMTF Academic Alliance Workshop on Systems and Virtualization Management: Standards and the Cloud 26 October 2012 Las Vegas, Nevada USA http://dmtf.org/svm12 This conference will occur approximately two weeks after our own OGF36 (Chicago, IL USA, October 8-10, 2012), which will be held, according to current plans, in conjunction with eScience 2012 with workshops (including the Microsoft eScience Workshop) on 8-9 October and the main conference events on 10-12 October. Venue details are still being settled. http://www.ogf.org/OGF36/ http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/escience2012/ Regarding DMTF and SVM12, please note that academic membership including participation in one DMTF working group is available at no cost upon application to individual academic members. The attached file contains the minimal information needed to request academic membership. Note we also have an ongoing work register related to OCCI that is currently dormant, but could be reactivated at any time. DMTF continues to make progress towards publication of CIMI, its cloud infrastructure management interface, which is closely related to OCCI in principle. We continue to look for volunteers within the OGF community who are willing to spend time comparing the published features of CIMI with OCCI for the benefit of both communities. Paper submissions to SVM12 on any topic of interest to yourself would be welcomed. Please see the notes in the messages below for details. Finally, please take note that registration is now available (in Euros!) for OGF 35 in Delft June 17-19, 2012 just prior to the High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) 2012 conference in the same location: OGF 35 site: http://www.ogf.org/OGF35/ Online Schedule: http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/index.php?event_id=24 Registration: http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1099588 HPDC site: http://www.hpdc.org/2012/ Conference schedule: http://www.hpdc.org/2012/program/conference-program/ Registration: http://www.hpdc.org/2012/registration/ Please take note of all appropriate deadlines for the above events. We do expect to hold a pre-conference Plugfest to promote interoperability among implementations and interchange among developers prior to OGF 35. Details of the event are still being finalized and will be announced shortly. What we know so far is that this will include a Cloud Plugfest - the fifth in our series coordinated with members of the standards community - and that the pre-event plug-fest will be held in Amsterdam during the last portion of the week immediately prior to the OGF35/HPDC'12 event. A further announcement will be made shortly, once some room coordination details are worked out. Yours sincerely, Alan Sill, Ph.D Vice President of Standards, Open Grid Forum Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center Adjunct Professor of Physics, TTU ------- On May 8, 2012, at 6:00 AM, Mark Carlson wrote: Alan, I appreciate you sending the SVM call for papers to your membership (latest enclosed). I think it would be fine to post your call for papers to our academic list as well. We have had good success partnering with CNSM as our authors and audiences have common research interests. When it comes to cloud though we should involve them in the discussions of whether we could align several of our cloud related academic conferences around the same location and time period. Basically have them back to back to back at the same venue to leverage room blocks, etc. for the organizers and travel for the speakers/attendees. -- mark From: Shannon Keith <shannon@woldconsulting.com> Subject: 6th International DMTF Workshop on Systems and Virtualization Management: Standards and the Cloud - SVM 2012 - (Submission extension to May 21st) Date: May 3, 2012 11:24:04 PM CDT To: "ac@dmtf.org" <ac@dmtf.org>, "wg-academic@dmtf.org" <wg-academic@dmtf.org>, "svm11@dmtf.org" <svm11@dmtf.org>, "svm11_program@dmtf.org" <svm11_program@dmtf.org> We have decided to extend the paper submission deadline to May 21, 2012. ============================================================ 6th International DMTF Workshop on Systems and Virtualization Management: Standards and the Cloud SVM 2012 http://dmtf.org/svm12 26 October 2012 Conference on Network and Service Management Las Vegas, Nevada USA Call for Papers and Call for Posters The DMTF Academic Alliance announces the creation of the sixth workshop dedicated to academic research on standards and new technologies for systems and virtualization management. This event comes in addition to the technical and developers' events organized for several years by the DMTF, and will take place on October 26th in Las Vegas, Nevada USA. We will be holding a poster session in addition to the workshop. The primary theme of SVM 2012 will be "Systems and Virtualization Management: Standards and the Cloud". With the advent and increasing popularity of Cloud Computing, systems management and virtualization management technology has taken on increasing importance. The goal of SVM 2012 is to illuminate related standards and research issues, covering areas such as: what are the implications of standards for virtualization in Cloud Computing, what advances in information models and protocols aid in managing Clouds, what new problems will we incur when managing Cloud offerings and services, and how management itself might benefit from virtualization and the Cloud. Submissions on topics related to managing Clouds, virtualization of distributed resources/services and work in management standardization are thus particularly encouraged. Papers submitted to SVM'12 must not have been published, accepted for publication, or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Virtualization Management of Compute Clouds Management of Storage Clouds Use of Virtualization for Management Management of Green Cloud Computing Virtualization Management Key management issues Infrastructure for management Managing IaaS infrastructure Use and extension of management standards System management techniques Network, Server, and Desktop management Information models for management Instrumentation and metrics for management Diagnostics and Fault management Management Behavior and State modeling Web services and SOA Managing SaaS infrastructure Web services based management Development and use of management protocols Use of SOA in management of distributed systems New management paradigms Management automation Policy-based management Experience implementing and deploying management technology Security Security management Cloud security Best practices for security metrics Privacy and Data Protection on Cloud Computing Monitoring Cloud Computing Submission for Papers ========== Authors are requested to submit either long or short papers via the conference submission software: Long papers presenting research results (up to 8 pages in IEEE 2-column format, excluding references) Short papers describing research work-in-progress or position statements (up to 4 pages in IEEE 2-column format, excluding references) Please submit your papers to the conference submission Web site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=svm12 Submission for Posters ========== Authors of accepted papers to SVM 2012 are encouraged to submit a poster on the same topic as their paper. People are also encouraged to submit a poster, even without submitting a paper to the workshop. Presenters are requested to submit an abstract (250-1000 words) of their poster via the conference submission Web site https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=svm12postersession Tall posters can be 36" wide by 48" long Wide posters can be 48" wide by 36" long Important Dates ========== Deadlines are the same for papers and posters. Paper Registration: 21 May 2012 Submission Deadline: 21 May 2012 Notification of Acceptance: 6 July 2012 Camera Ready Papers and Posters (Easy Chair + Proceedings): 3 August 2012 The DMTF values input from the academic world and is open to providing information to faculty and students who are studying and researching management standards. The Academic Alliance membership is a free membership for individuals of accredited institutions of higher learning. Academic Alliance Members have access to the DMTF members-only Web pages and member email lists. Academic Alliance Members are eligible to participate in DMTF working groups as non-voting members, and in the DMTF Marketing and Technical Committees as non-voting members. For more information on how to become an Academic Alliance Member, please contact DMTF Administration (http://dmtf.org/contact).