[Capi-bof] Cloud Standards Roadmap

[Alexis Richardson]

GRID is a tricky one.  When it defines an application execution model
(eg "tasks") it is PaaS.  When it speaks to the management of general
infra, I think it is IaaS.  And of course, you could have a SaaS
offering for grid computing.  So IMO, GRID is orthogonal and "a
technology".

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On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Paulo Calcada <pcalcada at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Sam,
>
> I think that it would be very important adding to your "model" a layer
> dedicated to the Calculus (CPU or computing power) question, such as GRID
> computing or things like AMD Render Fusion.  I think that both IaaS, PaaS or
> SaaS are layers well defined, but none of them contains attributes that
> could be considered useful to the computing or calculus power paradigm.
>
> In the follow up of other things that I've presented, and also in the same
> perspective that others also have done, I could resume my (naive) view or
> model in the following layered sequence:
>
> SaaS - end-users
> PaaS - developers and entrepreneurs
> IaaS - IT administrators
> GRID or other  complex processing solutions that would deploy specific large
> amount of computing power - scientific or technical advance solutions
>
> Paulo
> www.cloudviews.org
>
> 2009/3/24 Sam Johnston <samj at samj.net>
>>
>> Morning all,
>>
>> I have added the Cloud Standards Roadmap to the Cloud Computing Community
>> Wiki. Please review it and let me know if there are any efforts I have
>> missed (or better yet, add them to the wiki). We can use this document as an
>> authorative source to track standardisation efforts and hopefully prevent
>> duplication/proliferation.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Sam
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Sam Johnston <samj at samj.net>
>> Date: Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:06 AM
>> Subject: [Sam Johnston] Cloud Standards Roadmap
>> To: samj at samj.net
>>
>> Almost a year ago in "Cloud Standards: not so fast..." I explained why
>> standardisation efforts were premature. A lot has happened in the interim
>> and it is now time to start intensively developing standards, ideally by
>> deriving the "consensus" of existing implementations.
>>
>> To get the ball rolling I've written a Cloud Standards Roadmap which can
>> be seen as an authorative source for information spanning the various
>> standardisation efforts (including identification of areas where effort is
>> required).
>>
>> Currently it looks like this:
>>
>> Cloud Standards Roadmap
>>
>> The cloud standards roadmap tracks the status of relevant standards
>> efforts underway by established multi-vendor standards bodies.
>>
>> Layer Description Group Project Status Due
>> Client  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
>> Software (SaaS) Operating environment W3C HTML 5 Draft 2008
>> Event-driven scripting language ECMA ECMAScript Mature 1997
>> Data-interchange format IETF JSON (RFC4627) Mature 2006
>> Platform (PaaS) Management API  ?  ?  ?  ?
>> Infrastructure (IaaS) Management API OGF Cloud Infrastructure API (CIA)
>> Formation 2009
>> Container format for virtual machines DMTF Open Virtualisation Format
>> (OVF) Complete 2009
>> Descriptive language for resources DMTF CIM Mature 1999
>> Fabric  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
>> Other standards efforts
>>
>> Cloud Standards Group
>>
>> Cloud Computing Reference Model
>> Cloud Computing Stack
>> Cloud Platform Reference Architecture
>>
>> CCIF UCI - A "singular programmatic point of contact that can encompass
>> the entire infrastructure stack as well as emerging cloud centric
>> technologies all through a unified interface"
>>
>> Vendor-owned standards
>>
>> Infrastructure
>>
>> Amazon EC2 API
>> AppNexus API
>> ElasticHosts API
>> Eucalyptus (which uses the Amazon EC2 API)
>> FlexiScale API
>> Globus Numbus (which uses the Amazon EC2 API and WSRF)
>> GoGrid API
>> OpenNebula API
>> SliceHost API
>> Sun Cloud APIs
>>
>> Fabric
>>
>> F5 iControl (Networking)
>>
>> Other resources
>>
>> Apache Tashi
>> OASIS Reference Model for Service Oriented Architecture
>>
>> Please check the Cloud Computing Community Wiki for the latest version as
>> this information will be quickly dated. If you have any updates please feel
>> free to contribute them.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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