[occi-wg] New cloud Interoperability testbed project on FutureGrid

[Alan Sill]

Dear folks interested in cloud standards testing:

I have proposed and the organizers have approved the following project  
in FutureGrid:

     "Cloud Interoperability Testbed:"  https://portal.futuregrid.org/project/176

Description:
The Cloud Interoperability Testbed will serve as a mechanism to host  
interoperability tests for different machine control, data transfer,  
resource reporting and usage agreement standards and implementations  
of other new standards efforts. The primary purpose will be to give  
developers an opportunity to try out implementations of code that  
implements either server or client functionality for the use of  
multiple standards from different standards development organizations.

The initial effort for this project will be focused on implementations  
of the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) from the Open Grid Forum  
(OGF), Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) from the Storage Network  
Industry Association (SNIA), the Cloud Infrastructure Management  
Interface (CIMI) and the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) from the  
Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). Other standards will be  
added as the project proceeds.


Membership in this project is open to anyone working in the area of  
cross-compatibility of cloud-related standards.  I have to approve  
membership as project manager and project lead, but it is my intent to  
approve all membership requests that are consistent with the above  
goals.  Note this is NOT an OGF project, but is one in which OGF will  
participate, and is closely associated with the OGF Cloud  
Interoperability group and OGF/SNIA cloud plug-fest effort that is  
also open to DMTF members.

The purpose of the FutureGrid project is simply to provide an easily  
accessed mechanism for obtaining access to virtual machines that can  
be used for testing various aspects of implementations of cloud  
standards protocols and clients.  It is NOT necessary to reveal the  
inner workings of these implementations to other group members,  
although some wpirit of sharing information will obviously be of  
benefit to all group members.

To become a member of this project, sign up for a FutureGrid account  
at the portal:

https://portal.futuregrid.org/

Follow the link to the above project and become a member.

Please read all aspects of the project description and terms of use of  
FutureGrid.  This facility is not intended for hosting production  
commercial services or providing any other long-term production non- 
commercial service and is purely intended as a test bed.  Within these  
fairly mild limits, it is our hope that this will prove to be a useful  
service.

Alan



Alan Sill, Ph.D
Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center
Adjunct Professor of Physics, TTU
Vice President of Standards, Open Grid Forum

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