[wg-all] FW: OGF eNewsletter - November 2006

[Steve Crumb]

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OGF Monthly Newsletter 

November 2006 

A look at Past Accomplishments and A Preview of Coming Attractions 

 

Welcome to the new OGF Monthly eNewsletter 

Each month we will highlight accomplishments for the past month and preview
activities planned for the coming month. Please feel free to submit
newsletter suggestions and items for consideration to jehrig at ogf.org. 

 

New Document Published 

GFD.082 - Grid Information Retrieval System for Dynamically Reconfigurable
Virtual Organization 

Two important requirements that all Grid application systems should satisfy
are to accommodate the dynamic nature of Virtual Organizations (VOs), and to
enforce different levels of security among different VOs. This document
shows how to implement a Grid Information Retrieval (GIR) system using VO
and security mechanisms provided by Globus toolkit 3.0, and shows how GIR
system scalability and security can be improved for dynamic VOs.
Congratulations to the Grid Information Retrieval Working Group and Author
Yangwoo Kim! 

Read the full document at http://www.ogf.org/documents/GFD.82.pdf

 

Area Directors Named 

Technical Areas are the bedrock of the OGF and our Technical Area Directors
manage and facilitate groups, milestones and deliverables in defined areas
of expertise such as data, architecture, management, etc. 

Ellen Stokes, Management 

Ellen is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's Grid Strategy,
Architecture, and Standards area. She is Co-chair of GGF/OGSA resource
management design team to help OGSA model the resources necessary for Grid
and put those model extensions/modifications into the DMTF Common
Information Model. Ellen can be reached at stokese at us.ibm.com 

Blair Dillaway, Security 

Blair is a software architect in the advanced technology incubation group of
Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Office. He has participated in the
OGSA Authz WG, providing substantive feedback on the new charter for the WG
and commenting on early draft specifications. Blair can be reached at
blaird at microsoft.com 

David Groep, Security 

David has worked in the grid security area for a number of years, initially
in the context of the European DataGrid project, continuing in EGEE, where
he was responsible for the design of the site access control security
services. He has long experience in GGF/OGF, being active in the security
area, particularly its internationalization. David can be reached at
davidg at nikhef.nl 

 

New Organizational Members 

Welcome to our newest organizational members Altair Engineering and CANARIE.


Headquartered in Troy, Michigan, Altair Engineering is a leading global
product design consulting and technology company. Through engineering,
consulting, CAE software solutions and high performance computing
technologies, Altair Engineering increases innovation for more than 1,500
clients around the globe. Altair's PBS Professional operates in networked
multi-platform UNIX environments, and supports heterogeneous clusters of
workstations, supercomputers, and massively parallel systems.
http://www.altair.com/

Headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, CANARIE's mission is to accelerate
Canada's advanced Internet development and use by facilitating the
widespread adoption of faster, more efficient networks and by enabling the
next generation of advanced products, applications and services to run on
them.  http://www.canarie.ca/about/index.html
<http://www.canarie.ca/about/index.html> 

 

Event Review 

OGF/ITU-T Next Generation Networks Workshop 

On October 23-24, OGF and ITU-T collaborated on a workshop that brought
together experts from the grid and next generation network communities. OGF
is actively reaching out to communities such as the Telco community to
advance Grid adoption, interoperability and scalability. Opportunities for
Telco's include: 1) specializing in network SLAs that are optimally suited
to Grids; 2) using Grids for their IT internal needs; and/or 3) offering
Grids as a managed service to customers. 

ITU-T's Global Standards Initiative on Next Generation Network (NGN-GSI) is
well under way and is responding to urgent market needs for global NGN
standards. NGN offers increased quality and service features for users,
independent of the underlying transport technology. 

During the two day workshop, graciously hosted by ITU-T at the headquarters
in Geneva, OGF and ITU-T discussed current status of our respective work and
explored opportunities for alignment and collaboration. The full workshop
agenda and presentations including a summary report-out are available at
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/worksem/grid/programme.html

 

Upcoming Events 

SC06 Tampa, Florida November 11-16 

OGF will have an exciting announcement regarding this show. Watch for
details coming soon. 

DMTF Management Developers Conference December 4-7 in Santa Clara, CA 

OGF is a sponsor of this event and will by represented by Tom Roney, Ellen
Stokes and Fred Maciel who will lead a session on behalf of the Resource
Management Design Team. Visit the conference website for more information
http://www.mandevcon.com/. 

OGF19 Chapel Hill, North Carolina January 29 - February 2, 2007 

Program will include a full slate of chartered group sessions, 2 days of
eScience workshops, Enterprise sessions, and more. Register and save up to
$100 http://www.ogf.org/OGF19/events_regstrtn_ogf19.php. 

OGF20 Manchester, U.K. May 7-11, 2007 

Save these dates! Program overview to be announced soon. 

 

Individual Members - Activate your 2007 Membership 

Even though 2007 is a couple of months away, OGF is launching its 2007
individual membership program now in order to provide immediate benefit to
2007 members planning to attend OGF19. The fee for 2007 membership is $195
and registered members will receive a $100 discount to all 2007 OGF events.
Individuals who are not employed by OGF organizational members may join OGF
at http://www.regonline.com/112287. Individuals that registered under the
2006 program are requested to reregister for 2007 at a reduced 2007 annual
fee of $100.  Your member number will be required to obtain this discount.
Individual member benefits can be seen at
http://www.ogf.org/Members/members_ind_program.php. Questions may be sent to
member-info at ogf.org

 

The success of OGF depends upon member participation. All of the significant
events, activities and accomplishments of the forum are member driven.
Please contact any OGF staff member if you want to get involved
http://www.ogf.org/ggf_contact.htm. We welcome your input! 

 

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