Invited talk on Open Grid Forum standards, focusing specifically on the current status of the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI), given at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology Cloud Computing Forum and Workshop VIII, July 7-10, 2015.

1. OGF Standards: An Open Process
Applied to Clouds, Grids and
Advanced Distributed Computing
Alan Sill
OGF President
1
NIST Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop VIII
Gaithersburg, Maryland
July 7, 2015

2. © 2015 Open Grid Forum NIST Cloud Computing Workshop and Forum VIII July 7, 2015
About the Open Grid Forum:
Open Grid Forum (OGF) is a global organization operating
in the areas of cloud, grid and related forms of advanced
distributed computing.
The OGF community pursues these topics through an open
process for development, creation and promotion of
relevant specifications and use cases.
OGF actively engages partners and participants throughout
the international arena through an open forum with open
processes to champion architectural blueprints related to
cloud and grid computing.
The resulting specifications and standards enable
pervasive adoption of advanced distributed computing
techniques for business and research worldwide.
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3. © 2015 Open Grid Forum NIST Cloud Computing Workshop and Forum VIII July 7, 2015
History and Background
• Since 2001 (as Grid Forum --> Global Grid Forum --> GGF
+ Enterprise Grid Alliance --> formation of OGF in 2005.)
• Focused on grid, cloud and other forms of advanced
distributed computing
• Works to promote cooperation, information exchange, and
best practices in use and standardization.
• Cooperative agreements with other SDOs.
• Developed computing, security, storage and network
standards used in science and business (BES, GridFTP,
DRMAA, JSDL, RNS, GLUE, UR, etc.).
• Also develops cloud, networking and data standards
(OCCI, DFDL, WS-Agreement, NSI/NML, etc.) in use in
large-scale production systems world-wide.
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4. © 2015 Open Grid Forum NIST Cloud Computing Workshop and Forum VIII July 7, 2015
• DRMAA: Distributed Resource Management Application API
Grid Engine (Univa), Open Grid Scheduler: (open source); TORQUE and
related products: Adaptive Computing; PBS Works: Altair Engineering;
Gridway: DSA Research; HTCondor: U. of Wisconsin / Red Hat;
• OGSA® Basic Execution Service Version 1.0 and BES HPC Profile:
BES++ for LSF/SGE/PBS: Platform Computing; Windows HPC Server
2008: Microsoft Corporation; PBS Works - (client only): Altair Engineering;
• JSDL: Job Submission Description Language (family of specifications):
BES++ for LSF/SGE/PBS and Platform LSF: Platform Computing;
Windows HPC Server: Microsoft Corporation; PBS Works and PBS/Pro:
Altair Engineering; Tivoli Workload Scheduler: IBM Corporation;
• WS-Agreement (family of specifications):
ElasticLM License-as-a-Service: ElasticLM; BEinGrid SLA Negotiator,
LM-Architecture and Framework: (Multiple partners); BREIN SLA
Management Framework: (Multiple partners); WSAG4J, Web Services
Agreement for Java (framework implementation): Fraunhofer SCAI.
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OGF HPC Standards In Use
In Industry:

5. © 2015 Open Grid Forum NIST Cloud Computing Workshop and Forum VIII July 7, 2015
OGF Document Types
• Informational: To inform the community about a useful idea
or set of ideas.
• Experimental: To inform the community about a useful
experiment, testbed or implementation of idea or set of ideas.
• Community Practice: To inform the community of common
practice or process, with the objective to influence the
community and/or document its current practices.
• Recommendations: To publish a specification, analogous to
an Internet Standards track document. Recommendations
are initially designated as "proposed," and following further
experience and review may become full recommendations.
• Further information including guidance and advice contained
in GFD.152 at: http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.152.pdf
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6. © 2015 Open Grid Forum OGF 44 - EGI Conference Lisbon, Portugal May 18-22, 2015
Example: Worldwide LHC
Computing Grid
13
~450,000 cpu cores
~430 Pb storage
Typical data transfer
rate: ~12 GByte/sec
Total worldwide grid
capacity: ~2x WLCG
across all grids and
VOs
www.egi.euEGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 www.egi.euEGI*InSPIRE/RI*261323
EGI international presence
Storage Value+(yearly+increase)
Disk%(PB)
%%235%PB%
(+69%)
Tape%(PB)
%%176%PB%
(+32%)
Value+(yearly+increase)
CPU%cores 361,300%across%53%countries%
(1.44%M%job/day)
Standards-based international collaboration
The Role of Standards for Risk Reduction and
Inter-operation in XSEDE
XSEDE: The Next Generation of
US National Supercomputing
Infrastructure
Cloud and grid standards
now power some of the
largest academic
supercomputing
infrastructures in the
world!
Blacklight+
Shared/Memory/
4k/Xeon/cores
Darter/
24k/cores+
Nautilus/
Visualization/
Data/Analytics+
Keeneland+
/CPU/GPGPU
Stampede/
460K&cores/
w.&Xeon&Phi/
>1000&users/
Upgrade&in&2015
Wrangler/
Data/Analytics
Trestles/
IO*intensive/
10k/cores/
160/GB/SSD/Flash/
Gordon+++
Data/intensive/
64/TB/memory/
300/TB/Flash/Mem
Open+Science+Grid/
High/throughput/
124/sitesBlue+Waters/
Leadership/
SuperMIC+
380/nodes/–/1PF/
(Ivy/bridge,/Xeon/Phi,/
GPU)
Over/13/million/service/units/day/
typically/delivered/as/of/2014/across/
all/XSEDE/supercomputing/sites/(about/
3/million/core/hours/day),/totaling/
about/1.6/billion/core/hours/per/year
Yellowstone/
Geosciences
US National
Cyberinfrastructure
Promote an
open, robust,
collaborative,
and innovative
ecosystem
Adopt,
create and
disseminat
e
knowledge
Extend/
the impact
of cyber-
infrastructure
Prepare
the current
and next
generation
Provide
technical
expertise and
support
services
Collaborate
with other CI
groups and
projects
FutureGrid
*/
Maverick/
Visualization/
Data/Analytics
Comet/
“Long/Tail/Science”/
47k/cores/2/PF/
High/throughput
ACIDREF&
Campus&sharing,&
NSF&Cloud&(shared)
Grids
Credit: Irene
Qualters, US
National Science
Foundation

7. © 2015 Open Grid Forum OGF 44 - EGI Conference Lisbon, Portugal May 18-22, 2015
Example: Worldwide LHC
Computing Grid
13
~450,000 cpu cores
~430 Pb storage
Typical data transfer
rate: ~12 GByte/sec
Total worldwide grid
capacity: ~2x WLCG
across all grids and
VOs
www.egi.euEGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 www.egi.euEGI*InSPIRE/RI*261323
EGI international presence
Storage Value+(yearly+increase)
Disk%(PB)
%%235%PB%
(+69%)
Tape%(PB)
%%176%PB%
(+32%)
Value+(yearly+increase)
CPU%cores 361,300%across%53%countries%
(1.44%M%job/day)
Standards-based international collaboration
The Role of Standards for Risk Reduction and
Inter-operation in XSEDE
XSEDE: The Next Generation of
US National Supercomputing
Infrastructure
Cloud and grid standards
now power some of the
largest academic
supercomputing
infrastructures in the
world!
Blacklight+
Shared/Memory/
4k/Xeon/cores
Darter/
24k/cores+
Nautilus/
Visualization/
Data/Analytics+
Keeneland+
/CPU/GPGPU
Stampede/
460K&cores/
w.&Xeon&Phi/
>1000&users/
Upgrade&in&2015
Wrangler/
Data/Analytics
Trestles/
IO*intensive/
10k/cores/
160/GB/SSD/Flash/
Gordon+++
Data/intensive/
64/TB/memory/
300/TB/Flash/Mem
Open+Science+Grid/
High/throughput/
124/sitesBlue+Waters/
Leadership/
SuperMIC+
380/nodes/–/1PF/
(Ivy/bridge,/Xeon/Phi,/
GPU)
Over/13/million/service/units/day/
typically/delivered/as/of/2014/across/
all/XSEDE/supercomputing/sites/(about/
3/million/core/hours/day),/totaling/
about/1.6/billion/core/hours/per/year
Yellowstone/
Geosciences
US National
Cyberinfrastructure
Promote an
open, robust,
collaborative,
and innovative
ecosystem
Adopt,
create and
disseminat
e
knowledge
Extend/
the impact
of cyber-
infrastructure
Prepare
the current
and next
generation
Provide
technical
expertise and
support
services
Collaborate
with other CI
groups and
projects
FutureGrid
*/
Maverick/
Visualization/
Data/Analytics
Comet/
“Long/Tail/Science”/
47k/cores/2/PF/
High/throughput
ACIDREF&
Campus&sharing,&
NSF&Cloud&(shared)
Grids
Credit: Irene
Qualters, US
National Science
Foundation
Global Cyberinfrastructure
Millions of cores
Exabytes of storage
World-wide multi-100 Gb/s networks

8. © 2015 Open Grid Forum NIST Cloud Computing Workshop and Forum VIII July 7, 2015
OGF Published Documents
7
http://ogf.org/documents
217 published formal documents so far

9. © 2015 Open Grid Forum
The Open Cloud Computing Interface
OCCI is a boundary-layer protocol and API suitable for
any type of cloud control and operation at any level.

10. © 2015 Open Grid Forum
Design Philosophy
OCCI is a boundary-layer protocol and API suitable for any
type of cloud control and operation at any level.
OCCI is not designed to be just A cloud standard;
OCCI is designed to be prototypical of what the most general
design for a boundary-level cloud standard should be.
RESTful by design
Extensible
Portable
Flexible
Interoperable
Designed to be LIKE the cloud to be useful for cloud purposes.

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OCCI version 1.1
• Base documents originally published in 2011.
• Initial documents include: Core (GFD.183),
Infrastructure (GFD.184), RESTful HTTP Rendering
(GFD.185).
• Very stable standard set.
• Implemented very extensively.
• As per the established (IETF-like) OGF process,
these are Proposed Recommendations awaiting
experience documentation and refinement for the
group to advance them to full recommendations.
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12. NIST Cloud Computing Workshop and Forum VIII July 7, 2015© 2015 Open Grid Forum
OCCI version 1.2
• Derived from experience in the field following OGF
“Recommendations-track” process.
• Backwards compatible. Aim: Better completeness.
• Changes & new documents in public comment as a
complete set. Publication: 3Q to 4Q 2015.
• Updated/new proposed-rec. documents include:
Core, Infrastructure, HTTP Protocol, Compute
Resource Templates Profile, JSON Rendering, Text
Rendering, Platform, Service Level Agreements,
and a new Monitoring informational document.
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OCCI: Extensively Implemented
(Dozens of repositories in GitHub)
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Google search
Java
Python
Ruby
OpenStack
OCCI is very popular in the developer community.
Implementations are in regular use on a production basis.
Github search

14. • Projects:
OCCI: Extensively Implemented!
• Languages:
- Java
- Ruby
- Python
- Javascript
- Erlang
- Perl
• Implementations:
- rOCCI
- OpenNebula
- OCCIware
- OpenStack (occi-os)
- Cloudstack
- CompatibleOne
- ACCORDS
- FogBow
- EGI Federated Cloud
- etc…
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Source: occi-wg.org
Dozens of independent projects.

15. http://occi-wg.org

16. © 2015 Open Grid Forum NIST Cloud Computing Workshop and Forum VIII July 7, 2015
Checklist for a Successful Standard:
• Uptake by developers
• Well-designed, stable formulation
• Open consensus
• Community based
• Available in many languages
• Solves real-world problems
• Adaptable, easy to implement
• Well documented
• Startup companies target its use
• Low cost of adoption
• Implementable at scale
15
Criterion
✓Yes

17. © 2015 Open Grid Forum NIST Cloud Computing Workshop and Forum VIII July 7, 2015
Checklist for a Successful Standard:
• Uptake by developers
• Well-designed, stable formulation
• Open consensus
• Community based
• Available in many languages
• Solves real-world problems
• Adaptable, easy to implement
• Well documented
• Startup companies target its use
• Low cost of adoption
• Implementable at scale
15
Criterion
✓Yes
✓Yes

18. © 2015 Open Grid Forum NIST Cloud Computing Workshop and Forum VIII July 7, 2015
Checklist for a Successful Standard:
• Uptake by developers
• Well-designed, stable formulation
• Open consensus
• Community based
• Available in many languages
• Solves real-world problems
• Adaptable, easy to implement
• Well documented
• Startup companies target its use
• Low cost of adoption
• Implementable at scale
15
Criterion
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes

19. © 2015 Open Grid Forum NIST Cloud Computing Workshop and Forum VIII July 7, 2015
Checklist for a Successful Standard:
• Uptake by developers
• Well-designed, stable formulation
• Open consensus
• Community based
• Available in many languages
• Solves real-world problems
• Adaptable, easy to implement
• Well documented
• Startup companies target its use
• Low cost of adoption
• Implementable at scale
15
Criterion
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes

20. © 2015 Open Grid Forum NIST Cloud Computing Workshop and Forum VIII July 7, 2015
Checklist for a Successful Standard:
• Uptake by developers
• Well-designed, stable formulation
• Open consensus
• Community based
• Available in many languages
• Solves real-world problems
• Adaptable, easy to implement
• Well documented
• Startup companies target its use
• Low cost of adoption
• Implementable at scale
15
Criterion
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes

21. © 2015 Open Grid Forum NIST Cloud Computing Workshop and Forum VIII July 7, 2015
Checklist for a Successful Standard:
• Uptake by developers
• Well-designed, stable formulation
• Open consensus
• Community based
• Available in many languages
• Solves real-world problems
• Adaptable, easy to implement
• Well documented
• Startup companies target its use
• Low cost of adoption
• Implementable at scale
15
Criterion
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes

22. © 2015 Open Grid Forum NIST Cloud Computing Workshop and Forum VIII July 7, 2015
Checklist for a Successful Standard:
• Uptake by developers
• Well-designed, stable formulation
• Open consensus
• Community based
• Available in many languages
• Solves real-world problems
• Adaptable, easy to implement
• Well documented
• Startup companies target its use
• Low cost of adoption
• Implementable at scale
15
Criterion
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes

23. © 2015 Open Grid Forum NIST Cloud Computing Workshop and Forum VIII July 7, 2015
Checklist for a Successful Standard:
• Uptake by developers
• Well-designed, stable formulation
• Open consensus
• Community based
• Available in many languages
• Solves real-world problems
• Adaptable, easy to implement
• Well documented
• Startup companies target its use
• Low cost of adoption
• Implementable at scale
15
Criterion
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes

24. © 2015 Open Grid Forum NIST Cloud Computing Workshop and Forum VIII July 7, 2015
Checklist for a Successful Standard:
• Uptake by developers
• Well-designed, stable formulation
• Open consensus
• Community based
• Available in many languages
• Solves real-world problems
• Adaptable, easy to implement
• Well documented
• Startup companies target its use
• Low cost of adoption
• Implementable at scale
15
Criterion
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes

25. © 2015 Open Grid Forum NIST Cloud Computing Workshop and Forum VIII July 7, 2015
Checklist for a Successful Standard:
• Uptake by developers
• Well-designed, stable formulation
• Open consensus
• Community based
• Available in many languages
• Solves real-world problems
• Adaptable, easy to implement
• Well documented
• Startup companies target its use
• Low cost of adoption
• Implementable at scale
15
Criterion
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes

26. © 2015 Open Grid Forum NIST Cloud Computing Workshop and Forum VIII July 7, 2015
Checklist for a Successful Standard:
• Uptake by developers
• Well-designed, stable formulation
• Open consensus
• Community based
• Available in many languages
• Solves real-world problems
• Adaptable, easy to implement
• Well documented
• Startup companies target its use
• Low cost of adoption
• Implementable at scale
15
Criterion
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes
✓Yes

27. EGI Federated Cloud: A successful standards-based
international federated cloud infrastructure
Credit: David Wallom, Oxford University
and EGI Federated Cloud Task Force
Members
•70 individuals
•40 institutions
•13 countries
Stakeholders
•23 Resource Providers
•10 Technology Providers
•7 User Communities
•4 Liaisons
Technologies
•OpenStack
•OpenNebula
•StratusLab
•CloudStack (in
evaluation)
•Synnefo
•WNoDeS
BSC
CNRS
LMU
OeRC
Masaryk
TUD
IFAE
Cyfronet
100%IT
CESNET
RADICAL
SRCE
DANTE
FZJ
GRNET
GWDG
STFC
SARA
KTH
INFNFCTSG
EGI.eu
Imperial
CESGACETA
IFCA
IGI
IPHC
IN2P3
SZTAKI
IISAS SixSq
Standards
•OCCI (control)
•OVF (images)
•X.509 (authN)
•CDMI (storage - under
development)
(Updated July 2014)

28. www.egi.euEGI-­‐InSPIRE
RI-­‐261323
CloudWatch webinar: Standards ready for prime time
EGI Cloud Infrastructure
17
EGI
Core
Platform
Federated
AAI
Service
Registry
Monitoring Accounting
EGI
Cloud
Infrastructure
Platform
Instance
Mgmt
Information
Discovery
Storage
Management
Help
and
Support
Security
Co-­‐
ordination
Training
and
Outreach
EGI
Collaboration
Tools
EGI
Application
DBImage
RepositoryEGI
Cloud
Service
Marketplace
Sustainable
Business
Models
User
Community
Cloud
Management
Stacks
(OpenStack,
OpenNebula,
Synnefo,
…)
Credit: David Wallom, Oxford University
and EGI Federated Cloud Task Force

29. www.egi.euEGI-­‐InSPIRE
RI-­‐261323
CloudWatch webinar: Standards ready for prime time
EGI Cloud Infrastructure
17
EGI
Core
Platform
Federated
AAI
Service
Registry
Monitoring Accounting
EGI
Cloud
Infrastructure
Platform
Instance
Mgmt
Information
Discovery
Storage
Management
Help
and
Support
Security
Co-­‐
ordination
Training
and
Outreach
EGI
Collaboration
Tools
EGI
Application
DBImage
RepositoryEGI
Cloud
Service
Marketplace
Sustainable
Business
Models
User
Community
Cloud
Management
Stacks
(OpenStack,
OpenNebula,
Synnefo,
…)
GSIGLUE
2.0
CDMI
1.0
NAGIOS UR
OVF
2.0*
OCCI
1.1
Credit: David Wallom, Oxford University
and EGI Federated Cloud Task Force

30. www.egi.euEGI-­‐InSPIRE
RI-­‐261323
CloudWatch webinar: Standards ready for prime time
EGI Cloud Infrastructure
17
EGI
Core
Platform
Federated
AAI
Service
Registry
Monitoring Accounting
EGI
Cloud
Infrastructure
Platform
Instance
Mgmt
Information
Discovery
Storage
Management
Help
and
Support
Security
Co-­‐
ordination
Training
and
Outreach
EGI
Collaboration
Tools
EGI
Application
DBImage
RepositoryEGI
Cloud
Service
Marketplace
Sustainable
Business
Models
User
Community
Cloud
Management
Stacks
(OpenStack,
OpenNebula,
Synnefo,
…)
GSIGLUE
2.0
Cloudinit CDMI
1.0
NAGIOS UR
OVF
2.0*
OCCI
1.1
Credit: David Wallom, Oxford University
and EGI Federated Cloud Task Force

31. www.egi.euEGI-­‐InSPIRE
RI-­‐261323
CloudWatch webinar: Standards ready for prime time
EGI Cloud Infrastructure
17
EGI
Core
Platform
Federated
AAI
Service
Registry
Monitoring Accounting
EGI
Cloud
Infrastructure
Platform
Instance
Mgmt
Information
Discovery
Storage
Management
Help
and
Support
Security
Co-­‐
ordination
Training
and
Outreach
EGI
Collaboration
Tools
EGI
Application
DBImage
RepositoryEGI
Cloud
Service
Marketplace
Sustainable
Business
Models
User
Community
Cloud
Management
Stacks
(OpenStack,
OpenNebula,
Synnefo,
…)
GSIGLUE
2.0
CDMI
1.0
NAGIOS UR
OVF
2.0*
OCCI
1.2
Credit: David Wallom, Oxford University
and EGI Federated Cloud Task Force

32. www.egi.euEGI-­‐InSPIRE
RI-­‐261323
CloudWatch webinar: Standards ready for prime time
EGI Cloud Infrastructure
17
EGI
Core
Platform
Federated
AAI
Service
Registry
Monitoring Accounting
EGI
Cloud
Infrastructure
Platform
Instance
Mgmt
Information
Discovery
Storage
Management
Help
and
Support
Security
Co-­‐
ordination
Training
and
Outreach
EGI
Collaboration
Tools
EGI
Application
DBImage
RepositoryEGI
Cloud
Service
Marketplace
Sustainable
Business
Models
User
Community
Cloud
Management
Stacks
(OpenStack,
OpenNebula,
Synnefo,
…)
GSIGLUE
2.0
CDMI
1.0
NAGIOS UR
OVF
2.0*
GLUE
2.1
OCCI
1.2
Credit: David Wallom, Oxford University
and EGI Federated Cloud Task Force

33. www.egi.euEGI-­‐InSPIRE
RI-­‐261323
CloudWatch webinar: Standards ready for prime time
EGI Cloud Infrastructure
17
EGI
Core
Platform
Federated
AAI
Service
Registry
Monitoring Accounting
EGI
Cloud
Infrastructure
Platform
Instance
Mgmt
Information
Discovery
Storage
Management
Help
and
Support
Security
Co-­‐
ordination
Training
and
Outreach
EGI
Collaboration
Tools
EGI
Application
DBImage
RepositoryEGI
Cloud
Service
Marketplace
Sustainable
Business
Models
User
Community
Cloud
Management
Stacks
(OpenStack,
OpenNebula,
Synnefo,
…)
GSIGLUE
2.0
CDMI
1.0
NAGIOS UR
OVF
2.0*
GLUE
2.1
OCCI
1.2
EGI
Cloud
Profile
Credit: David Wallom, Oxford University
and EGI Federated Cloud Task Force

34. www.egi.euEGI-­‐InSPIRE
RI-­‐261323
CloudWatch webinar: Standards ready for prime time
International Partnerships
Aggregate Resources
– 12 NGIs provide 21 certified resources
– 5 NGIs currently integrating resources
– 5 NGIs with interested resource providers
– Worldwide interest & integration
• Australia* (NeCTAR)
• South Africa* (SAGrid)
• South Korea* (KISTI)
• United States* (NSF CAC Centres)
*
Not
shown
on
map
Usage
since
launch
-­‐ 244,913
(397,128)
VMs
certified
(uncertified)
-­‐ 10.6M
(12.3M)
CPU
hours
(wall
time)
-­‐ (As
of
June
1,
2015)
18Credit: David Wallom, Oxford University
and EGI Federated Cloud Task Force

35. © 2015 Open Grid Forum NIST Cloud Computing Workshop and Forum VIII July 7, 2015
Public Comment process
19
http://redmine.ogf.org/projects/editor-pubcom/boards/
OCCI v1.2 document set
is now in Public Comment

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OGF Cooperative Agreements
In Place as of May 2015
OGF and IEEE:
• OGF co-sponsors activities at many IEEE conferences;
planning engagements with P2301 & P2302 working groups.
OGF and DMTF:
• Joint work register with DMTF on comparison of the OCCI and
CIMI specifications has been in place for several years.
OGF and ISO/IEC:
• OGF has a Category A liaison with ISO/IEC JTC1 SC38 on
Cloud Computing and is working on several joint activities.
OGF and SNIA (CDMI):
• OGF has cooperative agreement w/ SNIA with respect to
CDMI and has co-hosted 16 community Cloud Interoperability
Plugfests so far (series continues at this conference!).

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OGF and OCEAN:
• OCEAN has joined the Cloud Plugfest series as a co-sponsor
and as one of the primary sponsors of the previous
September 2013 OGF/EGI Cloud Interoperability Week.
OGF and OW2:
• OW2 has co-sponsored Cloud Interoperability Plugfests as a
formal co-sponsor and active supporter of open source cloud
projects, and supports the OCCIWare project.
OGF and XSEDE:
• Extensive XSEDE adoption of OGF standards in production.
OGF and EGI:
• Extensive community involvement, interaction and adoption of
OGF specs.
OGF Cooperative Agreements
In Place as of May 2015

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OGF and ETSI:
• Cooperative MoU in place; contributing to ETSI CSC effort.
ETSI has joined the Cloud Plugfest series as a co-sponsor.
OGF and ITU-T:
• OGF formal liaison in place with ITU-T JCA Cloud group.
OGF and TM Forum:
• MoU in place; ongoing cross-SDO work on on End-to-End
Management of Cloud Service Agreements, including SLAs.
OGF and CSA:
• Cooperative agreement between OGF and CSA in place since
early 2012.
OGF Cooperative Agreements
In Place as of May 2015

39. © 2015 Open Grid Forum NIST Cloud Computing Workshop and Forum VIII July 7, 2015
Continuing series…
Oriented towards REAL
DEVELOPMENT AND
TESTING
Past events
co-sponsored by many open
source and standards-related
organizations including:
OGF, CSCC, DMTF, SNIA,
OASIS, ETSI, OCEAN and OW2
Long-running
developer-oriented
in-person
standards and
software testing
series
Easy to get
involved and join
in events as
developers or
project
researchers.
19 Plugfests held
in series so far
http://cloudplugfest.org
Cloud Plugfest Developer Series:
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More events in
planning pipeline.

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Conclusions and Future:
• OGF documents support a variety of flexible architectures
for advanced scientific, community and business uses.
• The Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI), OGF’s
main entry into cloud standards, is experiencing good
uptake and adoption in both research and production
settings and is open for public comment at version 1.2 .
• OGF actively engages many partners and participants
throughout the international arena through an open forum
with open processes to promote best practices and
standards in advanced distributed computing.
• OGF’s experience has enabled distributed computing built
on these architectures to provide flexible, efficient and
utility-like global infrastructures. Join us!
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