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New OGF Working Group to Create an API for Cloud Computing

Open Grid Forum Announces Open Cloud Computing Interface Working Group

After the successful BoF session on Cloud Computing API that we organized at Open Grid Forum 25 to define the charter for a new Working Group to deliver a standard API for "IaaS" clouds, we are happy to announce that the Open Grid Forum (OGF) has officially launched the Open Cloud Computing Interface Working Group (OCCI-WG).

The OGF Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) working group will deliver an API specification for remote management of cloud computing infrastructure, allowing for the development of interoperable tools for common tasks including deployment, autonomic scaling and monitoring. The scope of the specification will be all high level functionality required for the life-cycle management of virtual machines (or workloads) running on virtualization technologies (or containers) supporting service elasticity.

The new API for interfacing “IaaS” Cloud computing facilities will allow for:

  • Consumers to interact with cloud computing infrastructure on an ad-hoc basis (e.g. deploy, start, stop, restart)
  • Integrators to offer advanced management services
  • Aggregators to offer a single common interface to multiple providers
  • Providers to offer a standard interface that is compatible with available tools
  • Vendors of grids/clouds to offer standard interfaces for dynamically scalable service delivery in their products

The OCCI working group invites your participation. Subscribe to the mailing list, and call into the teleconference call.

OGF OCCI-WG is being coordinated by Thijs Metsch (Sun Microsystems), Ignacio M. Llorente (DSA-research/UCM and OpenNebula), Alexis Richardson (Rabbit Technologies and CohesiveFT), and Sam Johnston (Australian Online Solutions).

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Ignacio M. Llorente, Ph.D in Computer Science and Executive MBA, is a Full Professor in Computer Architecture and Technology, and the Head of the Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group at Complutense University of Madrid. He has held several appointments as an independent expert for the European Commission (Information Society and Media Directorate-General); visiting positions at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA); consultancy positions with Sun Microsystems; and a Senior Researcher position in the Advanced Computing Lab at CAB (associated to NASA Astrobiology Institute). He has 17 years of experience in research and development of advanced distributed computing and virtualization technologies, architecture of large-scale distributed infrastructures and resource provisioning platforms, and management of international projects and initiatives on Grid and Cloud computing; having led the research group in 15 sponsored projects; and having published more than 130 scientific papers in the leading journals and proceedings books. He is currently co-leading the R&D of the OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine, the Globus GridWay Metascheduler, and the Grid4Utility initiative for federation of Grids. He participates in the EGEE and BEinGRID European projects, as UCM partner responsible, and in the Globus Alliance, as chair of one of its projects; and coordinates the Activity on Management of Virtual Execution Environments in the RESERVOIR Project, main EU-funded research initiative in virtualized infrastructures and cloud computing. He is the Grid Community Liaison Coordinator for the Service Oriented Infrastructure Working Group of NESSI; and co-chairs the OGF Working Group on Open Cloud Computing Interface. He coordinates the Middleware Activity in the Spanish Initiative in e-Science and the Working Group on Service Oriented Infrastructures and Grids of INES.

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