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Geospatial and Cloud Activities at the Open Grid Forum

September 24, 2009

Craig A. Lee, President, OGFwww.ogf.org

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OGF Goals and Activities• What is OGF?

• An open community committed to driving the rapid evolution and adoption of applied distributed computing

• A small non-profit organization for community building & outreach for best practices & standards

• Strategic Goals• Lead technological evolution• Facilitate effective distributed computing platforms• Serve stakeholder requirements• Provide societal benefit

• Two Major Strategic Activities• Geospatial Applications• Cloud Computing

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Immense Range of Inherently Distributed Geospatial Applications

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The OGC-OGF CollaborationThe OGC-OGF Collaboration

• OGF collaborating with the Open Geospatial Consortium on integrated geospatial processing standards

• Joint article published in IEEE Computer, November, 2008• OGF participated in OWS-6 (6th OGC Web Services testbed project)

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OGF Geospatial Activities

• OGF Participated in OWS-6• JSDL used in Airport Disaster Scenario• OWS-6 WPS Grid Processing Engineering Report available

• http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=34977

• G-OWS group (several FP-7 projects)• Collaboration to implement basic OGC standards on EGEE gLite

• Joint Strategy Sessions held at OGC and OGF meetings• Boston and Chapel Hill

• OGF/OGC Liaison Group Started• OGC: Woolf, Baranski, Schäffer, Kiehle, Nativi, Percivall• OGF: Wallom, Chue Hong, Lee

• Joint e-mail list: • https://lists.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf_ogc_coordination

• Pursuing joint work in OWS-7• Dynamic provisioning in distributed geospatial apps is a natural

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OWS-6 Project:

Debris Flow Monitoring

Lan-Kun Chung, Feng Chia University, Taiwan

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OWS-6 Project:

Airport Disaster Response• Federal, local authorities and first responders

integrated with geospatial services

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GDI-Grid Scenarios

D-Grid

Flooding Simulation

Noise Propagation Emergency Routing

Christian Kiehlelat/lon GmbH

Dr. Kiehle guest-editing upcoming special issue ofGIS Science Journal on “Grid Computing within SDIs”

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Cloud Computing -- What is it?• A broad term used to denote virtualization at any of several

different system layers• “Outsourcing” of hardware, system environment, or services• Things just run “in the cloud”, i.e., somebody else’s data center

• Generally from a single provider through a very simple API• Simple API eases adoption at the cost of insight and control• Effective business model for provider to “sell” virtualized, back-end

data center resources

InfrastructureLevel

PlatformLevel

ApplicationLevel

• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)• Acquire a set of machines you can login to

• Example: Amazon EC2

• Platform as a Service (PaaS)• Acquire a set of hosting environments

• Example: Google App Engine (Python)

• Software as a Service (SaaS)• Build an application from pre-defined services

• Example: Salesforce.com

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OGF Cloud Activities

• Open Cloud Computing Interface Working Group• Simple, RESTful API• ~15 commands -- very extensible

• Founding member of cloud-standards.org• Informal group for coordination across cloud SDOs

• OGF, DMTF, SNIA, CSA, others

• CloudStandards@GoogleGroups.com• Considering set of joint demos when implementations available

• Pursuing coordination across multiple national cloud initiatives• US Cloud Storefront• UK G-Cloud• Japanese Kasumigaseki Cloud

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cloud-standards.org• An informal group of Standards Development

Organizations (SDOs) collaborating to coordinate and communicate standards for cloud computing and storage• Wiki: cloud-standards.org• Mailing List: groups.google.com/group/CloudStandards

• Different SDOs bring different but complementary technologies & capabilities• Storage, execution models, deployment models, service level

agreements, security, authentication, privacy

• All interested, committed persons and organizations with relevant technical skills can participate

• A Little History• Enterprise Cloud Conference, Open Group, Feb. 3, San Diego• SATCCI, OMG, March 23, Arlington/Crystal City• Cloud Standards Summit, OMG, July 13, Arlington/Ballston• Standards for the US Cloud Storefront, NCOIC, Sept. 21, Fairfax

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Leading Organizations

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A Positioning of Cloud Standards

Courtesy of Enrico Ronco, Telecom Italia

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OGF OCCIOpen Cloud Computing Interface

• Commitments for three implementations• OpenNebula, SLA@SOI, anonymous

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DMTF OVFOpen Virtualization Format

• A multi-vendor format enabling interoperability

myApp.ovf

import

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SNIA CDMICloud Data Mgmt Interface

CDMI early draft available

Cloud Data Management Interface for

Cloud Storage

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A Proposal• cloud-standards.org to organize a set of open cloud demoscloud-standards.org to organize a set of open cloud demos

• Drive progress on best common practices & standards, interoperability testing, compliance testing, ...

• Anything requiring stakeholder collaboration to drive progress• Build critical mass of stakeholders on demo scenarios

• Continual polling and coordination across the community• Forge Agreement on:

• Clear Goals• Clear Schedule (“time-box” the process)• Clear Responsibilities• Properly Provisioning the Effort

• Collaboration produces good ROI• Concrete connection between investment of time, money & people

with concrete results• Caveat: Every element here is criticalCaveat: Every element here is critical

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Summary

• OGF involved in both geospatial & cloud standards• Joint projects being pursued in both areas

• OGC Web Services (OWS-7) testbed

• US Cloud Storefront and cloud-standards.org

• Major stakeholder engagement critical to progress• Many basic use cases cataloged by

groups.google.com/group/cloud-computing-use-cases

• What use cases are important for this group?• Cloud-hosted geospatial applications?

• How do you want to proceed?• Contact me: lee at aero dot org