[pnfs] FYI: Formation of High End Computing Extensions Working Group

[Benny Halevy]

This project might collide with nfs in with pnfs in particular
in the future.

There's a good summary of its goals in
http://www.opengroup.org/platform/hecewg/uploads/40/10894/POSIX-extensions-some-goals.pdf

Benny

>> From: Andrew Josey <ajosey at rdg.opengroup.org>
>> To: ogtgbase at opengroup.org, ogtghece at opengroup.org
>> Organization: The Open Group
>> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:41:09 +0100
>> Subject: (ogtgbase 5321,ogtghece 1) Formation of High End Computing
>> Extensions Working Group
>>
>> All
>>
>> I'm pleased to announce the formation of an additional working  
>> group under the Platform Forum known as the High End Computing  
>> Extensions Working Group.
>>
>> All members of the Platform forum are entitled to participate in  
>> this working group and have been automatically subscribed to the  
>> new mailing list  (ogtghece at opengroup.org). If you do not want to  
>> participate you can manage your own subscriptions at http:// 
>> www.opengroup.org/platform/single_unix_specification/protected/ 
>> mailinglists.tpl
>>
>> This project is developing a set of new APIs and extensions to  
>> existing APIs in the I/O area targeted at the highly concurrent  
>> and distributed computing industry segment.
>>
>> The chair for this activity is Gary Grider from Los Alamos Labs.
>>
>> A collaborative plato web site has been setup for the working  
>> group at http://www.opengroup.org/platform/hecewg/protected/
>> The plato site has the initial base documents, including project  
>> evaluation criteria. The site has four access levels,
>>      1. The ogtghece working group (wg members only)
>>      2. The Platform forum (forum members only -- inc wg members)
>>      3. The "open" HECE WG (open to all interested parties)
>>      4. Public
>>
>> This project will be collaborating with the High End Computing  
>> Interagency Working Group (HECIWG) of the US Government, and a  
>> separate mailing list has been setup for the superset of the  
>> groups - oghecewg-l at opengroup.org  (note that ogtghece is an  
>> embedded subscriber to that list).
>>
>>
>> regards
>> Andrew
>>
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