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DMTF AND GGF ANNOUNCE ALLIANCE
PARTNERSHIP
Distributed Management Task Force, Inc., (DMTF) and the Global Grid Forum
(GGF) announced that they have entered into an alliance partnership to
establish a unified approach to the provisioning, sharing and management of
grid computing resources and technologies. Under its liaison agreement, DMTF
will provide its expertise in distributed management infrastructure and
resource modeling, while GGF will contribute model requirements and extensions
in support of grid computing, resource sharing and provisioning.
The organizations will coordinate their developmental processes and
priorities
to ensure that DMTF's Common Information Model (CIM) and Web-Based Enterprise
Management (WBEM) standards address grid technology requirements. DMTF and
GGF's Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) and Open Grid Services
Infrastructure (OGSI) teams will collaborate, communicate and coordinate
management modeling and services. The organizations will share input on
requirements, modeling and service proposals and review of standards.
Representatives from DMTF and GGF will also participate in each others'
relevant working groups and mutually influence the development of their
respective technologies.
"This liaison between DMTF and GGF exemplifies the mission of DMTF's
Alliance
Partner program -- to promote coordination and collaboration so organizations
can take full advantage of each others' work to meet the challenges facing our
industry," said Winston Bumpus, president, DMTF. "Realizing that the enormous
potential of grid computing depends, in part, on the integrated management of
thousands of distributed resources and services, GGF can now leverage DMTF's
progress with CIM and WBEM to address that important piece of the puzzle."
Grid computing relies on the Internet to build distributed computing and
communication infrastructures providing to the scientific community, industry,
government and the public at large dependable, consistent, pervasive and
inexpensive access to high-end computational capabilities. This facilitates
and supports the creation and development of regional and global computational
and data grids.
"Grid computing is about putting components together -- whether these are
information components or computing components or other technologies -- to
create a virtual system. Common specifications -- interfaces and protocols --
allow this integration to happen," said Charlie Catlett, a Senior Fellow at
Argonne National Laboratory and Chair of GGF. "By working together, DMTF and
GGF can create another type of virtual system -- one that brings together
expertise from the distributed management community and from the grid
community. This ensures that grid standards take full advantage of
technologies such as CIM and WBEM, while at the same time informing the
development of DMTF standards with the requirements of grid computing
standards and applications."
Collaboration and unification of standards is integral to the progress of
the
computing and networking industries. Although this particular agreement
addresses the relationship between the DMTF and GGF, DMTF alliances with other
standards organizations facilitate broad unification of management semantics.
The goal of these alliances is the creation of consistent model definitions
across all management domains, which allows GGF, for example, to utilize the
various management models included in CIM. DMTF and GGF will also collaborate
to ensure that the standards of other complementary organizations are
incorporated into its work.
About DMTF
Distributed Management Task Force, Inc., is the industry organization
leading
the development, adoption, and interoperability of management standards and
initiatives for desktop, enterprise, and Internet environments. DMTF is
chartered to adopt, create, and maintain the specifications and technologies
that provide management tools with the ability to discover, deploy, and
control management data in a standard way. Working with key technology vendors
and affiliated standards groups, DMTF is enabling a more integrated, cost-
effective, and less crisis-driven approach to management.
Companies interested in joining the DMTF or obtaining more information
about
the DMTF standards and activities of the DMTF Working Committees should visit
the DMTF Web site at www.dmtf.org.
About the Global Grid Forum
The Global Grid Forum is a community-initiated forum of individual
researchers
and practitioners working on distributed computing, or "grid" technologies.
GGF work is done through working groups and research groups in a fashion
loosely modeled after the Internet Standards Process, including the
development of an ongoing technical document series similar to the IETF's
Request for Comments (RFC), where Internet standards are documented. GGF
efforts are also aimed at the development of a broadly based Integrated Grid
Architecture that can serve to guide the research, development and deployment
activities of the emerging grid communities. Established initially as "Grid
Forum" in late 1998, GGF meets three times annually with participation from
over 30 countries, over 250 organizations and typically 350-500 participants.
For more information about GGF, visit the GGF Web site at
www.gridforum.org.
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