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January 14, 2008
NCOIC Explores Utility Computing, Grid, Virtualization
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 -- On Dec. 6, there was a session on "Utility Computing, Grids, and Virtualization" at a meeting of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium in St. Petersburg, Fla. The speakers included leaders from industry, government, academia and standards groups. The purpose of the Session was to explore the future of distributed virtualization and adaptable computing infrastructure architectures. The session was co-hosted by the Open Grid Forum. The proceedings of the session are available at http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ServerVirtualization.
As an outgrowth of the session, a discussion is underway about a possible federal community of practice (CoP) in "Adaptable Computing Infrastructure." The federal government has been a strong advocate and supporter of CoPs, which are defined in Wikipedia as "the process of social learning that occurs when people who have a common interest in some subject or problem collaborate over an extended period to share ideas, find solutions, and build innovations. It refers as well to the stable group that is formed from such regular interactions."
Two of the most widely recognized and accomplished federal CoPs are the Federal Semantic Interoperability CoP (http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SICoP) and the Federal SOA CoP (http://web-services.gov/soacop/), which were created by the Federal CIO Council's Best Practices and Architecture & Infrastructure Committees to foster a public-private partnership, in support of the E-Government Act of 2002, that work on cross-boundary transformation of government information technology services.
The upcoming Virginia conferences of both the SICoP, on Feb. 5 (http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SICoPSpecialConference_2008_02_05), and SOA CoP, from April 30-May 1 (http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SOACoPDemo5), are open and free to all. The SOA CoP meeting will include a track discussing the possible formation of a new federal CoP related to "Adaptable Computing Infrastructures."
For more information about the NCOIC and the session, contact Bob Marcus at robert.marcus@sri.com.
For more information about CoPs and upcoming meetings, contact Brand Niemann, co-chair of the SICoP and SOACoP, at Niemann.Brand@epamail.epa.gov.
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Source: Federal Service-Oriented Architecture Community of Practice (SOACoP)
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Source: Federal Service-Oriented Architecture Community of Practice (SOACoP)
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