[cdwg] OpenSFS Announces Request for Proposals

Fri Feb 22 09:09:49 PST 2013

Press release, insideHPC news, and RFP link in Resources dropdown menu are all up

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From: cdwg-bounces at lists.opensfs.org [mailto:cdwg-bounces at lists.opensfs.org] On Behalf Of Shipman, Galen M.
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 3:27 AM
To: 'Hamilton, Pam'; 'Cory Spitz'
Cc: 'Jesse Casman (jcasman at oppkey.com)'; 'cdwg at lists.opensfs.org'
Subject: Re: [cdwg] OpenSFS Announces Request for Proposals

Jesse is on it! Thanks everyone.

-----Original Message-----
From: Hamilton, Pam [hamilton5 at llnl.gov<mailto:hamilton5 at llnl.gov>]
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 12:11 AM Eastern Standard Time
To: Cory Spitz; Shipman, Galen M.
Cc: cdwg at lists.opensfs.org<mailto:cdwg at lists.opensfs.org>; Jesse Casman (jcasman at oppkey.com<mailto:jcasman at oppkey.com>)
Subject: RE: [cdwg] OpenSFS Announces Request for Proposals

Jesse Casman (jcasman at oppkey.com<mailto:jcasman at oppkey.com>) is another resource we have available to help with such things.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdwg-bounces at lists.opensfs.org<mailto:cdwg-bounces at lists.opensfs.org> [mailto:cdwg-
> bounces at lists.opensfs.org<mailto:bounces at lists.opensfs.org>] On Behalf Of Cory Spitz
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 8:38 PM
> To: Shipman, Galen M.
> Cc: cdwg at lists.opensfs.org<mailto:cdwg at lists.opensfs.org>
> Subject: Re: [cdwg] OpenSFS Announces Request for Proposals
>
> Seems ok to me.  Can we just have Chris or Matt L. post it then, or do we
> need/want Board approval?
>
> -Cory
>
> On 2/21/2013 4:10 PM, Shipman, Galen M. wrote:
> > Cory,
> >
> > resending with a few minor corrections..
> >
> > How about this?
> >
> > Title: OpenSFS increases its investment in critical open source
> > technologies for HPC
> >
> > In 2012 OpenSFS invested over $2 Million (US) in open source scalable file
> system technologies. OpenSFS has made significant investments in
> maintaining the canonical Lustre tree, new feature development, and testing
> and development infrastructure.
> >
> > In continuing its mission of supporting the open scalable file system
> community OpenSFS has released a request for proposals (RFP) for Lustre
> feature development, parallel file system tools, addressing Lustre technical
> debt, and new efforts in parallel file system development (incubators).
> >
> > Goals for this investment are to:
> > 1) Further the Lustre roadmap to meet the highest priority
> > requirements defined by the community
> > 2) Develop production quality tools to ease administration and use of
> > open source scalable file systems
> > 3) Address Lustre technical debt to improve the code base and
> > documentation thereof
> > 4) Encourage new efforts in open source scalable file systems for high
> > performance and data intensive computing to broaden the set of
> > solutions available to the community
> >
> > OpenSFS is encouraging innovative ideas and strong proposals that address
> one or more areas of interest detailed in the RFP. OpenSFS may fund
> multiple proposals as part of this RFP and encourages broad participation
> from the entire open source scalable file system development communities.
> >
> > For those that choose not to respond to the RFP but would be interested in
> making this effort a success OpenSFS encourages joining the OpenSFS
> technical working group (http://www.opensfs.org/get-involved/technical-
> working-group/) and indicating your interest in moving Lustre and the
> broader Open Scalable File System community ahead.
> >
> > Interested parties are advised to review the RFP documentation at the
> > OpenSFS website:http://www.opensfs.org/rfp-w4570/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Feb 21, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Cory Spitz wrote:
> >
> > I mean a press release hosted at opensfs.org<http://opensfs.org>,
> > specifically opensfs.org/press-releases<http://opensfs.org/press-
<http://opensfs.org/press-%0b>> releases>.
> >
> > -Cory
> >
> > On 2/21/2013 3:43 PM, Shipman, Galen M. wrote:
> > I have an email into Rich from insidehpc to provide a plug for us.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > *From: *Cory Spitz [spitzcor at cray.com<mailto:spitzcor at cray.com>
> > <mailto:spitzcor at cray.com>]
> > *Sent: *Thursday, February 21, 2013 04:20 PM Eastern Standard Time
> > *To: *Shipman, Galen M.
> > *Cc: *cdwg at lists.opensfs.org<mailto:cdwg at lists.opensfs.org>
> > *Subject: *Re: [cdwg] OpenSFS Announces Request for Proposals
> >
> > Galen, are we going to put out a press release?
> >
> > Who can update http://www.opensfs.org/news and
> > http://www.opensfs.org/press-releases?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Cory
> >
> > On 02/21/2013 02:34 PM, Shipman, Galen M. wrote:
> > OpenSFS is pleased to announce a request for proposals for Lustre
> > feature development, parallel file system tools, addressing Lustre
> > technical debt, and parallel file system incubators (Solicitation
> > Number W4570).
> >
> > Our goals for this RFP are to:
> > 1) Further the Lustre roadmap to meet the highest priority
> > requirements defined by the community
> > 2) Develop production quality tools to ease administration and use of
> > open source scalable file systems
> > 3) Address Lustre technical debt to improve the code base and
> > documentation thereof
> > 4) Encourage new efforts in open source scalable file systems for high
> > performance and data intensive computing to broaden the set of
> > solutions available to the community
> >
> > To meet these goals we encourage innovative ideas and strong proposals
> > that address one or more areas of interest detailed in the RFP.
> > OpenSFS may fund multiple proposals as part of this RFP and we
> > encourage broad participation from the entire open source scalable
> > file system development communities.
> >
> > Interested offerors are advised to review the RFP documentation at the
> > OpenSFS website: http://www.opensfs.org/rfp-w4570/
> >
> > Interested offerors are encouraged to indicate their intent to submit
> > a proposal no later than March 8th, 2013 via email to
> > proposals at lists.opensfs.org<mailto:proposals at lists.opensfs.org><mailto
> > :proposals at lists.opensfs.org>. Please note that this is a controlled
> > access email list and only members of the review committee will receive
> communications to this email address.
> > Offerors should not attempt to subscribe to this email list. All
> > postings to this email list are moderated.
> >
> > Full proposals are due April 5th, 2013 at 11:59 PM EDT as detailed in
> > the Proposal Preparation Instructions.
> >
> > Interested offerors must submit all communication (questions,
> > comments, etc.) to
> > proposals at lists.opensfs.org<mailto:proposals at lists.opensfs.org><mailto
> > :proposals at lists.opensfs.org>. OpenSFS will then post questions and our
> answers to the OpenSFS website.
> >
> > While the RFP is open and under review, OpenSFS will not discuss the
> > RFP except through the emails sent to
> > proposals at lists.opensfs.org<mailto:proposals at lists.opensfs.org><mailto
> > :proposals at lists.opensfs.org>  and responses on the OpenSFS website.
> > Regular business activities that do not pertain to this RFP will be conducted
> in the normal manner.
> >
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