[cdwg] OpenSFS Announces Request for Proposals

[Cory Spitz]

I mean a press release hosted at opensfs.org, specifically 
opensfs.org/press-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>]
> *Sent: *Thursday, February 21, 2013 04:20 PM Eastern Standard Time
> *To: *Shipman, Galen M.
> *Cc: *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>. 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>. 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>  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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