[cdwg] OpenSFS Announces Request for Proposals

[Shipman, Galen M.]

Cory,

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 in moving Lustre and the 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-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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