[cdwg] OpenSFS Announces Request for Proposals

[Cory Spitz]

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-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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