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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks, Jesse! I did notice that the OpenSFS logo being used in the insideHPC article is the old one. Do you have the new logo images available that I can blast
out to everyone? I didn\u2019t think about doing that after the new web site went live and I can\u2019t seem find to any image files of just the new logo on my system.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Pam<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Pam Hamilton<br>
Lawrence Livermore National Lab <br>
P.O. Box 808, L-556<br>
Livermore, CA 94551-9900<br>
E-Mail: pgh@llnl.gov<br>
Phone: 925-423-1332 Fax: 925-423-8719<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Casman, JesseX [mailto:jessex.casman@intel.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 22, 2013 9:10 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Hamilton, Pam; 'Cory Spitz'<br>
<b>Cc:</b> 'cdwg@lists.opensfs.org'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [cdwg] OpenSFS Announces Request for Proposals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Press release, insideHPC news, and RFP link in Resources dropdown menu are all up<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Jesse Casman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">cell 415-730-2793<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">twitter, gtalk, skype: jcasman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:cdwg-bounces@lists.opensfs.org">cdwg-bounces@lists.opensfs.org</a> [<a href="mailto:cdwg-bounces@lists.opensfs.org">mailto:cdwg-bounces@lists.opensfs.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Shipman, Galen M.<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 22, 2013 3:27 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Hamilton, Pam'; 'Cory Spitz'<br>
<b>Cc:</b> 'Jesse Casman (<a href="mailto:jcasman@oppkey.com">jcasman@oppkey.com</a>)'; 'cdwg@lists.opensfs.org'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cdwg] OpenSFS Announces Request for Proposals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Jesse is on it! Thanks everyone.<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
<b>From: </b>Hamilton, Pam [<a href="mailto:hamilton5@llnl.gov">hamilton5@llnl.gov</a>]<br>
<b>Sent: </b>Friday, February 22, 2013 12:11 AM Eastern Standard Time<br>
<b>To: </b>Cory Spitz; Shipman, Galen M.<br>
<b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:cdwg@lists.opensfs.org">cdwg@lists.opensfs.org</a>; Jesse Casman (<a href="mailto:jcasman@oppkey.com">jcasman@oppkey.com</a>)<br>
<b>Subject: </b>RE: [cdwg] OpenSFS Announces Request for Proposals<br>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Jesse Casman (<a href="mailto:jcasman@oppkey.com">jcasman@oppkey.com</a>) is another resource we have available to help with such things.<br>
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___________________________________<br>
Pam Hamilton<br>
Lawrence Livermore National Lab<br>
P.O. Box 808, L-556<br>
Livermore, CA 94551-9900<br>
E-Mail: <a href="mailto:pgh@llnl.gov">pgh@llnl.gov</a><br>
Phone: 925-423-1332 Fax: 925-423-8719<br>
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> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: <a href="mailto:cdwg-bounces@lists.opensfs.org">cdwg-bounces@lists.opensfs.org</a> [<a href="mailto:cdwg-">mailto:cdwg-</a><br>
> <a href="mailto:bounces@lists.opensfs.org">bounces@lists.opensfs.org</a>] On Behalf Of Cory Spitz<br>
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 8:38 PM<br>
> To: Shipman, Galen M.<br>
> Cc: <a href="mailto:cdwg@lists.opensfs.org">cdwg@lists.opensfs.org</a><br>
> Subject: Re: [cdwg] OpenSFS Announces Request for Proposals<br>
><br>
> Seems ok to me. Can we just have Chris or Matt L. post it then, or do we<br>
> need/want Board approval?<br>
><br>
> -Cory<br>
><br>
> On 2/21/2013 4:10 PM, Shipman, Galen M. wrote:<br>
> > Cory,<br>
> ><br>
> > resending with a few minor corrections..<br>
> ><br>
> > How about this?<br>
> ><br>
> > Title: OpenSFS increases its investment in critical open source<br>
> > technologies for HPC<br>
> ><br>
> > In 2012 OpenSFS invested over $2 Million (US) in open source scalable file<br>
> system technologies. OpenSFS has made significant investments in<br>
> maintaining the canonical Lustre tree, new feature development, and testing<br>
> and development infrastructure.<br>
> ><br>
> > In continuing its mission of supporting the open scalable file system<br>
> community OpenSFS has released a request for proposals (RFP) for Lustre<br>
> feature development, parallel file system tools, addressing Lustre technical<br>
> debt, and new efforts in parallel file system development (incubators).<br>
> ><br>
> > Goals for this investment are to:<br>
> > 1) Further the Lustre roadmap to meet the highest priority<br>
> > requirements defined by the community<br>
> > 2) Develop production quality tools to ease administration and use of<br>
> > open source scalable file systems<br>
> > 3) Address Lustre technical debt to improve the code base and<br>
> > documentation thereof<br>
> > 4) Encourage new efforts in open source scalable file systems for high<br>
> > performance and data intensive computing to broaden the set of<br>
> > solutions available to the community<br>
> ><br>
> > OpenSFS is encouraging innovative ideas and strong proposals that address<br>
> one or more areas of interest detailed in the RFP. OpenSFS may fund<br>
> multiple proposals as part of this RFP and encourages broad participation<br>
> from the entire open source scalable file system development communities.<br>
> ><br>
> > For those that choose not to respond to the RFP but would be interested in<br>
> making this effort a success OpenSFS encourages joining the OpenSFS<br>
> technical working group (<a href="http://www.opensfs.org/get-involved/technical-">http://www.opensfs.org/get-involved/technical-</a><br>
> working-group/) and indicating your interest in moving Lustre and the<br>
> broader Open Scalable File System community ahead.<br>
> ><br>
> > Interested parties are advised to review the RFP documentation at the<br>
> > OpenSFS website:<a href="http://www.opensfs.org/rfp-w4570/">http://www.opensfs.org/rfp-w4570/</a><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > On Feb 21, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Cory Spitz wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > I mean a press release hosted at opensfs.org<<a href="http://opensfs.org">http://opensfs.org</a>>,<br>
> > specifically opensfs.org/press-releases<<a href="http://opensfs.org/press-%0b">http://opensfs.org/press-<br>
</a>> releases>.<br>
> ><br>
> > -Cory<br>
> ><br>
> > On 2/21/2013 3:43 PM, Shipman, Galen M. wrote:<br>
> > I have an email into Rich from insidehpc to provide a plug for us.<br>
> ><br>
> > -----Original Message-----<br>
> > *From: *Cory Spitz [spitzcor@cray.com<<a href="mailto:spitzcor@cray.com">mailto:spitzcor@cray.com</a>><br>
> > <<a href="mailto:spitzcor@cray.com">mailto:spitzcor@cray.com</a>>]<br>
> > *Sent: *Thursday, February 21, 2013 04:20 PM Eastern Standard Time<br>
> > *To: *Shipman, Galen M.<br>
> > *Cc: *cdwg@lists.opensfs.org<<a href="mailto:cdwg@lists.opensfs.org">mailto:cdwg@lists.opensfs.org</a>><br>
> > *Subject: *Re: [cdwg] OpenSFS Announces Request for Proposals<br>
> ><br>
> > Galen, are we going to put out a press release?<br>
> ><br>
> > Who can update <a href="http://www.opensfs.org/news">http://www.opensfs.org/news</a> and<br>
> > <a href="http://www.opensfs.org/press-releases">http://www.opensfs.org/press-releases</a>?<br>
> ><br>
> > Thanks,<br>
> > -Cory<br>
> ><br>
> > On 02/21/2013 02:34 PM, Shipman, Galen M. wrote:<br>
> > OpenSFS is pleased to announce a request for proposals for Lustre<br>
> > feature development, parallel file system tools, addressing Lustre<br>
> > technical debt, and parallel file system incubators (Solicitation<br>
> > Number W4570).<br>
> ><br>
> > Our goals for this RFP are to:<br>
> > 1) Further the Lustre roadmap to meet the highest priority<br>
> > requirements defined by the community<br>
> > 2) Develop production quality tools to ease administration and use of<br>
> > open source scalable file systems<br>
> > 3) Address Lustre technical debt to improve the code base and<br>
> > documentation thereof<br>
> > 4) Encourage new efforts in open source scalable file systems for high<br>
> > performance and data intensive computing to broaden the set of<br>
> > solutions available to the community<br>
> ><br>
> > To meet these goals we encourage innovative ideas and strong proposals<br>
> > that address one or more areas of interest detailed in the RFP.<br>
> > OpenSFS may fund multiple proposals as part of this RFP and we<br>
> > encourage broad participation from the entire open source scalable<br>
> > file system development communities.<br>
> ><br>
> > Interested offerors are advised to review the RFP documentation at the<br>
> > OpenSFS website: <a href="http://www.opensfs.org/rfp-w4570/">http://www.opensfs.org/rfp-w4570/</a><br>
> ><br>
> > Interested offerors are encouraged to indicate their intent to submit<br>
> > a proposal no later than March 8th, 2013 via email to<br>
> > proposals@lists.opensfs.org<<a href="mailto:proposals@lists.opensfs.org">mailto:proposals@lists.opensfs.org</a>><mailto<br>
> > :proposals@lists.opensfs.org>. Please note that this is a controlled<br>
> > access email list and only members of the review committee will receive<br>
> communications to this email address.<br>
> > Offerors should not attempt to subscribe to this email list. All<br>
> > postings to this email list are moderated.<br>
> ><br>
> > Full proposals are due April 5th, 2013 at 11:59 PM EDT as detailed in<br>
> > the Proposal Preparation Instructions.<br>
> ><br>
> > Interested offerors must submit all communication (questions,<br>
> > comments, etc.) to<br>
> > proposals@lists.opensfs.org<<a href="mailto:proposals@lists.opensfs.org">mailto:proposals@lists.opensfs.org</a>><mailto<br>
> > :proposals@lists.opensfs.org>. OpenSFS will then post questions and our<br>
> answers to the OpenSFS website.<br>
> ><br>
> > While the RFP is open and under review, OpenSFS will not discuss the<br>
> > RFP except through the emails sent to<br>
> > proposals@lists.opensfs.org<<a href="mailto:proposals@lists.opensfs.org">mailto:proposals@lists.opensfs.org</a>><mailto<br>
> > :proposals@lists.opensfs.org> and responses on the OpenSFS website.<br>
> > Regular business activities that do not pertain to this RFP will be conducted<br>
> in the normal manner.<br>
> ><br>
> > All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.<br>
> ><br>
> > _______________________________________________<br>
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