Open Grid Forum

OGF is an open global community committed to driving the rapid evolution and adoption of modern advanced applied distributed computing, including cloud, grid and associated storage, networking and workflow methods. OGF is focused on developing and promoting innovative scalable techniques, applications and infrastructures to improve productivity in the enterprise and within the international research, science and business communities.

OGF accomplishes its work through open forums, interactions and events that build the community, explore trends, share optimal approaches, document findings and consolidate these results where appropriate into standards. The output products that result from this process document and codify best practices and standards that provide the basis for some of the largest and most powerful operational computing infrastructure systems in the world.

• About OGF
• Published OGF Documents
  
• Current documents in Public Comment
• Overview of OGF Standards

OGF is Open! OGF adheres to and endorses the OpenStand principles for open standards development and is a signatory to the joint statement of affirmation of these principles.

In partnership with other HPC and academic distributed computing organizations, the Open Grid Forum has joined other advanced cyberinfrastructure, HPC, and research computing and data organizations in support of a new community-based open community called “hpc.social“ that includes a Mastodon instance, Slack, and Discord servers available to the community and projects. The organization of this effort is described on the web site at https://hpc.social. Community projects are generally pursued through GitHub repositories, and include features such as a community map, podcasts, blogs, a jobs board, good-first-issues list for getting involved with HPC software, and others.

The new Mastodon instance is available at at https://mast.hpc.social and is open for signups. The Slack and Discord instances are available through the Chat Applications project, and feature reqeusts and ideas for new projects can be submittted through the GitHub Discussions page for the web site.

Please contact the organizers using the links on the hpc.social main site for additional information.

OGF's significant output includes the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) family of specifications, the Network Service Interface (NSI) and other associated advanced networking specifications, the Data Format Description Language (DFDL) and related experience documents, Basic Execution Services (BES), the Job Submission Definition Language (JSDL), the Grid Laboratory Uniform Environment (GLUE) schema, the Certificate Authority Operations (CAOPS) working group and Federated Security community group supporting the Interoperable Global Trust Federation (IGTF) for authentication and authorization profiles and protocols used in cloud and grid computing, the WS-Agreement (WSAG) and WS-Agreement Negotiation (WSAN) specifications for automated machine-readable service agreements, and a variety of other informational, experimental, community practice and standards-oriented recommendation documents and specifications. You can also read more about OGF Documents and Standards here.

It is easy to get started by participating in community groups and working groups, attending OGF events, and joining as an individual member or organizational supporter. Membership is not required to participate in OGF events, groups or document production, but carries certain benefits including reduced-rate attendance at OGF-organized meetings that may make joining attractive.

Use these links to explore the communities that accomplish the work of OGF, or discover more About OGF.

Check out the many OGF Published Documents, learn more about how OGF goes about Delivering Value to the community and about optional but valuable Membership in the Open Grid Forum, and Contact OGF to find out more on any question or topic.

You can also follow @OpenGridForum and/or @OGFStandards to keep up with news and events, publications and interact with us on Twitter.