[gin-data] future plans

[William E. Allcock]

All,

Gregor is going to take the lead on getting the GridFTP interop testing
software up and running.  Gregor is on this list, and obviously I will be
paying attention to it as well, but he is who you should direct questions
and such to regarding this interop testing.

Bill 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gin-data at ggf.org [mailto:owner-gin-data at ggf.org] 
> On Behalf Of Gregor von Laszewski
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 10:07 AM
> To: Erwin Laure
> Cc: gin-data at ggf.org; Mihael Hategan; Steven Newhouse
> Subject: Re: [gin-data] future plans
> 
> Please can someone repost the location of the Wiki.
> I like to set up our gridFTP tester.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Gregor
> 
> On Jun 2, 2006, at 8:52 AM, Erwin Laure wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > At Tokyo we've defined a set of topics we need to address 
> until our  
> > next meeting in Washington. Some of them are relatively concrete  
> > and we should start putting them in action.
> >
> > - Continue testing the participants once a month or so, and 
> put out  
> > a report until the next GGF
> >
> > this is referring to the intra-island tests. Are these being  
> > continued?
> >
> > - include gridFTP with different client tools used
> >
> > this we need to get started. I think each of the participating  
> > Grids should start using these test with their client tools and  
> > document that on the wiki.
> >
> > Bill, it might be useful if you do a first quick test with some of  
> > the endpoints found on the wiki and report to the list. This will  
> > help getting others started.
> >
> > - Get more participants (different implementations) on board
> >
> > this is mainly targeting SRM implementations - are we making  
> > progress here?
> >
> > - Bridge the two islands
> >   SRB is working on an SRM interface
> >
> > Reagan, what is your estimate as of when we can start testing that?
> >
> > - Integrate data mgmt with other activities, in particular job  
> > submission
> >
> > here we need to see the progress made in job submission. First a  
> > simple hello world job should go through before we start 
> using data  
> > movement from within jobs.
> >
> > Steve, could you please give us an update of what has already been  
> > tested in the jobs area?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > -- Erwin
> >
> 
>