[gin-data] future plans

[Reagan Moore]

Erwin:

We periodically test interoperability across the SRB data grid 
federation.  At any point in time, one of the remote data grids may 
be inaccessible for a variety of reasons.  Over time, we do see each 
data grid on a continuing basis.

Wayne Schroeder at SDSC has been leading an effort to port the SRM 
interface on top of a SRB data grid.  Wayne's actions include:

- meeting with Eric Yen and Wei-Lung of Academia Sinica to discuss 
development of an SRM interface to SRB.  They are interested in 
getting our/my help in
planning how to implement this; coming up with an implementation plan
and schedule.
- meeting with Abhishek Singh Rana <rana at fnal.gov>, who works with 
Frank Wuerthwein on SRM authentication software for UCSD, to discuss 
SRM authentication questions for the SRM-SRB project.  I've forwarded 
a paper of theirs to Wei-Lung who appreciated it.  Note that Frank 
works on the Open Science Grid.

Reagan Moore


>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