[gin-data] first data steps

[Oxana Smirnova]

Hi Erwin,

I guess it's not worth assigning a new revision nr. to your document 
after adding just few lines, so I'd rather send my input here:

- Other GridFTP servers I know of are by: NorduGrid/ARC, DPM, dCache and 
CASTOR. I didn't personally check DPM and dCache, but ARC and CASTOR 
ones are perfectly compatible with e.g. Globus or LCG client tools

- Regarding GridFTP clients, NorduGrid/ARC has many tools, utilities and 
services that contact GridFTP servers one way or another - actually, 
even job submission is done via GridFTP, - but all these tools rely on 
Globus libraries entirely

- Regarding data indexing, what happened to Fireman?

- Please add ARC to the SRM island: you can put me as a contact person, 
though I'm thinking of re-assigining this to somebody else later

- For GridFTP tests, NorduGrid can allocate e.g. the storage elephant 
gsiftp://hathi.hep.lu.se, which accepts all the EUGridPMA certificates, 
but we clearly need a VO to arrange for the access

- A tricky part: NorduGrid/ARC has a "Smart" Storage Element that uses 
not GridFTP, but HTTPs/g for data transfer (it's a Web Service). 
However, it is accessible via SRM interface, which is SRM v1.1, plus it 
supports the following methods from SRM v2.1.1: srmLs, srmRm, 
srmSetPermission and srmRmdir. I don't quite know how to reflect it in 
the document, and whether it is relevant at all...

Cheers,
Oxana



Erwin Laure wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've uploaded a new version of our working document to the tracker: 
> https://forge.gridforum.org/tracker/?aid=1721
> 
> In particular, I've added the description of the two islands and the 
> first concrete tasks to be done (pp 4-6).
> 
> There are still a few names to be identified and some more detailed 
> tasks need to be worked out. Please have a look and start adding your 
> information to the document.
> 
> Apparently, gridforge will soon support wiki so we probably can move to 
> a more collaborative tool than word soon ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Erwin
>