[gin-data] On SRB interoperability with gLite

[Jensen, J (Jens)]

Hi Erwin.  Ah, no, unfortunately I have been out of the office
most of the last couple of weeks - and will be out the next
two as well.

But I did delegate parts of the investigations to others,
as mentioned below.

Matt reported success with using FTS to do GridFTP transfers,
although he was unsure about the support for this.  I haven't
had time to catch up with Adil about the actual transfer, and
we also need to test Reagan's suggestions.

I'll book some time to follow up later in June.

Hope that's ok.
Cheers
			--jens


-----Original Message-----
From: Erwin Laure [mailto:Erwin.Laure at cern.ch] 
Sent: 04 June 2007 15:15
To: Jensen, J (Jens)
Cc: gin-data at ogf.org
Subject: Re: [gin-data] On SRB interoperability with gLite

Hi Jens,

Did you already do some of the tests you'd proposed below?

Cheers,

-- Erwin

Jensen, J (Jens) wrote:
> Just a quick update on the message below.
> 
> I did get feedback from Erwin, but not from anyone else.  If
> someone is taking it off to discuss on srb lists, could you
> summarise the result to gin-data please.  Ta.
> 
> Someone once told me that SRB has a GridFTP server, so I checked
> with Adil Hasan and he says his, yes, and his team got it working.
> 
> As I see it, it is essential to be able to drive the SRB via
> GridFTP to avoid copying files out to the client.  I.e., if copying
> files from SRM A to SRB B from Client C, then you want the data
> to travel from A to B, not via C.
> 
> If this is the case, then perhaps the FTS can drive the SRB like
> it does Classic SEs (I am told some countries still have Classic
> SEs :-)
> 
> STFC - our organisation, RAL's research council, has got all the
> experience in-house, so we can play with it a bit and see what
> happens.
> 
> I asked Adil to look into the GridFTP-for-SRB thing, and Matt
> Hodges from Tier 1 to test the FTS-to-GridFTP.  We can then plug
> it together and see if it works trivially.
> 
> Regards,
> 			--jens
>