[gin-info] Notes from July 10 telecon

[Laura Pearlman]

Attending:  Kazu, Yuji, and Laura.

TeraGrid resources:  after the last meeting, I was going to talk to Stu 
Martin about what Teragrid resources are available for GIN;  however, 
Stu is on vacation.  I'll see whether anyone on tomorrow's wheels call 
knows the answer.

Schema mapping:  the spreadsheet that Kazu sent around looks pretty 
clear, but there are some issues using it for TeraGrid.  TeraGrid is 
using (slightly modified versions of) standard Globus information 
providers, which report information in GLUE 1.1 schema, not GLUE 1.2.  
This means that a couple of the elements that appear in the spreadsheet 
(AuthVO and Software) are not advertised through TeraGrid's information 
systems.  We have, I think, two options for dealing with this, depending 
on what our requirements are:

1.  We could create extensions to the GLUE 1.1 schema to hold this 
information (the structure of these extensions would be the same as the 
corresponding elements in GLUE 1.2) and modify the TeraGrid information 
providers to provide this information.
2.  We could create schema extensions as above, but provide this 
information only for non-TeraGrid resources (that is, anyone looking at 
any information system, including TeraGrid's, would see AuthVO and 
Software information for NAREGI and EGEE resources but not for TeraGrid 
resources).

It would be good to nail down the requirements and choose between these 
courses of action fairly soon.

                -- Laura