[gin-info] Notes from July 10 telecon

[Jennifer M. Schopf]

I thought one of the fundamental aspects of GIN was that no new software 
was to be created and deployed?

  -j


At 07:23 11/07/2006, JP Navarro wrote:
>Laura,
>
>See below.
>
>On Jul 11, 2006, at 1:35 AM, Laura Pearlman wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>Stu and I have been working together to perform GIN related
>activities on the UC/ANL TeraGrid cluster.  Let me know if
>you'd like to implement something while Stu is on vacation.
>
>>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.
>
>The TeraGrid schema was extended to meet it's own requirement.
>Extending it further in support of our GIN activities is also
>good. As long as GIN extensions don't break the TeraGrid's
>schema we should implement them on the TeraGrid.  Also, it
>would be good to present the other extensions the TeraGrid is
>planning on to the GIN community to determine if it would make
>sense to add them to the GIN schema.
>
>JP
>
>>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

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Dr. Jennifer M. Schopf
Scientist                              eInfrastructure Policy Advisor
Distributed Systems Lab       National eScience Centre and JISC
Argonne National Laboratory  The University of Edinburgh
jms at mcs.anl.gov                 jms at nesc.ac.uk
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~jms http://homepages.nesc.ac.uk/~jms