[glue-wg] Interoperability Profile

[Timo Baur]

Hi Laurence,

That was exactly what I wanted to know. We also try to define a minimal 
set of attributes and I
am going to follow the discussion regarding that in GIN.

Thanks,
Timo

Laurence Field wrote:
> Hi Timo,
>
> I don't exactly understand what you mean.
>
> However, there was quite a bit of work done related to this in the 
> gin-info group. Two approaches were presented, one was to try and agree 
> on a minmal set off attributes and the other was to try an translate one 
> information schema into another.
>
> The conclusion from this work as that we need to have a common vocabably 
> and agree on the fundamental entities that we are dealing with.  You 
> can't map something that doesn't exist in one model into the other model 
> and if we have different semantics for something with the same name it 
> can get very confusing if you try and have a conversation.
>
> The other problem highlighted was that what is important for one use 
> case is irrelevant for another.  As infrastructures only need to 
> interoperate to meet the demand of their users, we have to look at their 
> use cases to understand what is important. This work is  currently being 
> investigate in the GIN group. One example is the WN profile which gives 
> recommendation for the configuration of environment variables.
>
> I am sure that GIN-CG will define a profile for Glue once it is deployed 
> across the infrastructures.
>
> Laurence
>
>
>
>
>   
>> As we are _rudimentary and for a prototype_ trying to do exactly that, 
>> to map a basic set of attributes from the real technical information 
>> schemata used
>> in MDS4, Unicore, BDII into GLUE 2.0, I wondered if somebody is 
>> already doing work on interoperability profiles ?
>>
>>     
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