[glue-wg] minutes from today telecon

[owen.synge at desy.de]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:44:28 -0000
"Gordon, JC (John)" <J.C.Gordon at rl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Owen, don't you also need to advertise exactly which OSs you can ask
> for?
> 
> John 

Hello John,

Yes be they already provide this in the Glue Schema, you can advertise
the worker nodes as virtualized and state their OS, we also
standardised their architecture for i386 and amd64. I guess PowerPC,
MIPS, sparc and ARM can all wait until some one has suitable hardware.

thanks for checking though.

Owen

> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: glue-wg-bounces at ogf.org 
> > [mailto:glue-wg-bounces at ogf.org] On Behalf Of owen.synge at desy.de
> > Sent: 28 March 2008 17:12
> > To: Sergio Andreozzi
> > Cc: OGF GLUE WG
> > Subject: Re: [glue-wg] minutes from today telecon
> > 
> > Just a quick correction to the minutes,
> > <original>
> > at DESY, some work with Sun Grid Engine and XEN to virtualize 
> > the worker node; this will lead to move WN to Debian; two architecture
> > supported: i386, AMD64; </original>
> > 
> > The move to Debian worker nodes, is not implied by this but 
> > has been a long standing action since PISA conferance for 
> > glite, this is finally occurring. I should like no mention of 
> > debian coupled to this discussion except as an example of 
> > deploying a worker node on demand.
> > In the context of the minutes I think their is no need to 
> > mention it as its quite independent.
> > 
> > <suggestion>
> > at DESY, some work with Sun Grid Engine and XEN to virtualize 
> > the worker node, multiple OS's can be supported. The 
> > framework will in the future be configurable to allow dynamic 
> > OS installation by glite middle-ware based upon the jobs 
> > requirements. This required an extra boolean field in Glue to 
> > allow sites to declare their CE is capable of support user 
> > defined operating systems and not just the OS explisitly 
> > listed in the Glue Scheamer. </suggestion>
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Owen
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