[glue-wg] GLUE2.1 draft: request for final discussion and approval

Tue Jun 5 05:24:57 EDT 2018

anyway, my account on GitHub is paolini78, please check if I already have
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On 5 June 2018 at 11:19, Alessandro Paolini <alessandro.paolini at egi.eu>
wrote:

> Hi Alan,
>
> thank you for the proposal, it will be very useful for the future
> documents. I know that this google doc is quite heavy in the browser, but I
> would rather stay on Google Doc since the draft needs only few minor
> changes and not having used github yet, it would take to much time for me
> getting familiar with it.
>
> cheers,
> alessandro
>
> On 5 June 2018 at 02:31, Sill, Alan <Alan.Sill at ttu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear GLUE working group members,
>>
>> For long-term sustainability, we are looking to host most of the OGF
>> document preparation process in settings we can host in the cloud and in
>> the process modernize some of the tools OGF uses for document preparation
>> and production.
>>
>> I'd like to see if the folks in this working group would be willing to
>> experiment with producing documents in GitHub using GitHub-Flavored
>> Markdown (GFM) and using pull requests to track and review proposed
>> changes. For this purpose I have created a GitHub-hosed copy of the current
>> document draft and added it to the OGF-GLUE repository in the OpenGridForum
>> organizational pages. Anyone can request to join, and we can designate
>> certain people as authors with write privileges and others as
>> administrators for the repository.
>>
>> For now this is an experiment, but I would be happy to walk the group
>> through the procedures to propose and make document changes using git
>> rather than exchanging documents by email or editing them directly in
>> Google Docs. This can produce a more coherent way of discussing potential
>> changes and adopting or rejecting them by the usual pull request process
>> familiar to anyone who has used this method to prepare and maintain common
>> source code.
>>
>> The OGF organizational pages are at https://github.com/OpenGridForum and
>> the repository for the GLUE experiment is at https://github.com/OpenGrid
>> Forum/OGF-GLUE . We'll be happy to add anyone in the team and to appoint
>> people to administrator or author (write- and pull-enabled) status as
>> required and agreed by the group.
>>
>> Let me know if you have any questions.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>> On Jun 4, 2018, at 4:57 AM, Stephen Burke - UKRI STFC <
>> stephen.burke at stfc.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Paolo Andreetto <paolo.andreetto at pd.infn.it> said:
>>
>> Even better, I think we can remove the suffix "Info" from both the class
>> names.
>>
>>
>> That's probably OK, as long as all the names are still different.
>>
>> It's not easy to design a model that can be suitable for any kind of
>> future accelerator devices.
>> We can have multiple (different) cards on the same WN, and we have some
>> examples about that.
>>
>>
>> OK, if you think it's possible then you should allow for that - you
>> shouldn't make the model more complicated than it needs to be but it's
>> reasonable to allow for likely future developments. Also you have quite a
>> few accelerator objects, the arguments aren't necessarily the same for all
>> of them.
>>
>> I read about new architecture with multi-chip GPU on the same card.
>>
>>
>> I think the objects usually only need to be one instance per GPU type, if
>> you have multiple GPUs of the same type you could just publish a count in a
>> single object.
>>
>> There're GPU appliances (Nvidia Quadro VCA) that can be shared among
>> different WNs, and I'm not sure that cloning the AcceleratorEnvironment
>> could get the point.
>>
>>
>> You'd need to have some idea of what the sharing model would be - in
>> general you'd need a new kind of resource object for that, but it may be
>> that you could deal with it within the existing structure.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
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Dr. Alessandro Paolini
Operations Officer - EGI Foundation
Science Park 140
1098 XG Amsterdam
The Netherlands
skype: alessandro.paolini.egi
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"I believe in the power of laughter and tears"
    "as an antidote to hatred and terror"
          "A day without laughter"
             "is a wasted day" >>> Charlie Chaplin
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