[ogsa-hpcp-wg] Minutes for OGSA HPC Profile telecon (Aug 18 2006)
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OGSA HPC Profile Minutes Fri Aug 18 2006
Participants:
Marty Humphrey (University of Virginia)
Marvin Theimer (MSFT)
Glenn Wasson (University of Virginia)
Donal Fellows (University of Manchester)
Minutes: Marty Humphrey
* Summary of Actions:
AI-HPCP-0818a: Donal Fellow to review HPC Profile Application.
AI-HPCP-0818b: Marvin Theimer will add paragraph to HPC Basic Profile
stating: "all other elements of the JSDL 1.0 MAY appear
but MAY also result in a 'not implemented' fault, but
only the list here must be supported"
AI-HPCP-0818c: Marvin Theimer will add first draft of section 4 to
HPC Basic Profile that restricts BES operations to
singletons
* Previous minutes: NONE (this is the first teleconference)
* Review of Actions: NO Previous Actions (this is the first teleconference)
* Discuss the State of BES
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Marvin Theimer has grabbed the pen on BES doc (plan: to send it out
by Wednesday including
refactoring: [1] arbitrary clients vs [2] sys admins; management
would only have start
and stop) (ie. Put query into the factory); Main thing: add
fleshed-out extended
state model (current draft: there WILL be an extended state model,
and heres the basic one").
extend data-staging example so that Ian F and Dave S can see the
details and/or are satisfied
Glenn: factoring into two port types (or three: activity, factory,
management: but Activity
is not current in it), not going to be in an Appendix
Interesting issue: what ultimately shows up in the activity
management interface
Glenn: seemed like from the base case that the only thing you would
do from the interface is Cancel
Marvin recapped his email to BES re: three renderings
Claim: basics of BES are shaping up to be what we expected (shaping
up in a good way)
* HPC Profile Application Extension - JSDL extension for describing
executables, etc.
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fairly far along, are we happy with whats in there? Consensus is
yes, were happy.
Next step is to have someone other than Chris to go through it to see
if there are any
details that they dont like.
Donal: the document needs: which bits are the normative MUSTs
AI-HPCP-0818a: Donal Fellow to review HPC Profile Application. Specifically
to ensure that normative text use is correct. Also, adding
normative text. Hopefully done before the next JSDL call on Wed.
Goal: to get on the agenda for JSDL. Donal will contact Andreas to
get on the JSDL WG agenda.
* HPC Basic Profile
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Issue: whats the style of writing this doc? How do the restrictions work?
Previous discussion: do we really want to create a doc that only has MUSTs?
Currently, the style is: "These are the elements that MUST be
supported and all other
aspects COULD be supported but you also might get a fault back."
Consensus is
that this is the best style.
Missing: another paragraph : "all other elements of the JSDL 1.0 MAY
appear but MAY
also result in a 'not implemented' fault, but only the list here
must be supported."
Example: file system element.
Glenn: I dont like the Strike-out approach because you need both docs.
AI-HPCP-0818b: Marvin Theimer will add paragraph stating: "all other
elements of
the JSDL 1.0 MAY appear but MAY also result in a 'not implemented'
fault, but only the list here must be supported." Donal says: probably
want to add more text with regard to range values. E.g., it must
support JSDL exact but the exact allows to specify what you mean
by Exact. In the case of range values, you also want to specify
to mandate the syntactic requirements of integer values. I.e.,
set-value resources or single value resources. If NOT "set", then
go with "exact".
Marvin: Do we want to, in the base case, restrict total cpu count to
be exact? COnsensus in
call is that this is tricky, because its arguably not as simple
as we would
like. Consider putting this issue in a tracker.
This leaves section 5 of BES
our only restriction is to eliminate
required support for arrays.
AI-HPCP-081c: Marvin Theimer will add first draft of section 4
that restricts BES operations to singletons. This will
result in our first complete draft. He will add in a
first draft of the security section.
* Other news
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Donal: At the end of the OGSA call yesterday, it was mentioned that
EMS and data people are
looking to do a combined use case, based on the HPC Profile. We all
agreed on the
call that this was great news and we're anxious to work with them.
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