[ogsa-hpcp-wg] Minutes for OGSA HPC Profile telecon (Aug 18 2006)

[Marvin Theimer]

Hi;

I totally agree that they're important.  However, in keeping with having as simple an HPC Profile base case as possible, the HPC Profile will restrict its base case to only allowing singleton vectors.  Whether we want to define the BES base case as non-vector operations and then immediately define a vector extension or whether we want to define the base case as vector operations with the restriction being put in the HPC Profile specification is something still to be determined.

Marvin.
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Subject: Re: [ogsa-hpcp-wg] Minutes for OGSA HPC Profile telecon (Aug 18 2006)

I am also concerned about this. We've never had vector operations in Globus, but Chris Smith argued eloquently for their importance in the early stages of BES, and so I became convinced that we need them.

Ian.


At 09:34 PM 8/20/2006 +0100, Steven Newhouse wrote:
    AI-HPCP-0818c: Marvin Theimer will add first draft of section 4 to
            HPC Basic Profile that restricts BES operations to
            singletons

Could you expand on this... having the BES interface support operations on vectors of activities has been fairly important. Is this is what you are planning to remove?

Is this a profile restriction or an edit on the main BES document?

Steven
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