[ogsa-hpcp-wg] HPCBP Extensions Short-list

[Christopher Smith]

Perhaps it would be worth trying to schedule a GLUE/HPCP session at OGF22 to
talk about how GLUE can be used to do machine inventory and software
inventory? 

-- Chris


On 11/12/07 06:10, "Donal K. Fellows" <donal.k.fellows at manchester.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Bill Nitzberg wrote:
>> I had occasion to have coffee with Chris Smith today, and we discussed
>> what we think would be the most useful near-term extensions to the HPCBP.
> [...]
>> Kerberos credentials (with Active Directory support)
> 
> We've got people here in Manchester who are interested in passing about
> Kerberos credentials so they can access AFS from their jobs. (I don't
> need it for what I do, but they do.)
> 
>> Application inventory (a simple list of available applications, maybe
>> leveraging the Glue Scheme work)
> 
> As far as I know, they don't say anything much about the actual list of
> available applications. Or rather they do, but they don't describe any
> interoperable basis for actual naming of applications: the names are
> just arbitrary strings in the GLUE model. Without some kind of catalog
> of standard names, it'll be really hard to make progress on interop on
> the basis of GLUE here (except within restricted domains where such
> catalogs are unnecessary).
> 
>> Machine inventory (a list of hardware: hosts, cpus, memory, etc, as well
>> as what¹s in use and what¹s free; maybe also leveraging the Glue Scheme)
> 
> This is strongly in the scope of GLUE; if they can't do it, they need to
> know soon! :-)
> 
>> Resource usage data (for simple accounting and status reporting)
> 
> Sounds like you want to use/profile the Usage Record. FWIW, I've had
> enhanced job execution engines in the past which exposed a UR as a
> property of the job resource once the job completed (so that
> distribution of the record could be done via WS-Notification, which I
> had easily to hand at the time). As far as I could see, it worked quite
> reasonably.
> 
>> Anyone else interested in any of these areas?  Anyone interested enough
>> to work on drafting an extension?
> 
> I can shove my oar in in quite a few places. :-)
> 
> Donal.
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