[ogsa-wg] Re: OGSA-EMS Meeting Agenda (2005-01-17)

[David Snelling]

Folks,

On 17 Jan 2005, at 19:24, Andrew Grimshaw wrote:

> I think it is premature to think about a profile except in general 
> terms of what we think should go in it. I think we need to think about 
> spec’s, forming working groups to generate those specs, and so on. 
>  (Forming working groups involves charters, BOF’s, etc.)

Agreed. It is definitely too early to talk about profiling EMS (even 
candidate profiles).

But, we really do need a WG started to define a minimal set of 
interfaces that actually allow us to run "hello World" on a Grid. I'm 
not sure I agree with, or really understand, Andrew's terms below, but 
then that is what a WG is all about.

> In particular I think we should focus on the basic services we have 
> identified so far (or as they were renamed to avoid confusion):
>
> Service containers
> Actors
> Solutions
> Solution Factories
> Actor descriptors – which may be the same as something another group 
> is working on – a description of the execution component. Hiro help me 
> here.
>
>  And so on. We then need to make sure all of the players who may want 
> to be included are contracted: e.g., Globus, EGEE,
>  OMII, SGE, Platform, PBS, Virginia, and who ever else wants to be 
> involved.

I would add to this list Unicore, NAREGI, and China Grid all of which 
have running interfaces parallel to the GRAM interface in Globus. All 
these groups have suggested to me in the past few days that they want 
to join a WG on this topic. OMII is discussing it actively. JSDL is 
ready for a delivery mechanism, ....

In short, a BoF is in order.

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