[ogsa-wg] HPC profile questionaire draft

Ian Foster foster at mcs.anl.gov
Fri Nov 17 14:25:34 CST 2006


I want to understand what people think we need for real interop. The HPC 
Profile as currently defined seems far from adequate for that purpose. 
We've mention staging and security as two issues. There are presumably 
others.

Ian.


Subramaniam, Ravi wrote:
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> Hi Andrew,
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> One question could be "Is the profile as it stands complete from your 
> perspective? At least for the focus/business areas or types of 
> customers that you plan to implement for?"
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> The motivation is that depending on the verticals (e.g. financial, 
> pharma) there may be some issue that may need to be resolved to be 
> successful. In this way at least some target constituencies that can 
> best benefit from what is currently there can be determined. We can 
> also begin more targeted campaign at the OGF level towards 
> consumers/customers/end-users and providers in that segments. Building 
> traction in one of more specific segments may help build momentum for 
> others.
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> Ravi
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> *From:* ogsa-wg-bounces at ogf.org [mailto:ogsa-wg-bounces at ogf.org] *On 
> Behalf Of *Maguire_Tom at emc.com
> *Sent:* Friday, November 17, 2006 11:12 AM
> *To:* grimshaw at cs.virginia.edu; ogsa-wg at gridforum.org; 
> ogsa-hpcp-wg at ggf.org; ogsa-bes-wg at ggf.org
> *Subject:* Re: [ogsa-wg] HPC profile questionaire draft
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> Is there enough specificity in the profile for your engineers to 
> successfully implement?  If not what do you need?
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> Tom
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> *From:* ogsa-wg-bounces at ogf.org [mailto:ogsa-wg-bounces at ogf.org] *On 
> Behalf Of *Andrew Grimshaw
> *Sent:* Friday, November 17, 2006 10:21 AM
> *To:* 'Ogsa-Wg'; ogsa-hpcp-wg at ggf.org; ogsa-bes-wg at ggf.org
> *Subject:* [ogsa-wg] HPC profile questionaire draft
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> All,
>
> At the OGSA F2F I was tasked with coming up with a series of questions 
> about the HPC profile experiences to go into a zoomerang, so that an 
> experiences paper could be generated -- either for HPC profile, JSDL, 
> and/or BES.
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> Here is a start. Note -- comment on/add questions. Do NOT answer 
> them!!! That will come later.
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> 1)    Will the HPC-Profile be useful to your organization/company? 
> Explain.
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> 2)    Will you engineer your products to be hpc-profile compliant?
>
> 3)    In your opinion, are there any unresolved ambiguities? Explain?
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> 4)    Thoughts on the next profile? Anything in particular from BES or 
> JSDL (or other specification) that you would like to include.
>
> 5)    Approximately how many person-days did it take you to implement 
> the HPC-profile?
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> 6)    What would you change in the HPC-profile? Why?
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> Remember this is a STRAWMAN ONLY for discussion! Please add, suggest 
> removal, or modify the above.
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> A
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> Andrew Grimshaw
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> Professor of Computer Science
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> University of Virginia
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> 434-982-2204
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> grimshaw at cs.virginia.edu
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