[ogsa-wg] Proposed agenda for Oct. 9th call

[Hiro Kishimoto]

Hi Paul,

Reference model discussion is the first agenda item.
Let's try to finish it at one hour mark.

Thanks,
---
Hiro Kishimoto

Strong, Paul wrote:
> Hiro,
> 
> I've had a meeting crop up at 4PM Pacific.  I'd be most grateful if we
> could address this in the first hour.
> 
> Regards
> Paul
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ogsa-wg-bounces at ogf.org [mailto:ogsa-wg-bounces at ogf.org] On Behalf
> Of Strong, Paul
> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 9:23 AM
> To: Hiro Kishimoto; OGSA WG; Bob Thome
> Subject: Re: [ogsa-wg] Proposed agenda for Oct. 9th call
> 
> Hi Hiro,
> 
> The issue you raise on slide 6 is key, and one which we were aware of.
> The question is - is it really an issue?  Perhaps the real question is
> how we relate that object's life-cycle to a "unit of work" - i.e. a job
> or transaction.  But maybe that's a rat hole we don't want to dive down
> right now.
> 
> Anyway back to the class/instance question specifically.  One way of
> modeling the HPC service in the EGA reference model would be to separate
> the concept of the job from the binary - see attached GIF.  Each is a
> separate grid component.  Thus multiple jobs depend on a single binary
> (blast or whatever) that can then be provisioned once.  The active state
> of the deployed binary then equates to the binary being accessible and
> instantiable (if there is such a word) by the user who wants to run a
> job.  Provisoning of the Job is then facilitated by the provisioning of
> the binary (already done) and then instantiating it within the context
> of the cluster.  Provisioning of a specific job may of course include
> the creation of instance specific configuration files (another
> dependency of a job instance), target data (another dependency...) and
> command line options.  
> 
> Regards
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ogsa-wg-bounces at ogf.org [mailto:ogsa-wg-bounces at ogf.org] On Behalf
> Of Hiro Kishimoto
> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 8:07 AM
> To: OGSA WG; Bob Thome
> Subject: Re: [ogsa-wg] Proposed agenda for Oct. 9th call
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>  > 2) HPC profile usecase for EGA reference model (60 min)
> 
>  >         Hiro will write-up draft proposal before the call.
> 
> I've uploaded my first thoughts of OGSA HPC cluster usecase to
> GridForge.
> 
> https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc13939
> 
> Slide deck include:
> - OGSA HPC cluster
> - Workload
> - Batch job: grid component mapping
> - OGSA HPC usecase diagram
> - OGSA HPC job status
> 
> Have a look and give your feedback at the Monday call.
> 
> Thanks,
> ----
> Hiro Kishimoto
> 
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