[Pgi-wg] Definition of a Production Grid

[Moreno Marzolla]

David Wallom wrote:
> Hi Lawrence,
[...]
> Can I suggest that we just set performance, policy and procedure targets and
> go from there. I.e. You grid will have legally compliant accounting for
> utilisation by a number of users that are identified using a strong
> authentication and authorisation mechanism, across a set of physically
> separate resources that may or may not be legally owned by more than one
> legal entity. The services that these offer can be many and varied but all
> should operate to a defined quality of service definition.

Hi all,

I think that this definition is a bit generic, in the sense that it 
surely defines a "Grid", but I don't see how it addresses the term 
"Production" (which I agree is a term a bit elusive to quantify/qualify 
appropriately).
In my mind I always associated "production" grids to those large-scale 
infrastructures (how much large?) that are used to get "real job" done 
(what does "real job" mean?). This is what I thought was the line 
dividing "production" grids from "non-production" ones.

Moreno.

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