[Pgi-wg] Definition of a Production Grid

[Moreno Marzolla]

David Wallom wrote:
[...]
 > Maybe we could use publication impact of the work done as a measure
> instead, it would be as arbitrary as 'real work'?

I do not think that the publication impact is a good metric. A 
research/academic infrastructure used only, e.g., for testing and 
developing new programming models and/or technologies related to grid 
computing will surely have a large publication impact, as it will be 
used to try out new paradigms which will be subject to many 
publications. But not for this reason I would qualify such 
infrastructure as "production".

I was trying to look for the definition of "production system" in some 
dictionary, but so far I failed to locate anything useful...

Moreno.

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