[Pgi-wg] Definition of a Production Grid

[Oxana Smirnova]

Hi,

I agree that "production" can be interpreted in many ways, and it may 
well be that the name of this group is misleading.

Let's check what Webster has to say of "production" as an attributive:

  "something not specially designed or customized and usually
   mass-produced <a production car> <production housing>"

Note "usually mass-produced". In my understanding, "production grid" is 
like a "production car" - like your average Renault is a production car 
as opposed to an F1 racing bolid by Ferrari. F1 bolid performs much 
better, but not when it comes to packing skis and dogs and kids. F1 
bolids have to meet very tight standards, and a Megane is a pretty 
standard car, too - but the standards are different. It's much easier to 
buy a set of wheels or a mirror for a production car, because they 
usually are interchangeable.

Uh, sorry for going that far with the analogy, I hope you all got my point.

Cheers,
Oxana

> 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.
>