[Pgi-wg] PGI Use Case Document: FINAL CALL for Group Comments

[Morris Riedel]

Hi Etienne,

 thanks for your comments.

We can discuss a few of them briefly tomorrow before we jump into the job descriptions.

Take care,
Morris

>-- -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>-- Von: Etienne URBAH [mailto:urbah at lal.in2p3.fr]
>-- Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. Oktober 2010 20:33
>-- An: Riedel, Morris; Johannes WATZL; pgi-wg at ogf.org
>-- Cc: lodygens at lal.in2p3.fr; edgi-na2 at mail.edgi-project.eu
>-- Betreff: Re: [Pgi-wg] PGI Use Case Document: FINAL CALL for Group Comments
>-- 
>-- Morris, Johannes and all,
>-- 
>-- I am not certain that the SourceForge Engine has sent following
>-- information to any other PGI member than myself, so I am sending it
>-- directly :
>-- 
>-- 
>-- I have submitted following review on the PGI Use Case Document, with
>-- 'PGI-Use-Cases-Review-Etienne.doc' available at
>-- http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/sfmain/do/downloadAttachment/projects.pgi-
>-- wg/docman.root.drafts.use_cases/doc16066/docr1214?id=atch4959
>-- :
>-- 
>-- Congratulation to Morris and Johannes for having achieved to collect
>-- these Use Cases on Distributed Data Processing (Grids).
>-- 
>-- Concerning the Use Cases presented by EDGI (chapters 5, 6 and 7), I have
>-- directly :
>-- -  added, inside 'Use Case Situation Analysis', the list of relevant
>-- official or de facto standards.
>-- -  made cosmetic formatting changes.
>-- 
>-- For the other chapters, I have inserted comments were needed.  The most
>-- important ones are :
>-- 
>-- -  What are the software skills of users :  Developers of the
>-- application which they use;  Advanced users of the application;  Users
>-- of a scientific grid portal or a workflow engine to launch something
>-- they do NOT know at all, but which should give them back useful
>-- scientific results;  … ?
>-- 
>-- -  Please provide the detailed sequence of interactions between the
>-- users and the Grid infrastructure.  Preconditions, triggers and
>-- postconditions are also useful.
>-- 
>-- -  Which parts of the scheduling are performed by the user, and which
>-- parts are performed by the Grid middleware (matching user requirements
>-- with resource capabilities) ?
>-- 
>-- -  Please provide precise description of resources which are the
>-- boundaries of the Grid infrastructure(s), and whose interfaces are used
>-- by the Use Case.
>-- 
>-- -  Is this really a requirement on Grid middleware, or rather a
>-- requirement on the Workflow engine ?
>-- 
>-- I have also updated the properties of the MS-Word document.
>-- 
>-- 
>-- To view the submitted review, visit http://forge.ogf.org/sf/go/docr1214
>-- 
>-- 
>-- Best regards.
>-- 
>-- -----------------------------------------------------
>-- Etienne URBAH         LAL, Univ Paris-Sud, IN2P3/CNRS
>--                        Bat 200   91898 ORSAY    France
>-- Tel: +33 1 64 46 84 87      Skype: etienne.urbah
>-- Mob: +33 6 22 30 53 27      mailto:urbah at lal.in2p3.fr
>-- -----------------------------------------------------
>-- 
>-- 
>-- On Mon, 04/10/2010 23:42, Morris Riedel wrote:
>-- > Dear PGI team,
>-- >
>-- >    the latest-greatest use case document (13 use cases, 43 pages) can be found in GridForge:
>-- > http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/docman/do/downloadDocument/projects.pgi-wg/docman.root.drafts.use_cases/doc16066
>-- >
>-- > If you have final comments please let me have them by Wednesday,
>-- > 2010-10-06 (end of the day).
>-- >
>-- > We already have given group members a long time to comment on the
>-- > use cases via our review process, telcons or via the mailing list,
>-- > so I don't expect any major changes.
>-- >
>-- > If any comments are minor (e.g. typos, formatting, minor wordsmithing)
>-- > I'll incorporate them and submit the document to the OGF editor on
>-- > Thursday morning.
>-- >
>-- > If I receive more serious comments I'll discuss with Johannes to
>-- > schedule time in our telcon this week, at which we'll agree either
>-- > to address them before publication or to create trackers/todo's and
>-- > defer them to a next version of the use case document.
>-- >
>-- >
>-- > Finally, I would like to thank the members of the PGI working group
>-- > for their great work in contributing with their use cases.
>-- >
>-- >
>-- > Your co-chair,
>-- > Morris
>-- >
>-- > ------------------------------------------------------------
>-- > Morris Riedel
>-- > Deputy Division Leader
>-- > Distributed Systems and Grid Computing Division
>-- >
>-- > Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
>-- > Info: http://www.fz-juelich.de/jsc/JSCPeople/riedel

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