[rus-wg] Resource Usage Service WG Meeting in Seoul

[Rajkumar Buyya]

Hi Jon:

I am exploring  possibility of attending GGF in Seoul. If I do, I will attending 
RUS session. Meanwhile, here is pinter to work of one my students/collaborator 
for Uni. of Western Australia. His has written a Masters by Research thesis:

  Title: Authorisation and Accounting Services for the World Wide Grid
  URL: http://www.gridbus.org/students/AlexMastersThesis.pdf

It made use of RUS specification.

Cheers
Raj

Jon MacLaren wrote:
> All,
> 
> This is a "call to arms" if you like, regarding the RUS specification.  
> Within the UK Markets project, there has been some good work recently to 
> adapt the Resource Usage Service following the demise of OGSI.
> 
> An implementation has also been created and tested at the University of 
> Manchester.  The service is likely to be deployed on the UK National 
> Grid Service, and may also become part of future releases of the OMII 
> software.
> 
> Given this activity - more than there has been for some time, we want to 
> push the revised version of the specification forward.  To try to 
> standardise it.  However, this will be hard if there is no engagement 
> from the community.  Accountancy, while not glamorous, is essential to 
> Grid computing.  I urge those of you on the list who are attending the 
> Seoul meeting to please come along and support this work.
> 
> And if you can't come to Seoul, then it would be great if you could just 
> comment on the spec on the mailing list...
> 
> The meeting is on Tuesday, March 15 from 3pm-4:30pm in the Sapphire 
> Ballroom 1.
> 
> The up-to-date specification, currently based on WS-I, can be found on 
> our mailing list archives at:
> 
>     http://www-unix.gridforum.org/mail_archive/rus-wg/2005/02/msg00001.html
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> 
> Jon MacLaren.
> 

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