[tsc] Fwd: Archetypical Use Case for TSC Document

[David Snelling]

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> From: "Franco Travostino" <travos at nortel.com>
> Date: 3 January 2007 15:11:03 GMT
> To: "Joel Replogle" <replogle at ogf.org>
> Cc: "David Snelling" <David.Snelling at uk.fujitsu.com>
> Subject: Re: Archetypical Use Case for TSC Document
>
>
> Joel,
> my bad. It turns out that I penciled it while in Ams still, I  
> turned it to Andrew for comments, and then forgot about it. I copy  
> Dave. Any feedback vis a vis w/ the other archetypical use cases?  
> Thanks -franco
>
>> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:15:55 -0500
>> To: "Andrew Grimshaw" <grimshaw at cs.virginia.edu>
>> From: Franco Travostino <travos at nortel.com>
>> Subject: archetypical use case - application on demand
>>
>>
>> Andrew,
>> I want to align with your style of use case, I look forward to  
>> seeing yours . This is what I've drafted thus far for mine:
>>
>> c) Grid infrastructure enables efficient dissemination of  
>> applications. It allows the resulting ensemble of application  
>> instances to evolve in space and time, without any operator  
>> involvement. Imagine a CIO Office that needs to efficiently deploy  
>> an application environment across one or more data centers, which  
>> may be in a campus or geographically dispersed. Quite likely, this  
>> Office will be interested in more than one aspect of the  
>> application lifecycle, including: location of target recipients,  
>> efficient dissemination, tuning of resources allocated to  
>> applications, aggregation, termination. For these operations,  
>> virtualized application environments like virtual machines  
>> represent a convenient abstraction and vehicle for dissemination  
>> (among several implementation choices). The CIO Office expects the  
>> Grid infrastructure to maximize the return of investment on the IT  
>> assets, with value propositions in the area of high-confidence  
>> software distribution and aggregation, load balancing, disaster  
>> recovery, optimized data access, and operational efficiencies  
>> (e.g., fewer operators and/or smaller power budgets).
>>
>> thanks
>> -franco
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>
>
>
> At 09:25 AM 1/3/2007, you wrote:
>
>> Franco - At the Amsterdam F2F, you signed up to write an archetypical
>> use case for provisioning an application on demand.  The context was
>> for the technical strategy document.
>>
>> My action was to follow up with you, and I'm only now doing that.
>> Unfortunately, I should have followed up with you last month because
>> the deadline for the TSC document is coming closer.  My apologies for
>> dropping the ball on this.
>>
>> We have a TSC call today (which is why I was reviewing this), so do
>> you think that you can provide me with either:
>>         a) A first draft of the archetypical use case, or
>>         b) A guess at when you might be able to have a draft ready
>> (understanding that sooner is better so we can get this into public
>> comment by OGF19).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Joel
>>
>>
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>> Joel Replogle - Manager of Standards, Open Grid Forum
>> replogle at ogf.org                   http://www.ogf.org
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>>

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