Laurence, First, as you can tell I am not a GLUE2 expert - nor am I keeping up with JSDL 2.0. :-) That said, as to your comment

One of the problems with getting the information from BES is that this is then a service specific mechanism and other services such as the SRM, etc. will have a different method. Information system interoperation is indeed problem which we must solve but we need to deal with things in manageable chunks.

I agree completely. During the BES discussion we came to an impasse over this: some arguing that that we could use WS-RF resource properties ... and then have a single mechanism for all types of resources. Others, including but not limited to Microsoft, would have nothing to do with WS-RF. In the end to get consensus the WG decided on a separate function - very ugly. We in Genesis II support both the WS-RF mechanism and the OGSA-BES mechanism. The same thing by the way happened over notification, except in the end the WG basically punted. I personally think that the BES endpoint should provide a mechanism to get the information, but that the spec should be mute on how that information is aggregated or used. A

-----Original Message----- From: Laurence Field [mailto:Laurence.Field@cern.ch] Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 3:22 PM To: Andrew Grimshaw Cc: Moreno Marzolla; pgi-wg@ogf.org; jsdl-wg@ogf.org Subject: Re: [Pgi-wg] Next teleconference: tomorrow, wednesday july 15th

Hi Andrew,

The most important aspects of GLUE2 for this activity is the GLUE execution environment and GLUE application environment. It describes the hardware and software properties of the cluster respectively and the Job Description should mirror this information.

Currently, this information is propagated around the Grid infrastructure via a parallel mechanism. Whether this needs to be part of BES or if there is an information service which must accompany BES is a matter for debate. Within the current EGEE/WLCG infrastructure there are no plans for the foreseeable future to move away from the current mechanism, the need to expose this information via BES is not a requirement for it to be deployed on the infrastructure.

One of the problems with getting the information from BES is that this is then a service specific mechanism and other services such as the SRM, etc. will have a different method. Information system interoperation is indeed problem which we must solve but we need to deal with things in manageable chunks. I would consider this problem to be a general Grid interoperability problem rather than something specific to BES so we should try not get too distracted from the good progress that has been made so far. The definition of GLUE 2.0 has solved more than half of the information system interoperability problem. As the information content is standardized, moving it around and translating from one data format to another is just a technical plumbing exercise. Having something standardized here would certainly help but it is probably out of scope for the BES discussion.

Anyway, my personal opinion on the information system standards is that a good one already exists, X.500 :)

Laurence

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Moreno, Once we figure out what we need I can start the process to get a new draft of BES out.

Besides the state model - where we seem to have reached a consensus, and

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"vector" operations, there is also the issue of moving towards GLUE2 as

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attribute schema which has been discussed several times. We will need to be specific as to what part of GLUE2, and how to get the info from endpoints (we could keep the current mechanism).

Finally, there is JSDL. It would be good if we could synchronize the transition to GLUE2 with the JSDL group. I am cc'ing the JSDL group as

Andrew Grimshaw wrote: the the they

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may be able to better answer the question of JSDL and GLUE2 congruence (if there are any such plans.)

A

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-----Original Message----- From: pgi-wg-bounces@ogf.org [mailto:pgi-wg-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of Moreno Marzolla Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 5:40 AM To: pgi-wg@ogf.org Subject: [Pgi-wg] Next teleconference: tomorrow, wednesday july 15th

Dear all,

the next PGI teleconference will be held tomorrow july 15th at 16:00 CET (duration: 1 hour).

Call-in details as follow: via Skype call +9900827049931906 (free of charge) ordinary phone numbers (local rates) with the 9931906 conference number:

Austria 0820 401 15470 Belgium 0703 57 134 France 0826 109 071 Germany +49 (0) 180 500 9527 Switzerland 0848 560 397

The agenda is similar to the last call (in particular, tomorrow I would like that we spend a few minutes on a status update of the security discussion)

1) State model

2) Status update on security

3) AOB

Feel free to propose additional topics for discussion.

Moreno.

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