I am also concerned about this. We've never had vector operations in Globus, but Chris Smith argued eloquently for their importance in the early stages of BES, and so I became convinced that we need them.

Ian.

At 09:34 PM 8/20/2006 +0100, Steven Newhouse wrote:

    AI-HPCP-0818c: Marvin Theimer will add first draft of section 4 to
            HPC Basic Profile that restricts BES operations to
            singletons

Could you expand on this... having the BES interface support operations on vectors of activities has been fairly important. Is this is what you are planning to remove?

Is this a profile restriction or an edit on the main BES document?

Steven
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