I would not disagree with this list… but I would like to see us complete some of the work we are already doing before starting something new – bandwidth is not unlimited!

I would agree with Kerberos being the next ‘new’ thing for us.

The Application & Machine inventory I hope could be done by profiling Glue and using the existing FactoryAttributes operation – if not then there is a big problem with Glue!

The Resource Usage data is already quite advanced in the UR and RUS groups… though both groups go in fits and starts! Extending the HPC profile WG to cover this would be a big stretch IMHO. Better to leverage this work.

Steven

From: ogsa-hpcp-wg-bounces@ogf.org [mailto:ogsa-hpcp-wg-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of Bill Nitzberg
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 7:41 PM
To: ogsa-hpcp-wg@ogf.org
Subject: [ogsa-hpcp-wg] HPCBP Extensions Short-list

Hi,

I had occasion to have coffee with Chris Smith today, and we discussed what we think would be the most useful near-term extensions to the HPCBP.

Turns out our list is pretty short (in no particular order):

File staging (already in process)

Kerberos credentials (with Active Directory support)

Application inventory (a simple list of available applications, maybe leveraging the Glue Scheme work)

Machine inventory (a list of hardware: hosts, cpus, memory, etc, as well as what’s in use and what’s free; maybe also leveraging the Glue Scheme)

Resource usage data (for simple accounting and status reporting)

Anyone else interested in any of these areas?  Anyone interested enough to work on drafting an extension?

Best regards,

- bill

Bill Nitzberg

Altair PBS Gridworks