David Wallom wrote:
Hi Lawrence, [...] Can I suggest that we just set performance, policy and procedure targets and go from there. I.e. You grid will have legally compliant accounting for utilisation by a number of users that are identified using a strong authentication and authorisation mechanism, across a set of physically separate resources that may or may not be legally owned by more than one legal entity. The services that these offer can be many and varied but all should operate to a defined quality of service definition.
Hi all, I think that this definition is a bit generic, in the sense that it surely defines a "Grid", but I don't see how it addresses the term "Production" (which I agree is a term a bit elusive to quantify/qualify appropriately). In my mind I always associated "production" grids to those large-scale infrastructures (how much large?) that are used to get "real job" done (what does "real job" mean?). This is what I thought was the line dividing "production" grids from "non-production" ones. Moreno. -- Moreno Marzolla INFN Sezione di Padova, via Marzolo 8, 35131 PADOVA, Italy EMail: moreno.marzolla@pd.infn.it Phone: +39 049 8277103 WWW : http://www.dsi.unive.it/~marzolla Fax : +39 049 8756233