Hi all, I started to put together some ideas regarding the storage accounting. I am taking, as a reference, the "Usage Record - Format Recommendation" Draft from 22nd of September 2006. Is there anything more up to date? In the description there are references to a name space that looks like is not available any more: http://schema.ogf.org/2003/09/urf Am I doing something wrong? Andrea On 09/18/2009 02:44 PM, Andrea Cristofori wrote:
Hi Donal,
Including the questions I wrote some days ago, I copied the text at the end of this email for simplicity, I would like to ask you if there are some guidelines or other documents related on the standard utilized to define the XML for the UR records.
Then I could maybe start to work to some proposal on the storage accounting record.
Regards Andrea
Do you plan to meet or make a phone conference in the near future to discuss, in general, future developments? Maybe I could join and put some effort in the subject. If necessary I could prepare a presentation of some of the work that we did up to now.
On 09/04/2009 04:25 PM, Andrea Cristofori wrote:
Hi Donal,
On 09/03/2009 05:13 PM, Donal K. Fellows wrote:
Andrea Cristofori wrote:
I have been trying to follow the development on UR in the last few month and I have a question for you. In particular I am interested in knowing if any work has been made regarding UR for storage accounting. If so where can I find it?
There's not been a lot of work done on it. The problem is that the people who have contributed work so far have tended to be from the computation domain, not the storage domain, so we've not understood what's needed. We can't work on stuff we don't understand (but yes, we know it matters, and we know that networking is an issue too, and the problems are about equivalent too).
In fact we started to discuss the matter and there is a growing interest on the subject.
In case no work has yet been done is there a plan to include it at a certain point?
It's not on the group's near term work roster, which is focussed on doing a production profile of the existing UR to make it able to meet the requirements of production grids better. (Plus I'm snowed under with management bureaucracy, which is really impacting on my ability to do *anything* relating to OGF; too many folks demanding time-consuming reports immediately...)
While doing accounting for storage is a longer term goal, I don't think it's going to happen this calendar year. (Next year, it'll be someone else's problem anyway due to funding changes here.)
Do you plan to meet or make a phone conference in the near future to discuss, in general, future developments? Maybe I could join and put some effort in the subject. If necessary I could prepare a presentation of some of the work that we did up to now.
Andrea
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