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 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.) Donal.