At the last telecon we discussed issues related to building a Fusion grid
and I promised to send some info about tools. A few comments and questions
below...
Tools: After looking through some pointers it appears that only GRIPE (
http://lexus.physics.indiana.edu/griphyn/gripe/gripe.html ) went beyond the
"proposal stage" on that, and has actually some software to offer. GRIPE
basically lets you request individual accounts in a more streamlined
manner. There is a czar responsible for adding sites (together with
information about how to contact sys admins and account sponsors on those
sites etc.), and once the sites are in you can go to a webpage and request
some accounts "wholesale". This might help. Otherwise (or even better in
addition to) we can follow Mary's suggestion and try having "share
accounts" that log their use for auditing purposes. The only concern I see
is that this might have consequences for enforcing policies.
Grid: I think we agree that the Fusion Grid will be composed of the Beowulf
cluster, MDSServers at the three Fusion labs and did we ever decide if we
want the Argonne cluster or not?
Globus on Windows: I just talked to the person in charge of our MS
implementation; this project is just starting. He says he will be able to
give us an idea of some timelines after November 29th. As I remember we
discussed some sort of backup plan for running a relational database server
if we don't have Globus on Windows. Could somebody remind me the details of
that "patch" and how long it would be good for?
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Dr. Kate Keahey
Math & Computer Science Div.
Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne, IL 60439, USA
(630) 252-1673
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