Re: GCE: March Meeting Task List

[Jason Novotny <JDNovotny@lbl.gov>]

    Hi Raj,

    I like your computational economy model and hope that it gains more attention in
the scheduling group. My feeling (and others may disagree) is that the GCE mission is
to support existing Grid services for developing portals, workbenches, PSE's, etc.
Let's say I were building an environment for users to schedule resources as in your
model, I would need to have an infrastructure in place (your local and core services
from the diagram) that doesn't exist on any of the Grids I know of  in the US or
Europe (correct me if I'm wrong). But that doesn't mean it shouldn't! Maybe we need to
talk more to the scheduling WG- my feeling is that if they have " blessed" your API or
"Grid service" I would be interested in studying it further. In any case you bring up
a good point- which is "what grid services should we be supporting?"

    If you're at GGF,  please come to our WG session!

    Jason

Rajkumar Buyya wrote:

> Hi Mary,
>
> Mary Thomas wrote:
> >
> > This is a good template for projects, does it cover
> > also things like toolkits?
> >
> > I added a little more...
> > It might help in the template to have short paragraph
> > citing examples/explanation
> >
> > 1. Overview - including:
> >       A. Description
> >       B. Systems/sites served
> >       C. services provided
> > 2. Architecture
> >       A. Define Grid software/services that the GCE currently depends upon
> >             and relationship to GF Working Group.
> >       B. Define Grid software/services that the GCE plans to make use of
> >       C. Define Grid software/services that are needed by the GCE but
> >             are not supported by the Grid
>
>   I volunteer to contribute to (2.C) on Grid Trading and Computational Economy
>   aspects. These topics are yet to be addressed within Grid community. You may
>   want to browse:
>      http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar/papers/ecogrid.pdf
>   We have used these services in our Nimrod/G resource broker and I think that they
>   can be generalised and shared widely with Grid community.
>   Please let me know what is your opinion on this.
>
> Cheers
> Raj
> >       D. Define software/services used/needed by the GCE that are
> >             outside the scope the Grid
> >    3. Implementation
> >           A. Commodity technologies/software used (e.g., EJB, JMS, JINI,
> > Perl...)
> >           B. Proprietary technologies/software developed that can be shared
> > with others
> >               A diagram is highly recommended
> > 3. Supported Grid Services
> >       A. Security
> >       B. Information services
> >       C. Scheduling
> >       D. Data transfer
> >       E. Additional Grid services
> >
> > Supporting material:
> > Should we limit size of BP papers to 5 pages or less?
> > Should we ask for publications/references?
>
> --
> Best wishes,
> Raj
>
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