Re: GCE testbed activity

[Chip Watson <chip.watson@jlab.org>]

Karen et al,

I'd be interested in some testbed / interoperability studies.  I'm curious about
what capabilities you would propose to be distributed.  Our efforts are
targetted toward distribution of data, and then later distribution of batch
jobs.  For a single site, we are working towards having the portal provide
a lot of information to a web browser to view and manipulate storage and
batch jobs, ultimately providing for configuring and launching science
applications w/o logging in to the site, just using secure web.

So, what might a testbed look like?  Here's a few, based upon our near
term goals of basic infrastructure capability:

1) demonstrate security interoperability (accepting each others
    certificates, even if signed by different CA's)
2) demo displaying status of a remote site, with info retrieved via web services
    i.e. PNL testbed portal showing status of machines at Jlab (which is not
    running globus)
3) demonstrate requesting file staging or transfer using web services
4) demonstrate launching remote batch job (against system with foreign
    or unknown infrastructure implementation) using web services

What is on your list?

Regards,

Chip


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