June 2000 Globus UK Workshop R. Hughes-Jones Globus Current and Future Organizational / Management uHow do we keep informed of work in UK / HEP? èSimple VC regularly once every 2/3 weeks - Try VRVS èMailing List èUK Globus mirror and General Web site www-grid.hep.man.ac.uk/ èLinks to Other RC work, EU work, US work u How may the UK best participate in the development at the Open Software and design ? è access to source code – US CVS source repository to be opened ~weeks è commercial support … uHow do the Globus developers manage our input ? uHow do they receive our feedback ? è mail, mailing list: works well è Web problem report form – identify hepuk - solve common problems è phone conf. VC
June 2000 Globus UK Workshop R. Hughes-Jones Globus Deployment / Upgrades How do we register in the UK - which CA? è Globus, University/Lab, Experiment u Do we use version ? When do we change ? è certificates will work on – no rush? u Where do we set up the GIIS(s)? What coverage? è Put a GRIS at each group of nodes e.g. 1 in HEP group 1 in computer center at a site u What developments are in the pipeline ? è Data grid – hi-perf. tcp, replica management, metadata è Resource Mangement – QoS, reservations è CoG-Kits - exploit commodity development platforms è Distance Visulisation è Global events
June 2000 Globus UK Workshop R. Hughes-Jones What should we Explore ? uHigh Throughput & reliable data moving ftp (ppncg) Richard H-J / Peter Clarke / Dave Salmon èBehaviour of multi –stream and –stripe on SuperJANET èTransfer of selected data only (see virtual data in ppdg) uQuality of Service – how do we deploy it ?: (ppncg) Geoff Fayers / Robin Tasker / Richard H-J èTests on SuperJANET + use with the CDF link to US èLinks to Internet-2 projects? uPhysics Applications over Globus: Andrew McNab èPAW èroot – use Globus i/o and ‘locate’ data via metadata èroot – experiment with an internal LDAP browser è‘Data grid’ server doing remote cuts on ntuple data uWhere is my data ? – a metadata question: Alessandra Forti, ISI people in Globus èBaBar - use Globus toolkit to interface to the MySQL database èUse of LDAP – GIIS to locate files
June 2000 Globus UK Workshop R. Hughes-Jones What should we Explore uSimple Broker: Alex Martin èAssist in submitting jobs considering the data location etc. uLinux installation and configuration tools (rpm ): Andrew M uHow do we connect SANs to the Grid ?:Manchester JREI, IC u LDAP to manage user authorisation: Dave Kelsey è Follow up the CERN work on global authorisation - HTASC è How to generate mapfiles u Explore replica manager and replica catalogue: èHow do Expt. wish to put their data into the catalog èTry in the UK and with SLAC uCondor-G evaluation: uEvent services – what are our requirements: Robin Middleton
June 2000 Globus UK Workshop R. Hughes-Jones uRFIO: John Gordon èRemote File I/o for tapes etc. – part of shift uBeta Grid Nodes – do they match our needs?