[Swift-commit] r5282 - branches/release-0.93/docs/userguide

[ketan at ci.uchicago.edu]

Author: ketan
Date: 2011-11-11 14:58:51 -0600 (Fri, 11 Nov 2011)
New Revision: 5282

Modified:
   branches/release-0.93/docs/userguide/cdm
Log:
 

Modified: branches/release-0.93/docs/userguide/cdm
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--- branches/release-0.93/docs/userguide/cdm	2011-11-11 15:29:05 UTC (rev 5281)
+++ branches/release-0.93/docs/userguide/cdm	2011-11-11 20:58:51 UTC (rev 5282)
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
 Collective Data Management
 --------------------------
 
+What is CDM
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+CDM is a Swift feature that broadly enables improved management of data based on its nature and location.
+
 Overview
 ~~~~~~~~ 
 . The user specifies a CDM policy in a file, customarily fs.data.  
 . fs.data is given to Swift on the command line.  
 . The Swift data module (org.globus.swift.data) is informed of the CDM policy.  
-. At job launch time, the VDL Karajan code queries the CDM policy,  
+. At job launch time, the CDM policy is queried,  
    .. altering the file staging phase, and  
    .. sending fs.data to the compute site.  
 . At job run time, the Swift wrapper script