[Swift-devel] Re: GRAM and Swift discussion this week?

[Ben Clifford]

On Tue, 22 May 2007, Ian Foster wrote:

> Are there WS-GRAM issues that are causing problems for Swift?

No one uses WS-GRAM with Swift, so we aren't really uncovering issus 
there.


> Is advance reservation important for Swift?

We haven't really talked about that. I'm not sure how it would fit in, but 
if people want it, it would be nice to accomodate it somehow.


> Swift is increasingly using Falkon to handle submissions, which reduces 
> the number of GRAM operations performed significantly.

At the high/experimental end, yes. However, if we have any expectation of 
people downloading and using it by themselves without us providing 
professional services-style consultancy, then those users won't be going 
anywhere near Falkon any time soon.

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