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

[Stuart Martin]

On May 22, 2007, at May 22, 1:43 PM, Ben Clifford wrote:
>
> On Tue, 22 May 2007, Ian Foster wrote:
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>> 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.

Why not?  What are you using?  GRAM2?  local executions?  Other  
services?

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>
>> 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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