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

Tiberiu Stef-Praun tiberius at ci.uchicago.edu
Tue May 22 14:17:18 CDT 2007


I might have used ws-gram at the TACC site.
I think it was quite a while ago, so I am not 100% that I actually used ws-gram.

Tibi

On 5/22/07, Stuart Martin <smartin at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On May 22, 2007, at May 22, 1:43 PM, Ben Clifford wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Why not?  What are you using?  GRAM2?  local executions?  Other
> services?
>
> >
> >
> >> 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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