[Swift-devel] Re: swift+glite

[Michael Wilde]

This sounds good, Ben.

Please post info on what is needed in IO changes. I think this fits in 
with generalizing and improving the performance of the Swift IO strategy 
for other environments as well.

What is the data transfer strategy when there is no cluster file system? 
Does the compute node need to pull data down as a gridftp client?

On 9/10/08 8:33 AM, Ben Clifford wrote:
> added swift-devel because they might be interested.
> 
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Michael Wilde wrote:
> 
>> The Swift-glite integration is of interest for Uri's work as well. Do 
>> you know how much work that will be to do, and support? Or how much it 
>> would take ot find out?
> 
> I interacted with Emidio Giorgio at INFN about this. It sounds like mostly 
> the existing GT2 code will work; glite sites apparently have no cluster 
> shared fs so some fiddling will be necessary there (that I'm working on at 
> the moment) but this is generally in a direction that I think is useful 
> anyway. voms proxies are also apparently necessary, but the pacman 
> packaging that I did the other month (referred to by swift bug 146) can 
> provide that too.
> 
> So I'm going to play with this for a few days and see what happens.

Great!

- Mike