NorduGrid technical meeting

November 12-13, 2002, Uppsala

Present: M.E., A.K., B.K., J.N., O.S., A.W., N.A. (briefly)

Minutes by O.S.

INSTALL
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Anders to add INSTALL file with minimal installation instructions (Nov. 13)

PILE-UP
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Min. bias (DS 2099), part. 11-50, 251-290), each 300 MB

11-50 pile up with 1101-1300; 251-290 - with 1301-1400

Makes 12 GB + 1 GB of input - minimum. Caching?

3.2 GB of output per job

No advance reservation - hence need a way to tell PBS via xRSL how
to manage the jobs. PBS can't select a node according to memory requirements.

maxJobs

Input Files : 1st approach: specify as inputfiles; if RC crashes - publish 
PILEUP1 and PILEUP2 in runtimeenvironment

VO with validated sites.

Max size: only for the output ; UI calculates additional space reservation 
from the RC information (assuming caching info is available, too)

Binary compatibility
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New IS attribute: distribution (?)

Another new attribute: CPU model+frequency (start with static string)
called "cpuType" 

And then we run Ganglia and switch to the Glue schema!

Parallel jobs
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needed xRSL attributes: 

- nr. of nodes (to be parsed with -l nodes = $count
- PR (aka launcher, aka parallelenvironment, aka parallelruntimeenvironment),
  such that $PR is parsed to the LRMS; advertised as a runtimeenvironment
- jobType : parallel/serial/Condor/whatever

Guest VO
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- Web form

- Change mkgridmapfile to check the issuer CA and CRL before creating the
  gridmapfile

xRSL
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rename maxMemory  to Memory
       maxCPUTime to CPUTime
       maxDisk    to Disk

and remove min*

Merge with UI manual

New mailing list
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nordugrid-site-managers@

Releases
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Pre-release 1.0.0 on December 1st - includes parallel jobs and fixed MDS

Instructions
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- Installation instructions (in CVS)
- Mini-howto : short description of NorduGrid, FAQ
- Anders to figure whether we can announce Globus-NG

Installation
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- separate NorduGrid and Globus
- relocation of /etc

UI options
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storing job contact string into a file and read them from a file 
(options -o and -i)

GlobusWorld
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John to call Ian Foster and get official "no"

Accounting + Bookkeeping - open issue
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ATLAS DC
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Change NG to NORDUGRID

Publications
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Paper to IEEE IC

OS - editor for IEEE IC Grid

Applications (ATLAS DC) - JN

UI/Broker -  ME

Performance of IS - BK