NorduGrid technical meeting

May 10-11, 2003, Bergen

Present: N.A., M.E., A.K., B.K., T.M., J.N., L.N., Å.S., O.S., M.T., A.W.

Minutes by A.K.


Bugz
  * Important cvs changes should be announced on mailing list

Portal
  * To be installed on www.nordugrid.org or linked there (Anders, Oxana).
  * Feature request: to support parameter scan.

Packaging
  * We are moving to Globus 2.4.0 next week after 700 partitions of DC1 finished.
  * Debug information should be retained in Globus *dbg* libraries (Anders).
  * CA RPMs to be renamed (local -> certrequest). Tarball to be created (Anders).

Repository
  * To be moved to faster server (Anders).
  * Structure changes (Anders, information provided to Oxana).

Tagging
  * Tag every friday at 2pm if distribution builds. Otherwise next try at 5pm (Anders).
  * Version 1.0 should be tagged as soon as new configuration code is finished. New 
    features will be turned off in 1.0 (Anders).

Technical Manager
  * Balazs becomes Technical Coordinator of NorduGrid project. "Manager" is bad name.

Short term solution for SE
  * Will be called Stupid SE (SSE).
  * SE is single URL in Information System.
  * Request for ALLO command support to be sent to Globus to William Allcock (Aleksandr).
  * Support for GACL access manipulation to be added (Aleksandr).
  * Request for extended functionality of GACL to be sent to Andrew McNab (Aleksandr).

Proxy renewal
  * Add support for restarting jobs failed due to expired proxy (Aleksandr).

Interfacing
  * To provide information about NorduGrid used protocol to CondorG developers (if
    they are still interested) (Aleksandr).
  * Evaluate "Chimera" (Oxana, Jakob).

xRSL
  * Add OpSysDistribution to xRSL attributes and use in brokering (Mattias).
  * Add MDS attribute NetworkConnectivity (Balazs). Final name to be decided (Mattias).
  * Change names stdlog and gridlog to gmlog (Blazs, Mattias).
  * After all changes are done documantation to be updated (Oxana?)

MPI
  * We need better definition of MPI runtime environments.
  * Try gsi-ssh as tool for interactive access for debugging purposes (Anders).

Authorization
  * We try VOMS. Server to be setup (Aleksandr).
  * Proposal for new model of authorization. Deadline is one month (Anders).

DataManagement
  * Trond's proposal is accepted and to be implemented:
     nameserver - Trond
     storage element - Aleksandr
     authorization/access control - Anders, Balazs
     MDS schemas - Balazs

Applications/Runtime
  * Runtime environments needs namespace and responsible persons. To be implemented
    using certificates (Anders).

Scheduling
  * Some MDS cluster attributes will be added to queue information (Balazs). Brokkering
    will be modified accordingly (Mattias).

Resubmission
  * Proposal for how to keep and use all input data needed for job's resubmission (Mattias).