WP 1 Globus Status Report

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WP 1 (Globus)Status Report

• Massimo Sgaravatto
• INFN Padova
• for the INFN Globus group
• globus_at_infn.it

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Meetings

• Last meeting January 11, 2001
• No other meetings scheduled

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Security (GSI)

• Management of grid-mapfile updates
• Script to publish user certificates in LDAP
  server (done G. Lo Biondo)
• LDAP server populated by CA manager (to do)
• Members of groups published in LDAP server
  (update done by administrators of these groups)
• Web tool to manage groups (work in progress C.
  Rocca)
• Evaluation of existing tools (done)
• Tool for end user (to do)
• Tool (certretrieve) used to query the LDAP server
  (for example to get the members of a specific
  group) the results are grid-mapfile entries
  (done G. Lo Biondo)
• Tests with Kerberos (AFS)
• Analysis of how access AFS now and open issues
  (done F. Prelz)
• Address the issues (to do ??)

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Information Service (GIS)

• Netscape LDAP server as mirror of top level GIIS
  (to do G. Lo Biondo, G. Vita Finzi, F. Semeria,
  E. Fasanelli, Ferrara)
• Review the information gathered from the various
  machines and published in the GIS (to do G. Lo
  Biondo, G. Vita Finzi, F. Semeria, E. Fasanelli,
  Ferrara)
• Tests on performance and scalability (work in
  progress F. Semeria, G. Vita Finzi, G. Lo
  Biondo, E. Fasanelli, Ferrara)

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Resource Management

• Fixes for job manager memory leaks (done)
• Tests with GRAM API (done F. Giacomini)
• GRAM GIS cooperation (work in progress)
• Review and integrate the information concerning
  a FARM published in the GIS
• First proposal defined (considering LSF and
  Condor) (done M. Biasotto, M. Sgaravatto)
• Necessary to integrate this proposal considering
  also PBS (work in progress Torino)
• Development of scripts for LSF (work in progress
  M. Biasotto)
• Tests with MPICH-G2 (done Alfieri, Spataro)
• MPICH-G2 vs MPICH
• SMP, LAN, WAN (Pr Pd)

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Globus deployment

• Patches (for job manager) to apply to INFN-GRID
  1.2 installations (done Pisa)
• INFN-GRID 1.3 (work in progress Pisa)
• Fixes for Globus jobmanager memory leaks
• GDMP 1.2
• Distribution of various Globus compilations
  (Kerberos, MPICH-G2)
• Certretrieve
• Other bug fixes
• Web software repository (done L. Fonti, G. Vita
  Finzi)
• www.infn.it/grid/dist.html

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Data Management

• Tests with globusftp alpha release 2 (work in
  progress Cnaf, Torino, Napoli, Padova)
• Collaboration with WP Network
• Tests with replica catalog software alpha release
  2 (work in progress Pisa)
• Collaboration with WP Data Management

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Report conclusivo

• Ch. 1 - Introduction (F. Prelz, M. Sgaravatto)
• Ch. 2 - Globus deployment and installation tools
  (F. Donno)
• Ch. 3 Security (F.Prelz)
• Ch. 4 Information Service (G. Lo Biondo)
• Ch. 5 Resource Management (M. Sgaravatto)
• Ch. 6 Data Access and Migration (L. Gaido)
• Ch. 7 Other services (M. Sgaravatto)
• Ch. 8 Experiments
• Alice
• Cms
• Atlas (??)
• Ch. 9 Conclusions (F. Prelz, M. Sgaravatto)
• Editor F. Prelz

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Report conclusivo schedula

• 11/1/2001 ?
• Definizione della struttura del documento
• Assegnazione dei chapter agli autori
• Scelta delleditor
• 28/1/2001 ?
• Gli autori producono un primo draft del loro
  chapter, e lo inviano a globus_at_infn.it
• 4/2/2001
• Deadline per inviare feedback sul primo draft
• 11/2/2001
• Gli autori producono un secondo draft, e lo
  inviano alleditor
• 20/2/2001
• Leditor produce una prima versione del
  documento, e lo invia a globus_at_infn.it
• 23/2/2001
• Deadline per mandare feedback alleditor
• 28/2/2001
• Leditor produce la versione definitiva

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Other info

• http//www.infn.it/globus