On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Ben Waugh wrote:
> Is there a list of "official" VOs for LCG?
Well, this is the problem, what do you call LCG? The VOs supported by the
LCG registrar are listed at
https://lcg-registrar.cern.ch/virtual_organization.html
although that clearly includes non-LCG VOs. However, there are a lot more
VOs around than that. See the list below for everything publishing an LRC
in the RAL bdii, and there are no doubt more than that (cosmogrid for
example). Any site can set up its own VOs, so it's hard to have a complete
list.
> I see that there is also a ZEUS
> VO hosted at CNFN, althought I think there is one at DESY too. There may
> be a reason for having multiple VOs within a single collaboration, but it
> would be useful to have a way of finding out what VOs exist, and which one
> a given site should support, if any.
I doubt that there is a particularly good reason for having multiple
copies of a VO, and certainly not with the same name, it's more likely to
be a lack of communication.
> At UCL we were thinking we might have to set up our own VO server for
> CDF, or at least for CDF UK. If there is one hosted at INFN, should we
> support that instead?
If CDF as an experiment is supporting the one in Italy then I think the UK
should use it as well - and if it isn't maybe there needs to be some
discussion to reach an agreement on who does what. If you only have
national VOs it rather defeats the purpose of the grid.
> What is the status of VOMS in LCG? Is it possible to support a VOMS VO on
> a standard LCG site? If so, is there any useful documentation? If not, is
> there a timescale for adding VOMS support to the official LCG release?
I'd like to know that too. It was supposed to be discussed in the ROC
meeting today, but there were no slides about it on the agenda page. Does
anyone know what was said? VOMS seems to be in a strange kind of limbo, it
was more-or-less working at least a year ago but no-one seems to be
pushing to actually use it.
Stephen
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