LHC Computer Grid - Rollout
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Oxana Smirnova said:
> A Grid data indexing service should be as redundant and
> robust as a file
> system, or at least approaching it. I know it's a dream, but
> asking each user to keep an own record of files is not particularly
constructive.
I wasn't asking them to, and indeed it seems that at least for the LHC VOs
the catalogues do have a lot of redundancy.
> <noteaside>How come mankind can reliably get pictures from the darned
> Titan, but can't invent a reliable distributed data indexing
> service?</noteaside>
And what about Beagle II, and Cluster, and the Mars probe which missed
because they mixed up metres and yards ...? ;)
Stephen
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