Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Simon George said:
> Can you clarify what is meant by the first point on p.7? Are
> you saying
> that the VOs should back up their box, or I should back up
> the VO box? I would not be able to offer the latter service.
I think that is the point, we want to know what the VOs are expecting so
we can see if we can do it!
> I agree with page 8, but I still feel uniformed about the
> experiments' point of view.
It doesn't seem entirely clear that the experiments even have a view yet
(as opposed to a few people who happened to be at relevant meetings).
> I repeat my request of yesterday: could someone *please*
> explain or point
> me to an explanation of what the problem is that the VO box
> is necessary to solve.
Well, the technical answer to that is the Baseline Services document:
http://lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/peb/bs/BSReport-v1.0.pdf
but that isn't terribly informative. The underlying point is that the
rather slow development of the official grid middleware over the last
few years has meant that the experiments have been developing their own
solutions to plug various gaps.
Stephen
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