Dear All,
Rather than forward the whole mail from the Storm developers (which was
rather long), I've included an edited version of their response below.
It sheds some light on the support issues that I raised at HEPSysman and
makes me feel more confident about long term support. Interestingly
eGrid are already running Storm as a production service.
regards
Jon
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> * Are any sites currently using Storm as a production service?
Actually in WLCG no. Basically because the production version of the
data management high level tools used by the experiments, as FTS, GFAL,
lcg-utils, does not support yet SRM v2.2, and StoRM does not provide the
old version of the SRM interface, v.1.1, still used in production. The
tools compliant with the SRM 2.2 are under testing from time and they
will be available soon, hopefully...
Anyway, from the non-WLCG world, StoRM is currently used in production
into the EGRID project.
> * Are there Tier1's that intend to run Storm?
Yes. At least the CNAF T1 will have StoRM on GPFS to implements T0D1
storage class.
> * If Storm is not running as a production system, approximately
> when will it be production-ready?
From the software point of view, we don't see any problem or
improvement needed to run StoRM in a production system.
Here at CNAF we are installing StoRM into the pre-production testebed
to validate the interaction with other service into a full Grid system.
At the same time we are investigating a distributed (multiple
Frontend-Backend ) installation to cover the scalability/avaliblity
issues coming from the T1 installation use case.
> * What are the plans for on-going support for Storm?
Currently we work also on support. We do it in a best effort way, but
we know that is really important for the new users. We are planning to
improve documentation, guide and automatic installation procedure.
When StoRM will be integrated into the T1 infrastructure, we will have a
different approach, and StoRM support will be hopefully integrated into
the EGEE-SA1 structure...
> I realize that you are still developing the software, and that support
> is a different (and slightly less glamorous) type of role, but from
> the end users' point of view on-going support is an extremely
> important factor when deciding on which software to use. Finally, is
> there anything that you would like me to mention when I speak at RAL?
Yes, that StoRM works well :) ...
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