Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Christopher J. Walker
said:
> Surely this is an inadequacy in the toolchain somewhere. Why do VO's
> wish to specify "use gridftp". Is there no functionality in the
> toolchain to say "make this file available to me on the
> worker node in the most efficient way possible"?
In general it's not that obvious what way is most efficient - see all
the recent discussion about STEP. The file protocol is a special case in
that directly opening the file probably is generally the best solution
if it's possible, but as I say it hasn't been available at all until
recently and is still in a fairly small minority.
Stephen
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