The problem with the different accounts was known for a very long time
- i read about it when I first looked at testing Argus - it was
chosen to not fix it.
Daniela
On 22 March 2011 16:26, John Gordon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The one size fits all can work if the 'all' is defined in the spec. We've been trying to get sites to try glexec/SCAS/Argus for over a year. PBS and LSF sites did and found bugs etc. If any SGE site had stood up then we wouldn't only be finding out now about problems with SGE.
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> Similarly for sites with non-standard setups like different accounts via different CEs. Such sites should be the first to volunteer to try new things because the risk of things not being foreseen by developers is greater.
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> The early complainers get taken more seriously; attention and engagement of developers decays with time. Mature software is harder to motivate people to change so the earlier you speak up the better. Argus is at release 1.2/1.3 now, people have been using it since before 1.0.
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> John
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Daniela Bauer
>> Sent: 16 March 2011 12:42
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: glexec in London
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>> Maybe if Argus was a bit more mature and documented (!) when it
>> appeared the result would have been different.
>> There seems to be a growing tendency to 'one size must fit all'
>> solutions on the grid - but it's just NOT your local batch system
>> thank you very much.
>>
>> Daniela
>>
>> On 16 March 2011 12:37, Stephen Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> > Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
>> >> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Daniela Bauer said:
>> >> The enthusiasm for Argus seems to be still limited though.
>> >
>> > That seems a bit ironic - the main reason glexec was delayed for so long
>> was that people thought it would be too complicated to use it without a
>> central authz service!
>> >
>> > Stephen
>> >
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