That is a very good point Ewan. I know many of you see GridPP and WLCG as banging away at you to do things that you don't think are necessary but history shows that when the experiments do want something, they generally want it yesterday, if not sooner. WLCG (and GridPP for the UK) tries to do medium-range planning and give you a heads up about what is in the pipeline. This is for the general good, not some personal agenda.
J
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> Subject: Re: glexec in London
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> > As for the cream-ce, my main customer is CMS who only started using
> it 6
> > months after I deployed it
>
> This is a particularly important point; we had a glExec/ARGUS test
> system at Oxford for quite a while before someone from ATLAS actually
> tested it, at which point we realised that it was configured wrong.
>
> It's all very well digging into the history of how long glExec has
> been talked about, but the amount of time between a major VO actually
> showing any interest in it and then demanding it's wide deployment is
> much, much shorter, and much more relevant.
>
> Ewan
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