On 23 Mar 2011, at 16:45, Ewan MacMahon wrote:
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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.
>
As I understood it - no major VO is demanding wide deployment of glexec.
So thats why I think there is reason to consider a long deployment window recognising the various demands on sites and the need to maintain a working infrastructure at this critical time in lhc operations.
Wahid
> Ewan
>
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