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> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jeremy Coles
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> In that case if anyone has suggestions/input for the pre-GDB then perhaps
> they can email it please. I'm not sure if the meeting itself will have
> Vidyo (but it should).
>
Well, looking at the agenda, the one bit that particularly grabbed my attention
was:
"Target date and milestones towards cloud as CE replacement"
Last I'd heard, we hadn't particular decided to replace our CEs with cloud
interfaces, much less be in need of a target date and milestones. Moreover,
while I think a vac style system could potentially be a replacement for the
traditional 'push model' infrastructure, a full cloud system (e.g. OpenStack),
can't - they have the same problem as the traditional approach of being push
based, they add on some specific problems of their own, and they're a lot more
complex to set up.
I think it makes a lot of sense to have enough cloud experience within WLCG
that we can take advantage of other people's clouds when we can, but it makes
no sense to run a full cloud stack on WLCG dedicated hardware; it's a lot like
what we do now, but worse.
Ewan
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