Dave/All
I have recently asked on the deployment team internal mail list for
recommendations for a site to try a DPM installation. This would provide
valuable information on how easy/difficult it may be to pursue a larger
rollout of DPM. The response was that QMUL were considering DPM but the
details of any progress were not known. Edinburgh tried an early version
of DPM as did the RAL storage group.
At this stage we have a lot more experience with dCache and GridPP has a
good working relationship with the dCache developers - as John mentioned
we are expecting dCache to be open source in the not too distant future.
At present the dCache code is being provided to any group who wish to
collaborate on dCache development - GridPP is collaborating.
Kind regards,
Jeremy
-----Original Message-----
From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dr D J Colling
Sent: 23 June 2005 09:58
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: d-cache software license?
Hi Alex et al,
Of course DPM is open source and welcome contributions. I believe that
there is (essentially) no UK experience with DPM. Am I correct in this
understanding? Although the sites that are in SC3 must use dCache would
it
be worth encouraging other sites to gain experience with DPM? I pose
this
as a question and would be interested in other people's opinion.
I do have a problem with dCache not being open source. I know John will
say something like I use commercial products without ever having access
to
the source code but DESY is no microsoft.
All the best,
david
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