Dear All,
I dropped an email to this list a little while ago asking for people's
ideas for the "Future directions" discussion at next week's GridPP
meeting. What we have pretty much settled on:
- Storage (including dpm possible futures, alternatives SE middlewares,
alternative access methods like xrootd, and GPFS). I have already asked
Wahid and Andy Washbrook for contributions to these discussions (and
Jens but he is travelling). If you would also like to make a
contribution then please contribute me directly.
- Workload management and clouds (especially clouds). Clearly this
includes data access methods from above. I haven't identified people to
give a few slides on this. So I would like a couple of slides from each
of the experiments outlining their plans here and any experience from
people running clouds (anybody from RAL)?
- It was also suggested that installation both infrastructure and
experiment software. This came from Chris W. so I will be asking him to
provide a slide or three but also I would like something from the
experiments as well, maybe especially the small experiments (Chris again).
I would like volunteers to contact me directly really as quickly as
possible as I would like to circulate at least bullet points before the
meeting so that people have something to think about before the meeting.
The outcome that I would like from the meeting (or maybe post meeting
discussions) is the beginnings of a road map of how we travel forward.
Best,
david
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