> -----Original Message-----
> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alessandra Forti
> Sent: 29 January 2014 13:03
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> Subject: Re: RIPE Atlas
>
> I don't want to sound discouraging butpersonally I'd avoid introducing
> something alternative
>
It's not an alternative, it's an addition. We're still going to
need perfsonar, but this does different things.
> that is not used by the WLCG community, it's the reason gridmon
> wasn't a good solution
>
That's a bit different - gridmon was only used by us. This already
has a decent user community without us.
> Proposing this as an alternative to WLCG can be done but without
> bandwidth measurements it will not go far.
>
This is no-where near an alternative to perfsonar, it's complementary.
And this is very much a case of why not do this, because it's very
cool, quite useful, really cheap, and feeds into our impact agenda
and general desire to engage with things and people outside of HEP.
Ewan
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