JRA1 All Hands Meeting

15 Nov 2004, 13:30 → 17 Nov 2004, 13:00 Europe/Zurich

PADOVA

Frederic Hemmer

More details on the logistics can be found at
http://www.pd.infn.it/grid/jra1meeting/

Potential topics:

• Policy frameworks
• Advance reservation - JRA4 interaction
• Configuration
• Integration issues (collaboration, priorities)
• Security in DM
• WMS and DM interaction
• Information system and DM - schema issues
• Error management
• Is the SA1 requirement for binary tarballs and fully relocatable RPMs realistic?
• What information do people want to see?

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Monday, 15 November

13:30 → 14:30 Opening

13:30 Opening

Speaker: Frederic Hemmer

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13:40 Welcome and Logistics

Speaker: local organizers

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13:55 Action review from last all-hands meeting

Speaker: Erwin Laure

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14:30 → 18:00 Integration session

14:30 The Build System and the Release Process

Update on the build infrastructure status and an open discussion about the software release process, missing tools and functionality, packaging requirements (SA1 requiements?) and other open issues

Speaker: Marian Zurek (CERN)

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15:00 gLite Configuration Overview

A general introduction to the proposed gLite configuration guidelines

Speaker: Joachim Flammer (CERN)

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15:20 Configuration Schemas and Service Configurators

A presentation of the details of the proposed configuration schemas and the service configurator design for services and clients.

Speaker: Robert Harakaly (CERN)

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16:00 coffee

16:30 The Data Management Service Configurator

A demo of an implementation of the service configurator pattern for Linux daemons applied to the gLite I/O Server and Client

Speaker: Paolo Badino (CERN)

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17:00 Java Web Services Configuration with JMX

A presentation of a model for Java Web Services configuration and management using JMX. It consists of a presentation of the technology, the possible implementation models and the available tools (SUN, IBM, HP), followed by a demo of dynamic configuration

Speaker: Joachim Flammer (CERN)

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17:40 Discussion

Open discussion and questions to the ITeam, requirments and AOB

Speaker: Everybody

Tuesday, 16 November

09:00 → 11:00 Information System

09:00 Services, Services Discovery and Service Status

This will explain the thinking behind the Site, Service and ServiceStatus tables and show to use them. It will also address the issue of a specific API. This will include a brief hands on session

Speaker: Craig, M and Wilson, A J (RAL)

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09:25 Multiple VO Support

Support of multiple VOs will be available soon. This session will explore the consequences of this.

Speaker: Byrom, R (RAL)

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09:45 GLUE

10:30 coffee

11:00 → 11:30 Integration of Package Manager

How will the PM interact with the WMS and DM tools and vice versa.

11:00 gLite Package Manager

Speaker: Buncic, Predrag (CERN)

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11:30 → 14:00 Advance reservation - interaction with JRA4

1. Architecture overview
2. Use cases: network and storage reservation and allocation
3. Information services: schema extensions?
4. Deliverable DJRA4.1 ("Specification of interfaces for bandwidth reservation service"): overview and issues
5. Data management: what support for storage advance reservation?
6. Code development roadmap

11:30 Overview on Advance Reservation framework.

Speaker: Tiziana Ferrari (INFN CNAF)

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12:30 Lunch

14:00 → 18:00 Security session

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14:00 VOMS

Speaker: Joni Hakala, Valerio Venturi

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14:45 Discussion

15:00 Site access control issues (a sneak preview of DJRA3.2)

Speaker: Martijn Steenbakkers

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15:30 The software formerly known as the Site Proxy

Speaker: Oscar Koeroo

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16:00 coffee

16:15 Security in DM

Speaker: Akos Frohner

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17:00 Discussion

17:15 List of issues

So far the list looks like this: - grid usernames, EGEE short term approach (Joni) - security for streaming (Steve Hicks,non-blocking java, RMGA requirement?) - c/c++ communication security not solved by Grid site. (Daniel Kouril, goal to understand their solution, what other solutions there are and to minimize the number of different solutions). - GPBOX - more?

Speaker: All

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17:45 Discussion

Wednesday, 17 November

09:00 → 10:30 DM & WMS interaction

09:00 Current JDL parameters for Data Management

Speaker: Fabrizio Pacini (Datamat)

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09:10 StorageIndex

The StorageIndex interface is being used by the WMS to locate the files given in the JDL.

Speaker: Krzysztof Nienartowicz (CERN)

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09:25 Information System: Relationships of WM and DM services

In this talk all the information system parameters that are necessary to actually perform the interaction between the DM and WM systems are revisited and exposed - to be eyed very cautiously by the audience.

Speaker: Ricardo Brito da Rocha (CERN)

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09:50 BrokerInfo usage in gLite and evolution

Here we will discuss how the functionality currently filled by the brokerinfo is being taken over by other services in gLite. (or not.)

Speaker: discussion

10:30 → 12:30 Testing Session

10:30 coffee

10:45 Overview of testing and the testbed infrastructure

The current state of the distributed testbed will be presented for all testing sites. The procedure to install and update glite components on the tested wil be described

Speaker: Leanne Guy (CERN)

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11:00 Testing framework

A demonstration of the QMTest framework in use on the testbed with existing test suites

Speaker: David Collados (CERN)

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11:15 Workload management system testing

A presentation of what exists and further testing planned.

Speaker: Mario Reale (CERN)

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11:35 Data management testing

A presentation of what exists already and what further testing is planned

Speaker: David Collados (CERN)

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12:00 Security testing

Presentation of plans for security testing.

Speaker: Leanne Guy (CERN)

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12:15 R-GMA testing

Current plans for R-GMA testing

Speaker: Leanne Guy (CERN)

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12:30 → 13:00 Wrap-up

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