Hi Steve, > Does this imply that EGEE is backing off from OGSA-DAI as the one true > way to distribute physics events round the server farms? There is hope > for UK e-science after all.
We don't have anything to do with EGEE, although we are part of UK e-Science. We are developing our own simple middleware because we aren't really satisfied with the complexity of existing heavyweight offerings (plus we have some special requirements). We think the REST model fits well with our requirements and have produced a first prototype, which we might develop further with Restlet. Hopefully this approach will catch on because I think it has the potential to considerably simplify Grid computing - but let's see if we can make it work for ourselves first! > (who spent far to much time in grid standards body meetings) I sympathise ;-) Cheers, Jon On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Jon Blower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi John (et al), > > > > Thanks very much to everyone for very helpful responses on this. > > Perhaps I should go into a bit more detail about our application. We > > are writing an application for climate scientists that allows them to > > run climate simulation codes on remote compute clusters. The codes > > produce large amounts of data (100s of gigabytes as a typical example) > > and we want the client to be able to download the output files from > > the cluster as the simulation progresses (so that the user can monitor > > what's going on and also reduce the disk footprint on the remote > > cluster). The size of each file is of the order of gigabytes. > > Does this imply that EGEE is backing off from OGSA-DAI as the one true > way to distribute physics events round the server farms? There is hope > for UK e-science after all. > > -steve > > (who spent far to much time in grid standards body meetings) > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Jon Blower Tel: +44 118 378 5213 (direct line) Technical Director Tel: +44 118 378 8741 (ESSC) Reading e-Science Centre Fax: +44 118 378 6413 ESSC Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Reading 3 Earley Gate Reading RG6 6AL, UK --------------------------------------------------------------
