[Halld-offline] Offline computing plan for JLab Physics, FY10

[Richard Jones]

Offline folks,

One thing stands out to me in reading through this plan is the lack of 
any accommodation for the  interaction between the Jlab computer center 
and computing facilities at user institutions.  For comparison, it is 
helpful to look at the computing plan for any of the LHC experiments, 
where the plan is oriented around distribution and global access to data 
and computing resources.  Things that I would like to see in the Gluex 
Offline Computing Plan that eventually get propagated through 
appropriate channels to someone like Graham Hayes are the following:

   1. Location-independent mechanisms for remote access to MSS files
      (with appropriate authentication/authorization) without logging in
      on a Jlab machine over ssh, both reading and writing.
   2. Provision for allocation of space on MSS for archival of
      intermediate data sets generated off-site, eg. MonteCarlo and
      final data samples used in a PWA that was the basis of a
      particular publication.
   3. Support of grid protocols for transparent scheduling and migration
      of jobs across available resources within the collaboration, so
      that when a particular resource is overbooked jobs can flow across
      site boundaries to where resources are available.

-Richard Jones

> Folks,
>
> I've just posted a document from Graham Heyes, describing the Lab's
> scientific computing plan for the current fiscal year. It is
> GlueX-doc-1530. The document page is
>
> http://argus.phys.uregina.ca/cgi-bin/private/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=1530
>
> I've posted it on our DocDB not because it is GlueX-specific (it is not)
> but just so we have a well-defined place to find it and to reference it.
>
>     -- Mark
>
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