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Foil 17 Choices and Issues IV

From Overview of DATORR and Resource working Group Second DATORR Meeting Sandia National Laboratory -- February 15-16 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 A Legion is a resource
  • Globus views Legion as a software resource
  • Legion views Globus .....
2 Note Globus could refuse to let you ask what machines where in its resource pool
3 What is architecture of a resource
  • all resources have a natural service attached to them -- a printer is a printing service exporting the printer interface?
  • Need strong typing of interface
4 Sometimes discovery is trivial -- you remember your money is stored under your bed etc.
5 What resources will the real world define
  • Some we should ignore (e.g. cars)
  • Others we should follow the big boys (e.g. printers?)

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