Requirements

TCG Requirements

The following list is based on the existing PTF requirements list. All closed or now irrelevant requirements were removed. Therefore, this list shows the current important requirements for DILIGENT (some requirement are marked with higher priority then others).

A short document describing how these requirments match the DILIGENT vision can be found here.

Updated PTF Requirements

Int ID	PTF ID	Requirements	Status	Type	Priority
1	100372	Restoring failed service instances	New Requirement	Reliability
6	100468	Service certificate	Unsatisfied	Security	high
7	100469	Service certificate differ from user certificates	Unsatisfied	Security	high
10	100472	Resources query for parallel jobs	Partially Satisfied	Functionality	high
15	100477	Performance of short jobs submission	Unsatisfied	Performance/Metric	high
22	100484	Priority level for jobs	Unsatisfied	Functionality	high
24	100486	Prioritized execution of jobs	Unsatisfied	Functionality	high
25	100487	Need for preemptable resources	Unsatisfied	Functionality
26	100488	High priority jobs must preempt non high priority running jobs when needed	Unsatisfied	Functionality
28	100490	Multiple data jobs	Partially Satisfied	Functionality
29	100491	Multiple data jobs efficiency	Unsatisfied	Performance/Metric	high
42	100542	On-disk encryption of data	Unsatisfied	Functionality
44	100550	New VOs creation	Unclear	Security	high
45	100551	VO-specific services creation	Unclear	Security
47	100558	Multiple VOs affiliation	Mostly Satisfied	Security

tcg_requirements.xls

Requirements/Workgroups (form Cal Loomis)

Requirements/workgroup	Priority
Short deadline Jobs	high
Database Access on the Grid	desirable
Medical Data Management	low
MPI	low
Priorities	high
VOMS Support	high
Disk space specification	high
Publication of software availablility/location	high
Job Dependencies	?
Metadata Catalog	high
Encryption Key Server	desirable
SW License Management	-

Summary

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PTF Requirements

Sources

http://egee-na4.ct.infn.it/requirements/
https://savannah.cern.ch/support/?group=egeeptf

Requirements Table

Int ID	in PTF	in NA4	Summary	Status
2	100373		Provision of backup service instances	Invalid
4	100392		Connection quality for service requests	Invalid
5	100467	yes	Application programming interface for grid clients	Mostly satisfied
35	100497	yes	Job input data	Mostly satisfied
47	100558	yes	Multiple VOs affiliation	Mostly satisfied
1	100372		Restoring failed service instances	New requirement
10	100472		Resources query for parallel jobs	Partially satisfied
14	100476		Parallel job submission independence to file system	Partially satisfied
28	100490	yes	Multiple data jobs	Partially satisfied
31	100493		Data transfer between tasks of a compound job	Partially satisfied
32	100494		Multiple data compound jobs	Partially satisfied
34	100496	yes	Communication between worker nodes and user interface	Partially satisfied
43	100543	yes	Standard interface to grid services	Partially satisfied
11	100473		Message passing interface	Satisfied
13	100475		File system query for parallel jobs	Satisfied
16	100478		Notification of jobs completion	Satisfied
17	100479		Middleware overhead for short jobs	Satisfied
18	100480		Robustness to job submission avalanches	Satisfied
19	100481		Scalability of the workload management system	Satisfied
20	100482		Specification of job execution time for scheduling	Satisfied
21	100483		Job submission efficiency	Satisfied
30	100492	yes	Compound jobs	Satisfied
36	100498		Automatic translation of LFNs into physical file names	Satisfied
40	100535		Jobs listing	Satisfied
41	100536	yes	Jobs status retrieval	Satisfied
48	100559		Roles and groups within VOs	Satisfied
44	100550	yes	New VOs creation	Unclear
45	100551		VO-specific services creation	Unclear
3	100387		Prioritization of service messages	Unsatisfied
6	100468		Service certificate	Unsatisfied
7	100469		Service certificate differ from user certificates	Unsatisfied
8	100470	yes	User identification policy for grid portals	Unsatisfied
9	100471	yes	Parallel jobs submission	Unsatisfied
12	100474		Accessibility to MPI functionalities	Unsatisfied
15	100477	yes	Performance of short jobs submission	Unsatisfied
22	100484		Priority level for jobs	Unsatisfied
23	100485		Priority accreditation of users	Unsatisfied
24	100486	yes	Prioritized execution of jobs	Unsatisfied
25	100487		Need for preemptable resources	Unsatisfied
26	100488		High priority jobs must preempt non high priority running jobs when needed	Unsatisfied
27	100489		Resources dedicated to high priority jobs execution	Unsatisfied
29	100491		Multiple data jobs efficiency	Unsatisfied
33	100495		Compound jobs partial re-execution	Unsatisfied
37	100507	yes	Resources reservation for jobs	Unsatisfied
38	100508		Reservation cancellation	Unsatisfied
39	100509		Reservation update	Unsatisfied
42	100542	yes	On-disk encryption of data	Unsatisfied
46	100552		VO authorization	Unsatisfied

ptf_requirements.xls

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Other Requirements

Meetings

Description	Status	Described By
Provide meaningful defaults and/or explanation for the config files settings	-	Christoph Langguth
Don’t call fetch-crl each time	-	Christoph Langguth
Optimize speed by analyzing dependencies (e.g. don’t start/stop rgma servertool 5 times)	-	Christoph Langguth
Provide all log files in a single location (/var/log/glite)	-	Christoph Langguth
Give hints how logging verbosity can be adjusted	-	Christoph Langguth
Full support to Red Hat 64 bi	-	Andrea Manzi

Mailing Lists

glite-discuss@cernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch

Description	Status	Described By
Hierarchical CAs authentication in VOMS	-	Paolo Roccetti
Condor as batch system	-	Andrea Manzi

-- PedroAndrade - 07 Nov 2005