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HEPiX Virtualisation Working Group Meeting
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HEPiX Virtulisation WG meeting minutes 2010-10-04
Present (in no particular order):
Tony Cass, CERN
Thomas Finnern, DESY
Owen Synge, DESY
Ian Gable, University of Victoria
Pau Tellada Crepi
David O'Callaghan, Trinity College Dublin
Cal Loomis, LAL/CNRS
Ulrich Schwickerath, CERN
David Kelsey, RAL
Michel Jouvin, LAL
Martin Bly, RAL
Felix Lee
Ian Collier, RAL
James Adam, RAL
Doug Olson
Mattieu Puel, IN2P3
1. Previous Minutes
- Ulrich has written minutes but not posted them yet.
2. Status of the VMIC
- Tony summarized the status of VMIC at the last meeting. There was something that worked for CERN but there wasn't the possibility of transmitting images.
- Owen has a client that generates correctly signed images.
- Ulrich has tested the internal image distribution mechanism for the VMIC at CERN.
- Owen will be spending more time on the VMIC in the new year. He has to devote all of his effort to dCache until then.
3. Collaboration with StatusLab
- Tony mentioned that StratusLab has come to the conclusion that they need a similar product the HEPiX VMIC.
- David O'Callaghan commented that what StatusLab catalog is not much beyond a fairly basic web server. They have a user interface for viewing basic meta data, but the interface is mostly static.
- Their client supports uploading back to the repository using LDAP authentication.
- StratusLab wishes to separate the front end metadata catalogue, and the image storage. The store can be anywhere because it is simply a URL.
- StratusLab is interested in meeting the requirements of the HEPiX group.
- Their present image signing method uses Java and XML signature. They can use grid certificates, regular ssh keys and GPG for signing.
- Owen wanted to mention that he has seen growing momentum behind json.
- David commented that the motivation behind using XML has been to be able to reuse the OVF standard. However, he can understand why people would be interested in json.
- David commented that he is happy to take on requirements.
- Tony asked how we move forward and suggested a face to face meeting. Possible venues are TCD, LAL or CERN. Tony will create a doodle poll.
3. Any other business
- A doodle poll will be created about the next meeting time of the group.
- Ian Gable asked there be a publicly available repository. Owen and Ulrich agreed to place the repo publicly and stated that this has always been their intent.
- Ian mentioned that UVic has done some work that might be useful to the VMIC (see his note to the mailing list)
- Jay Srinivasan, Keith Chadwick, Romain Wartel , and Ian Collier, are doing security review of CVMFS. CVMFS will be formally supported by CERN IT.
- Owen mentioned that an EMI project has about 10 people are working on two areas of interest; virtualization and cloud. There appears to be some overlap with our efforts. Owen is joining their mailing list. Tony will check with the EMI people sitting at CERN.
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