• Toni
  • Extensions - requirements are training
  • perspective - web interface is not general enough
  • GPU Grid's Soap interface is general enough
• David
  • User Defined in this discussion is the Scientist
  • Different categories of users
  • Envisage a context where random volunteers can submit
  • Need to control the scripts where users can inject viruses
• Toni
  • Users should not have ability to upload applications - this is a security risk
  • Applications that accept scripts should be tightly restricted
• Christian
  • Extend template files w/ additional text.
  • Soap can be used for a web page where scientist selects for application to submit
  • Scientist must provide a template
• Toni
  • Webpage for submitting:
    1. Does not lend itself to batches
    2. Output would not be able to retrieve on webpage
• Christian
  • Suggested a structure where input is packed in an archive, uploaded to the server, uncompressed and used by job creation script
• Zoltan
  • Change Execution soap website
  • Client executes application
  • Master feeds the work
• Toni
  • Described how GPUGrid accounts for the priority of workunits. High priority starves the lower priority
  • Will release the Perl code
  • Does not deal w/ scheduler code
  • One should have a scientist's table that tracks various project scientist information relevant to submissions
• David
  • Many options [for scientist's table], eg accounting, controlling latency, throughput
• Toni
  • Not many scientists on GPU grid currently
• Micheal Weber
  • Leiden Classical has a drop-down menu
  • submissions interface w/ limited characters
  • Registers the heavy users
• David
  • Is Leiden a generic solution?
• Christian
  • Leiden uses a separate configuration file
• Toni
  • Computes the has of the file, avoid copying files, conserve space, use hard links in the download directory
• Kevin
  • There should be a common mechanism to submit
• Zoltan
  • How to submit work remotely
• David
  • It would be good to have a standardized way
• Toni
  • Use MD5 checksum on the input files, store the hashes on the server
• Jack
  • What if there were a script to generate the templates, where user is prompted for various parameters?
• David
  • Not the bottleneck for scientists
  • Need to move the WU Generator and Assimilator off the server
  • Keep the things we trust stay on the server