Follow Evolving Technologies and Standards
Examples:
- Authentication and Authorization, Certification of Systems
- Resource management, implementing policies defined by VO (not the labs)
- Requirements on error recovery and failsafe-ness,
- Data becomes distributed which requires replica catalogs, storage managers, resource brokers, name space management
- Mass Storage System catalogs, Calibration databases and other meta data catalogs become/need to be interfaced to Virtual Data Catalogs
Also: evolving requirements from outside organizations, even governments
- Example:
- Globus certificates were not acceptable to EU
- DOE Science Grid/ESNet has started a Certificate Authority to address this
- Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe has now set-up a CA for German “science community”
- Including for DESY? Certification Policy compatible with DESY’s approach?
- FZK scope is
- “HEP experiments: Alice, Atlas, BaBar, CDF, CMS, COMPASS, D0, LHCb
- International projects: CrossGrid, DataGrid, LHC Computing Grid Project”