On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 02:28:08PM +0100, Steffen Moeller wrote: > > Would there be support for creating a grid task, and splitting it this way? > > > > Currently the packages are in the new queue. Should I wait until they > > actually reach unstable before creating the task? Are there any other > > obvious candidate packages? > > I don't think that there is such a thing like "the Grid". We should wait a bit longer to > see how the world evolves around the concepts associated with grids (X.509 certificates, > virtual organisations, ...). To me, mere computations are what may initially drive us, but > there should be more to come. I'm not sure about that. There's a whole lot of inertia behind things like the Open Science Grid (http://www.opensciencegrid.org/). My site, with a Debian-based Condor cluster, is considering joining it right now. If we can make it easier for people to build clusters that can easily be added to such a grid, we should. Additionally, I'd argue that "The Grid" could pretty easily refer to a site-local grid. A workstation joined to a local cluster doesn't really need to care about whether it's part of something larger or not. noah (who should probably go sign up for debian-science at this point...)
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