[seek-dev] ecogrid and ogsa-dai

[Matt Jones]

Bing,

I was in Santa Barbara this week and worked with Jing on the EcoGrid 
stuff.  We are coming down to the wire.  Our next EcoGrid meeting is in 
about 3 weeks, and I want to be sure all of the assigned tasks are done 
by then.  It sounds like you've had some difficulty with the OGSA-DAI 
install -- could you send a general update on its status, and an 
assessment of whether it would actually be useful in the context of 
SEEK?  My impression is that its not ready yet for our needs, but I'd 
like to hear your thoughts on it.  I'm assuming that it is pretty 
immature as you've been working on it for several months now, which is 
about 3 times longer than I had expected it to take given that you are 
100% time on SEEK.

Jing has GT3.0.1 installed on dev.nceas.ucsb.edu, and the CA is working 
there.  We worked together on getting the Metacat client to run as an 
OSGA service, and Jing and I will be getting the EcoGrid Query Interface 
implemented as a grid service before our September meeting.  I think the 
grid registry stuff will work out well for us, but I am a little worried 
about the gt3 maturity level (I've had some trouble with it under redhat 
8).  What's your experience there?

Thanks for the update,

Matt