1. WP 1 (Globus) Status Report Massimo Sgaravatto INFN Padova for the INFN Globus group globus@infn.it

2. Meetings Last meeting: January 11, 2001 No other meetings scheduled

3. Security (GSI) Management of grid-mapfile updates Script to publish user certificates in LDAP server (done [G. Lo Biondo]) LDAP server populated by CA manager (to do) Members of groups published in LDAP server (update done by administrators of these groups) Web tool to manage groups (work in progress [C. Rocca]) Evaluation of existing tools (done) Tool for end user (to do) Tool (certretrieve) used to query the LDAP server (for example to get the members of a specific group): the results are grid-mapfile entries (done [G. Lo Biondo]) Tests with Kerberos (AFS) Analysis of how access AFS now and open issues (done [F. Prelz]) Address the issues (to do ??)

4. Information Service (GIS) Netscape LDAP server as mirror of top level GIIS (to do [G. Lo Biondo, G. Vita Finzi, F. Semeria, E. Fasanelli, Ferrara]) Review the information gathered from the various machines and published in the GIS (to do [G. Lo Biondo, G. Vita Finzi, F. Semeria, E. Fasanelli, Ferrara]) Tests on performance and scalability (work in progress [F. Semeria, G. Vita Finzi, G. Lo Biondo, E. Fasanelli, Ferrara])

5. Resource Management Fixes for job manager memory leaks (done) Tests with GRAM API (done [F. Giacomini]) GRAM – GIS cooperation (work in progress) Review and integrate the information concerning a FARM published in the GIS First proposal defined (considering LSF and Condor) (done [M. Biasotto, M. Sgaravatto]) Necessary to integrate this proposal considering also PBS (work in progress [Torino]) Development of scripts for LSF (work in progress [M. Biasotto]) Tests with MPICH-G2 (done [Alfieri, Spataro]) MPICH-G2 vs MPICH SMP, LAN, WAN (Pr – Pd)

6. Globus deployment Patches (for job manager) to apply to INFN-GRID 1.2 installations (done [Pisa]) INFN-GRID 1.3 (work in progress [Pisa]) Fixes for Globus jobmanager memory leaks GDMP 1.2 Distribution of various Globus compilations (Kerberos, MPICH-G2) Certretrieve Other bug fixes Web software repository (done [L. Fonti, G. Vita Finzi]) www.infn.it/grid/dist.html

7. Data Management Tests with globusftp alpha release 2 (work in progress [Cnaf, Torino, Napoli, Padova]) Collaboration with WP Network Tests with replica catalog software alpha release 2 (work in progress [Pisa]) Collaboration with WP Data Management

8. Report conclusivo Ch. 1 - Introduction (F. Prelz, M. Sgaravatto) Ch. 2 - Globus deployment and installation tools (F. Donno) Ch. 3 – Security (F.Prelz) Ch. 4 – Information Service (G. Lo Biondo) Ch. 5 – Resource Management (M. Sgaravatto) Ch. 6 – Data Access and Migration (L. Gaido) Ch. 7 – Other services (M. Sgaravatto) Ch. 8 – Experiments Alice Cms Atlas (??) Ch. 9 – Conclusions (F. Prelz, M. Sgaravatto) Editor: F. Prelz

9. Report conclusivo: schedula 11/1/2001 Definizione della struttura del documento Assegnazione dei chapter agli autori Scelta delleditor 28/1/2001 Gli autori producono un primo draft del loro chapter, e lo inviano a globus@infn.it 4/2/2001 Deadline per inviare feedback sul primo draft 11/2/2001 Gli autori producono un secondo draft, e lo inviano alleditor 20/2/2001 Leditor produce una prima versione del documento, e lo invia a globus@infn.it 23/2/2001 Deadline per mandare feedback alleditor 28/2/2001 Leditor produce la versione definitiva

10. Other info http://www.infn.it/globus