They need to be integrated which partially means defining and providing APIs. Project start was in August 1999. Coordination is very important especially as viewed by the funding agencies, so management is a very important early effort. Objy works with hundreds of workstations. Will use OC12, OC3 over T3 as available, need a bulk transfer service, latency important, co-existence with other users.
Real problem is to provide access to all the data for hundreds of users.
Part of the problem is to understand the scope of the problem and to be able to explain and justify it to others. This requires a collaboration of HENP people and computer scientists. One question is how to build communities into effective organizations. Step 2 is to extend to other parts of Condor grid, i.e. take advantage of your community friends. Building a Production Grid - Bill Johnston Looking at how to evaluate, integrate a collection of services into a high performance grid.