Design Decisions (1)
Interfaces to all types of SRMs to be uniform
Chunk granularity
- File-level at the “basic” level, and partial-file at an “advanced” level
What entities can communicate with SRMs?
- Clients, Middleware modules, other SRMs
Support a request for “multiple files”
- Basic: set of files, not ordered, no bundles
- Implies: queuing, status, time estimates, abort