From: John Back 
Sent: 07 November 2007 15:56
To: RAL Support
Cc: Sansum, RA (Andrew); Patrick, GN (Glenn)
Subject: RAL Tier1 access in 2008 request

Hello,

I noticed the email about the termination of non-Grid access and direct qsub 
job submission on the RAL Tier1 in early 2008. This will be a problem for me, 
since I am running MARS simulations at RAL for UK Neutrino Factory targetry 
studies (working with Roger Bennett and Rob Edgecock), and need to do so 
for the foreseeable future.

MARS is only installed at specific computing sites (the source code is not 
available for download like other open-source software), and I only have 
access to the code available at RAL. I would therefore need access to the RAL 
front-ends to be able to continue to compile/build MARS programs for UK 
NuFact code development work. 

I would also prefer to be able to continue to use qsub to submit batch jobs, 
although I would migrate to using the Grid if this was the only way.

Please let me know if I can be made a "special case" for having access to the 
RAL front-end when it becomes generally unavailable in February 2008.

Regards,
	John