FW Editor: What are your plans or objectives in the near future?
The GriF Manager: We are currently implementing new features. At the same time, a great effort is done in order to promote GriF in the academic and scientific area aimed at establishing new collaborations.

FW Editor: How and when did you start writing the code for GriF? What inspired you the most?
The GriF Manager: More or less two years ago, starting from november 2008. The main reason was dictated by our users who needed to perform many scientific calculation on the Grid in a reliable and efficient fashion without losing too much time in their management from a computer point of view.

FW Editor: Do you plan to develop new software, or are you more focused on optimizing GriF?
The GriF Manager: Yes, we will do it. This because GriF will be the main pillar of a our greater project which is aimed at developing a Grid Credit System in order to foster Virtual Organizations sustainability which will relies on GriF from the data point of view.

FW Editor: From your point of view, which is the strongest GriF feature? Why?
The GriF Manager: The GriF Ranking, with no doubt. Currently the Grid middleware appears to be very inefficient in the information that are exposed to their users on the basis of which they decide where and how to submit their jobs. The powerful algorithm developed by us aimed at selecting the best resources to be used for any work submitted to the Grid, is definitely the main highlight of GriF.

FW Editor: How about your favorite feature? Give us some details about this feature.
The GriF Manager: As mentioned above, the GriF Ranking. It is based on a new powerful algorithm which consider several quality factors as for example the queues status provided by the Grid itself, their past performances recorded in GriF, as well as the latency, the number of jobs successfully executed and the number of results correctly retrieved.

FW Editor: What new features should we expect in GriF in the future? How do you plan to improve it?
The GriF Manager: We are developing interfaces in order to manage encrypted results, to also enable the compilation of Grid applications, to register distinct values for real and virtual memory consumed (at present only the total memory is considered) to GriF accounting as well as to support Collection, Parametric and DAG Grid job types. We are developing these new features in house but we are open to share our project with other academic and/or scientific partners.

FW Editor: Are you providing customer support for GriF users?
The GriF Manager: Yes, of course. In particular, after the registration, all the users belonging to our Virtual Organization (called COMPCHEM) are supported in the use of GriF.

FW Editor: Is there any message you would like to send to Grif users?
The GriF Manager: Come and test. This will be yours and ours satisfaction.