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http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/~gregor/javagrande
Argonne National Laboratory
Building 221, Room A-261
October 8-9, 1998

The goal of this meeting is to:

1. collect the most recent information about the status of current projects accessing remote resources,
2. derive a strategy on how remote access to resources can be supported, and
3. bring the research community in this area together to initiate dialog and collaboration.

We like to emphasize that this is a working meeting. We are looking for participants, who can contribute to a potential solution. Thus, focus of the   meeting are working groups to develop actively solutions to the problems stated.

We would like to collect a minimal set of requirements that should be supported in order to make such remote access possible and useful from Java. We would like to design a simple architecture and provide a set of classes enabling access to remote compute resources and data services. Such a set of classes should be reusable by a variety of project groups. Guidelines to derive a first prototype should be set. The development of a Java Framework can also be applied to facilitate the use of CORBA and to derive, for example, a C++ library.

We list the following issues, which we would like to address in the workshop and follow-up discussions. The list is not intended to be a complete classification, but to remind us of some important issues:

• Information service to represent data and compute objects

1. Properties of a computer and data resources
2. Information discovery
• Agent interface issues
• Compute resources
• Databases
3. Interfaces
• Interface to schedulers, queues on compute resources….
• Interfaces to other services

• User Related Issues

1. Security and authentication
2. Job submission (including compilation, execution, and cancellation)
• Job submission language
• Job monitoring
3. Access to data servers
4. Information discovery for users
5. Client side tool interfaces
6. Debuggers, performance visualization, collaboration, visualization in general

• Administration of remote resources

1. Compute resources
2. Who uses it?
• Supercomputers
• Status of the queues
• Monitoring of user activities
3. Accounting
• User
• System
4. Scheduling Policies
5. Reservation
• History Information about usage
6. Interpretation of history related data

• Technical Aspects

1. Operating System? NT, Unix, etc.
2. Compilers and Libraries

    C/C++ compiler
    Java language
    Class, Jar, and Zip file

3. Dynamic properties
4. Libraries
       Which security library?

Please send comments and suggestions to gregor@mcs.anl.gov.

This travel information can be also found at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/xray/directions.html

Driving Directions to ANL from airports

Argonne National Laboratory is located about 25 miles southwest of Chicago. On-site and Chicago area maps are available via http://www.anl.gov/OPA/anlil.html.

For those who will drive from O'Hare airport to Budgetel, Best Western, the Holiday Inn or Argonne, leave the airport taking the airport expressway towards Chicago. From this expressway, turn south on Interstate 294 (I-294), following the signposts to Indiana. Travel south on I-294 for approximately 13 miles to Interstate 55 (I-55). Turn onto I-55south, following the signs to St. Louis. (I-55 is traveling mostly west at this point.) For Best Western continue on I-55 for approximately 2 miles to County Line Road taking the south exit. Turn right onto Frontage Road and the Inn will be directly on your left. For the Holiday Inn, Budgetel and Red Roof Inn continue approximately 3 miles to Illinois Route 83 (Kingery Highway), taking the north exit. Budgetel will be on your right hand side as you exit I-55. Continue north a short distance for the Holiday Inn and the Red Roof Inn; The Holiday Inn is on the right side on Frontage road. To get to Frontage road, turn right at the first traffic light on Rte. 83 and then right again. The Red Roof Inn is approximately a half mile further north on Rte. 83.

To drive to Argonne, return to I-55 South (which is traveling mainly west) by driving south on Rte. 83. Take the south exit off I-55 for Cass Ave., and travel south on Cass Ave. to Northgate Road. Turn right and head towards the Main Gate (if you are a U.S. citizen, proceed through the gate and tell the guard you are visiting bldg. 221 - if you are a non-U.S. citizen, stop at the Argonne Information Center to the right of the Main Gate).

For those arriving at Midway airport, drive north to I-55 and then take I-55 south to County Line Road, Rte. 83 or Cass Ave. as above.

As you pass through the guard post, turn right and follow to the stop sign. Turn right again. Building 221 is located at the corner of the next stop sign.

Limousine Services

United Limo	630-969-3865
American Limo	630-920-8888
Travelers Limousine Service	630-323-0090
Carriage Limousine	630-323-1100
A-1 Limousine	630-833-3788

Some of the limousines require reservations. Rates vary depending on where you are going and whether you are picked up from O'Hare or Midway.

Rental Cars Services

	O'Hare	Midway
Hertz	312-686-7272	312-735-7272
Avis	312-694-5600	312-471-4495

Try the 1 800 numbers

LOCAL LODGING

• Argonne Guest House, a new hotel built on-site at Argonne. To make arrangements, please call the Lodging Office at 630-739-6000. E-mail: argonne-guest-house@anl.gov
  Web Site: www.aps.anl.gov/travel/anlghhome.htm
  
• Budgetel Willowbrook, (630) 654-0077

If you have problems or need more information about alternative hotels or about travel to Argonne,
please contact Julie Wulf, wulf@mcs.anl.gov

Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory)
Geoffrey Fox (NPAC)
Dennis Gannon (Indiana University)
Siamak Hassanzadeh (Sun Microsystems)
Gregor von Laszewski (Argonne National Laboratory)
George K. Thiruvathukal. (Loyola University and Tools of Computing LLC)

For questions, suggestions, registration, and proposals, please send e-mail to gregor@mcs.anl.gov.

For more information about the Java Grande Forum, please visit http://www.javagrande.org or contact george.k.thiruvathukal@acm.org or gcf@npac.syr.edu.

Please send the registration to gregor@mcs.anl.gov. The online registration below is preferred.

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