Suggestions for presentations are given below. Overhead projectors and LCD projectors
are available. Please note, that the agenda is subject to change.
A technical report available from Argonne National Laboratory containing the
proceedings is in preparation. The powerpoint slides provided on this sides are for
personal usage only, consent for reusing the slides has to be obtained by the authors.
As pointed out in the CFP, the focus of this workshop is to find solutions to the
problems at hand. Therefore, the presentation should follow the headline "Discovering
those common components and interfaces that will allow desktop access to remote resources."
It could be valuable to analyze your project and point out solutions your team has
developed in order to address some of the problems. It is also important not only to find
that an "abstract" concept could be reused or developed, but it is very
important to find out what is in place right now and can be reused by others (possibly
components). This will lead us to identify issues which have not been worked on
before.
Since all of use are already sufficiently knowledgeable in many of the projects, it
would be great to keep the overview slides for a project to a minimum. It is more
important to point out concretely what solution you provide and how you do it. An example
for a slide we probably do not need is: What is Metacomputing? This is the reason why the
Globus talk is entitled: "Reusable Globus Java Components." The talk will not
give an introduction to Globus, but focus on graphical user interfaces and class libraries
developed to make the desktop access more easy.
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 (for a more complete list see the CFP):
- Information services to represent data and compute objects,
- ranging from databases to queuing systems
- GUI interfaces for
- ranging from job submission to job monitoring
- Administration of remote resources
- Technical Aspects
- ranging form operating system issues to supporting libraries.
We would also like to collect the presentations for an online proceedings of this
workshop as well as reference material.
If you would like to talk about a topic or have other comments and suggestions, please
send them to gregor@mcs.anl.gov .