Subject: CCPE Portal C550 From: Matthias Mueller Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:24:34 +0200 (CEST) To: fox@csit.fsu.edu X-UIDL: 1d39424660140000 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Received: by mailer.csit.fsu.edu (mbox gcfpc) (with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.31 1998/05/13) Sun Oct 14 17:39:09 2001) X-From_: fox@mailer.csit.fsu.edu Sun Oct 14 17:37:17 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gcfpc@csit.fsu.edu Received: from dirac.csit.fsu.edu (dirac.csit.fsu.edu [144.174.128.44]) by mailer.csit.fsu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8659123A07 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:37:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by dirac.csit.fsu.edu (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7) id RAA57950; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:37:15 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <200110142137.RAA57950@dirac.csit.fsu.edu> Delivered-To: fox@csit.fsu.edu Received: from artemis.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (artemis.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.28]) by mailer.csit.fsu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD7EC23A04 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 08:24:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pcgpc6.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (pcgpc6.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.14.61]) by artemis.rus.uni-stuttgart.de with ESMTP id OAA16300 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:24:36 +0200 (MET DST) env-from (rusmatt@pcgpc6.rus.uni-stuttgart.de) Received: (from rusmatt@localhost) by pcgpc6.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (8.9.3/8.8.8) id OAA14640; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:24:34 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15272.36482.627836.10864@pcgpc6.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.71 under 21.1 "20 Minutes to Nikko" XEmacs Lucid (patch 2) Sender: rusmatt@pcgpc6.rus.uni-stuttgart.de Resent-To: Geoffrey Fox Resent-Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:37:15 -0400 Resent-From: Geoffrey Fox C: Paper and Referee Metadata Paper Number Cnnn: C550 Date: 04 Sept. 2001 Paper Title: Community Software Development with the Astrophysics Simulation Collaboratory Author(s): Gregor von Laszewski et al. Referee: Matthias Mueller, Edgar Gabriel, Michael Resch Address: HLRS Allmandring 30 70550 Stuttgart Germany Referee Recommendations. Please indicate overall recommendations here, and details in following sections. accepted provided changes suggested are made D: Referee Comments (For Editor Only) ------------------------------------ E: Referee Comments (For Author and Editor) ------------------------------ The paper describes a collaboratory based on the well known Cactus approach. The paper is generally well structured. More attention should be given to comparable work in the field which should also be referenced in order to show where the ASC stands compared to other projects. In the present form the paper is not yet ready to be published because of lack of proof reading and formatting. Some figures should be of better quality - especially figure 6. F: Presentation Changes The definition of Grids as given on page 2 is somewhat misleading since it ignores hardware resources like computers and devices. In that sense it is somehow contradicting the definition given by Foster and Kesselman. This should either be changed or explained to the reader. The contribution of figure 1 to the paper is weak. It neither clarifies a concept nor provides additional information that is not given in the text. The authors should either improve or remove it. The figure caption of figure 2 talks about an "ASC Appl. Server" which is not seen in the figure itself. No whatsoever reference is given to figure 3. It should be described in the text. Page 9, paragraph 4 "and a module ... performs". It seems that a "which" is missing. figure 5: the role of the toolkit is not sufficiently explained. It would also be helpful to see the role of the Grid/Fabric in this model/terminology page 15: As the version informations of Web browser tend to be outdated very soon, they should be replaced by a description of pre-requisites. E.g "Netscape 4.x.+" should be replaced by "webrowsers supporting Java and JavaScript". The authors could mention that the software is tested with specific versions of the browsers, if their experience shows that this is necessary. page 15: the authors state that "a remote site is brought into the collaboratory by simply implementing the Grid protocols...". Probably the term "providing Grid services" is better suited in this context than "implementing grid protocols". page 15: the authors state that the "Cactus framework ... permits a diverse group... to develop software modules.. that integrate additional physics or numerical solvers into the Cactus framework". It would be very interesting for the general reader to get more information whether and where this has been done outside the field of numerical relativity. page 16: figure 6 is especially bad in our copy of the paper. This should be considered and improved. page 16: paragraph 2 "These will also the support of using Java3D ..." does not have any meaning. .