Subject: Report for C553 From: Rajkumar Buyya Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 17:23:51 +1000 To: Geoffrey Fox X-UIDL: 763636a76e170000 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 18:09:05 2001) X-From_: fox@mailer.csit.fsu.edu Sun Oct 14 18:07:09 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 E852A23A0A for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:07:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by dirac.csit.fsu.edu (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7) id SAA92316; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:07:08 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <200110142207.SAA92316@dirac.csit.fsu.edu> Delivered-To: fox@csit.fsu.edu Received: from nexus.csse.monash.edu.au (nexus.csse.monash.edu.au [130.194.226.4]) by mailer.csit.fsu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45C8823A07 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 03:23:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from csse.monash.edu.au (charon.csse.monash.edu.au [130.194.224.132]) by nexus.csse.monash.edu.au (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f987N7307879 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 17:23:07 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <3BC15487.9CC4A34D@csse.monash.edu.au> Organization: Monash University X-Sender: "Rajkumar Buyya" <@nexus.csse.monash.edu.au> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en]C-CCK-MCD monwin/020 (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200110051524.LAA72212@dirac.csit.fsu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-To: Geoffrey Fox Resent-Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:07:08 -0400 Resent-From: Geoffrey Fox CandC:PandE Referee Report Form *********************************************** Electronic Transimission to gcf@indiana.edu strongly preferred Referees Home Page: http://aspen.csit.fsu.edu/CandCPandE/ Email gcf@indiana.edu for URL of full paper to be reviewed WILEY Journal Home Page John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. Baffins Lane, Chichester West Sussex, PO19 1UD, England Telephone: (01243) 779777 Fax: (01243) 770379 REFEREE'S REPORT Concurrency and Computation:Practice and Experience ********** A: General Information Please return to: Geoffrey C. Fox Electronically Preferred gcf@indiana.edu Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience Computer Science Department 228 Lindley Hall Bloomington Indiana 47405 Office Phone 8128567977(Lab), 8128553788(CS) but best is cell phone 3152546387 FAX 8128567972 Please fill in Summary Conclusions (Sec. C) and details as appropriate in Secs. D, E and F. B: Refereeing Philosophy We encourage a broad range of readers and contributors. Please judge papers on their technical merit and separate comments on this from those on style and approach. Keep in mind the strong practical orientation that we are trying to give the journal. Note that the forms attached provide separate paper for comments that you wish only the editor to see and those that both the editor and author receive. Your identity will of course not be revealed to the author. C: Paper and Referee Metadata Paper Number Cnnn: C553 Date: Paper Title: UNICORE - A Grid Computing Environment Author(s): D Erwin Referee: R. Buyya Address: Referee Recommendations. Please indicate overall recommendations here, and details in following sections. X accepted provided changes suggested are made D: Referee Comments (For Editor Only) ------------------------------------ The paper reads well, but looks like all discussion is in Future tense. We will do this, we will do that etc. But in one place author says that latest prototype was released on July 2001. It is important to ensure that authors update the paper fully as per their current version of software. E: Referee Comments (For Author and Editor) ------------------------------ The paper presents high level overview of Unicore system. The project seem to be addressing all aspects of Grid computing -- from middleware and software tools/user interface. The paper can be valuable if it can show some Experimental Results or a Application Case Study that is using Unicode in solving a real world problem. Many places project refer to future work. I believe it is important to acknowledge current state of the art in each of the area. For example, you mentioned about resource broker, it might be worth citing papers such as: Nimrod-G: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~davida/papers/hpcasia.ps.Z http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~davida/papers/ecogrid.pdf that already solve many resource brokering issues. The paper also mentions about executing repetitive tasks, but it does not say how they are created. Projects like Nimrod-G already provide a simple scripting language for developing coarse grained task-farming or data parallel apps. A great way to support legacy applications. I think UNICORE can consider similar ideas. There is no indication how inter operability between various components will be achieved. F: Presentation Changes One page 5/14: In "Support for legacy jobs" section, CHANGE "if existing techniques work" --> "if existing techniques DO NOT work" The paper is good, but looks like all discussion is in Future tense. We will do this, we will do that etc. But in one place paper says that latest prototype is released on July 2001. It is important that you update the paper fully to reflect current implementation. Other comments please see section E for review report. I think it will good change "Current and Future Work etc." section to Focus more on technical derails. ========================================== .