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Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at Birds of a Feather at SC98 on November 11 98. Foils prepared November 19 98
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| Datorr Home Page |
| This presentation introduced a SC98 Birds of a Feather Session on DATORR |
| Desktop Access to Remote Resources |
| This describes goal of Datorr process -- establishing standards for seamless interfaces and services |
| Describes Other presentations to follow by Mehrotra, Gannon, von Laszewski and Jim Almond from UNICORE |
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Desktop Access to Remote Resources
Motivation for Datorr Why desktop access?
Seamless Interface
What is Scope of Datorr
Some Cosmic Issues
Goals of the BoF
History of Datorr
Datorr Process
Datorr Workshops
Workshop Activities: Details of Datorr Process
Contents of Proceedings
Outline of the BoF
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Summary of Material
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| An International HPCC/HPCN Community Activity to establish Interoperability Standards |
| Geoffrey Fox, Gregor von Laszewski |
| Birds of a Feather Session |
| November 11 SC98, Orlando, FL |
| http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/~gregor/datorr |
| datorr@mcs.anl.gov |
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| Very many machines, platforms, Operating Systems |
| Though a good/necessary thing, using them in changing environment becomes difficult for users. |
Goal:
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| Seamless Interface |
| Database1 |
| Database2 |
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Remote Resources in multi-tier systems
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| We are roughly defining properties and methods of those distributed objects associated with computing services -- these include jobs and resources |
| This could lead to CORBA facilities or Java frameworks for computing services |
| We need to start with key basic objects and services and use these to build other more complex entities and capabilities |
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| Expose Datorr to Community for participation |
| The Datorr process must be open to succeed! |
| Involve more users and supercomputing centers to determine what are the requirements |
| Describe the current status and procedure for participation |
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| Seamless Interface Meeting at ECMWF Reading Sept 97 |
| MAPINT Workshops Dayton Ohio Aug 97 and 98 |
Identification of "Java Framework for Computing Services" (cf JDBC) as important by Java Grande Forum
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| Several important projects ongoing |
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| Identification and documentation of existing relevant projects |
| Set of meetings leading to agreement on common standards |
| International community input such as this BoF |
| Preliminary documents (on web) leading to (draft) final proposed standards |
| Selected community projects e.g. reference implementations |
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| 1st International Workshop on Desktop Access to Remote Resources (Oct. at ANL) |
What happened at the meeting:
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Next meeting Sandia, Albuquerque.
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| Target date for draft proposal SC99 with appropriate broad discussion |
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What is the current state?
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| Where do we have to expand/focus? |
| Most importantly workshop participants agreed that it was indeed useful to define common interoperable interfaces |
| Mailing List datorr@mcs.anl.gov |
| http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/~gregor/datorr |
| Proceedings of first workshop available |
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18 Existing Projects surveyed covering metacomputing, distributed scheduling, seamless interface, particular tools and technologies in areas such as resource management/ monitoring/collaboration/security
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| 3 working groups discussed today by Mehrotra, Gannon and von Laszewski |
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| User Requirements: Mehrotra |
| System Architecture: Gannon |
| Security as an example of one service: von Laszewski |
| Case Study Unicore: Jim Almond ECMWF |
| Open discussion |