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Foil 18 Programming Middle Tier of a Computational Grid

From Education, Research and Institutional Models for Universities in the Next Millenium Seminar at University of Houston -- May 10 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox
So most users only want one thing -- computers to be easier to use. So we will copy a much reviled model -- Microsoft Word or PowerPoint -- Problem Solving Environments for document preparation
Computing abstracted as a set of hierarchical Toolbars Toolbars are defined in XML and rendered in HTML for user interface. XML interpreted on middle tier as some suitable service.
Computing Toolbars include user profile, results, visualization (where "command" could be AVS), collaboration, programming model, HPF, Dataflow, resource specification, resource status, code (application specific)

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