"Old" (seamless workshop Sept 97) link is http://www.sis.port.ac.uk/~mab/Computing-FrameWork/
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Abstract ideas developed in Condor Globus Legion and PACE POEMS PetaSIM for harder problems (metacomputing / performance specification) and developed for seamless problem by Sweb (Cornell) WebSubmit (NIST) or UNICORE (Europe)
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Compiling, Executing, Specification of features needed for execution optimization
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This includes parameters needed by MPI/HPF decompositions such as number of processors
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Resource Management and Scheduling jobs as in Codine or LSF or commercial NT environments
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Accounting -- integrate with Web commerce technology?
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Authenication, Security (especially hard in metacomputing as link several different management policies)
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Public Key Infrastructure expected from Internet commerce very important
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