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Foil 7 Programming Middle Tier of a Computational Grid

From Applications and Programming Models for Computational Grids PPoPP Panel on Computational Grids -- May 5 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 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
2 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.
3 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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