Subject: Review for paper: C574 From: Rajkumar Buyya Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 15:49:27 +1000 To: Geoffrey Fox X-UIDL: e700e0ea13170000 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 18:07:07 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 8994923A0A for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:07:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by dirac.csit.fsu.edu (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7) id SAA86416; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:07:06 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <200110142207.SAA86416@dirac.csit.fsu.edu> Delivered-To: fox@csit.fsu.edu Received: from snorkel.uits.indiana.edu (snorkel.uits.indiana.edu [129.79.6.186]) by mailer.csit.fsu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1881C23A07 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 01:48:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nexus.csse.monash.edu.au (nexus.csse.monash.edu.au [130.194.226.4]) by snorkel.uits.indiana.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1/IUPO) with ESMTP id f985mjW23010 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 00:48:46 -0500 (EST) 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 f985mi303171 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:48:44 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <3BC13E67.83DBE02F@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: <200110051454.KAA27346@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 18:07:06 -0400 Resent-From: Geoffrey Fox 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: C574 Date: Paper Title: A Distributed Computing Environment for Interdisciplinary Applications Author(s): J. Clarke and R. Namburu 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 presents general overview of authors efforts to develop mechanisms for coupling distributed applications. They have laid good foundation for distributed data access and interchange based on standard format like HDF and XML and extensions. This paper does not raise nor addresses issues such as how to locate locate distributed application components while coupling. It is yet to take advantage of any GRID specific technologies, but has potential to use them. They do not talk about the use of some smart tools for selecting services based on QoS mechanisms. The whole experiment appears like "Static"! Therefore, it may appear like ODD-paper in the special issue of Problem Solving Environment. However, it is good works. I think authors should be encourage to put this paper in context of Grid technologies and to make to dynamic and fault tolerant. E: Referee Comments (For Author and Editor) ------------------------------ The paper presents general overview of authors efforts to develop mechanisms for coupling distributed applications. They have laid good foundation for distributed data access and interchange based on standard format like HDF and XML and extensions. This paper does not raise nor addresses issues such as how to locate distributed application components while coupling. It is yet to take advantage of any GRID specific technologies, but has potential to use them. They do not talk about the use of some smart tools for selecting services based on QoS mechanisms. The whole experiment appears like "Static"! Hence, it may appear like ODD-paper in the special issue of GCE Problem Solving Environment. F: Presentation Changes Overall paper tells good story of data management aspects while coupling distributed applications. It will be great if you can show how such secure and dynamic coupling can be carried out in a Grid environment where things significantly change during runtime including failures. You may create a General Architecture diagram to create a linkage between your work with other emerging Grid technologies. Also, in the paper there are few acronyms exist for there is no description exist. Can you check if Ref[1] is correct ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ .