Title:		Collaborative Portals for Training and Computational Science

Organization: 	Florida State University

Lead:		Geoffrey Fox

Objective:

"Portals" are becoming the dominant approach for the provision of
web-accessible distributed systems for computational science,
education/training, and other areas.  In this effort we investigate
two important technologies for the construction of portals.  In the
context of C/C we will produce a prototype "betterportalML", used to
define the structure and services offered by a portal.  In the context
of Training, we will prototype a queued event service, used to unify
synchronous and asynchronous access to training "objects" from a
variety of devices, including handhelds.

Accomplishments:

This is where most of our effort is going. The three major areas are:
1) Reworking Gateway system to support computing and education portals
2) The new federated event service. Here we have developed a
   completely new model.
3) The Personal server environment.

Plans:

We are on track for component demonstrations by September 00 and initial
system by December 00

Problems:

None