1. Focused Effort Title: Modular Collaborative Environment
  2. Organization: Florida State University
  3. Thematic Area: HPC Training and DoD User Productivity
  4. PI Names: Dr. David Bernholdt, Prof. Geoffrey Fox
  5. E-Mail: bernholdt@npac.syr.edu, gcf@cs.fsu.edu
  6. Telephone: (315) 443-3857, (850) 644-4587
  7. Fax: (315) 443-1943, (850) 644-0098
  8. Statement of Work:

    9. As part of this effort, we intend to look again at commercial desktop conferencing. We intend to install and test the Access Grid system developed by Argonne National Laboratory and deployed widely in the NCSA Alliance. This system will be first installed and evaluated at FSU in first half of year 5. In the following 6 months, we will if the evaluation is positive support installation at other DoD and PET partner sites. Note this is consistent with a slightly less ambitious approach to collaboration than in TangoInteractive. The latter was a fully and elegantly integrated system. Here we use a modular but ad-hoc system of linking together tools from multiple sources without initially an attempt to integrate with a single session management. The latter will be necessary, presumably, for eventual widespread deployment but does not seem to be a requirement for PET and HPCMO use.

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