Focused Effort Title: Collaborative Computing Environments (Web Interfaces)

PI Name: David Bernholdt
PI EMail Address: bernhold@npac.syr.edu
PI Telephone: 315 443 3857           PI Fax: 315 443 1973

Description:

This project is designed to demonstrate the use of the Tango
Interactive framework to "share" HPC applications to facilitate remote
collaborative use of such applications for research, training, etc.
Since every application presents a unique mix of issues with respect
to "collaboratization", we will choose for our demonstration
prototypes applications which can be treated as fairly general models
for certain aspects of the collaboratization problem.

Accomplishments:

We have developed a "Tango Bean", following the Java Bean concept,
which allows certain classes of applications to be "collaboratized" in
more or less automatic fashion.  A paper on this work was presented by
Lukasz Beca at the recent WETICE'99 (Workshops on Enabling
Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises) conference
and has also been submitted at a CEWES Pre-Print.  In its present
form, this technology applies only to applications written in Java,
but could be extended to certain types of native applications with
high-level Java wrappers.

Plans:

Due to unexpecting internal staffing problems, we have had to delay
the start of work directly with user applications, but in the next
period we plan to push this forward.

Problems:

no problems