Subject:
Re: Referee Reports on C538 for GCE Special Issue of CCPE
From:
Andreas Schreiber <schreibe@mcs.anl.gov>
Date:
Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:35:33 -0600
To:
gcf@indiana.edu

Geoffrey,

  here is the revised version of my paper.
Below are short comments of the changes I made.

-Andreas


Geoffrey Fox wrote:

> I enclose 3 referee reports. I think you can address these 
> straightforwardly
> (I do not think Webflow relation is a big deal. Just say something
> about what shared with Gateway)
> I hope that you will submit a revised version.
> 
> I would like to receive your revised paper by the end
> of November. Please return to me by EMAIL
> a) PDF version of revised paper
> b) Text Word or PDF comment on how referees' comments addressed
> c) In spite of what journal says, I do not need at this stage
> copyright release. You will send this directly to Wiley in
> England after they contact you.
> 
> Referee 1 *******************************************
> 
> E: Referee Comments (For Author and Editor) 
> ------------------------------
> A strong paper generally.  A couple of questions I'd like to see
> addressed:
> 1) Is there any security for resources which are _not_ GSI-enabled?


No. Remark added to the 'Security'-subsection.



> 2) Are there requirements for the administrative relationship of
> resources on which TENT may be effectively deployed?  It seems like a
> user might have to have the same moniker everywhere in order to use
> TENT, for instance.


New paragraph to the 'Factories'-subsubsection added. 



> 3) Are there scaling issues with the naming service?


New paragraph in the 'Information services'-subsection added.



> 4) Where does the name TENT come from?


Footnote in the 'Applications' section added.


> 
> Typos:
> factorie -> factories Section 2.1
> whithout -> without Section 2.3


Corrected


> 
> F: Presentation Changes
> 
> Referee 2 *******************************************
> 
> E: Referee Comments (For Author and Editor)
> 
> The paper describes the CORBA-based simulation environment TENT, its
> architecture and applications, as well as its integration with Globus,
> and as such fits well within the topic range of this special issue of
> CCP&E.
> 
> Figure 2 (Architectural overview) is not explicitly referenced
> anywhere in the paper.


Reference added.


> I am missing a "State of the art" type of section, describing other
> similar environments, though maybe, in a special issue like this, the
> other papers will largely fill this in.


This section was intentionally left out. 


> 
> F: Presentation Changes
> 
> The quality of the figures generated from bitmaps (4, 5, 6, 9) is
> definitely unsatisfactory: they are so blurred that it's virtually
> impossible to see anything. Figure 7 contains a grey arrow plus text
> that only become apparent after looking twice.


Some colors in fig 7 changed. 


> While the language quality of the paper is good on average,
> it does contain several typos and other language problems ("whithout",
> "to simulate of the".  I would recommend that a native speaker
> proofreads it before it is resubmitted.
> 
> Also, aren't the sections/subsections supposed to be _not_ numbered?

Changed to 'not-numbered'.


> Referee 3 *******************************************
> 
> 
> E. Referee comments for author and editor:
> This is a good example of component based grid computing.
> Will be interested in seeing how the portals version evolves.
> Also would like to know about the code portability...is it
> available as a toolkit?


Short comment on availability added in the 'Applications'-section


> 
> ** Presentation - 4/5
> layout and flow of paper is good.
> ** Competence - 4/5
> ** Contribution - 4/5
> ** Originality - 4/5
> ** Strengths - 4/5


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