Subject: CCPE Portal C554 From: Jason Novotny Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 10:43:09 -0700 To: gcf@indiana.edu X-UIDL: 53c9588742100000 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 18:05:42 2001) X-From_: fox@mailer.csit.fsu.edu Sun Oct 14 18:05:29 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 2111E23A07 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:05:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by dirac.csit.fsu.edu (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7) id SAA41934; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:05:28 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <200110142205.SAA41934@dirac.csit.fsu.edu> Replied: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 15:32:34 -0400 Replied: Jason Novotny Delivered-To: fox@csit.fsu.edu Received: from mask.uits.indiana.edu (mask.uits.indiana.edu [129.79.6.184]) by mailer.csit.fsu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34A5723A18 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 13:59:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bullwinkle.lbl.gov (c1809125-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.9.163.164]) by mask.uits.indiana.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1/IUPO) with ESMTP id f91HvAk29466 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:57:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from lbl.gov (IDENT:novotny@bullwinkle.lbl.gov [127.0.0.1]) by bullwinkle.lbl.gov (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f91Hh9E03913 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 10:43:19 -0700 Sender: novotny@bullwinkle.lbl.gov Message-ID: <3BB8AB2C.62025236@lbl.gov> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-To: Geoffrey Fox Resent-Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:05:28 -0400 Resent-From: Geoffrey Fox Sorry this is a day late! Jason C: Paper and Referee Metadata Paper Number Cnnn: C554 Date: 9/29/01 Paper Title: The Polder Computing Environment Author(s): Iskra, Belleman, van Albada, Sloot, Bal, Spoelder, Bubak Referee: Jason Novotny Address: LBL Referee Recommendations. Please indicate overall recommendations here, and details in following sections. DECLINE D: Referee Comments (For Editor Only) ------------------------------------ I'm not sure how well this paper firts in with the others in GCE- the Polder computing environment describes as they say a hardware and software infrastructure ( one site's specialized instantiation of a Grid you might say ) that is all encompassing while the other GCE papers seem to be making the case for simplifying grid computing through the use of software tools and frameworks. E: Referee Comments (For Author and Editor) ------------------------------ I would try to focus more on the software infrastructure of the PCE rather than going into detail ovee the specific hardware latency/badwidth Myrinet issues that seem to complicate the paper with unnecessary detail. In the overview, I would like to know how more how you see PCE as relating to Grid computing in terms of the PCE software infrastructure if there is any overlap at all (and then describe areas of overlap) or if you PCE really is separate from Grid computing, in which case you may want to explain what makes PCE a Grid Computing Environment per se. What kind of security model does PCE use?? Good decription of the portable migratable sockets library. As before, I think you have presented a substantial anmount of work in the paper, but it needs to be more clearly organized around a central thesis, beyond a description of the various research projects going on at the Polder computer center. How does PCE envision Grid usage-- moreover how does PCE see any of its existing capabilities in terms of Grid services. F: Presentation Changes -- Jason Novotny jdnovotny@lbl.gov Grid Technology Group (510) 486-8662 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory http://www-itg.lbl.gov/Grid .