Subject: CCPE Portal C542 From: Andreas Schreiber Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:16:24 -0500 To: fox@csit.fsu.edu CC: Andreas.Schreiber@dlr.de X-UIDL: f75845e7c9180000 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 18:03:39 2001) X-From_: fox@mailer.csit.fsu.edu Sun Oct 14 18:03:05 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 4A4EC23A07 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:03:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by dirac.csit.fsu.edu (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7) id SAA27628; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:03:04 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <200110142203.SAA27628@dirac.csit.fsu.edu> Delivered-To: fox@csit.fsu.edu Received: from mcs.anl.gov (cliff.mcs.anl.gov [140.221.9.17]) by mailer.csit.fsu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B2D223A16 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:14:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mcs.anl.gov (maas@thrall.mcs.anl.gov [140.221.11.125]) by mcs.anl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA50254; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:14:30 -0500 Sender: maas@mcs.anl.gov Message-ID: <3BAF7878.42DAC65F@mcs.anl.gov> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3B844B51.2080607@csit.fsu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Resent-To: Geoffrey Fox Resent-Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:03:04 -0400 Resent-From: Geoffrey Fox REFEREE'S REPORT Concurrency and Computation:Practice and Experience ********** A: General Information Please return to: Geoffrey C. Fox Electronically Preferred gcf@indiana.edu Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience Computer Science Department 228 Lindley Hall Bloomington Indiana 47405 Office Phone 8128567977(Lab), 8128553788(CS) but best is cell phone 3152546387 FAX 8128567972 Please fill in Summary Conclusions (Sec. C) and details as appropriate in Secs. D, E and F. B: Refereeing Philosophy We encourage a broad range of readers and contributors. Please judge papers on their technical merit and separate comments on this from those on style and approach. Keep in mind the strong practical orientation that we are trying to give the journal. Note that the forms attached provide separate paper for comments that you wish only the editor to see and those that both the editor and author receive. Your identity will of course not be revealed to the author. C: Paper and Referee Metadata Paper Number Cnnn: C542 Date: 09/24/2001 Paper Title: An Integrated Software Development Environment for Grid-Computing Author(s): Michael Müller, Edgar Gabriel, Michael Resch Referee: Andreas Schreiber Address: Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne, IL 60439, U.S.A. Referee Recommendations. Please indicate overall recommendations here, and details in following sections. reject D: Referee Comments (For Editor Only) ------------------------------------ The paper presents very shortly the overall architecture of an environment for developing MPI applications. It focuses on two of their tools: a metacomputing MPI, that is extended in order to use Grid infrastructure like Globus or UNICORE and a general MPI debugger an verifier, that is not specially related to the Grid. The paper could be accepted if their is enough space in the special issue and (at least) changes due to the recommondations below are made. But in my opinion, it doesn't fit in a *Grid Computing Environments* special issue. It is more suitable in the context of Grid programming models. E: Referee Comments (For Author and Editor) ------------------------------ The paper presents two tools that are definitely needed for implementing MPI based application for use in distributed an Grid environments, but (general criticism:) this is not all, that is necessary for a Grid Computing Environment (the topic of the CandCPandE special issue). The paper would be more suitable for a Grid programming model special issue. More detailed points and questions: The paper focuses on PACX-MPI and MARMOT, but both of these software tools are not mentioned in the abstract. How is the 'integration' of the tools in the DAMIEN toolbox done? A 'Integrated Software Development Environment' is more than a couple of tools - relying on a common protocol or MPI - which can be invoked on the command line. Maybe you have done more on the integration, then this should be expressed in the paper, or the title of the paper is not feasable. The 'Project status and Future plans' section says, that with the presented tools the use of a large number of applications is possible. But is there any application that runs with PACX-MPI on a Grid infrastructure w/Globus or UNICORE? Also a comparison to other Grid-MPIs could be valuable. Especially a comparison with MPICH-G2 would be interesting to see (in terms of usage and performance). More technical: How can PACX-MPI deal with firewalls? Does ist use a special port(-range)? Does MARMOT rely on PACX-MPI, or can it be used with any MPI implementation? The paper also doesn't say something about availability. Is the software free? Can ist be used by others? Can it be downloaded? Some pictures could also be added (e.g., something like a PACX-MPI architecture picture or a MARMOT screenshot). F: Presentation Changes The paper should be reviewed relating to english punctuation. It also has some grammatical errors. -- Andreas Schreiber Argonne National Laboratory * http://www.mcs.anl.gov Mathematics and Computer Science Div. * mailto:schreibe@mcs.anl.gov 9700 South Cass Ave, Blg. 221 * Tel: (630) 252 7488 Argonne, IL 60439, USA .