Subject: Revised review: CCPE Portal C547 From: "Didier, Brett T" Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:25:02 -0700 To: "'gcf@indiana.edu'" CC: "Schuchardt, Karen L" X-UIDL: 51fa9ed8b5110000 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 17:39:09 2001) X-From_: fox@mailer.csit.fsu.edu Sun Oct 14 17:36:56 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 5444323A07 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:36:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by dirac.csit.fsu.edu (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7) id RAA39236; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:36:54 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <200110142136.RAA39236@dirac.csit.fsu.edu> 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 8C86023A1D for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 19:25:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gate.pnl.gov (gate.pnl.gov [130.20.64.137]) by mask.uits.indiana.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1/IUPO) with ESMTP id f8ENNNp04357 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 18:23:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from vscan2.pnl.gov ([130.20.64.141]) by pnl.gov (PMDF V5.2-33 #42505) with SMTP id <01K8C0K98Y308WZE1J@pnl.gov> for gcf@indiana.edu; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:25:08 PDT Received: from 130.20.128.21 by vscan2.pnl.gov (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT) ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:25:09 -0700 Received: by PNLMSE1.pnl.gov with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:25:07 -0700 Message-id: <29E6E93D92576F4DB85FE89FF2C23F44C1764E@pnlmse03.pnl.gov> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Resent-To: Geoffrey Fox Resent-Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:36:54 -0400 Resent-From: Geoffrey Fox C: Paper and Referee Metadata Paper Number: C547 Date: September 13, 2001 Paper Title: A Distributed Computing Environment for Interdisciplinary Applications Authors: Jerry A. Clarke and Raju R. Namburu Referee: Karen Schuchardt/Brett Didier Address: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, PO Box 999, Richland WA 99352 Recommendation: Reject D: Referee Comments to Editor E: Referee Comments to Author and Editor This paper needs to be substantially revised before it is suitable for journal publication. Overall, the paper lacks motivation for why this work was performed and how this work provides something that is new or is an improvement over other Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) approaches. There isn't enough detail in the paper to assess the benefits of this approach and if it can be beneficial to a wider community (is it limited to 3D field data?). Most of the paper provides background on the technologies they used, but few details on the work that was actually performed, the limitations of this approach, what was learned, and establishing how this effort relates to the Grid community. The direction of the Grid is focused primarily on protocols, whereas the approach outlined here uses a fairly heavyweight API. Are Grid services going to use this API, at what layer of the grid is this work relevant? There are interesting aspects to the work but it appears to have originated with a specific focus, and this paper attempts to describe it in a general sense without adequate discussion or comparison to other research. The potential for a good technical paper exists with further development of the content, tying it more closely to the Grid, and reorganizing the presentation using the suggestions below. F: Presentation Changes "The technology" starting the 2nd paragraph of the abstract needs to be defined. Several sentences in the abstract are strings of adjectives that together do not make coherent sentences. Acronyms are used without being defined. References are provided after something has already been defined and discussed. The figures are not discussed or referenced in the paper. Currently, they don't contribute to the paper. Terms such as heavy data are used early and defined much later. Use of "enormous" to describe data conveys very little information. Background information is dispersed throughout paper. SWIG is not referenced. .