Subject: CCPE Portal C551 From: Andreas Schreiber Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:19:51 -0500 To: fox@csit.fsu.edu X-UIDL: 20c794806a140000 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 18:03:40 2001) X-From_: fox@mailer.csit.fsu.edu Sun Oct 14 18:03:06 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 6E14F23A07 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:03:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by dirac.csit.fsu.edu (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7) id SAA17908; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:03:05 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <200110142203.SAA17908@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 3CE3623A16 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:17:58 -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 NAA65102 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:17:57 -0500 Sender: maas@mcs.anl.gov Message-ID: <3BAF7947.69B0191C@mcs.anl.gov> Reply-To: Andreas.Schreiber@dlr.de 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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-To: Geoffrey Fox Resent-Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:03:05 -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: C551 Date: 09/24/2001 Paper Title: An Event Service to Support Computational Environments Author(s): Geoffrey Fox, Shrideep Pallickara 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. accepted provided changes suggested are made I guess, D and E are more or less the same in this case. D: Referee Comments (For Editor Only) ------------------------------------ The paper and its technical content is very good, but I think the scope of the paper not suitable for the GCE special issue because its too extensive and too much focused on a special topic. I suggest, that the paper should be published in a regular issue of your journal, because the content is very valuable. If it should be published in the GCE special issue, I recommend, that you present only a shorter overview of GES, and that you add some remarks on how do you think it may fit into existing Grid infrastrutures and computing environments. E: Referee Comments (For Author and Editor) ------------------------------ The idea an the concept of a distributed event service and the distributed broker topology is good and I have no criticism on the technical content of this paper. I think the solutions fits very well to actual structure of the Internet with its topology of nets and subnets, using also routing for message/package delivery and its capabillity to handle non-working parts of the network. For the special issue on Grid Computing Environments, I recommend, that you present only a shorter overview of GES and that you add some remarks on how do you think it may fit into existing Grid infrastrutures and computing environments. In the paper, you mentioned the prototype implemenation. Is this already used by other groups, or is it available somehow? This information should be also included. F: Presentation Changes -- 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 .