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Foil 15 Choices and Issues II

From Overview of DATORR and Resource working Group Second DATORR Meeting Sandia National Laboratory -- February 15-16 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Express user needs, preferences, bank balance
2 Language to compose resources into constraints etc.
  • Condor is not very relatively unique?
  • Mariposa is a database system
  • Jini has limited capabilities
  • even Globus has it!
3 Look up and discovery
4 Security characteristics are difficult to express
5 How to express standard?
  • C++ API is not essential
  • CORBA or Java RMI Interfaces
  • Web Interfaces
  • Cell Phone (except in DoE facilities)
6 Separate control path (discover resource) from data path (how you use)
7 Standard should specify nature of API

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