1: User Interface -- Design and build Web Interfaces to control execution of computational and data access modules.
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Take advantage of ongoing national DATORR (Desktop Access TO Remote Resources) activity which will lead to standard interfaces between clients, middleware and backend machines and data repositories
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NCSA is starting major activity in this area for other disciplines ("portal" to solid earth science)
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No magic bullet. Still tiresome to develop new code and rather poor parallel computing environments
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Web and distributed objects support "distributed components" and their integration into powerful systems with convenient GUI
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Components need to be quite big to be efficient
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