Basic HTML version of Foils prepared June 27 1999

Foil 5 What's the Point II

From Integration of Web and Distributed Object Technologies in a New Generation of Grande Programming Environments PDPTA Las Vegas -- June 28 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox
There are a set of services that are either
  • common to most portals such as "yellow-pages", "search data archives", security, collaboration, render XML to HTML for display
  • common to most computing portals such as "visualization", "seamless access to computers", "execute program with particular programming model"
  • specific to particular portal such as "filter SAR data", "Datamining"
NCSA biology Workbench http://biology.ncsa.uiuc.edu was one of first computational portals
Gateway is one of most technically advanced computing portal projects with a specific chemistry instantiation

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