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Foil 22 Comments on GrandeGateway

From Seamless Interfaces, Multi-Tier Gateway Systems, Comments on Sandia DRM Design Analysis of ASCI DRM Design -- August 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski


The following diagram illustrates features of the "gateway concept"
The hardware to support gateway may be different from that natural for HPCC backends
  • typical would be "corporate enterprise servers" such as high-end Unix (SUN, Linux?) servers or PC NT systems
Several services would be controlled in "GrandeGateway" -- we illustrate this for collaboration which would allow sharing of information from clients and also backend Super(Grande) computers represented by proxies (e.g. Java or CORBA wrappers) at this level
  • Tango supports user-consultant and multi-user interactions
  • Habanero would show same logical diagram as Tango
There is no clean 1:1 mapping of hardware and software tiers
  • For instance a "logically backend" Oracle database could be hosted on the same SUN Enterprise server running Java servers supporting collaboration, access and other services



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