December 2004 - saga-rg - lists.ogf.org

yet another steering API
by Stephen Pickles 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

Several of the SAGA use cases show up a need for APIs to support Computational Steering. Both RealityGrid and VISIT have well documented approaches and have posted to the SAGA list. A third European steering API has now been released, this time from the gViz project. For more information, please see: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/vis/gviz/ Stephen ==================== Stephen M. Pickles ==================== Technical Director, Grid Operations Support Centre Software Infrastructure Manager, RealityGrid Manchester Computing Room G49.1, Kilburn Building The University of Manchester tel: +44 161 275 5974 Oxford Road fax: +44 161 275 6800 Manchester M13 9PL stephen.pickles(a)manchester.ac.uk

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SAGA design team meeting
by Shantenu Jha 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

If you're planning to attend next week's design team meeting and haven't already told Tom or myself please do so now. Also if you'd like to attend but can't be physically present and can make it via AccessGrid please let me know. I've received at least one explicit request to participate via AG (other than Berlin) Don't know if it will work, but its worth exploring. Shantenu

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RE: SAGA design meeting
by Craig Lee 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Hiro, Thank you very much! This is good timing since the SAGA starts next Monday and I'm glad that Chris can be a real liaison. --Craig At 06:04 AM 12/6/2004, Hiro Kishimoto wrote: >Hi Craig, > >My apologies for the late reply on this. > >OGSA-WG will have F2F meeting from this Wednesday to Friday in >Washington D.C. We can discuss your request at this meeting if >necessary. > >The OGSA usecase document describes each usecase at rather >high level and unfortunately does not include API information. Thus >if you want to know their API information, you may need to contact >usecase contributor directly. > >The OGSA usecase document includes two scientific grid usecases; >- Severe Storm Modeling (Dennis Gannon) >- National Fusion Collaboratory ( Kate Keahey ) > >Since the other are commercial grid ones, grid technology ones, these >two are obviously primary candidates for your review. > >Hope it helps, >---- >Hiro Kishimoto > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Craig Lee [mailto:craig@rush.aero.org] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 12:28 AM > > To: hiro.kishimoto(a)jp.fujitsu.com; grimshaw(a)virginia.edu; >d.snelling(a)fle.fujitsu.com > > Cc: craig(a)rush.aero.org; matsu(a)is.titech.ac.jp > > Subject: SAGA design meeting > > > > > > All, > > > > SAGA is planning a distributed, design team meeting the week of Dec 13-17. > > The plan is to have teams in Baton Rouge and Berlin that coordinate > > via Access Grid. SAGA is collecting use cases and looking at existing > > APIs. We also definitely want to keep OGSA in the loop and encourage > > close collaboration. At a minimum, > > SAGA could include all of the OGSA use cases in their review. If someone > > from OGSA could attend the meetings or participate in some way, shape > > or form, that would be great. Let us know how you'd like to proceed. > > > > --Craig > >

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Fwd (N.ChueHong@epcc.ed.ac.uk): [dais-wg] OGSA-DAI R5.0 released
by Andre Merzky 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

FYI, Andre. ----- Forwarded message from neil p chue hong <N.ChueHong(a)epcc.ed.ac.uk> ----- > From: "neil p chue hong" <N.ChueHong(a)epcc.ed.ac.uk> > To: <dais-wg(a)gridforum.org>, <data-wg(a)gridforum.org> > Subject: [dais-wg] OGSA-DAI R5.0 released > Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 17:01:00 -0000 > > > OGSA-DAI Release 5.0 > ==================== > Data Access and Integration for the Grid > ---------------------------------------- > > We are pleased to announce that the new release of the OGSA-DAI > software (in source and binary distributions) is available: > > * Direct from the project website: > http://www.ogsadai.org.uk/downloads/ > > This release builds on the functionality of previous OGSA-DAI > releases and is built on the Globus Toolkit 3.2.1. > > Highlights: > > * OGSA-DAI now supports indexing, reading and full-text searching > across files using the Apache Lucene text search engine library. > > * New command line and graphical wizards have been provided to > simplify the process of installation, testing and configuration of > OGSA-DAI. > > * OGSA-DAI now supports per-activity configuration, defined in the > activity configuration file. > > * The Grid Data Transport port type now includes a getNBlocks > operation, allowing GDT clients to specify the number of blocks to > be returned in a single SOAP message. > > * A new Notification activity has been added that produces a > notification message when the output stream of an activity has > completed or commenced. > > * A new XMLBulkLoad activity has been added that enables the bulk > loading of documents into an XML database such as Apache Xindice. > > * Documentation has been reviewed and revised in light of the new > architecture of OGSA-DAI. > > See http://www.ogsadai.org.uk/docs/R5/doc/ogsi/ReleaseNotes.html > for more information on the new features in this release. > > The distribution includes updated GridDataService, GridDataServiceFactory > and DAIServiceGroupRegistry components, as well as example clients. > These allow you to connect to MySQL, DB2, Oracle, Postgres, SQL Server > and XIndice databases, as well as indexed text files. > They have been tested on Windows 2000/XP, Redhat Linux 9 and Solaris 8/9. > > If you are currently running OGSA-DAI R4.0 you may wish to read our > guide on upgrading to OGSA-DAI R5.0: > http://www.ogsadai.org.uk/docs/R5/doc/ogsi/Upgrade.html > > Support is provided by the OGSA-DAI team at: > support(a)ogsadai.org.uk or http://www.ogsadai.org.uk/support/ > > A users mailing list is available at users(a)ogsadai.org.uk > > We welcome all comments, and especially examples of usage or suggestions > for improvements or features. > > Many thanks for trying our software. > > ++ The OGSA-DAI team -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Andre Merzky | phon: +31 - 20 - 444 - 7759 | | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) | fax : +31 - 20 - 444 - 7653 | | Dept. of Computer Science | mail: merzky(a)cs.vu.nl | | De Boelelaan 1083a | www: http://www.merzky.net | | 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+

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